Category Archives: New Toys

Mothers Day 2015

Posted on May 10, 2015 by larry

It was a great mother’s day.  Pretty busy one at that. Got up at 8AM and forced the kids out of bed to go get mom and grandma something. Kids had a joke to get flour instead of flowers. Also … Continue reading →

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Bringing Back Router from a Brick

Posted on April 30, 2015 by larry

I have bricked one of my routers, a Linksys E2500 router. The cause was a bad firmware update. I was able to take it apart and add a serial TTY connection. Once in the serial console I was able to … Continue reading →

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New Switch On My Network

Posted on April 10, 2015 by larry

I got a new switch going on my network. It is the TP-Link SG2424, I am using the VLAN features and it looks like it is working extremely well. It is almost a single point of failure, so I hope … Continue reading →

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Knee Problems

Posted on March 26, 2015 by larry

Tried to run today, weather was great, my knee wasn’t. Decided to try some new support, this is a large one and should fit outside my pants. Tried running 1 mile and 1 mile walk.  No go.  Kind of hurting.

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Pre Event Rest

Posted on March 21, 2015 by larry

Although I did take it easy with the workouts today, my day was certainly not restful. There were a lot of errands I ran, but I worked more on my education kart. Got bigger wheels, rackmount KVM installed, and the … Continue reading →

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Installing ESXi 5.5 on HP

Posted on March 16, 2015 by larry

I am not sure why but I had heck of a time installing ESXi 5.5 on my HP 385 G5. I ended up installing 4.1 first then upgrading to 5.5. Note that I was installing it on a USB flash … Continue reading →

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Hello New Kart

Posted on March 14, 2015 by larry

Today I gave my body a rest, it has been brutalized the past week. It was an impressive week, but one needs rest. I took it easy today, but also because I have a lot of stuff on my plate … Continue reading →

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New Server Up and Running

Posted on January 3, 2015 by larry

My new ESXi server is running pretty good.  Soon all production VMs will be on server class hardware. Doing some dry runs right now, I returned the 1 processor for  the 2 processor model.  At the same time I was … Continue reading →

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Had Enough

Posted on January 2, 2015 by larry

I had enough with the server I was using.  There were enough crashes that I feel compelled to move on. I got a new server, I didn’t know a single core would not use all the ram though due to … Continue reading →

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Finally Got My Drives

Posted on December 29, 2014 by larry

Ordered three 1TB 7200RPM SATA drives from Newegg before Christmas, finally came in. I put one of them into my server and I kind of don’t need the other two since I reused another 1TB drive from a retired computer. … Continue reading →

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