Category Archives: New Toys

Starting to work towards my goals one step at a time. Today I traded CPUs with my son’s PC, he got a faster AMD 5500 and I got a compatible AMD 2600 CPU for CentOS 7. Got little things done … Continue reading →

Have a small to do list, but still a lot of things to do, meaning there are tasks I am missing and need to plan it up. Had a lot of goals when I started the year, haven’t started it. … Continue reading →

Got the CPU in today, but after wasting a bunch time trying to install CentOS 7 on it. At first I blamed the motherboard, it is an ASUS Prime B550-plus. I even upgraded the firmware. Then I tried another Linux, … Continue reading →

Eating late at night and wasting money in the casino. Need to reign that in. I did resume one habit (determination), that is not letting light rain stop me from my walk. It was late at night, just got home … Continue reading →

I consider my network and passwords relatively secure, it has its vulnerabilities and there is a balance between ease of use and security. Lastpass which I mentioned a few blog posts ago made it painfully obvious that cloud is not … Continue reading →

Hitting up the year end tasks like backups, archives and goal setting. Recording what I did in past years really helps. I would like to post my public goals here soon. Still working on it though. Got a new open … Continue reading →

I think a lot of the disorder in my office was interrupting my train of thought. Now things are pretty clean, I feel like I am about to get a burst of productivity. Also testing out some new pens, yes … Continue reading →

Found that you can get a great deal on used drives, but not sure if they are realiable. So giving it a try on a non critical server I will use to test restores. I am hoping the ZFS and … Continue reading →

Looks like I will be setting up a backup NAS server. Purchased Four 4TB SAS disks. We will see how that goes. Seahawks lost, so son swim in a meet for the first time. Need to do some 2023 goal … Continue reading →

So hard drives are a big expense for a NAS, but I was thinking of purchasing used SAS drives for a new NAS for testing. I will leave it off so power should not be an issue, I can power … Continue reading →