Author Archives: Freejack

Disaster Recovery – Wave Two

Posted on February 13, 2026 by Freejack

Overview This is the second part in a series of posts where I’m restoring my homelab environment. My goal is to automate as much as I can and make notes where it’s not working. This will consist of sections for … Continue reading →

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Disaster Recovery – Wave One

Posted on February 1, 2026 by Freejack

Overview If you saw my previous article on Disaster Recovery, you know what Wave One is. Mainly it’s the steps needed to be able to start running the Ansible Playbooks. This blog post lists all the steps I need to … Continue reading →

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Disaster Recovery

Posted on January 26, 2026 by Freejack

Overview While not really a ‘Disaster’, I am forced to rebuild my servers. Fortunately I have backups plus on the blog, a set of instructions for my Kubernetes and Openshift setups. This article will provide information on getting a DR … Continue reading →

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Setting Up Proxmox

Posted on January 25, 2026 by Freejack

Background Since my VMware experience has ended, and I do want to get more experience with other tools, I’ve copied my important files off of the VMware servers to my KVM host (the R710). Once I verified I had everything, … Continue reading →

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Potato Bites

Posted on November 24, 2025 by Freejack

Ingredients: 4-6 potatoes Cajun butter (melted butter + Cajun seasoning) Grated Parmesan Chopped parsley Instructions: Preheat oven to 400°F Slice potatoes long-ways into half-inch slices Use metal skewers to cut about 1/4 inch apart Turn potato 90° and cut the … Continue reading →

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Best Pancakes

Posted on November 23, 2025 by Freejack

Preparation is simple enough. Use a griddle if possible as you get more pancakes cooked at once. Get maple syrup, which ever strikes your fancy; real or flavored sugar. Serves 4-6. In a bowl, whisk the following ingredients: 360g/3 cups … Continue reading →

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Cygwin, KVM, and X Window

Posted on November 3, 2025 by Freejack

With the conversion of systems from VMware over to KVM, and of course just managing the KVM servers, I need to document the process for accessing the servers and viewing consoles. I’ve been using cygwin for many years. I’ve even … Continue reading →

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VMware to KVM

Posted on November 2, 2025 by Freejack

I’ve been a member of VMUG and user of VMware on my Dell R710 and then Dell R720XDs for almost 10 years now. It’s been interesting and valuable in helping me understand VMware. A couple of jobs back, I was … Continue reading →

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Prostate Cancer

Posted on November 2, 2025 by Freejack

Alrighty Friends and Neighbors. I’m going to detail my journey here from start to current. I’m a big information sharing junkie. Stay tuned for the finish as even I don’t know what that will be. First off of course, FUCK … Continue reading →

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AWX And Requirements

Posted on October 3, 2024 by Freejack

Overview This article provides information and instructions in the use of the requirements.y[a]ml and requirements.txt file when running playbooks from AWX or Ansible Automation Platform (AAP). Galaxy Collections and Roles When running ansible on the command line interface (CLI), you … Continue reading →

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