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Adding storage to prox-ve01


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I initially installed 4 HDD’s in the prox-ve01 server that were a mix of old hard drives from other computers that were still good but not being used. 250GB Seagate (Root filesystem “/”) 300GB Seagate (Unmounted) 500GB WD (Unmounted - pulled from blackarmor “Downloads”) 500GB WD (Unmounted - pulled from blackarmor “Storage”) I’m in the process of saving anything I may need off the 2 500GB drives and converting them to local storage for proxmox vm’s and containers. Read more...

Selling the old Dell Servers


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Sold on 6/21/15 for $120 to a Mike from Ashburn, VA Well I made backups of the little bit of stuff I still had on the old server and am now going to list them for sale on craigslist. Baltimore Ad Washington Ad 3 Dell Poweredge SC1425 Servers - $120 Take all 3 servers for $120, server 1 was my main workhorse for the better part of a year as I learned VMWare ESXi, I had it running 6 or 7 Linux VM’s without a hiccup. Read more...



Site plan and next steps


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I plan on this blog being an on going project that will evolve into a portal of sorts for my personal coding projects. Step one was getting the blog up and running to have a place to document my work and also have a starting point from which to branch out into the custom website I have envisioned. Here i will tie together the small programming projects that I come up with and provide them with a decent looking front end as so far i have really only dealt with the server side and command line aspect. Read more...

Customized Tornado Blog


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This is a customized version of the Tornado blog example, customization includes: Bootswatch Cyborg theme Navbar /auth/create disabled after first user is created Day light savings handling More that I forgot.. Installing the blog: $ apt-get install mysql-server python-dev libmysqlclient-dev libffi-dev git python-pip $ pip install bcrypt mysql-python torndb tornado markdown futures $ mkdir /opt/blog $ cd /opt $ git clone http://github.com/mikeder/blog $ cd blog $ mysql -u root -p mysql> CREATE DATABASE blog; mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON blog. Read more...

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