Wondering what happened today, things just flew by. I recall waking up, going to work, next thing you know it is lunch.
Then breaking to go to gym and now it is nearly midnight and I am posting so late.
I am tired had a good day though. Still need to shower.
I did get some more of my demo network up. Working on guacamole in a VM. Harder than I recall.
Weight: 345.0
Taking my first shot at printing in PETG. It is summer hot, and I think it will print well. Going to reprint all of the rackmounts in my server rack.
Spent most of the day getting a test google account going which will be used in conjunction with my new lab setup.
Then I continued with the odds and ends in the lab setup.
Got QEMU Installed on both the prime server and the KVM host.
InfluxDB, Prometheus (on a different port) and telegraf are installed as well.
Had problems with LDAP, looks like a cert issue, cleartext worked.
That was fun but should sleep early.
Weight: 346.6
Took 4 days of my spare time (got a Full Time job) but I am done. Most of the future changes will be aesthetics, like color coded cables or keystones. But it looks good.
Will post more details, but it is looking clean.
Getting better wiring to clean things up as well
But that is more aesthetic and not so much functional other than easy color coded access.
Note that the Router is not going to be there permanently.
Still mulling over ideas for the keystone patch panel. But I do have a 1G Smart PoE switch
Not sure about shoving all the power supplies in the drawer
People will ask how much does it cost to power this, it is currently drawing 100Watts, including the router
So would be over $130 per year in my area
Now to figure out the other mess
I should be able to start rebuilding and documenting the home server.
Weight: 341.4
Didn’t sleep well last night, got home late, and I did work today so I did not get a decent rest day. I did swim and will be tired.
As I post it is late and sloe to midnight, hope to sleep deep and long.
I did a few things with my new rack, got the KVM host build, I need to redo it to make sure I got my documentation right.
Weight: 340.8
Health, finance, my side hustle all are starting to trend better, the next 18 months look extremely promising. Imagine falling into complete balance of health, career, spirtuality and finance.
As I post I only have 203 steps left, I get that walking around the house.
Weight is really looking good.
Some visible positives are happening, like energy. Need to keep pushing.
I want to call crack 340 so bad, but I know I need some intake. We will see though, I think it is not out of the realm of possibility I touch 340 by the end of the week.
The mini rack is coming along as well. I want to say no more 3D printing, but I want to change out the PLA parts with PETG.
Weight: 340.8
Seems like swimming gives me some sort of energy boost. I just got done, I am all clean haven’t eaten dinner yet. Most of the day I was sluggish, doing better now. Also when I got out of the car today, my body wasn’t as sore. Hoping this is a little payoff of what I been working towards.
On the tech front, New Zoneminder keeps rebooting, I think to protect itself, I need to add more fans and put in some sort of temperature monitor.
I patched a bunch of R9 boxes today, it was weird like some of the repos out there were not fully synced causing some of my systems to fail patching requiring manual intervention.
The 10″ rack looks great, a few more things I need to install, and then some functionality tests.
Will provide pics tomorrow.
Back to health, last year’s lowest weight was 326.6 achieved on 9/5/2024, 15.2 lbs to match it and 342.2 was my weight a year ago, so I am beating last years weight. Got a little less than two months to do that. I did crack 340 by the end of July, I really want to push for that.
Weight: 341.8
Got my 10 inch rack today, I wish I waited for from day, but the prime day one was not the color I wanted so I will keep this one. I also ordered some from prime day not sure if I will return or not.
This is a GeeekPi 8U 10″ Rack
I am printing some mounts and will get this better organized.
The LCD screen works, the power bricks do fit in the drawer with one huge caveat, I don’t have enough of them.
RAM for new NVR server came in too, gonna add it now, see if it still OOM kills zoneminder.
On the weight loss front, I am less than what I was this time last year, so things are trending good for me.
Weight: 342.2
Much more RAM, OOM is doing its job
Currently has 32GB of RAM, needs more, also need to tweak my settings maybe to use less RAM. I do have another 32GB on the way.
Another thing that breaks is my docker based pihole which I tried to upgrade.
Not sure how I am going to fix that one.
Edit: Figured it out go into the container then run
pihole-FTL --config misc.etc_dnsmasq_d true
As a reminder for future self to get in to container
docker exec -it pihole /bin/bash
Went swimming today, super tired. Going to bed early.
Weight: 344.2
Finally got zoneminder on Rocky 9. The CentOS 7 instance built in Q1 2021 needs some rest. Prior to that was Zoneminder built in August 2017, and the first instance of that was way back on a Pentium 4 CentOS 5.5 with 2GB of RAM.
How times have changed.
This instance is on an Intel 12th Gen with 2th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12600K, with 32GB of RAM, and both an 500GB NVME drive and 10TB SATA drive and even that is not enough.
I need 64GB of RAM because OOM killer is whacking zoneminder. My old system has 64GB but it is still running so I ordered more RAM.
Another problem is the refurb hard drive I have, I did not do a proper check of the drive, now it is kicking out SMART errors.
Finally, it only had 1 CPU FAN, I need to add two more system fans to keep it cool.
Not done, a way more to go.
Weight: 346.0
Yesterday I just did pushups and situps, also did not do much of anything today.
So I am writing the day off as a recovery weekend. I will get my zoneminder upgraded and hopefully a video. But not gonna do much on the physical front.
As I post at 8:16PM I have 382 more steps to go. Pretty sure I will make my fitbit goals today.
Weight: 344.0
