Category: BLOG

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…

Indicators We took my daughter’s care up to have work done on it. The auto shop is a local business doing great work. While there, we got into a discussion with a young lady. She made the statement that she might be trading in her car sooner if the economy improves after the election. I.e.,…

On desktops, the right side panel has a new item, navigation links. The first link is to the M4A1 design documents. These are the blueprints for the M4A1. As far as I can tell, they are a complete package. These do not include tooling or how to documents, they are just the blueprints. These prints…

Nerd Babble “Switch in the wrong direction…” oh my, that does sound bad. We use VLANs for isolating network traffic. Our switches will happily forward all VLANs as on all ports. So a tagged VLAN on port 1 will be transmitted to port 2, if port two responds with an answer on the VLAN. It…

Personal It has been difficult for me since my Father passed. It isn’t that I interacted with him that much, it is that the safety net is gone. In addition, it turns out that my brother is pretty darn evil. This is as close as I’ve come to talking about his actions in public. In…

Wednesday was a good day, sort of. I was able to shut down my K8S cluster. The amount of grief this new fangled thing has given me cannot be overstated. Bluntly, most of the issues could have been resolved by throwing more money at the problem. K8S does work for large infrastructure solutions. The sort…

This week has given me closure on several small projects, all working together to get the right results. In the old days, each device on the Internet had its individual IP address, today, most devices share their IP address with thousands of other devices. Instead, entire locations hide behind a single IP address. This is…