Lawrence "The Dreamer" Chen's Blog

So, doing cacti on cbox doesn't seem to be working long term... but, the moment is being prepared for....I starting to assemble the pieces to build a new machine to do this and handle some other tasks that I've been looking for a place for. Back to c… more »

The home server migration that I wrote about on April 7th, hit a delay .... I started working on migrating cacti and nagios. I probably should've started with nagios, since I don't think that would've taken as long as cacti has. I had already been… more »

It was a dark and stormy...late afternoon...yesterday, and.... I had started out almost 7 years ago with a Siemens 4100 DSL Modem, which worked the way I needed it to for my home network. And, wasn't sure how easy it would be to find another like it… more »

My 10.04LTS servers are nearing the end of the line, but the move to get them upgraded is starting to get close.... At first I was waiting for the 12.04.1LTS update to appear, so that I might try upgrading them to Precise. But, then it struck me tha… more »

I received my State Tax Refund...only 5 calendar days since my return was reported as accepted. TurboTax had said allow up to 21 days. There was a year where there was a budget crisis...though it doesn't seem to have ended yet....where they were threa… more »

Like I do every year, I bought TurboTax Premier Federal + E-File + State 2012 as a PC Download from Amazon.com back on Jan 18th, in part due to sale email from TurboTax. But, probably should've waited, because its cheaper now. Not sure why PC download… more »

So, after my Windows 7 machine at work ate itself after a Windows Update. I decided to turn it into an Ubuntu 12.04 system. But, so much for becoming Windows free. I was informed that I need a Windows machine to run vCenter on, because the shared W… more »

I have a number of FreeBSD projects at home on the go that I've been trying to find enough free time each weekend to tackle. Having a recent problem where my system will freeze/panic/reboot whenever I shutdown or saved a VM...I thought maybe upgrading… more »

...to inject bad SEO and links into Google. And, possibly collect info on my visitors? Not entirely sure how it got in...the timestamp of the affected files is Apr 1, 2012. But, that was also the date that I upgraded to version 4.1.3, previous vers… more »

I was poking around on the Radioactive@home message boards, after finding that my sensor had stopped working when the app was updated from v1.69 to v1.72....it was complaining every 11 seconds with "No heartbeat from client for 30 sec - exiting". And… more »