Jim’s Medical Journal
& Other Stuff
The Medical Journal…
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Norwood Crossing
So I find myself in this retirement community. The girls needed to get away for a few days and so…
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Birthday thoughts 2025
Clara and Susie did a real nice job For my birthday in hospital. I don’t believe I have ever had…
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New drug is a bitch
I got put on this new antibiotic and it is the wildest thing I’ve ever experienced. It’s neither painful nor…
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The Prime Directive
Who wants a story? I don’t know why but that story has always stuck with me. Master of the succinct.…
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The Beginning of Thinking
Riffing on Genesis (the first book of the Bible, not the British rock band from the 70s which became popular…
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Thinking and Thinking
Howdy Strangers. How y’all been? It’s been a while since I’ve provided an update. It’s not that nothing has been…
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Eating and Breathing
So we are on a recent Sunday call and Bob says that he had just completed a 72-hour fast. While…
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Well, I’m back in the hospital.
Started feeling a little odd Monday night. Had quite a bit of pain on Tuesday. Wednesday afternoon we went to…
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What’s Your Viewing Pleasure
I’m not really much for TV. Seriously. I’m actually more of a video game person. First-person shooters were my game…
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Systemic Problems – Part III
Happy New Year! What a year it’s been. I was just thinking the other day about how I declined to…
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Systemic Problems – Part II
Spoiler Alert:I don’t know if we’re going to be able to get through everything we have left to discuss in…
The Other Stuff…
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Firefly III | Virtualmin | MariaDB
Firefly III is a very cool personal finance manager application. What really makes the application exceptional is its ability to…
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Virtualmin, PostgreSQL & Containers
Let’s start with the why. The reason you want to use databases (either MySQL or PostgreSQL) which are part of…
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PostgreSQL, Virtualmin, & phpPgAdmin
Time to load PostgreSQL. For those paying attention, when we installed Virtualmin loaded the “LAMP” stack. That means we got:…
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Virtualmin at Server Cheap
Don’t know why but the other day I searched for “cheap VPS server hosting”. Didn’t know what I expected to…
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Automating Nextcloud Updates and Backups
In the last post we got Nextcloud AIO up and running. Here we are going to cover how to make…
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Installing Nextcloud AIO
This is going to be the easiest complex thing you have ever done. Nextcloud is kinda like Dropbox meets Zoom…
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Installing Portainer
Portainer is an application that helps you manage docker containers. Now, just so were clear, using Portainer is not necessary.…
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Virtualmin Scheduled Backups to S3 Bucket
Moving on from our previous post where we set up an objective storage, S3, bucket at Linode/Akamai… Now we are…
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S3/Object Storage Backup at Linode/Akamai
Whatever you do with your Virtualmin server, you’re gonna want to make sure it gets backed-up regularly. One of the…