Posts
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Migrating to Proxmox
New Year. New Hypervisor.
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macOS Upgrade Mess
When Windows’ upgrades are easier, you know Apple has messed it up.
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Beacon 23
Lighthouses in Spaaaaace!!!
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Cowboy Bebop (2021)
A ragtag crew of bounty hunters chases down the galaxy’s most dangerous criminals. They’ll save the world–for the right price.
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Babylon 5 (blu-ray) and B5: The Road Home
Babylon 5 is finally on bluray and there’s a new animated movie.
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Replacing a NIC in ESXi
I use cheap Mellanox X-2 cards in my homelab to get 10G
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Ivanti and AV scanning
It’s been a while since I updated this blog, so let’s start the new year off right.
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Oven Baked Ribs
An easy oven-baked rib recipe.
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Swapping an i5-7600 for a Ryzen 5600x
Wow, that went smoothly.
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Can't Edit Markdown in Teams
Bummer.
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Keychron Keyboard K3 v2
This is a fantastic little keyboard.
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CPPM Works Well But...
I don’t mind CPPM it works well and I’ve never had major problems, but Aruba, come on…
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MacOS Complaints
A list of bugs, complaints, and growing pains from an old Windows user to a new Mac user.
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I Know What You Did Last Summer (2021)
Teenage slasher or softcore OnlyFans advertisement?
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Service Accounts for Minor Scripts
Sometimes a fresh perspective is needed.
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Plex Needed A Diet
After a while, Plex will need to go on a diet.
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Flatpak and Mounted Shares in Ubuntu
Flatpak apps can’t access where Ubuntu mounts network shares by default.
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Ivanti Can't Sort
Yet another Ivanti bug… [shocked Pikachu meme]
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Jungle Cruise (2021)
Based on Disneyland’s theme park ride where a small riverboat takes a group of travelers through a jungle filled with dangerous animals and reptiles but with a supernatural element. There’s no tagline?
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Astrid et Raphaëlle (2019)
Astrid Suffers from Asperger’s syndrome but has an incredible memory, so she is very useful in analyzing files. The district commander decides to entrust her with very complex investigations which have remained unsolved to date. No tag line.
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Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
Shang-Chi, the master of weaponry-based Kung Fu, is forced to confront his past after being drawn into the Ten Rings organization.
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Hollywood's CogDis with Firearms
The whole Alec Baldwin shooting a crew member on a movie set has me thinking…
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Corner Gas (2004)
The finest in Canadian sarcasm.
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This Season Is Murder
Season 2 went downhill, rapidly.
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Plex's Skip Intro and a Custom Transcode Directory
Make sure your custom transcoding directory includes the backslash.
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Deleting Windows.old
Can’t/Don’t want to install cleanmgr?
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Detecting if the VPN is Enabled
How to to detect if a VPN adapter is being used.
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Adobe Flash in 2021
I still need Adobe Flash in 2021.
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Ninja (2009) and Ninja 2 (2013)
A silent warrior. A deadly past. A lethal mission.
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Snake Eyes (2021)
A legendary warrior. His epic origin story.
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Blood Red Sky (2021)
Airline hijackers vs. vampire mom.
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Mint Needs a Diet
Seriously Mint, cut back on the carbs.
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Apple M1 + Benchmarks
This processor is impressive.
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Docker Container Upgrade Instructions
I keep forgetting how to upgrade Docker containers because I use them so infrequently.
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The Closer (dvd) and Eureka (blu-ray)
Whomever authored the DVD Box Set for The Closer should be punished.
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First Mac in a long time
My first attempt at moving to the MacOS platform.
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VMWare, ESXi, and Power Management
Simply selecting High Performance in the BIOS isn’t enough.
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Resetting a Cisco ASA5506
It’s been a while since I had to use
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Outlook and High Disk Utilization
You’d think that after 2020, Microsoft Teams would get better TLC.
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RemoveItem's -Recurse Bug
tl;dr: There is no solution and it will probably never be fixed.
