Category Archives: New Toys

Upgrading Firewalls

Posted on November 22, 2020 by larry

Its time to upgrade my pfSense firewalls. It was not 100% smooth, but it was easier then I expected. Check the uptime on this server though That is amazing. Weight: 317.2

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Another Lockdown Coming

Posted on November 15, 2020 by larry

Word came down today that there is going to be another lockdown here in Washington. Four weeks of more lockdown. Seahawks lost too, so the bad news keeps coming. At least I figured out the logs in Grafana, viewing them. … Continue reading →

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Trying To Get Grafana Loki Promtail Working

Posted on November 14, 2020 by larry

I was able to get mysql to view on grafana. Which is cool. I can pipe yum update checks to mysql query. Also got prometheus working as well, where a daemon is running on the target and the server pulls … Continue reading →

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Still Counting Votes

Posted on November 5, 2020 by larry

Election not done yet. Still being tallied, although there is a lot of news about it. Seems like every little change in count has been reported. Certainly exciting. In other news, the Ryzen 5000 series came out, I feel like … Continue reading →

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Halloween 2020

Posted on November 1, 2020 by larry

Ok technically it was yesterday, but waited the whole night and it was the first time I can remember we had zero trick or treaters. But couple other things happened today Daylight standard, fall back, whatever you call it. So … Continue reading →

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Monitoring Lab Network

Posted on October 31, 2020 by larry

Getting my network squared away. I want to get Grafana working and logging. First cleaning up network, then got a bunch of stuff monitored in nagios. We’ll see if I can get some next gen monitoring going. Weight: 317.8

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Pushing My New Computer

Posted on October 30, 2020 by larry

I finally got to editing a large file, when I rendered it it really pushed the CPU Pretty sweet, I think I tried editing this file prior, could not do it with my old machine. It is a simple 7.5 … Continue reading →

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Verdict Still Out On Computer

Posted on October 28, 2020 by larry

But it does look very promising. Here is the final cost No Description Qty  Amount  1 AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor 1       429.99 2 Corsair H60 (2018) 57.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler 1          79.99 3 … Continue reading →

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System Is All Together

Posted on October 19, 2020 by larry

Finally got the NVME 4 drive in, as planned though, I will keep the NVME 3 drive as the OS drive. Here is the OS Drive Unfortunately the NVME 4 drive does not show much better performance Not much better … Continue reading →

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Great Passmark

Posted on October 16, 2020 by larry

Got my new RTX 2060 video card. Just need the new NVME drive and I will be done for a while. System is awesomely fast. Foot still hurts a little bit. Weight: 317.0

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