Category Archives: Training

This is all items related to my physical training.

The End Is Near

Posted on September 5, 2023 by larry

For this website any, not the blog though. In a few days you will see a remake of the main parts of this website. Part of the push to get rid of C7 boxes. One of the things I am … Continue reading →

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Fixed One Thing and Another Broke

Posted on September 4, 2023 by larry

Fixed the fridge today and then the Kitchen Fridge broke. Hoping the fridge is an easy fix. Only a few years old The old fridge lasted over a decade. Tomorrow will see if the freezer holds its cold. Today was … Continue reading →

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Three Day Weekend Needed

Posted on September 3, 2023 by larry

Just got 2 days of a three day weekend out of the way, I am happy that I also got Monday off. Getting my lab rolling, tomorrow hopefully more breakthroughs. But I am having a problem with MATE and guacamole, … Continue reading →

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Been Tired All Day

Posted on September 2, 2023 by larry

One of those times sleep catches up with you. I been so tired today, napped couple of times. I did get a lot done, figured a way to reimage the nodes on the lab. Create a new guacamole server, also … Continue reading →

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LDAP Server On Rocky 9

Posted on September 1, 2023 by larry

Getting good with ansible. But finding I need to get an LDAP server outside my the secure area of my network. For others that connect to the lab. Now I need to figure out how to authenticate with guacamole. Weight: … Continue reading →

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Exciting Times

Posted on August 31, 2023 by larry

Had a long day of work last night, ending at 3AM, but I got a lot of stuff done. At home, ansible is doing me right. My son is ready to start XC, 1 more week till his first meet. … Continue reading →

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Lab Rebuild

Posted on August 30, 2023 by larry

This evening I decided to rebuild/reconstitute the lab. Now that I retired an ESXi host, I think I got space to continue with the lab. Got all these little things to set up. Patching, nagios, guacamole, proxies etc. Weight: 347.0

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CentOS 7 Going Away

Posted on August 29, 2023 by larry

Still feeling sluggish but had a normal work day, just powered through. I miscounted my VM counts, there was a dupe, but also wondered why a VM I had was still needed, I just decommed it. So back down to … Continue reading →

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Not Sleeping Right

Posted on August 28, 2023 by larry

I think its cause of the smoke or air quality The past two nights tracks with my difficulty breathing. Took a sick day today. On the Linux front, I figured out how to install guacamole on Rocky 9. Weight: 347.4

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Wasting Time Cause Of Time

Posted on August 27, 2023 by larry

What a disaster last night. I was cleaning up some stuff and I had a VM that was also acting as a datastore. So when these go down, it causes havok. So last night I had to reboot an ESXi … Continue reading →

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