Question: What is the Hyper-V equivalent of VMWare Tools? Answer: Hyper-V Integration Services If you are running Hyper-V on Windows 10 and need the vmguest.iso to get Video and Mouse working on older Windows versions Further to this...
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Speedtest from the CLI
Awaiting a speed increase on you Internet connection but it's not there yet? Want to know within an hour when the speed increase happens? Create a crontab entry crontab -e With this content MAILTO="" 0 * * * * /Users/username/sites/speedtest/speedtest.sh >>...
Azure Solutions Architect Expert
So I achieved this certification on Sept 29 2019 My last Microsoft Certification was Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer in March 2002. So a while in between drinks
Learn AS-400
If you want to have a look around AS-400 try pub400.com Just so I remember the SSL Port is 992
MYOB Essentials handling a credit card payment
The situation: Business Bank Account and Credit Card Account Bank feed from the Business Account and Credit Card Transactions imported using QIF Import $110.56 from the Business Acct goes to the Visa Account How do you link the transfer In Banking => Banking...
Bash alias to copy ssh public key
If you need to copy and paste your public key into dozens of different VM's in Azure or AWS this can be handy. It copies your public ssh key to the clip board and displays it on screen # put this into ~/.bash_profile alias getkey="cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | tee...
pgAdmin / pgcli could not send data to server: Socket is not connected
My setup is My home network is IPv6 enabled. I have an AAAA record specifying the IPv6 address of the Amazon EC2 instances Elastic IP <IPv6 enabled home network> | <internet> | <Dockerized Postgres on EC2 Instance> Getting this error message when attempting...
Picking the right Azure Solution
Good video on how to choose services. Nice how he delimits the OLTP and OLAP offerings. https://youtu.be/ZpK_lv6HJkQ
GRS and RA-GRS
In short RA-GRS is available to you without M$'s help. GRS needs a failover triggered by M$ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-redundancy-grs GRS replicates your data to another data center in a secondary region, but that data is available...
Remove all your resource groups and hence their contents in Azure
You can do this two ways either with one line of power shell code or more safely by wrapping it in a script that first checks which subscription you are logged into and then ask you nicely if you really want to delete all the resource groups in your Subscription. How...
NTTTCP Windows – Linux both directions
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/create-vm-accelerated-networking-powershell#supported-vm-instances SendReceiveWindowsLinuxntttcp -s -m 4,*,192.168.1.5 -nsntttcp -r -m 4,*,192.168.1.5 -NLinuxWindowsntttcp -s -m 4,*,192.168.1.4 -Nntttcp -r -m...
Europe 2019
Before I forget July 14 - August 28 Rough Itinerary Fly Royal-Brunei to London Athens, Zakynthos, Kefalonia Greece Verona, Venice Italy Amsterdam, Utretcht Netherlands Antwerp Belgium Schaephuysen Germany Gambais France Eurostar France to train to London Royal-Brunei...
Evidence that Managed Disks support LRS but not ZRS and GRS Replication
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/managed-disks-overview#highly-durable-and-available Highly durable and available Managed disks are designed for 99.999% availability. Managed disks achieve this by providing you with three replicas of...
NTttcp – Test Network Performance
When I was working at Rio Tinto in the New South Wales Hunter Valley. I used NTttcp to test network switch throughput on some Cisco Switches. (From memory they had lost some ports due to a lightning strike) I had forgotten about it for years but was reminded of it...
Azure VM Types Pneumonic
Whatever helps the memory Nice overview of VM Types or Series https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/pricing/details/virtual-machines/series/ TypePneumonicDescriptionA - BasicAsDev / Test usageA - StandardAdamGeneral PurposeB - BurstablebecameRun on CPU credits and can...
Setting AZCOPY_CONCURRENCY_VALUE on Storage Explorer MacOS Client
The problem this is solving is failed azcopy uploads on slow internet connections. Firstly locate the AzCopyClient.js file and open it in editor vim "/Applications/Microsoft Azure Storage...
Disable the Twitter in-app Browser
When using Twitter on my Android OnePlus 3T phone. If I click on a link and then browse the article. After a short time of scrolling and reading the Twitter in-app Browser locks up and I have to restart Twitter To fix: Click on your profile picture, select settings...
et-safe-mode
Just an FYI for anyone else. If you are using Elegant Themes with a child theme and you try and edit and save a file on the child theme it may time out and fail. This as I've just learned is because of ET Safe Mode Navigate to Divi => Support Center => Safe Mode and...