Author Archives: Freejack

Memorial Day 2022 Ride

Posted on June 3, 2022 by Freejack

Day 1 Samantha (my daughter) and I have been planning a couple of rides for the past several months. She attended a motorcycle repair school down in Florida and has ridden standards and cruisers a bunch of times so has … Continue reading →

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Pre-ride Checklist

Posted on May 25, 2022 by Freejack

Going on a ride again after a couple of years of Covid and this time I’m taking along my daughter, Samantha. And she’ll be on the Hayabusa and I’ll be on the Concours for the short trip and maybe the … Continue reading →

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Game Cafe For Sale

Posted on May 15, 2022 by Freejack

Back in January or February (2022 for the later readers) a story popped up in reddit’s r/boardgames subreddit about a game cafe in Saskatoon Saskatchewan for sale. The owner had passed and the family wasn’t interested in keeping it going. … Continue reading →

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Jinja2: Encountered Unknown Tag

Posted on April 19, 2022 by Freejack

Overview I was running an Ansible playbook and one of the templates failed with the following error: Jinja2 uses a brace + percent and a percent + brace to identify Jinja2 commands that are used when preprocessing a template. This … Continue reading →

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Development and Branches

Posted on April 16, 2022 by Freejack

Many many many years ago, I learned to program. It was on a Radio Shack Color Computer. It had a BASIC plug in pack and I think I could save to a cassette tape. I followed the BASIC programming book … Continue reading →

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Pork Tacos

Posted on April 10, 2022 by Freejack

This one is an easy and tasty meal and is awesome to the last taco. This is a crock pot recipe. You’ll assemble the ingredients and put a 3 lb pork shoulder into the crock pot, adjust for the size … Continue reading →

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Carl and The Llamas

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Freejack

In Concert Practice For the past 5 years, the group has played together. We’ve had almost weekly practice sessions and have added songs as we got better. We’re up to about 16 songs and still adding more. We even played … Continue reading →

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Convert From CentOS 8 to CentOS Streams

Posted on April 1, 2022 by Freejack

Overview This article provides brief instructions on how to convert and upgrade a CentOS 8 system. Background In December 2021, Red Hat retired the CentOS 8 AppSteam BaseOS, Extras, and the other CentOS mirrors in favor of going to a … Continue reading →

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Increase Ingress Routers

Posted on February 15, 2022 by Freejack

A problem I found with my OKD4 cluster is the HAProxy statistics were claiming 5 of my 7 worker nodes were red, aka down. After some searching, I found HAProxy is reporting via the ingress router pods. Further checking of … Continue reading →

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Migrating KVM Guests

Posted on February 10, 2022 by Freejack

Overview This article describes the process in migrating a Virtual Machine from one physical host to another. Background There are two methods of how the virtual machines were built on the current hosts. The old way is to create a … Continue reading →

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