Category Archives: Technical

Halloween 2020

Posted on November 1, 2020 by larry

Ok technically it was yesterday, but waited the whole night and it was the first time I can remember we had zero trick or treaters. But couple other things happened today Daylight standard, fall back, whatever you call it. So … Continue reading →

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Monitoring Lab Network

Posted on October 31, 2020 by larry

Getting my network squared away. I want to get Grafana working and logging. First cleaning up network, then got a bunch of stuff monitored in nagios. We’ll see if I can get some next gen monitoring going. Weight: 317.8

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Pushing My New Computer

Posted on October 30, 2020 by larry

I finally got to editing a large file, when I rendered it it really pushed the CPU Pretty sweet, I think I tried editing this file prior, could not do it with my old machine. It is a simple 7.5 … Continue reading →

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Verdict Still Out On Computer

Posted on October 28, 2020 by larry

But it does look very promising. Here is the final cost No Description Qty  Amount  1 AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor 1       429.99 2 Corsair H60 (2018) 57.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler 1          79.99 3 … Continue reading →

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Filled My Ballot

Posted on October 27, 2020 by larry

Can’t say I voted till I deposit my ballot, but I did fill it out 100%. Going to be an interesting week. Also lab coming together. Now to get all the monitoring and cleanup. Weight: 317.6

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Domain Controllers Upgraded

Posted on October 26, 2020 by larry

My lab now has up to date domain controllers. Need to clean up some of the older entries in both AD and DNS though. Feels good getting stuff done. Did run RTC today. Weight: 317.8

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Stress High But Level

Posted on October 24, 2020 by larry

Stress is still really high but not going higher. Still a lot of things going on, trying to relax and the thing that helps is working on my network. Worked on my network, upgraded my labs DC. Kind of fun … Continue reading →

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System Is All Together

Posted on October 19, 2020 by larry

Finally got the NVME 4 drive in, as planned though, I will keep the NVME 3 drive as the OS drive. Here is the OS Drive Unfortunately the NVME 4 drive does not show much better performance Not much better … Continue reading →

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May Get In To Gaming

Posted on October 17, 2020 by larry

I got this new computer, and it is fast, I was thinking of getting in to gaming. Not sure yet, but am looking. Looks like Counter Strike Global Offensive is pretty popular. Weight: 320.2

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Great Passmark

Posted on October 16, 2020 by larry

Got my new RTX 2060 video card. Just need the new NVME drive and I will be done for a while. System is awesomely fast. Foot still hurts a little bit. Weight: 317.0

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