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...
IT Tips
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...
Azure AZ-300 Passed
MacOS Azure Storage Explorer using azcopy indicates 100% then continues trying failed PUT’s and never completes the copy
Slow Australian NBN can't handle the expectation azcopy has about your bandwidth I have been trying to copy a 1.7GB file to Azure blob storage container and it's been failing. I've changed from Azure account login to a SAS URL and have started to investigate what is...
Viewing Azure WebApp Failed Request Traces
If you enable logging and FTP access to your Web App you get access to a directory tree with different formats of logs. I couldn't view the Failed Request Traces because browsers are highly suspicious of XSL files because they can contain malicious processing...
DiskStorageAccountTypes
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/compute/disks/list#diskstorageaccounttypes If you specify a Disk Type or Sku of Standard_LRS you get a Standard HDD
ListAccountSAS Error in Azure Activity Log
So getting an error after doing a heap of study with an Azure Free Trial Account and deleting all my resource groups every night But an error kept appearing every minute in the Activity Log You can see the JSON of the error below. (And if you are worried about...