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ESXi Upgrade Out of Space Error
You enabled the datastore swap but still getting an out of space error.
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Counting and Copying Directories
Robocopy is still amazing.
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Switching to Mint Mobile
I finally dumped AT&T.
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Unraid and Used SAS Drives
I was gifted with many 4TB SAS 7.2k drives, now it’s time to put them to work.
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Yet Another Dumb Progress Bar
Progress bars are already nigh-worthless, but this one is quite dumb.
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Honest Thief (2020) and The Doorman (2020)
Watch one, skip the other.
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Revisiting x265 Part 2
Deinterlace vs Detelecine. FIGHT!
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4GB Filesize Limit on FAT32
Yet another Quality of Life improvement that Microsoft doesn’t add.
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Flashing Firmware on an LG Blu-ray UHD Drive
MakeMKV is a great program, but the forum guides need some cleanup.
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Web Redirects
Alpine and darkhttpd work great, but nginx might be a better fit.
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Umbrella Academy (2019)
A family of former child heroes, now grown apart, must reunite to continue to protect the world.
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The Big Bang Theory (Re-cut)
My list of essential episodes of The Big Bang Theory.
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Ava (2020)
Kill. Or Be Killed.
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Connection Failed: IPMI, Java, and a GA-7PESH2
Default Java security is too high for the Gigabyte GA-7PESH2 IPMI.
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VCSA Certificate Expiration
When certs go bad…
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Powershell, Inline Images, and Outlook
For an inline image in an email, use a lowercase “cid:” when specifying the content-id.
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Bringing a Dell Latitude E7440 Back to Life
Hold the power button and plug in the laptop without the battery.
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Dark Matter (2015)
Rough edges keep this show from being really good.
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Registering Powershell Sessions
Invoke-Command was giving me a strange error.
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Windows 10: WWAN + Ethernet
Windows 10 v1709 prioritizes Ethernet over WWAN.
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Revisiting x265
I thought I knew what I was doing with Handbrake encoding, but now I don’t know what to think…
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WTF is it with Linux? (Part 2)
Why must I remount a second hdd after every reboot?
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The Night Clerk (2020)
A voyeuristic hotel clerk becomes the subject of a murder investigation.
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Windows Updates Not Downloading
Updates weren’t downloading because the Firewall service was disabled.
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A Category List in Jekyll
Jekyll is much more powerful than I realize.
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A Clear Explanation of UAC
This is clearest and simplest explanation of what UAC does to admin accounts that I have read.
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Guns Akimbo (2019)
A guy relies on his newly-acquired gladiator skills to save his ex-girlfriend from kidnappers.
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Handbrake and Anamorphic DVDs
Whomever made the early American DVDs for Midsomer Murders should be punished.
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OpenNMS and Java
Install OpenNMS on a minimal install on Centos 8. Do not choose Server with a GUI.
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Screen Clips and Teams
Teams needs this feature from Jabber.
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Bloodshot (2020)
Ray Garrison, a slain soldier, is re-animated with superpowers.
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CentOS 8, VMware Workstation, and Fit Guest Now
No one uses VMware Workstation, right? /sarc
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Working from Home: Discipline
I’m new to working from home, but I quickly realized there are required habits to make this work.
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Cloudflare Doubles Perf of Linux Disk Encryption
I like reading stuff like this.
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Spencer Confidential (2020)
When two Boston police officers are murdered, ex-cop Spenser teams up with his no-nonsense roommate, Hawk, to take down criminals.
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Dell Command | Update 3.1
For posterity, because I had a helluva of a time trying to find this online.
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Working from Home
I didn’t think I’d care for working from home.
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Knives Out (2019)
A detective investigates the death of a patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.
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VPN to VPN Traffic
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The Courier (2019)
A courier in London discovers that one of the packages she’s transporting is a bomb.
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Beige and Green
I repainted the office and removed the blue walls. I went back to Accessible Beige and added a accent wall.
