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Category: Ramblings
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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…
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Time for some vacation
Posts for the next couple of weeks may be a bit more sporadic, as I am finally taking some time off from work and my schedule for a vacation. I will still be trying to post, or at least pre-post, but I honestly am going to try to think about computers as little as possible.…
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Testing the twitter link
Apparently my recent rebuild also lost my twitter link, so recent posts had not been auto-posting to Twitter. Seeing if that is working correctly now (fingers crossed).
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Signs are looking better
So yesterday I posted that my recent FreeNAS rebuild had affected the site, and discouraged or stopped the traffic to the site. From my testing, I was receiving 404 (not found) errors on all links, and the pictures and attachments were broken. This was resulting in web crawlers being unable to find and catalog content,…