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Today is day 14 (pushing day 15 at this hour), and things are looking very good. Today, I got word from the [PCBSD Project](http://www.pcbsd.org) that a patch which I submitted to fix the [issue with the WiFi NIC](link://slug/freebsd-switch). Well, I got notice today that [PCBSD Bug #7330](https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/7330) has been resolved, and I tested on the R810. It works!
Now, I just need to get a few things configured here first, like snapshots, backups, and porting my SDCARD reading scripts over to FreeBSD, and I should be good.
Then, fun things like configure & use IPv6. I have two FreeBSD VSP servers to test with...it will be fun!

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As the month draws to a close, I am further into the switch. I have
rebuilt my main laptop to [PCBSD](http://www.pcbsd.org). I am still
setting a few things up, but it seems to be going well.
Two things I need to fix:
- **Skype**: While there is not a native client, there are lots of
folks who report success with the Linux client. I will need to do
some research.
- **Nikola**: The software I use for my blogs. It throws a python
error when I run it, so I cannot update things. Again, I think I
just need to do some more research.
Now, the fun of the weekend is here, so I am off!

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It is the 10th day of the month, and I am 10 days in trying to use
FreeBSD as my daily non-work driver. How is it going?
Well, for the most part, well. I can spend most of my personal work-flow
on the FreeBSD laptop with no issues. There are a couple of things I
have not moved over yet, and those relate to my photo work-flow. The
main application, [AfterShotPro](http://aftershotpro.com) is installed
and working (see
[my previous desciption \<freebsd-challenge-day-4-6\>]{role="doc"} of
installing in), however, I have not moved over the scripts I use in the
flow. I believe they will just come over, but I have not had a chance to
test them.
I was using [Chromium](http://chromium.org), but any Flash site did not
work. I need to revisit this at some point, but for now I went back to
Firefox, and it is working create.
The only major thing right now I need to figure out is how FreeBSD deals
with sound. I can hear things from the speakers just fine, but I need to
figure out how to enable and use an USB headset. Not the biggest, but
still. I also need to either install & configure Skype, or find a
replacement video chat to use with the wife while traveling that works
under FreeBSD. I like the second option better, but I have not really
had the time to do the research.
And, the new site generating suite I am using works under FreeBSD. I
wrote and posted this from the FreeBSD laptop.
More updates soon.

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And, again, I hit something which is causing massive disk performance
issues. That, and suspend/resume does not work on either laptop.
I would try to debug the issues, but that means learning a whole new set
of tools, and I will not have time for a while. Next week, I am in week
long meetings which will run late every day, and then I have to finish
writing and present a training class the last week of the month. The
hour or two I can spare will be far better spent for me by backup,
re-installing [ArchLinux](http://www.archlinux.org) than by starting to
learn the tools. Yes, a bit of a cop-out, but I need the machines to do
what I need to do. I will keep the servers FreeBSD, however, as it works
great there.
I will revisit the issue of FreeBSD on the laptops when I either get new
kit, or support for my models gets better.

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Does updating the theme of the site count as an update? No? Okay\...time
to type.
Life is busy right now, and extra things are gonna have to give. I have
not had a chance to do much photography (both making and processing
them), so I am putting the daily site on hold, again. For the sharp eye
among you, you would have noticed this last week.
On the upside, I have lost about 20 pounds since the beginning of the
year. While I am not where I want to be weight-wise, I have lost a pants
size which puts me back were I was about 10 years ago. Life is good.
I am going to see about updating things here more often, if nothing else
to have a record of things not in a cloud based service which may
dramatically change its pricing model on me.

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April has come and gone, and I did not manage to find time (or energy)
to post anything.
I spent most of the month at work getting ready to and then delivering
some training remotely in Nashville, TN, US. Now, I can say that I have
stayed at the largest non-casino hotel in the world, [The Gaylord
Opryland](http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/bnago-gaylord-opryland-resort-and-convention-center/).
Now that that is over, I get to gear up to design a new training plan
for internal product training. Such is the life of a Linux guy stuck
working for a marketing group.
On the home front, we have hit a busy time with soccer, volleyball,
dance, and swim time. I think we get a break sometime after the 4th of
July\.....