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Prepping for Corona
I’ve looked at some of these suggestions and I think they are worth implementing.
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Mediawiki and Notepad++
Here is a nice User Defined Language for Mediawiki for Notepad++.
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Conditional Where-Object
I discovered that I can add conditions to Where-Object in Powershell.
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Accessible Beige
For people who think beige is a little *too* much, they made something less offensive.
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Fast Blogs
I use this blog to jot down things I want to remember or fixes I hope will help someone else.
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Ivanti Issues: 2019 Edition
It’s time for another list of stupid bugs in Ivanti Endpoint Manager (Landesk).
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Print Jobs Sent to Printer and Stuck in Queue
Here’s a funny one.
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Locking Down Folders in Windows
I have a situation where users add files to pre-made folder structure, and sometimes they need to move the files around between the various subfolders.
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IBM BoMC Decompress .zip Failure
The IBM Bootable Media Creator BoMC v11.7 doesn’t like long file paths and you’ll receive an error about decompressing a zip file if the path is too long.
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iDRAC Soft Reset
Today I couldn’t browse to the iDRAC website to one of my servers, but I was able to SSH in and run:
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ownCloud SMB storage on Ubuntu 16.04
To use ownCloud’s SMB external storage on Ubuntu 16.04 without enabling SMB1, add the following lines to the global section of
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vmtools Upgrade in CUCM and IMP
vmtools has a simple upgrade in Cisco’s CUCM and IM & Presence.
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Windows Update After an In-Place Upgrades
Windows Updates taking a crap after an in-place upgrade has to be my biggest gripe about in-place upgrades. But the boss says to do an in-place upgrade so I don’t have much choice.
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Get-Date Formatting for Tomorrow
I had an almost identical question as posted here. I’m glad someone had the answer.
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Find an AD User from a SID
How to find an Active Directory user from a SID:
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Default Features of Windows Server 2016
Just for posterity, here are the default features of Windows Server 2016.
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Scripting HandbrakeCLI
I wanted to shrink down a bunch of video files, (I wasn’t too concerned with losing quality so re-encoding them is fine with me) and I decided to try scripting it with HandbrakeCLI instead of just powering thru all the files and adding them to the queue in the GUI.
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Error While Installing Printer Drivers
I was having issues installing some HP Universal x64 print drivers. The wizard would fail with an
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RunOnce a Powershell Script
Why does it always seems like the most simple of tasks are the most difficult to accomplish?
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Clear VCSA DNS Cache
The command to clear the DNS cache on vCenter Server Appliance is
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vCenter to VCSA Migration
I was trying to migrate from a Windows based vCenter 5.5 install to VCSA 6.5 and after encountering several errors trying to run the migration tool I discovered that I could disconnect and remove a host from vCenter and add it to VCSA without interrupting the VMs.
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Find Public IP from Cisco CLI
Dealing with ISP modems are a pain. I needed to find out the public ip of a dsl modem after it had changed on me. I was hoping this solution would be as simple as it looks and it is.
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Windows SNMP Service Missing Tabs
If you’re trying to configure SNMP on a server from a remote workstation, make sure you have SNMP installed on the remote workstation or you’ll miss the Agent, Traps, and Security tab on the SNMP service properties.
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Reverse Proxy with Certs
Here is a great tutorial for setting up a reverse proxy for webservers.
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Global Hotkey for New Email
I found how to make a global hotkey shortcut that opens a new email and I’ve found it quite useful.
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ESXi Disconnected from vCenter
One of my esxi 5.5 U3 hosts was disconnected from vCenter. The VMs were still running, but reconnecting it to vCenter would result in an
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Device Busy During Write Memory
I encountered a scary looking bug today on a router. I tried to save a config and received a “device busy” error. The issue was a stuck vty connection. After clearing it (
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Reclaiming Space on VMs
Here are some great posts about reclaiming unused space in esxi.
