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Low voltage LED Christmas lights extension
So you want to setup some outdoor Christmas LED lights around your home and garden, and you tried solar for a while, but realized they really aren’t very powerful, and don’t last very long, so you figured you need to use “low voltage” lights. Low voltage lights have a mini power adapter and a long… read more…
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Enabling copy and paste in ESX VM
I really wanted copy and paste between Windows and VMs running in ESX. This is what finally worked for me. Note this was for ESX “6.0.0 Update 3 (Build 5050593)”. I was using VMware Workstation 16 Player “16.1.2 build-17966106” on Windows 10. Also, this only worked when I ran “Console | Launch remote console”. It… read more…
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OKD 4.5 small cluster on ESX
I needed to create a small OKD/OpenShift setup so I could play around with it and get comfortable with using it, developing on it and administering it. Additionally I wanted it to be somewhat similar in setup to what we do at work. This was originally based on the excellent post by Craig Robinson, but… read more…
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MythTV add-on for Kodi hangs at 0%
Around about the 26/3/2021 the Windows 10 MythTV add-on for Kodi stopped working. I had seen similar problem before, Kodi MythTV addon fails to load except this time it didn’t load at all whereas previously it was stuck loading at around 40%. This time around it didn’t seem to connect to the MythTV server at… read more…
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OMV fix accidentally split mirror RAID
I had setup a mirrored RAID in OMV and then the PC hardware, not the disks I should emphasize, failed and I needed to move the system disk and two data disks to other hardware. Because I decided to test each disk separately this broke the mirror and in OMV I now saw: Work off… read more…
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MythTV on CentOS 7
MythTV is the best Open Source media recording application MythTV Wiki This article follows the path I traveled when setting up a new MythTV server running on CentOS 7. The setup I followed in setting up the host is detailed firstly in CentOS 7 base VM for WordPress and MythTV then in CentOS 7 VM for WordPress… read more…
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Installing Tomcat 9 behind Apache on CentOS 7
There are a number of posts on how to do this. I have created this post mostly for my own records so I know I will continue to have a record of what I have done. Setup Ensure you have at least JDK 8, I have the RPM “java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64” installed by this point. Create a… read more…
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Rename a CentOS 7 host
Simple and official way to rename a host: hostnamectl set-hostname centos7-base.cantabrian Then restart the host. You should find the new name is reflected in the file: /etc/hostname Note: You only need to edit “/etc/resolv.conf ” if you are changing workgroups or domains. Get hostname details You can use hostnamectl to get other details by running:… read more…
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