October 4, 2025
by dhoytt
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Server UPS’ Crashed but Back Up

One of my UPS went out (has a flaky controller) and then overloaded my other UPS’ for my servers and took down my NAS storage I use iSCSI with, the ProLiant BL460c Gen8 blade servers I run the virtual environment of XCP-ng on as well as my ProLiant BL460c G7 I run my music from before streaming over my virtual relay music servers in XCP-ng.

For the UPS with the issue I unplugged it from the wall and disconnected from internal battery sources, put on battery support then plug in the internal connections to wall power to get it out of it’s seized up condition. I then plugged that problem UPS back into one of my dedicated 20amp circuits. After that my C7000 blade chassis had power to bring up all of my blade servers I use.

The chassis shows some warnings etc but when you have to scavenge and use the firmware versions available without contract that’s what you get sometimes. It has all been working splendidly for several years now. I will be soon moving off it back to individual rack mount servers soon though for power and performance especially now that I can readily get 10gb NICS and have several 10gbe switches in my environment outside of my c7000 chassis.

I also had to go into the bios of my SuperMicro NAS server and switch to a mirror boot device for it to come up. I will have to try to re-mirror that again in FreeNAS. Yes I have not yet gone up to TrueNAS but I’m planning on it real soon. Then I will up the capacity with new drives as well. This configuration lasted me almost five years.

Since the systems were down I decided to perform updates of the OS on my virtual web server running Rocky 9 and my music relay server running Fedora 41. I updated my W2019 Datacenter server as well but that required no boot and its running bare metal on one of my ProLiant BL460c G7 blade servers.

Servers are up and communicating with each other now to deliver my sites to the internet so I will continue to listen to my music from Snakeice’s House of Beats and fall off to sleep. I had a nice set started and was a couple of hours into it but I still have some setup for the next few hours then its on the scripts.

September 28, 2025
by dhoytt
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Fall Backyard Garden Look

This is how the backyard gardens are looking currently.

Variety of roses, snap cone and marigolds flowers.

Yellow roses, snap cone, snap dragon flowers.

Red roses, asylums in front of east vegetable garden, check the squash, pineapple sage most visible.

Closeups beefeater tomatoes and peppers.

Red roses, marigolds, asylums, snaps with my veggies in the background. Basil, chives, oregano, mint, lemon grass, tarragon etc.

White roses and cone flowers with struggling snap dragon.

White roses foreground and marigolds in background along with red roses, asylums west vegetable garden.

Mints from garden vacuum sealed until I can dry them.

September 28, 2025
by dhoytt
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Back to Normal Programming

Back to my normal rules for pulling songs from my select pools. I got a few songs in I normally dont by going random today.

September 28, 2025
by dhoytt
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Wide Open Track Randomization Today

I know it may seem very random already on my site the way the songs play there’s actually some structure to the songs being played. Today I am going almost full random without prioritization for years or eras. I may jump in from time to time to throw in a set I want to here but going wide and random for a while!

September 20, 2025
by dhoytt
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Updated OS on Music Related Servers

Updated my music relay servers for IceCast and ShoutCast which run on Fedora Linux 41 currently and my server they connect to that I use for my streaming application that on Windows 2019 currently.

A bit more on the updte here: https://dhoytt.com/mainblog/2025/09/dhoytt-com-site-updates/

September 20, 2025
by dhoytt
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Dhoytt.com Site Updates

I updated my internet facing sites here at dhoytt.com.

I updated my Web Server to the latest security OS Rocky 9.6 patches along with taking PHP to a version that gets proper security updates and are compatible with my WordPress themes and plugins. I then updated the plugins and themes as well as taking WordPress to its latest version and then updated all my network sites on WordPress..

In parallel I also updated my music relay servers for IceCast and ShoutCast which run on Fedora Linux 41 currently and my server they connect to that I use for my streaming application that on Windows 2019 currently.

All these integrated systems are up running and interacting together after these updates as they had been before but hopefully more responsive and secure.

September 6, 2025
by dhoytt
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Old School Coming Through Saturday

That’s right this Saturday afternoon going back ro some “Old School” Hip-Hop, R&B and a bit of rock but mainly the first two genres from ‘70’s to early ‘90’s and a few others hear and there.

Here you can see whats coming up and what’s playing currently: https://dhoytt.com/snake-ice-radio-blog/now-playing/

Artists like Sweet Sensation, Gap Band, Whodini, The Egyptian Lover, Heatwave, Cheryl Lynn, The Knack and so many more like that. Lets have some Old School fun.

September 3, 2025
by dhoytt
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Pickling Cucumbers From Garden & Tri Tip

Need to do more pickling to not waste so many cucumbers from my garden. I wait too long sometimes to include in salads, which leads to waste.

For this batch of pickling from the garden I included habanero, Anaheim peppers and basil along with garlic cloves from the store. Put the mixture in balsamic vinegar , salt, pepper and into a container.

I’ll try a different mixture for the next batch this was spur of the moment and I ended up immediately using some of the pickled cucumbers on a tri tip sandwich which was delicious.

The tri tip I cooked Monday.

Pickled cucumbers, avocado, tomato, basil on tri tip sandwich.

Tri tip on the grill starting to smoke at 225.

Searing off tri tip on gas grill in cast iron skillet.

Tri tip was nice and tender at 138 after searing. Let rest for about 30 **minutes.**

Tri tip salad from garden mostly and sweet potato.

Tacos with tri tip basil from garden and avocado.

August 23, 2025
by dhoytt
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Cleaning Up Backyard Gardens and Yard

Gardens getting a bit out of control with weeds and certain plants crowding others out so cleaned them up.

Took a few hours plus but it needed to be done even though it reached 104 degrees Fahrenheit today. Started about 9:30 in the morning and finished about 1:30 in the afternoon.

Dipped the pool for a while right afterwards before heading to the stores and running errands.

Now the items I want to get nutrients and grow will not have as much competition plus will not be overshadowed by the overgrowth.

I also planted some corn I started from seed and replanted a pole bean plant I accidentally dug up from the east vegetable garden. The bean plant came from the 3 sisters plants bundle of beans, squash and corn from east garden. Then moved it to the west vegetable garden.

Beginning of this morning west vegetable garden.

East side of the garden beginning of this morning.

West side vegetable garden after today’s cleanup.

East side of vegetable garden after cleanup.

July 31, 2025
by dhoytt
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Music Server Back and Streaming

Well the clone of the system was going fine and hit the 100 percent mark with the data drive and then seemed to panic when it went to the boot drive. I’ll have to review the log files. Either way I’m bringing the music server back online!

I’ll review what the issue is with the cloning later. Never had many issues cloning system with Clonezilla before.

Enjoy the sounds!