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Convert a VMDK to Thin without vMotion
Storage vMotion is wonderful but vMotion isn’t available without vCenter. bah!
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Windows Spotlight Wallpaper
Windows Spotlight has some nice wallpaper and I’d like to keep a couple for later use, so here’s the shortest Powershell script I could make to save them to my Pictures directory:
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If User Exists?
Getting a simple script to check if an AD user exists has been a nightmare. I wanted something simple and straightforward and I finally found it.
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Powershell and SNMP
I’ve been trying to get all the snmp on my servers fixed and it’s been kind of a pain. Powershell doesn’t have any good cmdlets, but I’ve found a couple examples. This is very nice script, but doesn’t work on remote machines unless you do PS Remoting. (I need to bone up on my PS remoting now.)
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Intel AC-7260 and UniFi
An Intel AC-7260 (on my Latitude 7440) was stuck at 54Mbps when connecting to my Ubiquiti AP AC-Lite. It’s been a great AP to me and all my other devices connect right up, so the issue must be with the laptop or wifi adapter. I found that the laptop wouldn’t connect at all if I set WPA2 to use AES only which is recommended because TKIP is deprecated.
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WSUS: Reset Server Node While Browsing Computers
I’ve run into another very annoying WSUS bug and this one deals with Computer Model information being corrupted when being entered into the SUS DB.
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Wonder Woman
My thoughts on the Wonder Woman movie.
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WSUS Doesn’t Download Updates
While rebuilding WSUS (once again), I discovered another snag.
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If Apple Asks for a Reboot...
This is what happens if you don’t reboot after an update to iCloud for Windows:
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Pi-hole.net: DNS based ad-blocking
Pi-hole.net is a fun little weekend project.
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Rebuilding WSUS Gotchas
I had to rebuild my SUS server because the old one was still on Win2008 (x86).
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Weird Interface Name
I didn’t know that systemd was going to screw with the ethernet interface names in 16.04, so it was quite a surprise when I fired up a new install of Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS and found enp0s3 instead of my trusty old eth0.
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LDMS 2016.3
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Kindle Fire
Here are some of my first impressions with the $50 Kindle Fire.
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ElementaryOS Mail and Gmail
Elementary OS’s Mail client doesn’t work with Gmail when you have Google’s 2-factor authentication enabled. (I tried it today.)
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The Accountant (2016)
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities, and the body count starts to rise.
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Rogue One (2016)
The daughter of an Imperial scientist joins the Rebel Alliance in a risky move to steal the Death Star plans.
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DFS-R MaxOfflineTimeInDays
I had a screwy server that wouldn’t replicate a folder in DFSR because it had past the 60 day limit. I’m not sure why this server was out of date for so long.
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Gilmore Girls (2016)
There are three constants in the universe. Death, taxes, and Rory Gilmore will make galactically stupid decisions and never suffer the consequences.
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Surface Ergonomic Keyboard
I bought a Surface Ergonomic Keyboard the other day and I’m quite pleased.
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Stewardess or Vampiress
You decide…
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16 Points of the Nationalist Right
I prefer the term Nationalist Right now that the socialists started adopted Alt-right, but this was the original meaning of Alt-Right.
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Microsoft Surface Keyboard
For the longest time, my favorite keyboard was the Apple keyboard.
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Google Doodle BS
Google’s Doodle for Election Day 2016 is strange.
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Time for a Reboot
I think this server needs a reboot.
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Filter Is Finicky
Get-ADUser -Filteris really finicky. I finally figured out what I was doing wrong with the help of this wonderfully detailed Powershellish.com post. -
Ubuntu Wifi
It seems like every time I install Ubuntu I have to fix something.
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A Political Rick-Roll
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Titan Quest Anniversary Edition
I put 100+ hours in to the original Titan Quest and I was quite excited when I received a free upgrade to the Titan Quest: Anniversary Edition.
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NAS (Follow Up)
Last Febuary I built a NAS and I learned two things:
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T.E.P.I.D.
