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CIRA (Canadian Internet Registration Authority) has recently launched a new DNS service called the “Canadian Shield” which is basically a DNS service similar to OpenDNS or Cloudflares 1.1.1.1 for Canadians, by Canadians. CIRA offers three levels of protection depending on how safe you want to be: Private: DNS resolution service that keeps your DNS data … Read more
In a previous post I talked about installing a Quadro P620 into my ESXi host so I could attach it to my Plex VM. This worked out great except my Veeam backups started failing. There is a limitation in VMware vSphere where you can’t take a Snapshot of a VM with a PCIe device passed … Read more
I currently run Plex in a CentOS 7 VM (on top of vSphere 6.7) with two 2vCPUs and 2GB of vRAM. When I needed to transcode video to sync it to a mobile device for a trip the process takes a while and consumes a lot of CPU on the VM. I could just add … Read more
Update 2021-01-25: There is now a Part 3 to this project For those of you who read my Part 1 of this project you’ll remember I said I’d try installing a better CPU heat sink once I had some cash. Well I did and it didn’t work. This post will hopefully save someone 1.5 hours … Read more
It’s read-only Friday so I decided to perform a offline audit of our Active Directory passwords. I found this great tool: https://gitlab.com/chelmzy/five-minute-password-audit which in turn is a fork of this tool: https://github.com/DGG-IT/Match-ADHashes What I’m going to write here is mostly a repeat of these two Gitrepos with a few tweaks and corrections. To perform this … Read more