A reusable Robocopy script I needed a simple PowerShell script that would keep a bunch of folders in sync. So I wrote this reusable script. Parameters are defined in the script itself, and it takes source and destination information from an input CSV file. # ========================================================================================= # Reusable Robocopy script that takes folder source and destination pairs
VPS Benchmarks How do the various VPS vendors compare? I decided to find out. I'm going to run a series of benchmark tests on VPSes provided by a bunch of different cloud providers. Also included are results from my Raspberry Pi 3. I will update this post as I run more benchmark
Transferring images from DPP to 64-bit Photoshop My image processing workflow involves opening RAW images in Canon DPP (Digital Photo Professional), making the necessary adjustments to the RAW file, and then transferring them to Adobe Photoshop using the Tools > Transfer to Photoshop (Alt+P) option in DPP for further processing. Because DPP is a 32-bit application,
File sharing using SMB on Linux Mint A quick how-to on file sharing using SMB on Linux Mint A friend of mine was having trouble setting up file sharing between his two Linux workstations. So I decided to give it a go myself and do a quick how-to guide. He runs Mint on one of his machines
Download and Install Patches for ESXi Just a quick guide on how to download and install patches for VMware ESXi (free version). Go to the VMware Patch Portal, select the product and version to view and download available patches: https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal In this example, I'm going from ESXi 5.5.0
Citrix Receiver 4.1 Installation The default installation routine of Receiver does not give you a 'Custom' install option which makes it quite difficult to select all the bits you need. This is the command line I use for installing Receiver that works pretty well for me. Note: The below command must be run on
Filter Published Applications on a XenApp Services (PNAgent) Site Filtering the list of published applications on a XenApp Web Site is something we've done for many years now. Recently we had a request to set up a XenApp Services Site where the list of displayed applications is controlled by an "allowed" list. There is a Citrix Knowledge
Session Reliability (CGP) Issue For some reason, Session Reliability was not working on a bunch of 32-bit Windows Server 2003 servers running XenApp 5.0. When you tried to connect to a published desktop with Session Reliability switched on, you would get a generic 1030 error. The 'Citrix XTE Server' service was started and
SSL Issue on Windows Server 2003 Hit an interesting problem recently where certain SSL enabled websites would not load up on a Windows Server 2003 published desktop. The browser used was Internet Explorer 8 and it didn't give us a meaningful error message. Just a generic and thoroughly unhelpful "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage&
Upload images larger than 1 MB After installing Ghost, I discovered that I couldn't upload images larger than 1 MB. The problem is not with Ghost itself but with a configuration setting on the reverse proxy Nginx. To fix this, edit nginx.conf. sudo nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf Add this line to the http section.
