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Category: Ramblings
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The Crabcam
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A couple years ago, during our trip to Myrtle Beach, we adopted a collection of hermit crabs for the kids. As these things happen, they became the pets of the wife instead, and over time, various things were added, including at one point a streaming webcam with the intent to record and review their nightly…
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Travelling
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Travelling back and forth for work again, due to a problem with travel approvals internally in the company. That prevents me from heading up earlier in the week, and going home later, and instead makes me need to travel up and back in the same day. Basically, I can charge mileage without needing approval, but…
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Happy 4th of July
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To any American follows, happy 4th of July! There won’t be any other content post as such today, since I will be out with family and friends enjoying some food, fun, and fireworks.
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Breaking the chain
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So I haven’t been that successful continuing my ongoing chain of postings recently, after missing yesterday’s deadline yet again. The good news is the habit is strong enough to make me realize the miss, but not strong enough to keep me from avoiding it. In truth, I have been allowing myself to get rather distracted.…
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Another rebuild
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In my continuing quest to fine tune my home computer network, I am tackling another reorganization. Currently, this website and some other functionality is residing on an Oracle VM Virtual Box configuration, running several virtual machines which each in turn run Ubuntu. It dawned on me, that the same computer which runs the virtual box…
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FreeNAS 11 upgrade
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As previously posted, I run much of my home network (and this website) on a FreeNAS server, currently running version 9 after a recent downgrade from the failed version 10 release. Recently, FreeNAS 11 was released as a stable version, so I have been eager to upgrade to the new functionality – but hesitant due…
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Back from vacation
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So there has been a noticeable drop in posting activity over the last couple of weeks, primarily because I spent the last couple of weeks with the family on vacation in Florida. We spent the first part visiting Disney World, and the second half with the kids on a cruise with the grandparents, and my…
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Updates
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As mentioned previously, I am on vacation this week with my family, enjoying a bit of down time from work. I specifically informed the office that my vacation plans involved a “region in which cell phones cease to function” – thus don’t call and expect any response. As a result, the week has been very…