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February 29, 2020 2:06 am By Travis Leave a Comment

VMware Inter-VM Transparent Page Sharing

VMWare: Enable Inter-VM Transparent Page Sharing (v5.x - 6.7) If you're using VMWare ESXi in a non-production environment, such as a home lab, consider changing the advanced host setting `Mem. ShareForceSalting` to "0" in order to encourage likeliness of the hypervisor to increase the inter-VM page sharing pool. After doing so, the PSHARE on my host increased from about 3GB to 4.5GB with 3767MB savings (esxtop then press m). PMEM /MB: 32672 total: 1636 vmk,28639 other, 2397 free VMKMEM/MB: … [Read more...]

February 10, 2020 4:43 pm By Travis Leave a Comment

Best Free Public Usenet News Server for NZBGet

If you are looking for the best free public usenet news server in active operation then you are in luck. Recently I have been delving into the wonderful world of Usenet, and with that comes NZBGet and the like. You will need to register an account, but once you do it really is 100% free without the normal monthly billing. You do not need to enter a credit card. The best free Usenet news service that I could find is called XS Usenet. Once you've signed up, the news server hostname you will put … [Read more...]

October 26, 2019 3:31 pm By Travis 1 Comment

Bittorrent IP Blocklists

In addition to using a VPN service, as an extra precaution I've been using the blocklist feature of my Bittorrent clients and have several available for easy D/L. So if you're interested, take your pick. I use the first one personally, biglist.p2p. Some clients allow the actual URL in the textbox, others need you to download and specify the file system … [Read more...]

June 7, 2019 3:44 pm By Travis Leave a Comment

FreeNAS Error Creating Pool

command '('gpart', 'create', '-s', 'gpt', '/dev/da8')' returned non-zero exit status 1. If you get this error while trying to create a pool in FreeNAS-11.2-U4.1 or wiping a disk, there seems to be an issue wiping the referenced hard disk (ie. /dev/da8). I don't have a root cause analysis at this time however `sysctl`shell is able to set a flag to ignore the error. I suspect it's either detecting bad sectors on the physical disk, or a rogue preexisting RAID config, and I have both. Deciding to … [Read more...]

April 23, 2019 7:45 pm By Travis Leave a Comment

Change Grub Default Boot Entry on Linux Mint

I'm dual booting Windows and Linux Mint on my laptop. The grub default is to boot into Linux Mint, however many people will probably want to either boot the last boot entry saved, or boot into Windows instead. My preference is for grub to select by default and boot into whatever boot entry was selected last. This makes it easy if I want to just hit reboot and know that I'm going to load into the last used operating system. Boot into last booted Operating System: FYI: This won't work if your … [Read more...]

April 21, 2019 8:14 am By Travis Leave a Comment

How to Reset Secure Channel On Active Directory Domain Controller

When you're a little too careless about virtualizing your domain controllers, cloning, migrating, backing up and restoring, returning from vacation and deciding that having a single box holding all the FSMO roles is dangerous to the network, you will inevitably find yourself in the same situation I've found myself in. A tell-tale sign that you need to manually reset the KDC secure channel on your problematic domain controller can be diagnosed with the following symptoms: Any mechanism … [Read more...]