Tolerance, Equality, Progress, Inclusiveness, and Diversity
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Lawlessness
“Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”
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Migrating DHCP Reservations
I had to migrate dhcp servers and the export/restore wasn’t working for me.
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Can’t format VMFS5 partition
While trying to add an ssd to my esxi 5.5 server I encountered a bug when it tried to format and add the storage.
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Find the DHCP Server
I had to find the dhcp server, but I can’t find any good method in Powershell. So I’m using Powershell to parse
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Modern Man is Bananas
Here is another great post by John C. Wright in a fascinating discussion about modern science.
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How to do a Proper Installer
Bitvise has to have the best installer I have seen in a long time.
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Samsung 850 EVO m.2 500GB
Wow, these m.2 drives are tiny.
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Good Friday
I remember this BC comic every Good Friday. It’s one of my favorites.
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Traceroute and Cisco ASA’s
I had a strange error on a new ASA where doing tracert to a host returned the correct number of hops, but always displayed the destination host at each hop. Adding inspect icmp error fixed it right up.
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Truncate SQL Server Error Log
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Kaspersky and Jabber
I’ve run into a nasty bug in the latest Kaspersky Antivirus and it seems to kill any Jabber calls.
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Space Reclaimer CLI
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Excel and CLI
Inspired from this post at LoneSysAdmin.net
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Leap Day
Neil deGrasse Tyson once again demonstrates that he should stick to astrophysics and stop trying to be a clever smart-ass.
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XSR700
I hope Yamaha brings the XSR700 to the USA. I’ve been wanting to upgrade and this would make me pull the trigger.
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NAS
I finally built a NAS (Network Attached Storage) server.
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WTF is it with Linux?
The more I work with Linux the more I’m convinced that the problem with the open source model is precisely the opposite of what I would think it would be.
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Why Trump?
From Reddit:
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Jessica “don’t bother” Jones
After watching the excellent Netflix show Daredevil, I was eager to watch the spin-off series, Jessica Jones.
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ffmpeg Concatination
I needed to join a bunch of video files together. They had all the same dimensions (720p), same video codec (h264), and the same audio codec (AAC), so I didn’t want to reencode the files. Ffmpeg can do it. It took me a bit to find the right syntax as I’m on Windows, but I found it.
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Google's New Logo
is atrocious.
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RunOnce
When writing some scripts I wanted to slip in a reboot in the middle but I didn’t know how to run stuff after the reboot.
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Migrating ePO Database
While trying to migrate the db for a McAfee ePO server, I ran across these basic instructions:
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Windows 10 Upgrade
I upgraded to Windows 10 via Team Viewer and it worked!
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Moving DB server for WSUS 3.0
I used this article to move a WSUS db from one SQL Server to another.
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If the shoe fits...
Women don’t belong in the military, courtesy of Mad Magazine (to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic)
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Netapp Uploads
Netapp uses a utility called Aspera Connect to upload large log files, core dumps, etc… Aspera Connect uses http or https to transport the data. However it doesn’t use port 80 or 443. Nope, it uses 33001.
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LVM in a Virtual Environment
I have been fighting against my owncloud server the past couple of nights.
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It's Over
In this instance, the context and structure of the Act compel us to depart from what would otherwise be the most natural reading of the pertinent statutory phrase…
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iPod Upgrade
I just upgraded an old 30GB 5.5gen iPod Video from a hdd to a 64GB SDXC card.
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Windows Defender Offline
I didn’t know about this, but I’ll add it as another tool in the toolbox.
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Upgrading Windows 2003 to 2008 with iSCSI
I know what you are going to say about upgrading Windows in place but sometimes it needs to be done.
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Jefferson Desk
A friend of mine gave me a great gift. It’s a Jefferson desk built by this grampa nearly 50 years ago. It has fantastic quality and goes well with my living room.
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Cisco Jabber Lag
I noticed that my Cisco Jabber became very laggy when typing and sending chat messages.
