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Rereleasing some of my old music

28/08/2015 by The Elflord

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Music.. something I used to write in the days of .MOD files (Amiga 4 track format). I have found SOME of my old .mod files, and decided to share with the world. Some which have only been heard by the ears of my beloved - back in 1993. I might…

Bits of life

28/07/2015 by The Elflord

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* Looking at getting a new job (2nd round interview) * Trying out some Facebook Plugins * Helping out 2 people with webpages (Wordpress) * Entrepreneurial hosting company * Smite * Depressed :-/ [facebook_like_button][facebook_send_button]

Solax SK-SU-5000 some details :)

22/06/2015 by The Elflord

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I have been hunting information on this unit's management for (you guessed it) automation and fun charting like a good crazy sysadmin would do. I called up the local supplier which patched me through to a support guy (Nice guy!). 2 simple questions and 2 simple answers from him :)…

Finally some sysadmining :)

14/06/2015 by The Elflord

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Been such a long time since I got a day to myself to FIX stuff * Tried to upgrade my old Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 on a laptop. Took all day and it's STILL trying to resolve the patches so that it is "up to date" for 8.1 upgrade.…

Xen 4.5.0/Fedora Core 22 – DO NOT UPDATE

12/06/2015 by The Elflord

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Just a MAJOR warning that if you are running any servers with Xen-hypervisor. DO NOT UPGRADE to FC-22!! There is a bug with GCC 5 that the package is compiled with and when installed will FAIL TO BOOT. This will result in any server you run Xen on to NOT…

Upgrade rolling past

03/06/2015 by The Elflord

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Going through the paces of a full upgrade for Faerie.CX. Tgis will be a good cleanout of old data as well as a refresh of most VMs to CentOS7.1 Progress: * Zeus Complete * Hera Complete * Athena in progress

Uptime problems :)

29/05/2015 by The Elflord

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Yes, Server died on Sunday. Scraped together and found that the old video card had shorted out the motherboard. After a bit of effort, was forced to upgrade the server hardware. At least now I'm running: * i7-4790 (non-K) * Asus-Z97 Deluxe * 32GB RAM (Yay! More virtualization) OS install…

Hardware issues + Upgrade

26/05/2015 by The Elflord

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Popped capacitor caps on video cards are not good for motherboards. Desperate time to scrounge up some hardware I was forced to buy an (almost) complete system yesterday. * Asus Z97-Deluxe * 32GB RAM (G.skill-ARES) - Roar, the God of War lives in my machine.. * i7-4790 (non-K) for iommu…

Solar Output so far

17/05/2015 by The Elflord

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Just had the first day with solar output and charted. At this time of the day, I have gotten solar from 0800-1700. That's at least 1/3 of the day generating. The timeline will be as follows: 08:00 : Solar starts generating (Battery ~19%) 09:00 : Battery starts charging 09:45 :…

Big Techie week

16/05/2015 by The Elflord

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BananaPi arrived * Tested with Fedora Core 20 image. Works great, but kinda bloated * Tested with Bananian. Loaded fine * Read up on how to create own images (might be next on list), to base something off Kali Linux (aka. BT5) Solar power was installed into home (13/5/15) *…

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