This process for making a Hyper-V based appliance disk images work in Azure. This has been used several times for Linux based appliance. ESXi network configurations work different and don’t transfer correctly to Azure, always go for Hyper-V images. Boot up VM, enable remote settings and remove Hyper-V agents. Using Hyper-V disk manager convert whatever …
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Squeeze a little break between Exchange calendar meetings
Set-OrganizationConfig -ShortenEventScopeDefault 2 -DefaultMinutesToReduceLongEventsBy 5 These are set using the Set-OrganizationConfig setting. The three new properties are ShortenEventScopeDefault, DefaultMinutesToReduceShortEventsBy and DefaultMinutesToReduceLongEventsBy. You turn on the reduced length meetings by setting ShortenEventScopeDefault to 0, 1 or 2 where 0 is the default and meetings are not shortened and 1 means to end meetings early and 2 …
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Need an umbrella?
When I lived in Tokyo I had this weird habit of picking up umbrellas that people left behind on trains and busses. With a spare umbrella I could always offer a stranger an umbrella, share a smile and continue my day. Then I found out that bars would throw away hundreds some nights and this …
Guns n’ Badges
A memory I had when I was gathering supplies to wire up my police buzzer and brake light disable switch in the El Camino: When I was a kid my school had the D.A.R.E. program. My school had Sargent Joe Rindosh. He taught us how and were to buy drugs and how to tell the …
Cisco Umbrella can fuck right off
BYE BITCH #!/usr/bin/env bash CMD=$1; if [[ `id -u` = 0 ]]; then echo “You mustn’t be root when executing this script”; exit; fi function usage { echo “Usage: $(basename $0) COMMAND COMMANDS: stop Run sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.opendns.osx.RoamingClientConfigUpdater.plist start Run sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.opendns.osx.RoamingClientConfigUpdater.plist restart Stop umbrella, then start again. status Is umbrella running? …
Star filled nights again
I remember when I was a kid I’d look up and see stars in the sky. Then over the years they slowly disappeared. Now we’ve made our own stars to see in the sky. Thank you Starlink.
Disable Reply All to Company Emails
To configure In Outlook enable the Developer option on the ribbon under File > Options > Customize Ribbon. Check Developer in the right column. From the Developer tab select Design a Form Pick message and open. Select the Actions tab, then select the line with Reply to All and click Properties. Uncheck the Enabled box …
Just another day
Woke up face down on my uncharged mobile phone. Went to Lowes and bought some nice planks to put on top of a broken glass table I found. Discovered one of my push button hood pins on the Dodge don’t work right, the fun way. Bought bright green tie down straps for the Dodge. Verbally …
Bye old PL3X, hi new PL3X
I did something really really dumb last night…. I made my new Plex VM on my ESXi environment that I recently stood up on an R820 with 1tb of ram to move away from my old R910 with 256 gigs. Anyways, I got all the automated stuff working right at the system level so all …
Ram transcoding for PLEX on Ubuntu
My PLEX host has RAM, it’s currently a Dell R910 with 256 gigs of ram. I don’t want to murder my twin 1tb SSD’s doing all that fancy transcoding so I have mine use 50 gigs of ram as a temporary folder. You can use much less but I on average with 3 streams going …