In a perfect world I would spend my time between inventing great new devices and systems that inspire and revolutionize things and following up on hobbies like photography and movies. In the imperfect world that we live in I work in IT to pay the mortgage and food bill by creating and maintaining computer systems that make the world of business tick over.
My original training began with computers and physics back in the early 80’s at Canterbury University weaving a career that included pumping gas, frying at McDonald’s, driver education and finally a long spell in IT.
Like most parents of school aged children my life revolves around kids, school, work and kids. Our son is our life right now and we love him dearly but we yearn for our own space and time.
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If you have followed my post OKD 4.5 small cluster on ESX you find that when you look at the OperatorHub in OKD you only see the community operators. The problem appears to be that an out of the box … Continue reading →
I had an OKD 4.5 user which authenticated against htpasswd. This user was a member of a group and admin role binding. I then deleted the user through the web console: The problem came when I wanted to re-enable the … Continue reading →
I was setting up OKD on a separate VLAN and wanted to used the OKD DNS service but it just wasn’t working and I felt it was a connectivity/firewall issue but could not find a tool to test. I was … Continue reading →
I was setting up an OKD single node cluster and to test if it was up I ran: openshift-install –dir=/opt/okd4/install_dir/ wait-for bootstrap-complete –log-level=debug Then I got the following error messages: https://api.lab.okd.local:6443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/configmaps?fieldSelector=metadata.name%3Dbootstrap&limit=500&resourceVersion=0: EOF E0104 15:32:18.605736 1642 reflector.go:153] k8s.io/client-go/tools/watch/informerwatcher.go:146: Failed to list … Continue reading →
My OMV server failed and would not start so I had to move the data disks, mirrored and system disk to a new PC. This is some lessons learned. Keep it off the LAN For the exercise of moving the … Continue reading →
I had setup a mirrored RAID in OMV and then the PC hardware, not the disks I should emphasize, failed and I needed to move the system disk and two data disks to other hardware. Because I decided to test … Continue reading →
Out of the box with the RAID you are likely to find an email everyday with the subject similar to: SparesMissing event on /dev/md/Mirror:nas2 [nas2.cantabrian] This is a somewhat know error, ssh to the box and look for: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf You … Continue reading →
I am running MythTV on CentOS7 as per MythTV on CentOS 7 and it has been running fine and for no particular reason after cloning the VM it would not start FPM. When I cloned the VM I selected “I moved … Continue reading →
I save all my files in FLAC but want to be able to play them on an iPhone with a loss less codec. With Apple devices the only option is ALAC, Apple Lossless Audio Codec. The process I use to … Continue reading →
After upgrading my MythTV server from 0.25 to 0.29 as described in MythTV on CentOS 7 I found that the last tab for MythWeb, “Backend Status” was giving me a: 404 Not Found It really had me stumped and then I … Continue reading →
In a perfect world I would spend my time between inventing great new devices and systems that inspire and revolutionize things and following up on hobbies like photography and movies. In the imperfect world that we live in I work in IT to pay the mortgage and food bill by creating and maintaining computer systems that make the world of business tick over.
