Category Archives: New Toys

Massive Weight Gain from Leftovers

Posted on November 27, 2021 by larry

Wow the weigh in was really elevated today. I think it was due to all the food left over from Thanksgiving. Going to be a struggle, but don’t like the idea of the new weight. Finally got my RTX3060 in, … Continue reading →

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Black Friday 2021

Posted on November 26, 2021 by larry

Another Meh Black Friday. Stuck at home ordering online. Got a 14TB USB Hard drive. Got stuff for the family too. This is my heaviest weight, it is post Thanksgiving. But not a milestone because I already hit this exact … Continue reading →

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Wake On LAN

Posted on November 23, 2021 by larry

Finally figured out Wake On LAN, apparently it requires a BIOS/UEFI and OS setting. Here is the BIOS One thing I missed was to set it in the OS as well. Here it is with Linux ethtool eth0 Make sure … Continue reading →

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Need To Not Rush

Posted on November 16, 2021 by larry

Today I wanted to get the replacement switch in. When I was installing the new switch I thought I could simply unplug a few wires. When I plugged the wires back in, network was partially down. Of course, I thought … Continue reading →

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Rocky 8.5 is out

Posted on November 15, 2021 by larry

Downloaded Rocky 8.5 today and redoing my infrastructure to support it. Made a mistake of deleting the wrong device and erased my copy of kickstart and grub boot. Luckily I documented on this blog what I did, so was able … Continue reading →

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Homeserver Base Demo Done

Posted on November 14, 2021 by larry

Finally achieved my base demo Rocky Linux Home Server. Here are the things in the install DHCP DNS Podman(Docker) DNS over HTTPS NTP OpenVPN Webmin Cockpit File Server (NAS Samba and NFS) Mail Server (postfix and dovecot) Nagios Grafana Influxdb … Continue reading →

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Son Installed Rocky Linux 8

Posted on November 13, 2021 by larry

So my youngest son installed his first OS today. He installed Rocky Linux 8. His words, “Firefox is kind of cringe but I don’t care” So happy, now I will have him install mint. Speaking of installing, I got documentation … Continue reading →

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How My New Rack Will Look Like

Posted on November 11, 2021 by larry

Kinf of Joking Maybe not, but this is my new server rack on an Ikea shelf Got my pi cluster and thin client cluster. Fun stuff, I think I can fit most critical stuff on here either as a native … Continue reading →

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Podman Network Persistent

Posted on October 25, 2021 by larry

Figured it out, I can now have the Rocky 8 reboot and have the containers persist over reboots. nmcli con add con-name dockernet-shim type macvlan dev dockernet-shim mode bridge nmcli con add con-name dockernet-shim type macvlan ifname dockernet-shim ip4 192.168.100.223/32 … Continue reading →

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Podman on CentOS 8

Posted on October 24, 2021 by larry

A few differences in podman, but got a lot done with CentOS 8 and containers. One of the weird things I got was communication between the containers and the host. This sort of worked ip link add dockernet-shim link eth0 … Continue reading →

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