Category: Ramblings

  • Updates

    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…

  • 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.…

  • 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).

  • 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,…

  • Might have broken the site

    Perhaps I am overly obsessive, but since I am newer blogger, I tend to check my daily stats with some regularity.  More from a sense of small accomplishment, rather than any expectation of a growing audience.  However, since I rebuilt my FreeNAS server, which meant a restore of the site, my visit count has crashed…

  • Happy Memorial Day

    A special thanks to all those that serve or have served in the military, as the United States celebrates Memorial Day.

  • I broke the chain 🙁

    Unfortunately, timing and events conspired, and I broke my recent string of consistent posting each weekday yesterday.  As such, my count gets to reset back to 0, and I start again.  Overall, not a bad run, I think I managed nearly 2 months of consistent little articles, which for me is a personal best.  And…

  • FreeNAS configuration – the starting point

    This listing will end up rather technical, but it is mainly for my own use, to catalog my current FreeNAS configuration and hardware specs.  If you find it useful to model after, so much the better.  As for general performance, I have been very happy with FreeNAS.  As a comparison, we as a family routinely…