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GalCiv3
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Windows Loses IP After vMotion
I’ve been fighting a very annoying bug with a couple of my Windows servers.
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Sharknado
I found out that Sharknado with the Rifftrax commentary can be bought from Rifftrax store.
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LANDesk Inventory Scans
I ran into a bugger of a problem with the scans of a freshly imaged host not being accepted by the LANDESK core server.
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SanDisk Extreme CZ80 64GB USB 3.0
I recently purchased a SanDisk Extreme 64GB USB3.0 flash drive and it certainly is fast.
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Bent Brewstillery's Moar
I found an IPA I like: Bent Brewstillery’s Moar.
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TARDIS Blue
My first time painting an entire room.
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Taken 3 and Museum 3
Apparently, my weekend was filled with trequels(?). I don’t have much on these two, but here goes.
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Sledding in the Nanny State
According to the AP via Zero Hedge, Dubuque, Iowa is banning sledding:
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Software Based Performance
I like to read articles like this: How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast
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Too Young for The Princess Bride
From a WSJ article about Aaron Rodgers’ wit:
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Elite Dangerous
My Diablo 3 hours has been stagnant for a while. I’ve even gone back to Torchlight and PuzzleQuest for some light gaming, but I think I’ve found my D3 replacement for a while. (At least until Season 2 where I’ll need to grind up another character to 70 to get the transmog rewards):
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Apply ESXi Updates via CLI
Update 2020-11-03: This site has a lot of great info and links.
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ProKart League 2014: Week Six
The week that shall not be mentioned.
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ProKart League 2014: Week Five
I was on vacation and missed these last races but here are the videos. I haven’t seen them yet, but I hear there was quite a bit of trading paint. My boss substituted for me this week and he did very well for someone that doesn’t race as often as our group does. “I” finished first in all three heats which translates to +205 R.P.M. points for me.
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Fairy Tales of the Modern Woman
How do you tell a girl their expectations are too high? You don’t.
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The Shopping Holiday
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ProKart League 2014: Week Four
I may be called “The Bulldozer” from now on. Not because I work for a heavy equipment dealership, but because I allegedly tried to bulldoze my way through the rest of the racers. I think the video footage will show differently… ok, not really, I did try to bulldoze my way through. I’m not ashamed. They wouldn’t get out of my way.
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ProKart League 2014: Racing Tips
George Jetson, the current point leader for the league, graciously passed along some racing tips to the rest of us slowpokes for tonight’s racing…how thoughtful. /s
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x265
How does x264 compare with HEVC (h.265)?
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ProKart League 2014: Week Three
We raced the Silverstone track again. It’s the same track layout as last week. I like Silverstone and didn’t do too bad. We had a sub this week as well. New girl, Ldubs, did very well on the third race. Her average lap time dropped 4 seconds from her first two races. A few more races and she’ll be racing with the rest of us.
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Human IRQs
From Hertiste via Vox, here is some useful information about attention-whores.
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ProKart League 2014: Week Two
The videos are up for week two of the George Jetson League 2014 at ProKart Indoor Racing.
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Voting in 2014
Vox has a good point: nothing will really change.
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ProKart League 2014: Week One
The videos are up for week one of the George Jetson League 2014 at ProKart Indoor Racing. There’s only six of us this time, but it’s still a lot of fun.
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John Wick (2014)
An ex-hit-man comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that killed his dog and took everything from him.
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Property Owner Not Available
I ran across an issue today where I did not have access to the properties on a database.
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nar·cis·sism
I was out getting a burger with a buddy of mine when he told me about his latest date.
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#Gamergate Entertainment
There have been some great articles on #gamergate lately but one of the best must be the Gawker meltdown by Max Read.
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Lewis (Series 7)
I saw the premier of series 7 for Lewis. I liked it.
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Twin Peaks (2016)
I’m excited for this.
