Almost Showroom Quality

Posted on December 11, 2023 by larry

Not ready to show off my new desk yet, but got a lot done.

I was able to cable up some of the things, and it looks OK.

One more day under 350 and I am buck under 350.

Weight: 348.8

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Desktop Setup Change

Posted on December 10, 2023 by larry

I worked for hours cleaning and redoing cables in my setup.

Instead of 3 across monitors and an extra monitor, I am doing 4,4 with the 4th being a vesa mountable monitor that connects from the KVM.

So the 4th monitor is actually my elgato display.

I have a real TV connected as well, hope to have the cables by Wednesday.

Weight finally dropped below 350, need to keep it going for two more days.

Weight: 349.6

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Canada Snow

Posted on December 9, 2023 by larry

Found myself in Canada today and it snowed on us

Canada Snow

It was cool, wish I were home though nice and warm.

Drive home was brutal, I needed some sleep. Took a nap at a rest stop. Rained the whole way.

The Canadian part still had snow.

At least we left for home before it got dark.

Couple notes for my future self, avoid Truck Crossing, go Peace Arch. Was stuck in snow.

We left hotel about 10:30 and got into Surrey at 12:30.

Shopped for about 3 hours.

Got home, and am still tired, trying to get stuff done but too tired.

Weight: 352.0

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Christmas Shopping 2023

Posted on December 8, 2023 by larry

About this time of the year wife and I get away to do some shopping.

We left house a little late like 1PM but timing was good, we did a bit of shopping and it was dark enough to see the lights in Tulalip

Tulalip Lights

Got some great parking too.

Angel of the Winds Casino was busy when we got there. Got decent parking.

Weight: 352.8

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Guacamole On Home Server

Posted on December 7, 2023 by larry

Added one final bonus app, and I got openvpn to work.

Got guacamole on there. With tomcat.

Now I am just getting more accurate nagios and cleaning up things to make it a good example.

It is done though.

Accepting the fact I am over 350 again.

Weight: 352.8

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Oh so close

Posted on December 6, 2023 by larry

Almost got all of my major objectives done, to recap here is the list.

To recap these were the goals

• DHCP
• DNS
• NTP
• File Server (NAS Samba and NFS)
• Mail Server (postfix and dovecot)
• Podman(Docker)
• DNS over HTTPS
• TFTP
• plex
• home assistant
• MATE
• RDP
• Certificate Services (via XCA)
• Influxdb
• Telegraf
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• LDAP
• Nagios
• PXEBOOT via BIOS and UEFI
• OpenVPN

And I got them all working but openvpn is weird. I can connect, but it is not communicating with the containers.

Got to be some sort of routing issue.

I thought I would be done, but it got really busy today at work.

Yes this weight is bothering me, got two tries to drop under 350 again.

Weight: 351.8

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Working Hard Making Progress

Posted on December 5, 2023 by larry

I got my sample server working, all the bits are installed and most of the features are installed.

So far

Done and Working
• DHCP
• DNS
• NTP
• File Server (NAS Samba and NFS)
• Mail Server (postfix and dovecot)
• Podman(Docker)
• DNS over HTTPS
• TFTP
• plex
• home assistant
• MATE
• RDP
• Certificate Services (via XCA)
• Influxdb
• Telegraf
• Grafana
• Prometheus

Installed But Need Configuration
• OpenVPN
• Nagios
• PXEBOOT via BIOS and UEFI
• LDAP

I think by tomorrow I will be done and can start documentation.

Weight: 349.0

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Purchased Second Unit

Posted on December 4, 2023 by larry

Got a second unit for testing.

First thing I did was to try and test a Windows install, unfortunately I had a bad drive and wasted a bunch of time trying to get it to work.

I found a good one and got it to work, and as expected Windows 10 registers itself.

Another thing I did was clear off my workbench, I put the sample unit on its own location out of the way, since it is headless now.

I did have to recover one of the working labs I screwed up. Wasn’t too bad, just needed to re ip, but to do that I needed to be physically connected with a monitor.

With that lab up, I realized all a forgot to do was reset the password. Kind of dumb mistake.

I picked up the new drive, and am going to set it up, probably as a static disk, with no LVM.

Still debating, may talk myself out of it.

Did workout in the gym, and I did get my fitbit steps.

Sleeping early, earned it.

Weight: 349.6

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Home Server Demo Built

Posted on December 3, 2023 by larry

I have the home server built, but am looking 1 more storage.

I have an on motherboard 250GB NVME drive, and a 1TB Internal 2.5 SATA.

Now I want an external disk for mass storage, so am waiting for a 4TB USB drive to come in.

Here are the services that are pretty much ready for use and configured.

• DHCP
• DNS
• NTP
• File Server (NAS Samba and NFS)
• Podman(Docker)
• DNS over HTTPS
• plex
• home assistant
• MATE/XRDP

Here are services that I have the bits installed but need to be configured

• Mail Server (postfix and dovecot)
• OpenVPN
• Nagios
• Grafana
• LDAP
• TFTP
• PXEBOOT via BIOS and UEFI

Finally Services or packages I need to install

• Certificate Services (via XCA)
• Influxdb
• Prometheus

I bit to go, but well on the way.

Weight: 348.4

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XMas Lights 2023

Posted on December 2, 2023 by larry

Got the lights done today, looks better then most year’s cause the lawn was actually cleared of leaves and we got more lights than usual.

Indoors is done too.

Season going to be good.

Weight: 348.4

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