Category Archives: New Toys

WA State Fair 2022

Posted on September 18, 2022 by larry

Wow that wasn’t that fun. Sure enjoyed food, kept the tradition alive, man there were a lot of downside. First off, the lines, there were lines to get parking, the lines to get inside, lines to get food, lines to … Continue reading →

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Dell H200 not working

Posted on September 16, 2022 by larry

Got a weird problem, when I am running ESXi 7 my Dell H200 does not pass through. So it is going to set me back a bit. Hoping to find something that will work. Weight: 313.0

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Learning New ESXi Host

Posted on September 15, 2022 by larry

There is a lot to learn on this new ESXi host, there is a weird RAID setup, trying to passthrough an HBA (visible in Linux) and power considerations. One thing I found out was the power supply that came with … Continue reading →

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New Systems

Posted on September 14, 2022 by larry

New laptop for son, new server for me. So a lot to work on. Finished my son’s laptop today, Windows 11 Pro, so kind of new to me. But my HP X840 came in yesterday, started building it today. It … Continue reading →

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Son’s New Laptop

Posted on September 11, 2022 by larry

Son got a new laptop today, an HP Envy X360. Looks cools, gonna spend some time setting it up this week. First system in house that has Windows 10. Did last minute 12,000 steps, need to spread it out more … Continue reading →

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Starting Path On New Upgrade

Posted on September 3, 2022 by larry

Got a new ESXi 7 compatible server. It is an HP Z840 (I been going HP a lot lately) 2x Xeon e5-2609 v4 NVIDIA Quadro K620 (Can do h.264) 16 GB of RAM (Was going to upgrade anyway) No Hard … Continue reading →

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Done Early

Posted on August 27, 2022 by larry

Got my steps before noon today, so it kind of freed up my day. Went to RePC and got a case, also found a server, a Dell PowerEdge T330 Looks like it would make a great stable TrueNAS server, but … Continue reading →

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OpenLDAP in my Homeserver

Posted on August 17, 2022 by larry

Looking and researching how to install openldap on Rocky Linux 9, haven’t done it before, looks like there are some differences. Hope I can figure it out and add it to my homeserver project. Walked a decent amount today, as … Continue reading →

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Parkrun 5k

Posted on August 6, 2022 by larry

Ran a true 5k today. Did pretty good https://www.parkrun.us/renton/results/latestresults/ Ran it in 54:14, so I know I am faster than 3MPH Son did well, he finished 3rd overall. TBH, it was against people just having fun, not competative. Wife got … Continue reading →

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Made Weight

Posted on August 3, 2022 by larry

Took a bunch of work, but I made weight this morning. So the clock resets again to 3 days. Got some additional parts for my mobile crash case. Here is a first view of it. Hoping to get more posts … Continue reading →

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