Tutorials I have written up, or mashed up from other sources.
If you would like to host static content, Amazon AWS is one of the easiest methods to do so with a very low cost of entry. Creating a S3 bucket is the first step towards doing so. Sign into the AWS Console Under “Find Services” type in “S3” and select S3. Next, click on “Create Bucket”. For the purpose of this tutorial I will call the bucket “tutorial-001-sj”. I have also changed the region to the one nearest me, this…
I was looking at getting larger drives for a small NAS unit I was building out. It is a small 4 Bay Netgear NAS that I inherited. Currently I have a bunch of 2TB drives laying around from a previous project a few years back. These have served me well, but some have a manufactured date of 2011! Time flys, its 2019 now! One of the considerations I was looking at was getting the best value I could for some…
A year ago I posted about an application to help you learn the Arabic alphabet called Write It! Arabic. It has worked great, I spent probably 15-30 minutes a week playing with it over the course of the last year and I can say I have learned all of the letters. I still do not know 100% what I am reading when I see signs in this part of the world, but I am able to sort of sound things…
One in a while I get a CSV and have to turn it into an excel document, its pretty easy but not something I do every day. From time to time a friend will ask me how I have done this. The below is a tutorial on just that! Open Excel and create a new workbook Go to Data and select “From Text/CSV”. Locate the CSV and click Import. This could take a few seconds depending on how large this…
When you stand up an instance on AWS you are presented with a PEM file as the key for SSH into your newly stood up instance. This doesn’t directly work in Putty when you want to connect, but converting it into a format that works with Putty is very easy. If you only have Putty, you will need to also get PuTTYgen. I personally just got the whole installer, it is available here. Once obtained and installed, open up PuTTYgen….
This weekend I ran into a trivial issue I usually ignore since I will use putty for virtually everything on a Linux virtual machine. I fired up a VM I downloaded and the resolution was 800×600 by default, which compared to the 4k landscape I have available was a little less than ideal. It was a Debian based OS, so the fix was pretty simple. Fire up the terminal and type in “xrandr”, in my case the display was “Virtual1”,…
This segment on my blog will be part of a large series on using the Google Maps API. Part one will cover rendering a basic map with a few places I have been to in 2018. First thing is first, a lot of information on the API can be found here. Where to start was the question, well I needed a list of all of the countries in the world along with their Latitude (LAT) and Longitude (LONG). I was…
VMWare has an elaborate guide to installing vCenter Server Appliance 6.7, for a small lab setting I have condensed this into a few pages containing mostly pictures. Ensure you meet the minimum system requirements; 2 vCPUs, 10GB of memory, and 250GB of disk space. I have thin provisioned the disks in this tutorial and installed on a 120GB disk I picked up off of Amazon on sale. Step 1: Load the autoinstaller Step 2: Read over the EULA, check the…
I normally stick to servers but in dealing with Cisco UCS Chassis I have found myself in a position to where I have to learn more and more on the network side as the line seems to be getting blurred with some of the devices attached. This is a good thing for me as I can make more gradual steps to learn more. I found myself in a position where I had to change the UCS virtual IP address, here…
So you fire up the Cisco UCS Emulator and notice that you can’t add or remove the Fabric Interconnect. It’s a pretty quick fix to change it, but it requires that the UCS Emulator reboots when it’s done. The first step is to mouse over the cog icon and click on Change Fabric Interconnect. It will load a page that looks like the following, the emulator comes with a couple of choices you can choose from. Once you click submit…