Category: BLOG

Continuing Resolution DOGE has its first confirmed kill! The continuing resolution is the legal device that the government has been using to avoid passing a budget. It has been nearly 30 years since Congress completed all its appropriation bills before the start of the new fiscal year. The last time a budget was passed was…

Networking, still Major reconfigurations took place. Ceph is now running over OVN/OpenVSwitch. The choice was to determine how to have 5 different networks for the cluster network, or to make just one. One method would have been to make the cluster network a larger network and then have each of the room networks a subnet…

Filler Depression has been making it difficult to focus. There are some Supreme Court cases I should look at. There are some other cases I need to check in on. Networking and computer stuff is a normal fall back for me. They are subjects that I can talk about without research. I just know this…

Speak softly and carry a big stick Trump might not talk softly, but he does have a big stick. While the left is melting down and calling us stupid, Trump announced that he would impose a 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada if certain conditions were not met. The opposition party in Canada is yelling…

Our Next AG? You have to wonder if Matt knew how much push back there would be? Regardless, he functioned as a fabulous stalking horse. Network Nerding So when is a cluster not a cluster nor a cluster f___, nor a f___ing cluster? When you are talking about OVN/OVS. OVN provides for a clustered database.…

Introspection This has been a long week of the left showing an enormous amount of introspection, looking at themselves to see why they lost the election… Who am I kidding, the number who are actually looking at themselves appears to be so small compared to the complete melt down of why you are bad for…

Nerd Stuff Had all the parts in hand. I opened up the case. Proceed to install the new NIC, another hard drive. Realize I need to go fetch a SATA cable. Go to plug in the power to the drive… Who the heck only puts one SATA power connector in a modern computer power supply!…

Networking This week has had a few successes. I was able to upgrade one node to 10 Gbit/second and to hand it some more disk. Everything seems to be working. More upgrades are slowly happening. Physical, OpenVSwitch, OVN, Oh My. Physical networking has many different levels. The easiest, which most people deal with, is Level2…

Post Schedules The current scheduling is that I post once per day, unless Ally takes Tuesday Tunes. Monday: Ally — Food Tuesday: Chris — Tuesday Tunes Wednesday: Ally — Politics, From Behind Enemy Lines Thursday: Friday: Chris — Friday Feedback, Ally — Prepping Saturday: Sunday: I’m trying to do at least one Legal post per…