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Logging in to Multiple vCenter Servers at Once with PowerCLI

Sep 16, 2020 · 2 min read · vmware powercli ·

I manage a large VMware environment spanning several individual vCenters, and I often need to run PowerCLI queries across the entire environment. I waste valuable seconds running Connect-ViServer and logging in for each and every vCenter I need to talk to. Wouldn't it be great if I could just log into all of them at …

3D Modeling and Printing on Chrome OS

Sep 14, 2020 · 4 min read · linux chromeos crostini 3dprinting ·

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I've got an Ender 3 Pro 3D printer, a Raspberry Pi 4, and a Pixel Slate. I can't interface directly with the printer over USB from the Slate (plus having to be physically connected to things is like so lame) so I installed Octoprint on the Raspberry Pi and connected that to the printer's USB interface. This gave me a …

Finding the most popular IPs in a log file

Sep 13, 2020 · 3 min read · linux shell logs regex ·

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I found myself with a sudden need for parsing a Linux server's logs to figure out which host(s) had been slamming it with an unexpected burst of traffic. Sure, there are proper log analysis tools out there which would undoubtedly make short work of this but none of those were installed on this hardened system. So this …

BitWarden password manager self-hosted on free Google Cloud instance

Sep 26, 2018 · Mar 6, 2022 · 6 min read · docker linux cloud gcp security ·

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BitWarden password manager self-hosted on free Google Cloud instance

A friend mentioned the BitWarden password manager to me yesterday and I had to confess that I'd never heard of it. I started researching it and was impressed by what I found: it's free, open-source, feature-packed, fully cross-platform (with Windows/Linux/MacOS desktop clients, Android/iOS mobile apps, and browser …