Jethro Tull has a long, deep catalog. The Early album “Stand Up” has a track called “We Used to Know” that has very unusual changes. These changes were picked up by The Eagles and used as the basis for “Hotel California.” What gives them their unique sound?
Continue readingHardware last longer than Hardware support. My lab has 3 Dell R610s, which have old disk controllers…too old for RHEL 8. Dell is no longer supporting the Hardware, which means that the latest versions of RHEL do not ship with the drivers needed to install.
Continue readingMy last PXE boot attempt got into the Kickstart stage and then failed due to the repo set up. The VM SCreen looked like this.
Continue readingOnce I re-enabled DHCPD and TFTP, my Machines got through the basics of PXE, but then failed Kickstart. Here’s the debugging:
Continue readingPXE is conglomeration of tools used to get a new operating system onto a computer. It is based on two protocols: DHCP and TFPT. I used PXER a long time ago at Penguin and have always wanted to set it up for my home personal use. I’m doing that now for my lab. My goal is to first be able to provision virtual machines, and then to provision physical boxes. I need to do a full install of RHEL 7 and RHEL 8, which means I also need Kickstart to automate the install process. I had it working, but after rebooting the NUC it is running on it broke. Here’s my debugging.
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I’m Working on writing and arranging a Bossa Nova. I need to get better before it sounds like it is supposed to.
Continuing my attempt to update what I know about modding minecraft from 1.8 to 1.15. Based on my experience from this book;
I have not touched the mod code I wrote for a couple years now. When Arun and Aditya Gupta wrote their book, the current version of Minecraft was 1.8. That was five years ago, and the current version is 1.15. Some things have changed. I want to document what I need to do to get my old mods running again on the newer version.
My starting point is that I have a working version of Minecraft and the comparable version of forge. Lets take it from there.
Continue reading“Let the complexity emerge.” Probably the best advice I ever got in coding. Do something in as straight-forward manner as possible. When you find your self repeating code, extract it. Here’s an example from an ansible playbook I’m working on.
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