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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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