Monthly Archives: October 2014

Happy Halloween 2014

Posted on October 31, 2014 by larry

It was a good halloween, it was fun giving out candy (all 10 of the kids that visited our home), but I got some new toys, a firewall, UPS, and a Xoltac PC. But still been busy getting my presentation ready. … Continue reading →

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Brutal Updating

Posted on October 30, 2014 by larry

I just spent the past few hours trying to patch my drupal boxes. There have been warnings on the Internet to secure drupal boxes.  I think that is what has been causing my servers to crash.  Someone hacking in. Certainly … Continue reading →

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Focus On Arduino

Posted on October 29, 2014 by larry

Today I am going to stop messing with my network.  Tomorrow I will focus on arduino and getting my next KCLS presentation ready. Just did some pushups and situps.  Network certainly not stable yet.

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Web Server Migration Not Smooth

Posted on October 28, 2014 by larry

My web services keep crashing, needing to make a quick post before this web site stops responding. Not sure why, there are no logs saying why. Just doing pushups and situps.

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Major Network Upgrades

Posted on October 27, 2014 by larry

Finally got a huge chunk of my network done, even one of the main firewalls is up. Still need to test though, hope it works, nmap shows the right ports open, so it is promising. Just doing pushups and situps. … Continue reading →

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Upgrading and Decomm

Posted on October 26, 2014 by larry

Spent a lot of the weekend upgrading and decommissioning some of my servers. Looking good, got notes on rebuilding most of the new servers. Hoping the servers will be good in a week. Just doing pushup and situps.

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Weird Storm Day

Posted on October 25, 2014 by larry

Didn’t know it was gonna be a windy day, weather is going nuts. Wife and I decided to go to the movies and the power flickered in couple of the theaters and we decided to get a refund and return … Continue reading →

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Failed Domain Controller

Posted on October 24, 2014 by larry

Wow, got close to losing my active directory domain today, got real close. Main main AD server went down but luckily the mirror had all of the  FSMO roles. Building a new AD server now before anything else bad happens. … Continue reading →

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Web Server Stable

Posted on October 23, 2014 by larry

My web server seems stable now, I am thinking of moving the MySQL server next. Today I got the rails I need for my rack, while I was getting the rails, I saw a nice rack that was just too … Continue reading →

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Moving Web Server

Posted on October 22, 2014 by larry

Finally getting this web server (that hosts this very page you are on) moved to a new server. Should be faster.  So much more to do though.  Neverending. Also went to see sleep doctor today, she said I need to … Continue reading →

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