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The World’s Longest Console Cable – Smartflex Router Series
As everybody knows, console cables and their corresponding interfaces are a scourge on a network administrators existence. They are always too short, COM-ports get renumbered, Baud-rates are unknown, etc. By their very nature, you also have to be physically present… Read More ›
Time Servers – GPS Antenna Placement
If you haven’t noticed already, I have something of a thing for everything time synchronization related. “Proper”, exact time is something that I find important, it’s probably OCD related. As a part of my day job, I manage a… Read More ›
How to Stack HPE/Aruba 2920 Switches – HP Networking Series Part 4
The 2920 series switches from HPE/Aruba has a special feature that no other switches in the old ProCurve/E-Series line-up has; dedicated stacking interfaces. On other HPE switches, stacking merely facilitates “simplified” management, by allowing you to manage any switch in the… Read More ›
FreeNAS: Migrating a RAID-Z vdev to a RAID-Z2
For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been playing around with a FreeBSD distribution that’s quite interesting, FreeNAS. FreeNAS basically turns any old box you have lying around into a NAS, though you should definitely not run it on any… Read More ›
Problems installing Windows 10 from scratch?
I recently had to do a reinstall of Windows 10 on a 3 year old Lenovo desktop. I previously updated the machine from Windows 7 to Windows 10, and shortly thereafter the hard drive started to give intermittent issues, so… Read More ›
VMware Client Integration Plug-In not Working in Chrome? – Round 2
Now that Google has released version 45 of Chrome the NPAPI enable-trick that I showed you a couple of months ago has finally stopped working. The good news is that VMware has fixed the whole issue in vCenter 6.0 Update… Read More ›
Getting Audio Levels right in Adobe Premiere Pro CC for Youtube
This past week I had a gig to photograph some promotion shots for a local band here in Helsinki. Their gig was quite long, and I had to wait until the very end to do some arranged shots, so I… Read More ›
VMware Client Integration Plug-In not Working in Chrome?
If you have experienced a problem with the vSphere Client Integration Plug-In not working even though it’s installed in Google Chrome, you’re not alone. Seems like Google decided to disable NPAPI (Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface) from version 42 of… Read More ›
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