Category Archives: New Toys

Breaking Through The Workout Wall

Posted on December 1, 2021 by larry

There is this workout wall for me right now, I am not talking about resisting going to work out, dreading the treadmill, or the gym, I am talking about how long it is to get in to some sort of … Continue reading →

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Scanning Network new Machine

Posted on November 30, 2021 by larry

Build my first R8 box that is physical. It won’t be on all the time, I will use what I learned regarding Wake on LAN to boot this machine up, then shut it down when done. It is actually an … Continue reading →

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Using Rocky Linux 8.5 in Production

Posted on November 29, 2021 by larry

Big change today, moving from CentOS 7 Rocky Linux 8 in production builds. Working on updating my mail server, but before that building instructions on how to set up openVAS to scan my network. Also it is cyber monday, so … Continue reading →

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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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