Category Archives: Technical

Year End Tasks Going Slow

Posted on December 30, 2020 by larry

May have to reduce what I get done at end of year. Next year will start sooner. Got resources, things just moving slow. Weight: 320.8

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End Of Year Tasks

Posted on December 29, 2020 by larry

Still trying to get through my end of year tasks. Surprisingly missing a lot of documentation. Frustrating because I do not know where or how things are done, need to relearn. Redocumenting things. Weight: 320.4

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Doing Backups for 2020

Posted on December 28, 2020 by larry

Starting my year end stuff, like the backups and archive of my home network. I recall it takes a long time and there were some changes. Amazing how much data I accumalated. Weight: 320.4

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Christmas 2020

Posted on December 25, 2020 by larry

Actually a pretty subdued Christmas. Got some decent gifts, a mouse, mouse pad and other cools stuff. Got a gift for myself though. Found a sale on an AMD Ryzen 5 3600. I have all the parts to make this … Continue reading →

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Docker Networking

Posted on December 23, 2020 by larry

One of the challenges I have with docker is understanding networking. I thought I understood host and bridge, but the concepts are different in vmware. Bridge is an external connection in vmware, internal in docker. Weight: 320.8

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Special Docker Build

Posted on December 22, 2020 by larry

Building a CentOS 7 kickstart to build an entire docker workstation Ironing out the kinks right now. Should be interesting. Weight: 318.6

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It Finally Came

Posted on December 19, 2020 by larry

Finally got my DeskPi case. Ordered it Sep 28 nearly 3 months ago. Unfortunately I cant do a review on it because I do not have an available Raspberry Pi 4 which I do not anticipate getting till next year … Continue reading →

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Building a pihole

Posted on December 18, 2020 by larry

My buddy Rob was looking at buying a PC for a simple pihole/openvpn. I have a spare PC and am in the process of building it. Had a weird problem that delayed the build though, wouldn’t build from CentOS 7.9 … Continue reading →

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Hardware Build For Docker

Posted on December 17, 2020 by larry

Got the hardware going for my docker machine. AMD Ryzen 3100 currently with 8GB of RAM soon to be 16GB. This will lead to a future box (CPU TBD but Ryzen cause the Mobo is ordered) which will be Docker. … Continue reading →

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So Heavy

Posted on December 16, 2020 by larry

Can’t believe it, just weighed in and so heavy. Marking this as a milestone in a negative way. Need to really make push to lose weight: Another thing is dental hygiene, went to dentist and they said I need to … Continue reading →

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