Category Archives: New Toys

Moved My Domain

Posted on May 24, 2021 by larry

Kept this on the downlow till today, but moved my apolonio.com domain today, it has been finalized. Was kind of nervous because it is my most important domain. The registrar it was on was kind of loose with security. Feel … Continue reading →

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Hard To Think When You Are Distressed

Posted on May 6, 2021 by larry

Pain still there, but much much lower. It is actually getting easier to eat. My voice sounds normal too. But I was also able to think and focus on work. Still a bit off, but look at what I was … Continue reading →

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So Close To A RTX 3000

Posted on May 5, 2021 by larry

Entered the Newegg Shuffle today and WON But too slow with the payment, I thought I hat till 7PM PT not 4PM. So bummed. Went to new specialist today, getting down to what I am up against. Weight: 317.4

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Manually Moving Workloads

Posted on April 29, 2021 by larry

My pi cluster is starting to run some workloads. It is interesting now. Fun looking on docker hub on what I can run on the pi cluster. So far bind cloudflared heimdall home-assistant mediawiki nagios pihole wordpress centos It is … Continue reading →

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Bleeding Stopped Still Hurts To Eat

Posted on April 28, 2021 by larry

At about 2AM this morning the bleeding was under control. But It still hurt to talk and even more so hurt to eat. I had my son look in my mouth and he freaked out. I looked myself and saw … Continue reading →

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Pi Thermals

Posted on April 24, 2021 by larry

Looks like we do need active cooling for the Pi when using PoE Note the heat increase when you do not use a fan. This is a big box fan blowing on all the nodes. Interestingly, here are 4 small … Continue reading →

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Mental Block

Posted on April 20, 2021 by larry

I am hitting some sort of wall in my workout. Just did pushups and situps today, but wanted to mention it from yesterday. I feel like the run scares me, but when I hit the elliptical or recumbent bike I … Continue reading →

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All Four Kubernetes Nodes Assembled

Posted on April 18, 2021 by larry

Finally got my four kubernetes worker nodes are up as well as the management head. I do have an OS on each of them, but there are some consistency issues. Working on the proper build process. But happy that they … Continue reading →

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Building New Monitoring Server

Posted on April 16, 2021 by larry

I just built a monitoring server, so why am I building another one? This is a special one just to hold data. Going to lock it down too. Exercise was good, it actually felt easy AND I did it above … Continue reading →

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All Pieces for Minimal Cluster

Posted on April 11, 2021 by larry

I got all the things I need for a minimal cluster. I got two 4GB Raspberry Pi 4 as worker nodes. I got one 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 as a manager node The POE switch is in as well. Jaw … Continue reading →

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