January 2, 2016
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First Hand Picked Set 2016

Hit my first gym work out of the day earlier and of course that was my first real set of songs that I laid out prior to hitting that morning work out but this is a continuation of that set since I just added more songs in the queue.

The way my music stream works is that I have some scripts that pick random songs I  have weighted out of certain buckets of music. I drop in frequently from anywhere I may be in the world and at times setup a certain selection of music. I don’t always announce when I setup a special set of music  but other times I do like now!

Well let’s see this morning I listened and shared Afterbach, Nate Dogg, Electric Light Orchestra, Whispers, 3rd Bass, B-legit and many others.

I am adding in these artists plus others for the rest of the night, Rick James, Fat Joe, The Alkaholiks, Jazmine Sullivan, Geto Boys, CeCile, and it goes on….

December 29, 2015
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Just Fun Music…. A Little Wild

I just updated certain elements on the backside of the site and want to see how they work and I wanted to write a song about it, but I don’t do that. I’m going to play songs that play to those feelings somewhat and let you listen in while I see how things respond on the site.

I’ll start Knee Deep in some Funkadelic sounds, some Cool- C, even something new with Rihanna, but lot’s of old school tonight like The Dazz Band and more than a sprinkling on most nights.

December 26, 2015
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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!

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December 8, 2015
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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.

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November 28, 2015
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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.

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November 6, 2015
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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 …..

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August 23, 2015
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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:

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Here are some peppers with stevia in the foreground:

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Here’s some jalepaeno peppers going strong:

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In the background is a tomato plant I had to rescue and stake up today plus some more stevia and mint in the foreground:

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Here’s a top and bottom shot of my eggplants:

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Some chives:

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Some new straight neck squash after picking quite a few this week:

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Overall of the west side of the vegetable garden with mint plants providing protection in the front concealing some of the other vegetables:

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Just a clump of beef eater tomatoes, chives, mint, basil and yellow pear tomatoes:

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More stevia:

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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.

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August 23, 2015
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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
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XFS Filesystem Repair Get’s Web Server Back

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.