Category Archives: Coding

New Weight Loss Journey

Posted on May 20, 2025 by larry

Today got my first set of shots for Zepbound. Holding off till Saturday because this will be a once a week medications. Also makes for a nice starting point. Rest of the week I will be forecasting and planning because … Continue reading →

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JIT Battery

Posted on May 14, 2025 by larry

The UPS battery came just in time, the UPS that needed its battery replacing was a major one holding up a bunch of network gear. The battery came in today and it was installed after it became clear, the unit … Continue reading →

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UPS Dying

Posted on May 13, 2025 by larry

My lastman project worked, got a bunch of SMS messages when the UPS for my stack of switches died. I looked at when I purchased this UPS, July 2021, so yeah 4 years, need to be replaced. I got quality … Continue reading →

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Overweight, Low Energy

Posted on May 12, 2025 by larry

Bad combination. Feel so bloated, so slow, quality of life is bad. But I think today is a turning point. Got approved for zepbound. I gonna commit to it till I am at least under 300 and going to push … Continue reading →

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Next Level Nagios XI skills

Posted on May 7, 2025 by larry

Earned my next set if strips with nagios xi and more. I finally using the API to add stuff to nagios. I was able to export all the certs in XCA and make them monitored in Nagios XI. Kind of … Continue reading →

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Expiring Certs

Posted on May 6, 2025 by larry

Working Through a way to detect expiring certs. Got a good python script going. This is for both work and home. Works for nagios core but need to make it work for nagios XI Weight: 346.2

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Good Friday 2025

Posted on April 18, 2025 by larry

As I post there are about 2 more hours left before midnight. I am still going strong though with the fasting. But it has not been an idle day, I embarked on upgrading an ancient Mediawiki circa 2016 to something … Continue reading →

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Kickstart Rocky 9 KVM Host

Posted on April 10, 2025 by larry

I am putting together a kickstart for a KVM host. It basically grabs a kickstart from the cloud http://my.apolonio.tech/linux/kvmhost95.cfg And builds a KVM host running MATE. Still doing some testing, will do a video. Weight: 342.0

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Whois No More

Posted on April 8, 2025 by larry

Stuff moves on, I didn’t know the whois protocol was getting deprecated. Ran a whois and got this Replaced with something called rdap. Frustrating searching for rdap utility, kept auto correcting to rdp. Anyway I asked chatgpt and it give … Continue reading →

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Break In Emergency

Posted on April 1, 2025 by larry

Came across an idea where I can put something like money in to a 3D printed device where you would have to break in order to read it. Found these things which would go in a keychain. There is a … Continue reading →

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