Welcome to 2019

The Elflord
Looks like another year has passed, and this time it will be a big change in 2019. The list is starting to be big already: Health - Getting serious about itFinances - Better trackingSpiritual - Getting more rituals and relaxation inRenovation - Going to revamp a lot of physical home…
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Quick roundup for Mar-Apr

The Elflord
Packages of note in the Internet worlds: pfSense (2.3 release) Runs off Bootstrap front end now, FreeBSD to 10.3 base. Looks very 'slick'. I did break the upgrade, cos the 'RX-offload' bug with Xen still exists in this release. Has to be turned off from the host. Code snippet given…
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Uptime problems :)

The Elflord
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…
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Hardware issues + Upgrade

The Elflord
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…
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Fresh new page

The Elflord
Hello World! (ok, had to do that!) After about 15 years, I think it's time to upgrade the frontpage. Yes, I'm selling out to a CMS, but it gives me something to maintain now. I've always been a bit more introverted, but hey it's time I caught up to the…
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