Wednesday, March 18, 2026

The light is getting brighter!

I think I am at the halfway point and can see the finish line.  Getting to the point that all the stuff I am learning is starting to make sense, and I did it without completely opening the choke!  Baby steps!
I had to reboot the mini dell after a kernel update, and it is running at 33% instead of 45% before the reboot.  I got a lot running on this little box that I am test driving but a lot that I am actually using "production" wise.  I need to get the whole box backed up which I will do this weekend.  This is going to be an interesting couple of weeks.  I have a lot of projects on my plate that I definitely need to get completed.  Funny, a year ago if you had asked me where I would be in a year, I would have said I did not know but I hope that it was in a better position to succeed.  I am still not there yet but at least now I know I am going in the right direction.

Here's to learning new stuff everyday and improving on the stuff you already know!

Happy Humpday 😀

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Holy mackerel

It has been over 3 weeks since I last posted!  Wow!  It is what it is, I guess.  Things have been getting better on the learning front.  I have added several new services to my homelab.  Right now I need to get a grasp on how they will work in my environment.  I am probably going to have to remove several services from my mini dell box due to ram usage; the box is at 45 percent now.  It might go down after a reboot which i need to do after the kernel update, but I will see later this week.  I need to update that box to ubuntu 2024 but 2026 is coming out next month possibly and I might go to it and skip 2024.  I should know by next week.  Also spun up a couple of LXC's and VM's on the proxmox server and taking them for a test drive.  I still have not updated Wazuh to the new version but the agents are updated to the version running on the server so I am okay for now. I have 8 instances running in proxmox now with 25% ram usage and less than 10% for cpu.  Considering I have Wazuh and windows server 2022 as part of that listing that's pretty good!

I want to get a lot done this month and a lot of killer upgrades on my plate (wazuh, proxmox, ubuntu server 2022.04 to 2026.04, homeassistant, and possibly test drive windows server 2025.  Maybe!!!!

so much to do and so little time!

Later! 😀