Category Archives: Coding

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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Decent Tech Progress

Posted on March 11, 2025 by larry

As the office becomes more streamlined I feel like I can focus on more stuff. Today I got the WWAN unit to talk to the internet. Also forgot to mention I got the iodd ST400 unit running as well. It … Continue reading →

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Struggling With Sleep

Posted on February 24, 2025 by larry

I am toying with the idea of going back to ambien. Been having a hard time to sleep. Makes me very unproductive during the day. I did a few things to keep me going though, tonight I am going to … Continue reading →

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Resetting LTE Module

Posted on February 19, 2025 by larry

I think I am finally understanding these used modules I have gotten. These have prior settings in the module that needs to be erased. This command showed a lot of the prior owners stuff. I think the fix is from … Continue reading →

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Strings in C are horid

Posted on January 10, 2025 by larry

Playing around with strings in C is painful. Am rusty, been doing Python for a while now and it is getting confusing. The physical part of dev phase of my project is nearly done. What that means is that I … Continue reading →

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