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  • thecweb to DB DP

    I finally decided on CentOS and Cockpit for the VM Host. Which is quite surprising. I have naturally used RedHat Enterprise and clones at work for quite some time, but I haven’t given them another look since they first started with Cockpit, and man is it slick now. Some clarification I needed to arrive at…

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  • VM Host search continues

    The cats weren’t around when I fed them yesterday. I noticed that the back porch light was on so I glanced out to take a look, around two in the morning I think. Anyhoo, I bought the vm host hardware and it is setup. Arch was way to much manual work, though it is ideal…

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  • Programmable Search Engine

    I just found out about this programmablesearchengine.google.com site. It is for adding a custom site search bar to you website, but it also allows you to just do a regular google search on the web, and then include and exclude up to 500 sites, so it seems like the perfect way to configure some searches…

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  • SQL – notes

    create user grant access database Inserting data

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  • $40 Kasa HS300 Smart Power Strip

    I impulse-bought 2 of these because it seemed like exactly what I needed for a couple projects. 6 individually controlled power outlets, and three always on USB ports. Each port monitors voltage and amps. And I even found a Python library that controls it and all the other Kasa smart devices I own. 😍 And…

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  • Arch notes – post install config

    This system is too butt-ass-naked to be useful, even just as a hypervisor, so more fuck’n around. more packages to install:sudo create user here I realize I don’t have a network connection en01 is now detected as eth0, for one, so edited /etc/systemd/network/20-wired.network to fix that. Sweet. where was I? I’ve got network, so I…

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  • Arch notes – basic setup

    https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide Testing out minimal distros to run my hypervisor. Debian is fine and light enough, but the server doesn’t come for at least another day, so I’ve got time. I’ve been hearing about Arch for ever and I haven’t really looked into it, but it sounds exactly like what I’m looking for. Arch boots into…

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