Category Archives: Technical

Trying Out New Meds

Posted on January 20, 2022 by larry

Got on some new meds today, I think this will help. First time I had to get an injection at home. Also tested monitoring expired certs using Nagios. Didn’t know there were multiple ways to check a cert. Seems like … Continue reading →

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MLK Day 2022

Posted on January 17, 2022 by larry

Finally, the thin client mail server is up and in production Uses postfix instead of sendmail Got autoconfigure working Dovecot working Certs working submission (tcp/587) and smtps (tcp/465) working procmail working spamassissin working sasl via dovecot backups monitoring (grafana and … Continue reading →

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Hard Cards

Posted on January 14, 2022 by larry

I recall my first hard drive was in my Tandy 1000SL and it was a whopping 20MB. I have songs that are larger than 20MB now. Anyway I installed this in my NAS today 24,000 x larger. And I consider … Continue reading →

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New Machines At PT

Posted on January 13, 2022 by larry

Today I was introduced to some new machines at the training area. It makes working out like a video game. You have to follow this tunnel and hit some times. You exercise corelates to your motion. For example the bench … Continue reading →

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Toilet Doesn’t Fit

Posted on January 11, 2022 by larry

Bad news, our awesome toilet does not fit our awesome new bathroom. So we spend couple hours searching for a toilet that would work for us. Continued building the new mail server. Currently got postfix done, I think just need … Continue reading →

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Lost My Treadmill

Posted on January 6, 2022 by larry

Covid Omicron variant is spreading like crazy. Some in our house may have gotten secondary exposure. Basically, they knew someone that was in close contact with someone they knew were infected. Going to be a rough January, but I think … Continue reading →

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Reflections on 2021

Posted on December 31, 2021 by larry

If there was a label for a year, this would be a year to forget. It felt like 2021 was trying compete with 2020 as being the worst year. As we bid good riddance to 2021, I recall having the … Continue reading →

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Year End Cleaning

Posted on December 30, 2021 by larry

In addition to backing up I wanted to have a clean office by the start of the new year. Started something I hope to finish. But did do couple other cool things, replaced the RAM in my set Also rebuilt … Continue reading →

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Kickstart Rocky DVD UEFI and BIOS

Posted on December 28, 2021 by larry

Figured out how to get a kickstart DVD going in Rocky Linux 8 in both UEFI and BIOS (legacy), with the help of the Internet of course (Reddit) Any way I settled on two base configs plain server, and prime … Continue reading →

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What A Feelin

Posted on December 22, 2021 by larry

Great workout today, also was alone in gym so I could grunt. I don’t recall a workout like that for a long time. I had energy to spare. Figure out the switch problem, wasn’t my end. One of goals before … Continue reading →

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