December 26, 2015
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Long Side of Winter Saturday Mix
We are on the upswing here in the northern hemisphere with the days gradually getting a bit longer so I’m going to mix it up to supply some energy in the daylight hours to workout in the gym, around the house or just kicking back. Then I’ll slip into a slow set for a couple of hours and then back to the 24/7 script maybe.
A slight preview:
Silento, Dubee, Plies, Yarbrough & Peoples, Queen, Rappin’ 4-Tay, Nelly Furtado, Tinashe and the list just grows!
December 22, 2015
by dhoytt
Comments Off on A Wild Concoction of Mad Beats
Today’s concoction I’m enlisting some of the following artists hits to keep the heart palpitating wildly!: Mack 10, Jessie J, Digital Underground, The Mossie, Fashawn Bunny Wailer and so many more of all genres!
December 8, 2015
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Wildin’ Hours
Each and every song for the next 4 hours have to be wild and they all will be and from all types of genres as befits Snakeice’s House of Beats!
Mc Lyte, King Tee, The Game, EPMD, Accept, Sparky D and so much more wildness before I turn it over to the more mellow sounds.
November 28, 2015
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Grabbing Music From the Walls
In a very virtual sense grabbing music from the walls and placing it into rotation to form a nice flow that goes from hard to slow to upbeat party, then contemplative.
I grabbed as always all genres since I think just getting stuck in one place or sound is rather boring!
Some artists I grabbed are Iron Maiden, Low Profile, Mark Ronson, Fantasia, Rah Digga, Bon Jovi, The Weekend, Gerald Albright, Feva in Da Funkhouse and so much more but as you can see so many genres are covered.
November 6, 2015
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Friday Night Fun, Hard and Throwback to Now, Slow Friday Night Fun, Hard and Throwback to Now, Slow
This is Friday so kicking it into the fun column then taking a bit hardcore, then a little more fun, hard again, throwback old school style, then bringing you to the present then slowing it down a bit.
Looking forward to some: Nate Dogg, Bar-Kays, Pentatonix, Youngbloodz, CS Hardhitters, The Game, Omarion, Kelly Rowland, Da Brat …..
August 23, 2015
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Some Vegetable Garden Weekend Work
I cleaned up the front yard and did some work in the backyard and the vegetable gardens in the backyard as well. I’m getting ready for the late season for when it starts to cool a bit and some vegetables grow better in the Sacramento/San Joaquin valley Here is some of what is going on in the vegetable garden at this time
Here is some purple okra, Collard greens, purple basil, with sweet basil in view as well:
Here are some peppers with stevia in the foreground:
Here’s some jalepaeno peppers going strong:
In the background is a tomato plant I had to rescue and stake up today plus some more stevia and mint in the foreground:
Here’s a top and bottom shot of my eggplants:
Some chives:
Some new straight neck squash after picking quite a few this week:
Overall of the west side of the vegetable garden with mint plants providing protection in the front concealing some of the other vegetables:
Just a clump of beef eater tomatoes, chives, mint, basil and yellow pear tomatoes:
More stevia:
East side of the garden with some new seeds I planted to get a start in planted pots first and then I will transplant them into the garden. Note the swiss chard standing strong that I replanted from last year.
August 23, 2015
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Updated Blog Software Friday Revisited XenServer Repair
I updated the WordPress blog software after I took some manual backups of the database. Everything went fine but of course I had to go in and manually put back in some customization’s I have made for the sites that the theme updates erased but that went smoothly.
I spread out my virtual machines more evenly in my XenServer environment and reset the HA settings on my XenServer pool. I had a couple of months ago replaced a motherboard that had failed on one of my XenServers and decided to double the RAM from a system I wasn’t using. That system kept randomly restarting as I increased the load. Finally earlier this week I ran memory check from memtest.org and received a flood of errors deep into the test (about 60% in).
I took the memory of the same speed but a different manufacture out of my XenServer system I had repaired then reran the memory test and everything was fine. This memory I took out ran the memory test fine in the other system as well but together the two memory modules from different manufactures didn’t perform together well. Had this went well I would have updated the other system to this memory level as well.
Now my environment is purring along and seeming very stable.
July 26, 2015
by dhoytt
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Well now questioning if the XFS filesystem is the panacea I thought it would be for my configuration. I had an issue with my XenServer master I didn’t notice for a bit due to the monitoring text message coming when I ws sleep. I easily recovered the XenServer system (still need to look into why it lost it suddenly lost its identity though it never went down). With XFS normal “fsck” doesn’t quite work there is and “xfs_check” and “”xfs_repair” command.
I went to the Centos rescue CD and tried to run the “xfs_check” and that command is not found. Then tried running “xfs_repair” but it let’s me know that the xfs filesystem has logs that need to be replayed to repair and to mount the filesystem so this can happen but the filesystem will not mount since it needs to be cleaned! I looked around the internet and found the following commands:
#xfs_metadump <filesystem> md4.metadump
#xfs_mdrestore md4.metadump.img
#xfs_repair -L md4.metadump.img
Seems this is a trila run of using the “-L” option with xfs_repair which per the man page and other warnings could lead to greater filesystem corruption.
Finally I had no option but to boot into the resuce CD and run “xfs_repair -L /<root-filesystem>.
Everything seems up and not sure if all the valuable metadata got replayed so later will recreate another system and move the data over once again.
Maybe xfs isn’t any more resilient than extfs4 filesystems after all, well will keep using for a bit but keep some backups.
July 24, 2015
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Time For New Router ASUS RT-N66U Power Switch Failure
I have been having sporadic Internet connectivity issues lately and today noticed this happened several times Finally about 30 minutes ago I get texted from monitoring I have on my site notifying me my site is down, I discover I cannot contact my router and it’s literally powered off. I look over the router and the power switch is no longer depressed and will not stay depressed to keep the power on!
I had to use duct tape since electrical tape wasn’t quite adhesive enough and some folded paper to keep the power switch depressed with electrical tape keeping the edges down and smooth.
Then went on Internet and found this is a consistent issue with all ASUS routers. I have already had my share of issues from the “kernel: VFS: file-max Limit 22684 reached” error which causes me to have to occasionally reboot since that simple kernel parameter cannot be changed in ASUS’ firmware. Yes I know I can use “dd-wrt” or “tomatoe” open source router firmware but I have the VPN working nicely with this router.
Besides this recent power button issue and the kernel parameter issue I’m also not a huge fan of their interface, specifically the “Virtual Server/Port Forwarding” interface is clunky and a time sync! When I clone or switch web servers I like to just point to the new server in my environment. With ASUS I have to totally delete each prior entry and add a totally new entry for that port forwarding to the new system! Every other router interface you just change a few alphanumeric characters and apply and your done.
Time to get a new router GRRR!!!!
July 11, 2015
by dhoytt
Comments Off on Moved Site to New System and OS
Well I moved my website over to a new OS Centos 7 from Fedora 21. Centos seems to be handing my enviornment better with the XFS filesystem than Fedora has been with the ext4 filesystem. I am also still making changes to the infrastructure and updated some features on the “House of Beats” (http://dhoytt.com/snake-ice-radio-blog/now-playing/) blog on this site.
I even gave the system a bit more RAM.