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Spybot, Windows8.1 and Explorer Crashes
I’ve been fighting an issue where explorer has been crashing on me when ever I’d right-click something in the Navigation pane (the left side tree view).
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Photo Tests
Here is an example of a low(er) light photo with HDR on an iPhone 6 Plus.
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Lost Pre-Share Key in Aruba
After taking over several Aruba Instant swarms, I lost the pre-share WPA passkey to a wireless network.
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Switching Loops and errdisable recovery
I had a switching loop the other day. Nasty and annoying business.
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A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
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The Fall of the NFL
The NFL is going in the wrong direction. Here are some headlines on the Drudge Report today:
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The Raid 2 (2014)
The Raid 2 is one helluva movie.
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Self-Defense is a Human Right
If you didn’t watch the video of Ray Rice punching his (then) fiancee, you would have heard that he tried to murder her.
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A List of Domain Controllers
This blog post had a simple solution for getting a list of domain controllers in Powershell.
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For Women, Sex is Power
The Spearhead has a deceptively simple yet excellent analysis into the Jennifer Lawrence leaked pics “scandal”:
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The November Man (2014)
An ex-C.I.A. operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level C.I.A. officials and the Russian President-elect.
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Burger King Moving to Canada
I’m hearing a lot of commentary with Burger King moving to Canada.
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Cleverer Powershell
In my last post about Powershell, I chastised myself for trying to be too clever by trying to pipeline an entire script into one line.
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Feedly Slider
Damn Feedly, another new view? I’m on a desktop, can’t you save that shit for the mobile devices? I don’t need the article I want to read shoved to the right 25% of my screen.
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Cubs Game Ruined
I’m no fan of Obamacare, but I think the Cubs are the reason Cubs games are ruined.
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The Expendables 3 (2014)
Barney augments his team with new blood for a personal battle: to take down Conrad Stonebanks, the Expendables co-founder and notorious arms trader who is hell bent on wiping out Barney and every single one of his associates.
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.NET 4.0 and InstallUtil.exe
I have a Windows 2003 (x86) server complaining that InstallUtil.exe from .NET 4.0 was not a valid win32 application.
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The Big Sleep (1946)
Lauren Bacall died yesterday.
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Netflix Not Required
Vox has a hilarious set of posts up at his blogs, Vox Populi and AlphaGamePlan.
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Powershell Beginnings
I’ve never been big on scripting. I taught myself VB.net and made some useful programs, but I’ve tried several times to get into Powershell and it just hasn’t clicked.
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Wipe a Cisco 3560 without the Password
I had a dozen Cisco 3560 switches I needed to wipe, but I couldn’t give the intern the password to the switches. These steps let the intern wipe the switches quickly and easily.
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Jason Lewis Gone Galt
I’m a fan of Jason Lewis, but I missed most of his show today. Apparently it was a big day.
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Re-Run Your Boot Loader
While cleaning out some old kernels in the wiki server I built for work, I ran across this suspicious message:
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Raw Device Mapping and 3TB Drives
Raw Device Mapping is actually easy for sata drives in ESXi.
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Windows 8 Updates and Audit Mode
Windows update does not function while in Audit mode in Windows 8.1.
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A New Power Supply
When building a new computer with updated hardware, prevent the hassle of troubleshooting issues and buy a new power supply.
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Realtek and ESXi
vSphere 5.5 doesn’t include some Realtek NIC drivers.
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Reload a Specific Switch
To reload a specific switch in Cisco stack (n is the switch number):
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Devil's Canyon
Time for a new build.
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A Simple Name Change
I’ve been becoming an Apple guy for a while.
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Maison Ikkoku
How much of a Maison Ikkoku fan am I?
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Vampire Hunter D
Hideyuki Kikuchi, the writer and creator of Vampire Hunter D, has created a great and expansive universe to explore.
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Maleficent (2014)
A vengeful fairy is driven to curse an infant princess, only to discover that the child may be the one person who can restore peace to their troubled land.
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