Tiggs Panther

PRTG and Windows Server Evaluation Edition I use PRTG to monitor equipment on my home network. It’s what we use at the MSP I work at and, to learn more about it, I’ve now been using it at home for a couple of years. Paessler mak…

Recently managed to get my home PRTG instance to monitor the expiration period for Windows Server Evaluation Version.

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09.06.2025 10:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

OK, so my handful of single-use VMs and containers now backup twice a week. My Docker VM backs up daily. Those backups then get synced to cloud storage once a week.
That should drastically reduce the chance of having to rebuild any one system from scratch. (Never fun.)

25.05.2025 19:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Well, I've added a degree of resiliency to my VM backups. I already, as of recently, threw a copy of Proxmox backup Server on an old laptop and back my VMs and CTs at least once a week. Now, I'm trying out a cloud PBS service I can then also sync my backups to for an offsite copy.

24.05.2025 10:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My microwave looks wrong

31.03.2025 13:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The new Starsky and Hutch remake looks shite

11.03.2025 19:47 — 👍 69    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 0

It becomes manageable over time. And you can learn to recognise (and even sometimes preempt) the signs and take a rest.

02.01.2025 16:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I mean, it started fairly strongly and ended relatively well but I feel it really lost its way for a while halfway through.

P.S.
I hate hospital waiting rooms!

01.01.2025 23:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If Mouse and I actually manage to get up North in 2025, we shall have to have a game!

25.12.2024 20:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Never played this before. Having fun!

25.12.2024 20:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Next time I get to play D&D, I want to play a bard. And have either a soundboard (or on my guitar) Ezio’s bard songs from AC:Revalations or Jimmy’s “Strawberry Hollow” from South Park: the Stick of Truth.

18.12.2024 12:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

63.5Mbps downstream, 12.7Mbps upstream

263Mbps downstream, 26Mbps upstream

Before and After speed tests. Moved from PlusNet (over OpenReach) to Virgin Media.

Now have significantly faster speeds for about the same price per month (less, once I cancel my old BT line) and because I ordered it in the Black Friday sale I have the first 3 months free.

06.12.2024 17:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My waistline has certainly levelled up over the years. Or at least levelled outward.

19.11.2024 15:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This year I replaced an electric shower.
Are we getting old?

19.11.2024 13:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0