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Failing to build a Proxmox + LINSTOR (DRBD) HCI cluster (ft. RDMA and ewaste!) 2 Feb 2026
Flash Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro firmware (CX314A-BCCT to CX354A-FCCT) 31 Jan 2026
Using Fluent Bit on Windows to ship event logs to VictoriaLogs 14 Jan 2026
1, 10, 25, 40 gig NIC shopping list 14 Jan 2026
IBM V7000 Expansion Module 2076-224 24SFF SAS2 disk shelves (Xyratex EB-2425-E6EBD) 14 Jan 2026
Windows Encrypted File System basics 4 Jan 2026
accurately generate SELinux policy with audit2allow 9 Dec 2025
smartd > {eml,ntfy} on Alma 9 & 10, PVE 9 8 Dec 2025
systemd-journal-upload on AlmaLinux 8 Dec 2025
basic Postfix config 8 Dec 2025
NixOS root on (mirrored) ZFS 30 Nov 2025
NixOS root on (natively encrypted) ZFS 30 Nov 2025
NixOS root on (plain) XFS 30 Nov 2025
Point PVE system at a custom loopback interface to allow dynamic IPs without dependencies 29 Nov 2025
Migrating guests between incompatible versions of QEMU 29 Nov 2025
Proxying the Proxmox VE & Backup Server web UIs with NGINX 28 Nov 2025
Proxmox VE & Backup Server built-in ACME cert renewal 28 Nov 2025
Renaming a standalone Proxmox node with guests 28 Nov 2025
Install a root certificate on Proxmox VE, BS, DM 28 Nov 2025
ipmitool 23 Nov 2025
Testing and stressing spinning drives 21 Nov 2025
USB-C laptop docks 29 Oct 2025
Azure Container Instances fundamentals & quick lab 26 Oct 2025
Registering Azure resource providers 26 Oct 2025
Notes on adding Trusted Locations via registry/rant about M365 Business 21 Oct 2025
Quick thoughts on M3 15" Mac Air 20 Oct 2025
Custom Google Search string to not show AI overview 20 Oct 2025
Mellanox SX6036 basics (setup, licensing, noise, power, VPI) 20 Oct 2025
Sending mail with Python via the Microsoft Graph API 24 Sep 2025
Azure Application Gateway (HTTP load balancer) lab 21 Sep 2025
PowerShell Core (Microsoft Graph and Az) in a toolbox container on your Linux box 24 Aug 2025
Microsoft MD-102 (Endpoint Administrator): Pass! 23 Aug 2025
Configuring silent OneDrive sign-in and Known Folders sync 17 Aug 2025
Onboarding Microsoft Defender for Endpoint with Intune 17 Aug 2025
Microsoft Intune Assignment Filters 17 Aug 2025
Notes on managing Android devices with Microsoft Intune 9 Aug 2025
Deploying Windows LAPS for client PCs with Microsoft Intune 9 Aug 2025
Configuring Firefox via policy (registry) 13 Jul 2025
Hardening and customizing Google Chrome via policy (registry) 13 Jul 2025
Setting up Cockpit with Certbot and a private CA with an ACME endpoint 9 Jul 2025
Building out a signing certificate authority that supports ACME with step-ca and an OpenSSL root 6 Jul 2025
Using OpenSSL to generate a root certificate (using OpenSSL on a Linux server as a root certificate authority) 2 Jul 2025
Why doesn't Windows support modern cryptography? 1 Jul 2025
Installing Wiki.js (PostgreSQL, NGINX) on AlmaLinux 10 30 Jun 2025
Fixing duplicate artist names in local FLAC files played by Spotify 29 Jun 2025
Using Grafana Alloy on Windows to export (push) metrics (from Prometheus) and logs (from Loki) 29 Jun 2025
Passing a function to a PowerShell subprocess (without making a terrible, terrible mess) 26 Jun 2025
Enumerating user profiles on a device with PowerShell 25 Jun 2025
Quick thoughts on & power consumption of Supermicro 6028 with X10DRU-TR4T+ 23 Jun 2025
Using the Dell Command | Update CLI to update drivers from PowerShell 23 Jun 2025
Dell Latitude 7320 Detachable (PC tablet) review - hardware, Windows 11, Fedora 42 22 Jun 2025
Removing lingering VMware PowerShell modules 8 Jun 2025
Changing a Linux username 7 Jun 2025
Performing an in-place upgrade from Alma 9 to Alma 10 with LEAPP and ELevate 7 Jun 2025
Updating the osinfo database on a Linux hypervisor 7 Jun 2025
