Category Archives: Technical

Another Power Outage

Posted on June 15, 2021 by larry

Power went out at 1:15PM for another hour again. Got it back up, but disrupted my workflow. Beat up, behind schedule. Now in the compromise mode. Did mow lawn and clean up some things. Going to bed early. Weight: 321.0

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Getting Close to A Day

Posted on June 14, 2021 by larry

Appraisal day Things looking good. House looks great. Also got official word that CRV is a total loss. Loan is proceeding well, things are gonna happen fast. Figured out how to sign a cert for the Unifi Controller. Youngest in … Continue reading →

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Network Redesign

Posted on June 7, 2021 by larry

Working on planning out my next network. Settling on TPlink Switches. Lot of research going in to this. Also not making mistake of getting easy smart switches. I need CLI and more oompf. Weight: 316.6

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Getting Network Upgrade Going

Posted on June 3, 2021 by larry

Had to make sure my old Ubiquity U-AP (N only) was still manageable. Installed software and it looks OK, but no longer supported. Looks like I need to get newer AP. I did order the Unifi Wifi 6 lite. Got … Continue reading →

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Keeping it Together

Posted on June 2, 2021 by larry

I have been under a lot of pressure the past few weeks. More than stress though, I went to check out the CRV today, and got a bit emotional. Barely held it together. Now the stress of a refinance and … Continue reading →

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Cracking 4000 posts

Posted on May 29, 2021 by larry

Didn’t realize it but yesterday I cracked 4000 posts on this blog This is cool. This post is 4001. Today figured out how to connect via USB and route out the Verizon Mifi I have. I was fighting with it … Continue reading →

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Permanent Production Pi

Posted on May 25, 2021 by larry

Got another raspberry pi, wrong hard disk, but I am going to have a permanent system. Will going to figure it out. Get DNS working. Weight: 323.8

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Moved My Domain

Posted on May 24, 2021 by larry

Kept this on the downlow till today, but moved my apolonio.com domain today, it has been finalized. Was kind of nervous because it is my most important domain. The registrar it was on was kind of loose with security. Feel … Continue reading →

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Just Because Doesn’t Mean

Posted on May 23, 2021 by larry

I needed a 12volt 5Amp power supply. Weird in what came with it, it was a 2 prong C13 This bugs me a bit. Anyway, I see people accomplish some cool things, but there were some sketchy ways of getting … Continue reading →

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Getting Some Router Flashed

Posted on May 19, 2021 by larry

Spend a nice chunk of the evening flashing some netgear dual radio routers to DDWRT. Got em, and my desk is set up for it, may as well do it. A little late with this post, about 5 minutes after … Continue reading →

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