RobbieCrash.me

Things I Wish I'd Done While Writing PowerShell

About once a year I work from home like a scumbag for a week to get all my big code re-writes done. Throughout the year I write fixes, add new scripts and functions as needed, and then clean everything up, document things properly, add comments, get everything actually working in this week.

scuba diving

On SCUBA Diving, Panicking and Stupid Mistakes

Last January I went on a week long live-aboard cruise with All Star Liveaboards and had a great time doing it. Since it was going to be a fantastic week of diving in

American Nightmare - Self Titled 2018 Review - A Haiku

This record sucks ass Seriously, it's fucking terrible Jesus Christ, know your audience just play the hits

Microsoft

Step by Step Hyper-V 2016 Cluster with Dell PowerVault MD3420 SAS

After years running at 95% RAM 30% idle CPU, I finally got approval to implement a Hyper-V cluster at work. With no money for IT, it had to be done on the cheap. This meant an entry-level SAN, no 10GBe, and existing gear where possible.

Hyper-V 2016 Cluster with Dell PowerVault MD3420 SAS – Part 2 Cluster Configuration

After configuring the SAN, the next thing you're going to need to do is get Windows fully configured and joined to the cluster. The cluster configuration portion of things is actually relatively simple,

Hyper-V 2016 Cluster with Dell PowerVault MD3420 SAS - Part 1 SAN Config

After installing the PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager (MDSM) and rebooting you should be able to launch it and proceed. Click Add Storage Arrays from the top of the list and go through

Sophos UTM 9: Up2Date failed: Not enough free space

After somehow* losing the VHD for my Sophos UTM install on my home Hyper-V server I needed to reinstall and restore my config from backup. However, the only installation media I had downloaded

maintenance

Nginx 502 Bad Gateway after Ubuntu Upgrade

So I finally tracked down about 6 different errors that were keeping my VPS running Ubuntu 14.04 instead of something more recent. One of the main errors was due to a system

It's 2017 and ZFS STILL doesn't have an API?!?

Why is it that, in 2017, with ZFS, --routinely called the most advanced file system in the world-- I'm having to use awk to parse the status output from its built-in tools? Why

M83 - Junk

M83 put out a new record, and called it Junk. I agree.

Grave Pleasures - Dreamcrash review

So, Beastmilk became Grave Pleasures and stopped putting out good records.

Bolt Thrower

On Bolt Thrower, Faith No More and the quasi-sexual response to music.

This year has been an amazing year for shows for me. I got to see Government Warning again for the first time in 7 years, and I finally got to see two bands

Top 10 records of 2014

A bunch of these aren’t from 2014, but I got into them/heard them for the first time this year so it counts. Including tripping balls music because, fuck my punk friends;

PowerShell

File server permissions change auditing.

We've had some issues with admins improperly applying permissions in the past, and in recent times as well. Because of this, we've decided that maintaining permissions change logging to determine who it is

ZFS on Linux NFS shares lost at reboot

On several occasions NFS has inexplicably stopped working with my ZFS shares under ZFS on Linux on Ubuntu Server 14.04x64. It seemed to happen every reboot, after checking the sharenfs property on

PowerShell

Powershell Script to Audit Service Accounts Across All Servers

Today I got a half-joke request from a colleague to write script to help him audit service accounts across a multitude of servers. Initially, I didn't see the use of writing a full

Beastmilk - Climax

A few weeks ago someone told me to check out Climax by Beastmilk, and I was mister cool guy I'll check it out some time whatever. A friend reminded me to check it

Exchange 2013

Exchange 2013 Management tools on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10

Trying to install Exchange 2013 Management tools on Windows 8.1 is likely to present some problems by default. Unless you've already installed the IIS components required by Exchange you'll get an extremely

Online File Server Archiving with PowerShell

Our fileserver was running low on space and still growing at about 80GB/month. Rather than throw more storage at it, which would only buy us another few months before we had to

My Top 10 records of 2013

A bunch of these aren't from 2013, but I got into them/heard them for the first time this year so it counts. I'm not including the tripping balls music I like on

Exchange 2007

Exchange 2013 2007 CoExistence Frozen Transport Queues

We're in the middle of an Exchange 2007 to 2013 On Premise migration, and we haven't been having the best time. After a major mail crash in 2011, every time we've attempted to

My worst night.

The title is melodramatic, I realize this, but it's true. I've done bad things, had worse things done to me, and had nights that were a lot harder to deal with at the

Full home audio without iTunes

I want to have speakers in every room of my house, and I want them to be able to play the same stations, or different ones. Basically I want to have digital FM

Kvelertak - Meir review

When my friend told me about this, I was so stoked. Now that I've heard the album, I'm not. tl;dr I like the record, but it's not great. I'm actually not even

dcpromo fails with An error with no description has occurred on Server 2008R2

While working to get rid of all our 2003/2008 DCs to get our AD to a 2012 Native level I came across one 2008 DC that was extremely difficult to rid ourselves