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By Tom Fenton
With his home network a mess, Tom Fenton explores how to bring some sense of order using readily available, easy-to-use, free tools.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton waited 23 years for Linux software installation CLI functionality to come to Windows.
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By Tom Fenton
Concluding his series, Tom Fenton provides step-by-step instructions for creating a VM from different Linux distributions and discusses issues with running Windows on it.
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By Tom Fenton
In part three of his series, Tom Fenton configures ESXi to use an NTP server for precise time synchronization, enables SSH access, and adds a datastore for storing and running virtual machines.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton walks through the process of installing and using ESXi 8 on the Raspberry Pi 5, providing a hands-on opportunity to explore VMware virtualization technology or to run ARM-based VMs.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton, who literally wrote the book about ESXi 7 on a Raspberry Pi 4 hobbyist computer, now tackles ESXi 8 on a Pi 5, the new "computer in a keyboard."
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton concludes his exploration of Flatcar Container Linux, recently accepted as an incubating project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
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By Tom Fenton
After it catches his attention at KubeCon, where it was accepted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation as an incubating project, Tom Fenton tackles deployment.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton discovers a plugin that has CSV support and uses it to quickly create a bar chart.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom provides an overview of Grafana and how to use it, including the Grafana plugin that lets you use CSV data sources to create a dashboard.
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By Tom Fenton
Although Workstation has a GUI interface that is easy to use and very powerful, sometimes it is more useful to perform an action using the command line or a script than using a GUI.
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AWS expert Brien Posey demonstrates how to automate EC2 instance customization by using PowerShell to simplify post-deployment tasks.
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A new tool called the IAM Access Analyzer can help you to find IAM resources with unused permissions, IAM settings that allow for external access, and more.
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Brient Posey recommends important tasks before experimenting with the Migration Hub.
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Brien Posey provides step-by-step instructions for creating a firewall to prevent or allow specific DNS queries.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom tests the desktop hypervisor recently made free for personal use to students, hobbyists and casual users who want to run multiple OSes on a single computer.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom steps through the process of downloading, installing and licensing Workstation Pro 17 on his personal laptop.
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Brien Posey explains how to use the AWS Tools for PowerShell to make AWS services accessible through the PowerShell interface, providing extra capabilities.
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The process of setting up a logon notification is more involved than what you might reasonably expect, but Brien shows the way.
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By Tom Fenton
After a series of articles on the enterprise-grade Tailscale VPN whose free version suits his needs just fine, Tom demonstrate his quick-and-easy process of utilizing the VPN on a home network-attached storage setup.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom continues to be impressed by Tailscale, which saved his skiiing trip when a co-worker urgently needed some files from his home server.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom and a friend come up with an exciting proposition: Could the Moonstone NUC replace one of the Dell R630 servers in his lab rack?
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By Tom Fenton
Tom didn't think remotely accessing local computing resources would be as easy as advertised, but it was: "It just worked out of the box."
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By Tom Fenton
Tom walks through the installation and use of "a must-have tool" that can save desktop administrators in Dell shops a lot of time and aggravation.
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A new testing tool for AWS Backup allows you to create a restore testing plan that you can use for the purposes of validating your backups.