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IT related tech tips since 2006vmguest.iso
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...
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...