14 Aug
2023

Temperatures Rising

I recently purchased an Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti from the second hand market. The seller assured me the card was in great working order, and that temperatures were good in the small case he was testing it in before shipping. I trusted the seller, and skipped my own due diligence. Per MSI Afterburner and sources […]

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15 Jul
2023

In need of rest

I recently had some odd issues with Windows 10 Pro (22H2) at home. For the longest while, I had working sleep. Then, all of a sudden, I was deprived of this essential talent. After a career in IT spanning three decades, I still sometimes have to stop and be amazed at how simple things manage […]

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27 Nov
2022

Auditory woes

My son recently had an interesting issue on his computer. He had recently switched out graphics cards (very proud of him!) and in the process there were some driver issues. Even though he went from Nvidia to Nvidia, there were bluescreens and it took a few reboots for him to get back to the desktop […]

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28 Oct
2020

DRS vCLS wtf?

vSphere 7 update 1 presents – the vCLS (vSphere Clustering Services) appliances which take care of, well, clustering services. They are now an integral bit of how DRS (and HA) works, if turned on. The catch seems to be disconnecting these functions from vCenter, where this functionality was previously integrated. As smarter people (namely Niels […]

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25 Oct
2020

VCSA 7 u1 update woes

“Don’t be hasty master Meriadoc” I was being hasty while updating my own lab vCenter Appliance to 7.0 U1a patch. I started the process from the VCSA gui as usual, but the download was interrupted at 3% (perhaps from a fault of my own), leaving the install in a messed up state. Refreshing the gui […]

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7 May
2020

VSS to DVS – a tale

Recently, me and a colleague were working on upgrading parts of a VMWare infrastructure from a mostly 1 Gbps network configuration to a mostly 10 Gbps network configuration as well as adding a 10G vMotion network. Cabling was already done at this point, but I’ll list the configuration below for posterity: 4 hosts Each host […]

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15 May
2014

Loads of stuffs

So between February and now, the period of time which will be known as the big lazy, is now over. *golf clap* A lot has happened. I went to Las Vegas for EMC World 2014. Came back. Have loads of new gadgets and things to talk about. I’ll list a few just to get started: […]

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1 Sep
2013

History repeating

This Syria bullshit? It’s bullshit right? “Obama asks Congress to approve attacks!”. Based on what, I ask? Oh, we don’t need to worry about that. Russia is fuming, because they feel they are being shat on. And I believe they are. IF, and that’s a very strong if, the US has the proof they ‘need’ […]

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