Category Archives: Training

This is all items related to my physical training.

Resting Today Body Sore

Posted on February 17, 2018 by larry

Body sore from those laps yesterday. Also wanted to get my new build up. Granted this is a budget build, but I am pretty disappointed with the performance. Motherboard is an ASUS PRIME A320M-A so I can go faster with … Continue reading →

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Swimming Laps

Posted on February 16, 2018 by larry

Today went to the YMCA and did 10 laps in 1/2 an hour (little bit more) Am kind of tired right now. So it was a good workout. Need to shower now, smell like chlorine. Also got an idea for … Continue reading →

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Bad Sleep

Posted on February 15, 2018 by larry

Didn’t sleep right again last night.  Going to go to bed early and try to sleep with the CPAP. I really need some rest. So tired. Since I was up, started documenting setting up an LDAP server.

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Happy Valentines and Ash Wednesday

Posted on February 14, 2018 by larry

Weird combo of a day, ash Wednesday and Valentines. Starting off Lent by giving up soda (carbonated drinks). Almost forgot it was Lent. But knew we were going about Valentines, got tickets to air supply.  Woot woot.  

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Modernizing Our Linux Environment

Posted on February 13, 2018 by larry

At work I did an audit of our Linux machines, I surprised that we were pretty up to date.  Felt like we were running old stuff, but I guess when you look at the numbers, we aren’t doing so bad. … Continue reading →

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Trouble Kickstarting From USB

Posted on February 12, 2018 by larry

I am not sure why this is not working, but I can’t seem to boot from a USB drive to kickstart a CentOS 7 build. I am getting in to it though,  I like where this is going. Burned so … Continue reading →

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Reinforcing Screens

Posted on February 11, 2018 by larry

We have been having problems with birds entering our attic, so spent the afternoon reinforcing the screens blocking the holes to the attic. Today continued to prove how out of shape I am, I barely could help when we put … Continue reading →

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Putting New Knowledge To Use

Posted on February 9, 2018 by larry

Been playing with CentOS 7 all day.  Work related too, I kind of enjoy it. I created a boot DVD and know I can move it to USB easily using dd. Now just working on different kickstart and hoping to … Continue reading →

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Final Day Of Class

Posted on February 8, 2018 by larry

Today concluded my class with Redhat Enterprise Linux 7. It was good, an old dog learning new trigs. We did some kickstart stuff today, as I post I am building a custom DVD. Going to be interesting.  

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Systemd and Other Changes

Posted on February 7, 2018 by larry

There are enough changes in RHEL 7 that it warrants buying a book. I am not overwhelmed by any means but I sure do not want to get caught off guard when  dealing with CentOS 7. Also I really need … Continue reading →

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