Quick guide: Port forwarding on your Sagemcom FaST (F@ST) 5260
I have searched the internet High and Low and was unable to find some simple port forwarding instructions for my Spectrum provided Sagemcom F@st 5260 Modem. Most of…
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Upgrading your Citrix XenDesktop DDC Failure. [SOLVED]
Here is a quick Citrix XenDesktop writeup from my colleague Rajen Das. Ran into an interesting one the other day while upgrading XenDesktop 7.11 to XenDesktop 7.15 LTSR…
Domain Controller in Safe mode? Marcos brings the Vet office back online.
Here is a guest post from my friend Marcos Velez. He worked out a pretty perplexing issue involving a nonresponsive Domain Controller at his sister’s veterinary office. Follow…
Building the World’s Greatest Smart Alarm Clock
We live in a Smart Home and right next to our SleepIQ Wi-Fi enabled bed is the oldest alarm clock on the planet. It is your standard radio…
Yet another inexpensive Motion Sensor for Home Assistant
Taking inspiration from BruhAutomation’s multi sensor, I decided to make a simple ESP8266 based motion sensor for my house. Here’s the part List : 1 x NodeMCUs –…
Moving Home Assistant DBs to external Flash Drives
So timing is everything… and my timing was perfect (ok, it was slow). Chatting in the Discord forums with some way smarter *nix users than me (Tinkerer and…
Adobe Flash, I HATE you.
One of the more frustrating things with vSphere these days is dealing with this flash client. As a consultant, I am continually working with different machines and have…
Inventory your vSphere environment with RVTools
If you haven’t heard of Robware’s RVTools, you are missing out. This handy little utility gives you a nice clutter free way to view basic information about your…
Veeam, Data Domains, DDBoost and making it all work!
I have a customer with infrastructure in the NorthEast and infrastructure in the Southwest. Both sites run VMware and have Veeam deployed with EMC Data Domains. Virtual Machines…