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2018

Finding a string across an entire filesystem in Linux
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After coming back from a extra long holiday and noting that I hadn’t received any monitor tweets in a while from my Raspberry Pi, I thought it was a good time to login and make sure everything was running as before.
Forcing a firmware update on a Chromecast with Powershell
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You probably took one look at the title and thought “what in the blue hell is this person on about?
Keeping your Pi-Hole container fresh with Cron
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In our previous entry, we unleashed the awesome that is Pi-Hole inside a Docker container to make all the devices in our network ad-free when browsing the internet.
Running Pi-hole on Docker
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The other day I had a friend ask advice on what seemed to be a DNS related issue.

2017

Legacy BIOS and UEFI PXE coexistence
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More and more enterprises are moving towards the modern UEFI devices in their fleet, whether that be desktops, laptops or convertibles.
Cleaning up in Docker - Part 1
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So you have read how to get Docker on your Raspberry Pi, had a play around and now you have containers, images and volumes running wild.
Running Containers with Docker on Raspberry Pi
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In the previous blog post, we setup and configured Docker on the Raspberry Pi.
Setup Docker on Raspberry Pi
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How to restore a tree of objects from the Active Directory Recycle Bin
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In a previous post I detailed how to setup the Active Directory Recycle Bin and restore single deleted objects back in your Active Directory.
Export users of one AD group and import to another
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It’s quite common for members of one Active Directory security group to be replicate in another.