Moving my music streaming relays of IceCast and ShoutCast to a new server that’s dedicated and virtual. I was always planning on making this move but some memory leaks by another program has made it more critical. This is always my goal to make operations more modular. I can also clone this virtuals system for a backup very easily. I still need to point my firewall to the appropriate system and ports along with my streaming application so there will be a moment of no streaming music. I’ll post after all is up and running again.
July 14, 2021
by dhoytt Comments Off on Snakeice House of Beats Updates Mid-Morning
I did some updates to the streaming system and relay system for the House of beats as mentioned elsewhere on my site : https://dhoytt.com/mainblog/2021/07/mid-morning-system-updates/.
July 14, 2021
by dhoytt Comments Off on Mid-Morning System Updates
Had some critical system updates of my w2019 Data Center system that hosts my Sam Broadcasting system here from my home data center and decided to also update my Centos 8 Linux system and Centos 7 Linux web server.
The Centos 8 system hosts my IceCast and ShoutCast relays that you connect to when streaming the music from my W2019 system. The Centos 7 system of course houses my WordPress CMS system and a database that syncs with the w2019 system and then publishes information to that Snakeice House of Beats blog https://dhoytt.com/snake-ice-radio-blog/.
The Centos 8 Linux system also hosts my Zoneminder CCTV system which was also updates along with one of my Plex server instances.
July 5, 2021
by dhoytt Comments Off on Utilizing Garden Produce
The utilization of all that great produce from your garden is why you go through the trouble of growing a garden in the first place. Once that production of food stops you long for that season to begin again so you do not have to make trips to the store for fresh vegetables.
Here below you can see me frying squash, Lemon boy and cherry tomatoes. I tried lightly battered and egg batter to find my preference was lightly battered fried vegetables not double dipped in egg batter.
I made some salsa numerous times as you can dress up many dishes with salsa as well as use as dips for chips as you watch TV.
I made a salad of squash, cucumber, Swiss chard, lemon boy, black pearl, yellow pear beef eater and early girl tomatoes. I added in some sweet onions, mushrooms not from the garden and then basil, rosemary, tarragon and chives from the garden. I then put some salmon over the salad and dresses it with white balsamic dressing.
Another way I always utilize my garden produce is making teas and today I gathered up my herbs of mint, basil, sage, lemon thyme, rosemary, I forgot my stevia this time, but it still came out just fine. I had a little warm and put the rest into a container in the refrigerator and indulge that for a few days. That nice clean refreshing taste is something I long for now.
So many ways to use what I have in the garden, and I still have not even made the pizza sauce as I did last year or used my food storage device.
Today I had my first cucumbers of the season and habanero peppers as well. The habanero peppers kicked the salsa up a few notches with the jalapeno and serrano peppers and the cucumbers were refreshing with the salad.
July 4, 2021
by dhoytt Comments Off on Delicious July 4th Mini Meatloaves
I didn’t want a long smoke today so I thought for a while about what ingredients I had that would make something fast and easy then decided on meatloaf. I didn’t want to deal with leftovers and get up early due to planning on working on projects late into the nights this weekend. I had bought ground beef planning on burgers but wanted something more to go along with vegetables.
Since I don’t have oats and wanted to use them instead of breadcrumbs I used some Quaker Instant oat meal (an opportunity to use an item that will help me clear space in my kitchen pantry) with strawberry flavors. It was delicious even with that hint of strawberry flavor from the instant oatmeal. This will now be a go to for me in my bag of BBQ recipes.
June 23, 2021
by dhoytt Comments Off on Flower Garden Looking Good Vegetable Garden Productive
Earlier this week I clipped my rose bushes and did some weeding in the front yard and the flowers are looking spiffy, plus my vegetable garden is producing! I have a bunch of “Lemon Boy tomatoes” “Red Cherry Husky tomatoes”, “Beef Eater tomatoes”, zucchini squash and Ichiban eggplants.
I roasted the eggplants and some tomatoes on the gas grill to go with Ahi Tuna and “skirt steak”. One night and then for lunch another Ahi Tuna steak.Then made some Pico De Gallo from some of the tomatoes.
June 23, 2021
by dhoytt Comments Off on Restarting Music Stream For Patch Updates Stream Down Temporarily
I had a storage alarm on my storage array start screaming today because it lost power to one of its redundant power supplies plus had slight temperature high reading on CPU #1. I found out that the power supply without any power was going to one of my UPS’ I utilize for my workstations and not my servers so switched that to the proper UPS and that worked.
That power supply was not connected to the protected battery side of that UPS outlets. I will look at why the UPS switched modes on me later but since its only for workstations and nothing else was plugged into that unprotected side of the UPS.
I decided to take the storage arrays down and blow the dust out of them since they have had a very long up time of several months. I had one of the fiber cables hang up and I had to get a small screwdriver to disconnect it, then putting them back in I had to realign the rails of my rack to make them go back in and not knock the cove back of my main storage chassis and cause an intrusion alert.
I found it was really good to login on IPMI on my Supermicro motherboard to view the sensor data before and after cleaning up my chassis. Just looking now there’s a wide disparity between my CPU #1 and #2 temperatures so I will plan a maintenance window and make sure that the heat sinks are seated properly and reapply heat sink compound. I was able to observe the fans look fine and blew the fins of my heat sinks out so the airflow looks fine.
Once the storage array came back up I checked the connections were on the proper networks and XCP-ng could see the paths to my storage and brought my VM’s back up as you can see since this site is back up. My music stream stayed up since the streaming server and the relay server are 2 separate physical servers. That’s all for tonight!
My main storage array systems internals.
June 13, 2021
by dhoytt Comments Off on Pico De Gallo From the Garden With Chicken Tacos
My tomatoes are increasing in production and being anxious to devour my garden produce today I decided to make some Pico De Gallo. I found a nice recipe online that was simple and delicious. I made it all from items in my garden except the onions, garlic and I used lemon juice instead of lime juice.
I used mostly my Lemon Boy tomatoes and some cherry husky red tomatoes from my garden plus cilantro and, jalapenos. I cooked my chicken on my gas grill in on of my Corningware dishes which is way quicker than doing it in my oven in the house and doesn’t heat the house up. I have to say I will be making this Pico De Gallo a lot as it came out very well!
I must give props to where I found this delicious yet simple recipe:
Picked up a snail trap product that uses beer as bait for my garden and it immediately started working once setup. I placed this trap called Slug X from Garland in place put some beer in the traps then went inside and looked up reviews and usage. 15 minutes later I decided to go and top off the 2 slug traps and the slug trap near my tomato plants already had a slug moving up the outside of the container. I went inside to get my phone to take a picture and that fast enough he slug had moved inside seeking the beer.
I really hope this continues to work this well as I just put some slug pellets down 2 days ago. I found these Slug X snail traps at the Habitat for Humanity store here In Sacramento.
Slug X snail trap near green leafy vegetables.Slug X snail trap near tomato plants.Inners of Slug X slug trap with first customer after just 10 or 15 minutes being in place.