SSH agent forwarding 3 Jun 2025
Listing and removing RPM GPG (PGP) keys 3 Jun 2025
Configuring a Server 2008 R2 domain 25 May 2025
Setting up a Windows 7 box in mid 2025 23 May 2025
Lazy PowerShell ssh-copy-id for Windows with SSH keys stored in 1Password 11 May 2025
Configuring LACP bonds & VLAN bridges with nmcli 3 May 2025
Installing Ninja Remote (NinjaRMM remote session utility) on Linux with Wine 26 Apr 2025
Poking at the Intel Management Engine (vPro Enterprise, AMT) for IPMI-like remote access on a M920q 23 Apr 2025
Quick and dirty - install KB5002623 fix for Office 2016 crashing after KB5002700 installation via executable patch 10 Apr 2025
Cleaning up ghost Saved-Critical Hyper-V VMs after nuking all their files 6 Apr 2025
Maxxing out my P1 Gen 4 with an RTX A5000 16gb and an i9-11950H (for science) 5 Apr 2025
Looking at filesystem types on disks from Linux 30 Mar 2025
The setuid, setgid, and sticky special file permissions bits 30 Mar 2025
Adventures with secedit.exe and PowerShell, pt. 1 27 Mar 2025
Writing something like free in PowerShell 23 Mar 2025
ReFS sucks and you shouldn't use it, but here's how you can configure ReFS deduplication and compression (if you really want to do this to yourself) 22 Mar 2025
Updating multiple M365 mailboxes' autoreply settings 20 Mar 2025
Resolving ESXi 8.0 esxcli software profile MemoryError with hostupdate depot 16 Mar 2025
vCenter Server Appliance - regen certs, recover PWs, other tips and tricks 16 Mar 2025
Changing vCenter Server DHCP address 16 Mar 2025
Updating standalone VMware ESXi hosts from the online hostupdate depot with esxcli 8 Mar 2025
Cisco 3850 ignoring startup-config on boot, config-register stuck at 0x142 22 Feb 2025
Revisited: Working with Hyper-V NAT switches 1 Feb 2025
Snippet: branch and merge a detached head with main 25 Jan 2025
Getting started with Cloud-init on Hyper-V 24 Jan 2025
Enabling Hyper-V in Windows Home editions 11 Jan 2025
JNCIA lab: simple route redistribution in Junos 6 Jan 2025
Windows Hello fingerprint 'too similar to one that's already registered' with no fingerprints registered 5 Jan 2025
The Bitlocker Script 16 Dec 2024
Snippet: unlock a SSH key for use with Ansible 15 Dec 2024
Hide 'sign into all apps' pop-up in Microsoft apps 10 Dec 2024
Snippet: one-liners to install all RSAT utilities 2 Dec 2024
Requiring multiple, different factors for Windows Hello console authentication 1 Dec 2024
Snippet: Disable max vCPUs eq phys. threads restriction in Proxmox VE 8.3 27 Nov 2024
Snippet: enabling forwarding between Hyper-V NAT vSwitches (WSL & int. NAT) 26 Nov 2024
Snippet: using Winget from system context (NinjaRMM scripts) 22 Nov 2024
Renaming domain member detaches Computer Object 20 Nov 2024
Snippet: setting up nested virt for Juniper (GNS3) 20 Oct 2024
PowerShell: some commands for working with disks, volumes, VGs 15 Oct 2024
Create a vSwitch and a NetNat object to avoid Default Switch DHCP 7 Oct 2024
POST an Intune app registration to the Microsoft Graph API 3 Oct 2024
Updating ESXi 8 hosts from a depot file 5 Jul 2024
T14s Gen 1 AMD + Windows 11 29 Jun 2024
Removing ghost SipAddress and SipAddressProxy values from M365 user accounts 28 Jun 2024
Disabling systemd-resolved and letting NetworkManager control /etc/resolv.conf on Fedora 40 23 Jun 2024
Configuring SSH clients for use with IOS 15.0(2)SE11 on a Cisco 3750x 15 Jun 2024
Deleting messages org-wide with Exchange Online PowerShell 10 Jun 2024
Setting up Vagrant with libvirt (Fedora 40) 5 Jun 2024
Windows DRIVE$ shares 11 Apr 2024
ESXi 8 - ignoring a TSC mismatch PSOD 9 Apr 2024
CCNA Complete! 15 Mar 2024
Fedora 39 + T14 Gen 2 AMD 31 Jan 2024
Brief Look at CLNS & CLNP 24 Jan 2024
Power Consumption 7 Jan 2024
CompTIA Net+ Retrospective 30 Dec 2023