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Final Upgrades Completed – Only Tweaks Left
As it finally started warming up I noticed that our electric bill was not going down as expected. We use electic heat (for hot water as well and we have a heat pump) so one would expect that as temperatures … Continue reading
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OMG – Pelleys.com Was 20 in October
I just realized the I registered pelleys.com back on October 2, 2000….
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New Camera for wx.pelleys.com
Back in August, August 23rd to be exact, the camera for wx.pelleys.com died in the afternoon. It was a nice warm day. The camera, a Panasonic TK-C750C, was about 10 years old. That’s a pretty good age given it is … Continue reading
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Home Lab All Done – For Now
Back in August I posted on my latest updates to the home lab. At that time, I had added a new HP DL360p Gen8 to replace the old G7 for ESXi, added a UniFi Flex Mini for the office and … Continue reading
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Another Aide-mémoire – Renaming Files Based on Modification Time
I have a bunch of weather station time lapse daily web cam files (found here: Historical 24-hour WX Timelapse Videos) where the date of the web page index is the day after. This has bugged me for the past three … Continue reading
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Server/Network Upgrade – Almost at the End… For Now
Well, I’m almost at the end of the server/network upgrade for now. Since the last update, here’s where we are from the last update: I rebuilt the network configuration (about 85% of it). I had a weird problem with DHCP … Continue reading
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UniFi Adoption with Devices on Separate Subnet from UniFi Controller
This is, as always, is maybe more of an aide-mémoire for me, but may be helpful if someone else is searching for a solution… Here is the scenario: My UniFi devices are on a separate subnet from my UniFi Controller. … Continue reading
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Working from home? Have some spare hardware? How about using that spare hardware to find a cure to COVID-19?
So, I’m working from home in my office and realized that I had my son’s old PC sitting in the corner. Later that night, I was watching Linus Tech Tips and watched a video on using Folding@Home to help find … Continue reading
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Wiring Cleanup
If you look at the previous posts, you can see the old – in some cases, really old – network cables that I was using in the rack. Some of these were even older than my son! They were a … Continue reading
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Real Rack!
In my previous posts, I noted that my homebuilt rack worked well execpt for two issues: (1) I was silly and went with telco threaded rails and (2) I neglected to add the 1/8th inch (3.2mm) thickness of each rail … Continue reading
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