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Archive for October, 2020

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Packer template for Alpine Linux on Hyper-V and Azure; GitHub – tomconte/packer-alpine-azure

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/05

Cool: a Packer template for Alpine Linux on Hyper-V and Azure: [WayBack] GitHub – tomconte/packer-alpine-azure

I like Alpine Linux because it is lightweight and the focus of being very secure, how popular it is in the Docker scene where it replaced Ubuntu and is now the standar package at [Archive.is/A2] library/alpine – Docker Hub and the motto [WayBack] Alpine Linux; Small. Simple. Secure. Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and busybox.

Alpine is not yet out of of the box endorsed by Azure ([WayBack] Endorsed distributions of Linux | Microsoft Docs) so this is a very welcome tool.

From the readme:

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Keeping a local copy of sysinternals current

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/05

From my install script:

mkdir C:\bin
robocopy /mir \\live.sysinternals.com@SSL\DavWWWRoot c:\bin\sysinternals

The \\live.sysinternals.com@SSL\DavWWWRoot comes from following the https://live.sysinternals.com URL in the Windows Explorer: the Windows Explorer automatically translates that to a back-slash based share syntax.

I got at that trick via these links:

–jeroen

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Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “You will likely complete the circle at least twice in your career (;… “

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/02

For anyone in IT: [WayBack] You will likely complete the circle at least twice in your career (;…

–jeroen

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vlans for KPN/xs4all

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/02

Via WayBack Duitse providers mogen klanten geen router meer verplichten – IT Pro – Nieuws – Tweakers:

  • kpn/xs4all: TV on VLAN 4, internet on VLAN 6, VoIP on VLAN 7
  • kpn PPPoE: {macaddress}@direct-adsl, password: kpn
  • xs4all PPPoE: fb7390@xs4all.nl, password; xs4all

–jeroen

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Guidelines for WiFi access points at home/office

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/02

The first post (in Dutch) has quite a few good tips on improving WiFi at your home or office: [WayBack] Router D-Link moet snelheid van 2,1Gbit/s op 5GHz halen – Computer – Nieuws – Tweakers.

There is also a nice explanation of beamforce, where the video below gives a good visual indication on how it works.

–jeroen

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Baseboard Management Controller: bmc-toolbox · GitHub, supporting Dell, HP and SuperMicro

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/01

Cool stuff by booking.com for interrogating Baseboard Management Controller on Dell, HP and SuperMicro equipment using golang.

A bunch of tools to ease BMC management.

Source: bmc-toolbox · GitHub

Via: [WayBack] bmclib talks to the Baseboard Management Controller of your server. It is written in Go, and understands Dell iDRAC, HP C… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

Repositories:

–jeroen

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Go character and string literals: regular (‘), double (“) and back-tick (`) quotes

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/01

For my link archive:

Back-ticks can be very useful for instance when you need to specifying json tags.

References for that:

–jeroen

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sql server – Index Seek vs Index Scan – Database Administrators Stack Exchange

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/01

Below some links I used to get a feel for the different query execution plan entries I observed.

The first one was the most important for me, so hopefully this post helps bump it up in the search engine results.

–jeroen

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