Monthly Archives: December 2014

Lukewarm End of Year Finale

Posted on December 31, 2014 by larry

I can’t really classify that the year ended off with a wimper, but for the most part it did.  What disqualifies it was the huge server problems I had today. My main ESXi server kept crashing, I tried reseating the … Continue reading →

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Virtualizing Mail Server

Posted on December 30, 2014 by larry

I decided to virtualize a mail server I have a couple of weeks ago.  I think it may be a bad idea.  The datastore that mail server was on crashed and now I am going through a disaster recovery scenario. … Continue reading →

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Finally Got My Drives

Posted on December 29, 2014 by larry

Ordered three 1TB 7200RPM SATA drives from Newegg before Christmas, finally came in. I put one of them into my server and I kind of don’t need the other two since I reused another 1TB drive from a retired computer. … Continue reading →

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Another Seahawks NFC West Title

Posted on December 28, 2014 by larry

This was an incredible run.  Six weeks ago I had my doubts that they were going to make the playoffs, now they are sitting with the #1 seed in the NFC. They have proven to me they are a tough … Continue reading →

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New PC Rocks

Posted on December 27, 2014 by larry

My New PC is running pretty darn well. Here are the specs CPU is an AMD 6 core 6350 I have not overclocked it yet. Motherboard is an MSI 970 Gaming motherboard. 16 GB of RAM and a pretty sweet … Continue reading →

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New Video System

Posted on December 26, 2014 by larry

I have my new computer system online. Still working on it, I hoped to get to post more on it today, but was not able to get it done. Had trouble with the bios but dang it is was nice … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas 2014

Posted on December 25, 2014 by larry

Was hoping for time for reflection today, instead, I went to the airport and dropped off my mom and went home to begin building my new gaming rig. I started to take apart a dead machine then kind of just … Continue reading →

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Christmas Eve 2014

Posted on December 24, 2014 by larry

Well, year is winding down, less than a week left.  Cool thing is that I got 4 days of relaxing to do. Great time for reflection on the upcoming new year. We had a great Christmas party this evening out … Continue reading →

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Raining Cats and Dogs

Posted on December 23, 2014 by larry

This is one of those days I hate to drive, roads are so wet and slick. Would rather stay home in nice dry indoors location. Normally we get the 24th off for work, but with Christmas landing on Thursday, i … Continue reading →

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Days Are Short

Posted on December 22, 2014 by larry

I been so busy with the holidays and stuff that I missed winter solstice.  Days are gonna start getting longer again… yay!!! Christmas is closing in, got a few gifts to give out this year, not horribly deep pockets this … Continue reading →

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