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This is a quick post to capture something seen.
[Ansibel](http://www.ansible.com) is a configuration management tool
that I have been learning recently. More details in a future post. This
is just to capture this idea:
> From: Smith, Chris (Big Data)
>
> To: ansible
>
> Ansible Galaxy is a centralised Github repository of public Ansible
> content, see: <https://galaxy.ansible.com/> It uses a local routine
> that is installed when you install Ansible, called 'ansible-galaxy',
> to create a blank template for your Ansible content. What is not well
> known is you can run 'ansible-galaxy' in offline mode to create a
> blank template using the command:
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> \# ansible-galaxy init \--offline my-role
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> Enjoy,
>
> Chris
More on this as I get some more back-ends stuff taken care of, like
setting up a git repo and maybe auto-deploy from git push?

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![Old street sign post](/images/First-Day/signpost.jpg){.align-left
width="100px" height="100px"}
The first day at the new gig went like any first day normally does.
Paper-work and meeting lots of new folks. The office is in a part of
town where I used to live, so I know it fairly well. This is a repeating
theme, since the HP office was near my high school.
Since I got into the office early, I was able to swing one of my
favorite coffee houses. While the customer base has changed a bit from
20 years ago (more suits and no nose-rings) and the menu has a bit more
on it (beer, anyone?), the coffee drinks were the same, and they tasted
as good as I remember.
The picture is of the old street sign post on the corner of the
property.

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![Light Sail Mission Patch](/images/LightSail/light-sail.png){.align-left
width="125px" height="125px"}
Growing up in Houston, I have followed our space program off and on. I
am also a big reader of Sci-Fi. So, when I heard about the [Solar Sail
Kickstarter
Project](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theplanetarysociety/lightsail-a-revolutionary-solar-sailing-spacecraft/description)
from [The Planetary Society](http://www.planetary.org/), I jumped on
board. And, while they have raised almost 4 times their goal, I think
that this is a project which will have more of an impact on humanity
than some of the other projects.
So, join me in backing them!

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![HP logo](/images/Moving/HP_logo.png){.align-left width="100px"
height="100px"}
Well, after 4 years (almost to the day), it is time for me to say
good-bye to HP. The team I worked on is a great team who really know
their stuff. However, I am a geek, and I want to be doing things with
tech, and not talking about tech, and for the most part, talking is all
I have been doing. I have learned a lot and was given a chance to do
some [traveling \<travels\>]{role="doc"} which I do not think I would
have been able to do.
So, where am I going? Well, until after I start and get on-boarded, I am
not sure how much I can say. It is a financial company based in Houston,
so I will not be moving the crew, just changing the direction I commute
back to into the sun again.
Stay tuned here for more updates, and I will probably be using this as a
place to document some of the new things I learn on the way.
Peace.

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So, with the [migration of the AUR to version 4](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository#AUR_4), I looked at the 12 AUR packages I had created over the years which I have not looked at in a long, long time.
The list started out with:
- [chronicle](http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chronicle/) - A simple
blog compiler written in Perl
- [perl-leocharre-basename](http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-leocharre-basename/) -
Very basic filename string and path operations such as ext and paths
- [perl-leocharre-cli2](http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-leocharre-cli2/) -
Some quick help for writing cli scripts
- [perl-leocharre-debug](http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-leocharre-debug/) -
Debug subroutines
- [perl-leocharre-dir](http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-leocharre-dir/) -
Subroutines for general directory needs
- [perl-leocharre-strings](http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-leocharre-strings/) -
Combines string procedures I frequently use
- [perl-string-prettify](http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-string-prettify/) -
Subroutines to cleanup a filename and or garble for human eyes
- [perl-wordpress-api](http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-wordpress-api/) -
Management of Wordpress API objects. Inherits WordPress::XMLRPC and
all its methods
- [perl-wordpress-cli](http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-wordpress-cli/) -
Command line access to Wordpress
- [perl-wordpress-xmlrpc](http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-wordpress-xmlrpc/) -
API to Wordpress XML RPC calls
- [usbmount](http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/usbmount/) -
Automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices
- [xlhttp](http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xlhtml/) - An Excel
spreadsheet (.xls) and PowerPoint (.ppt) to HTML converter
In the end, I only kept *xlhttp* as I do not use the others anymore. Surprisingly enough, only one of the packages (*chronicle*) was out of date. I disowned all the others, so if you want, you can pick them up.

