Category Archives: Technical

Looking At More How To Articles

Posted on May 11, 2021 by larry

Having a hard time finish my nagios article, but looking forward at other articles. Continuing my nagios docs this week. Here are some essentials I am looking at doing. DHCP DNS file server (NAS) Certificate Services VPN Docker Weight: 316.4

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Hard To Think When You Are Distressed

Posted on May 6, 2021 by larry

Pain still there, but much much lower. It is actually getting easier to eat. My voice sounds normal too. But I was also able to think and focus on work. Still a bit off, but look at what I was … Continue reading →

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So Close To A RTX 3000

Posted on May 5, 2021 by larry

Entered the Newegg Shuffle today and WON But too slow with the payment, I thought I hat till 7PM PT not 4PM. So bummed. Went to new specialist today, getting down to what I am up against. Weight: 317.4

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Finding Slowness Cause

Posted on May 4, 2021 by larry

Been struggling with some slowness on my mail server. Grafana to the rescue, I found out there was high iostat every 20 minutes. Was able too identify a cron job from somewhere else sending email and procmail and was doing … Continue reading →

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Easing Back In To Work

Posted on May 3, 2021 by larry

After taking most of the week off, I think I am ok with easing back in to work. Still behind with a lot of things. Slowly catching up. A week behind though Was going to walk today, but the weather … Continue reading →

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Finding Ways To Deal With Throat

Posted on May 2, 2021 by larry

Slowly finding ways to deal with my throat problems. The salt water rinse every couple hours works. CPAP with my mouth shut seams to as well. Neighbor says it will be a week before things get to normal. On another … Continue reading →

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Manually Moving Workloads

Posted on April 29, 2021 by larry

My pi cluster is starting to run some workloads. It is interesting now. Fun looking on docker hub on what I can run on the pi cluster. So far bind cloudflared heimdall home-assistant mediawiki nagios pihole wordpress centos It is … Continue reading →

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Bleeding Stopped Still Hurts To Eat

Posted on April 28, 2021 by larry

At about 2AM this morning the bleeding was under control. But It still hurt to talk and even more so hurt to eat. I had my son look in my mouth and he freaked out. I looked myself and saw … Continue reading →

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Pi Thermals

Posted on April 24, 2021 by larry

Looks like we do need active cooling for the Pi when using PoE Note the heat increase when you do not use a fan. This is a big box fan blowing on all the nodes. Interestingly, here are 4 small … Continue reading →

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Getting Busy

Posted on April 22, 2021 by larry

Today felt like a rest day compared to other days. Been busy, got a lot going Learning a SAN Getting better with grafana Figuring out Kubernetes Losing Weight. A lot going, so today was a day it was nice to … Continue reading →

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