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Once more, off the Las Vegas for to work a trade show. This year, I was
helping present training, so I was tucked away in a basement most of the
trip, and did not get out to do much in the way of sight-seeing aside
from walking around the hotel.
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No, this is not about my job.\
\
This is about my web sites, email, and my digital life.  For years, I
have had my domain (duckland.org) and my email address there (duck), and
I am not going to give those up.  I have collected a few others domains
over the years, and the family has started asking for their own as well.
 \
\
Now, if you know me at all, you know that for most of my professional
career, I have been in Unix operations, specifically Linux.  It is what
I do.  But, I am wondering if it is time for me to \'outsource\' one of
the more difficult parts of keeping my own domain: email.  Recently, I
have gone back to not hosting my email due to various reasons, and went
back to **GMail**.  In the years since I left it, it has gotten much
better UI for someone who likes keyboards over mice, and the Android
clients are very nice.  Plus, the addition of **Google Now **in the
Chrome browser has been very handy. \
\
Add to the fact I still cannot find a good calendar solution which I can
host which will work seamlessly across my computers (home and work),
tablets, and cell phones, as well as let the family share besides
Google, and it makes **GMail** very attractive.\
\
But, on the other side, Google makes their money on ads, and they make
no secret that they analyze your email (**GMail**), your appointments
(**Google Calendar**), and your web browsing (**Google Chrome**) to try
to market to you better.  I am still undecided if I want to keep
swimming up-stream or just give in and use the Google services, because
they will be better than anything I can set up on my own.\
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\*sigh\*\
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However, I have finally made another change to the blogging solution,
and I should be able to start writing more.  I do have some ideas in a
back log to talk about. 

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[![](http://www.speedtest.net/result/4586738731.png)](http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4586738731)\
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So, that is what I can get at the house\...nothing major\...just showing
off. ;)\
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For some reason, we have had a bit of power issues around the house
recently. No big deal, just enough to cause non-UPS computers to reboot.
Well, one of them was the firewall (the UPS on it pop a while back, and
I just have not gotten around to replacing it). But, it would not come
back the last time. Drag a it over to a monitor and have a look at the
console. No HD. Nuts. On a backup solution until the new SSD to replace
the dead (non)spinning rust shows up.

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Wow...September already? Where does the time go?
With the time given to the commute and the lack of access at the office (since I do work for a firm which does have pretty tight internet access policies), I have decided that I cannot do the photo-a-day thing, so I am not going to be updating my [photo website](http://www.donaldharper.com) on a regular basis. Sorry about that, but then since I started back this summer, the traffic was not there.
On the topic of my [last post](/posts/2015/08/do-i-stay-or-do-i-go.html), I have decided to keep most things in house for now. Calendaring is the biggest issue to crack.
I hope to be able to spend some time here documenting things, if nothing else for me. Maybe someone else will find them useful.
Peace,
d

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Another month gone by. But, at least the weather is getting better.
The commute is still a drag, but at least I get a chance to listen to
some good technology talks which makes things better.
On the firewall front, a new slim SSD and we are back up and running. At
some point, I need to find the time to finish some tasks on the network
to make things run smoother overall.

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Another month, another post.
Life is going. School is back in session, and the crazy has started. The
commute still sucks, and not getting as much done in the personal world
sucks, too.
And, to top it all off, the weather turned to Fall (Yeah!), but my
motorcycle has a short in a switch (Boo!)
Need to fix it.
But, on the plus side, the firewall is back up and running.

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I really need to work on this.
For the US based folks reading this, Happy Thanksgiving. I have a short
break, and then it is back to the office. For the first time in years, I
am being a real sysadmin and running systems. The major problem is that
I have not done this in 4.5 years, and the place where I have landed has
not had enough staff to keep up with everything. So, I am in
firefighting and clean-up mode. I have spent part of my day in the
production data center this week, and I get to go back tomorrow. All
simple stuff, but just needed somebody to go do it.
On the FreeBSD front, one of my servers died the other weekend, so I
went ahead and replaced the drives with 2T and rebuilt it to FreeBSD.
Trying something new, it is 11-CURRENT. I also finally got FreeBSD back
on my \'big\' laptop, but I have not gotten everything fully configured
yet, so I am not using it just yet.
Tomorrow, the silly season starts in full, so I am glad I am not in
retail any more.
d

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Happy Christmas day for those who celerbate, and happy Friday for those
who don\'t.
I have added two new links to the sidebar. The first is just a link to
my [privacy statement](/stories/privacy.html). No big deal\...I don\'t
store stuff, and I don\'t collect stuff. Simple.
The other is to a [local photo gallery](/photos/) which I will try to
remember to update as I get more interesting pictures to share.
Here is to 2015 being almost over.