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windows 11 TPM bypass methods

PXE with UEFI should be easy, right

UEFI PXE setup on Ubuntu simplified using scripts, TFTP, DHCP, NFS, HTTP, GRUB, Syslinux, resolving loader handoffs and configuration pitfalls.

Cleaning up Visual Studio Code Extensions

Cleaning up Visual Studio Code Extensions with a simple script. From my experience it helps to keep the Default profile empty as possible. And set the setting "for new windows use default" – or whatever that setting is.

Leveraging Azure Application Insights with OpenTelemetry: Distributed Tracing Done Right

Learn about migrating .NET applications to Azure's OpenTelemetry-based Application Insights for seamless distributed tracing, simplified observability, and minimal code impact.

Copy a Hyper-V VM with - "The key protector could not be unwrapped. Details are included in the HostGuardianService-Client event log"

take a look at this Hyper-V 2016 Shielded Virtual Machines on Stand-Alone Hosts (altaro.com)

Is your team healthy?

Start with the basics... 1. Do people know what they need to work on? 2. Do they know how it will all fit together? 3. Do they know what success looks like? 4. Do they know the tech needed to do it? 5. Do I (as the SM/team lead/

Azure Stream Analytics Updating a Job using a GitHub Action to stop and start

Effortlessly deploy Azure Stream Analytics jobs with my TypeScript-based GitHub Action and Azure CLI.

Git Git Submodules vs. Git Subtree

Integrate external Git repositories using Git submodules or subtree. This guide covers the steps for both methods and compares their features. Simplify your development workflow and maintain modular codebases by choosing the best approach for your needs, enhancing code reusability and efficiency.

Using regular expressions in Azure Application Gateway Rewrite Rules - extract Certificate Common Name

Microsoft Azure's Application Gateway is a platform service that can offload capabilities, so you don't have to code them for yourself. With proxy software, one capability is the ability to rewrite aspects of the HTTP request – Server, Request, and Response variables. Another feature is Application Gateway

IP Address and Subnetting CIDR Helpful Tools - ipcalc cli

How often are you subnetting, or just trying to get valid sets of CIDR (classless inter-domain routing) addresses? For that there are a bunch of online tools, but the one tool I prefer is the ipcalc command line tool.  The Linux man page is here: ipcalc man | Linux Command Library

Using BlobOutput and EventHubTrigger bindings with System Properties in Java Azure Functions

One of the nice developer features of Azure Functions is the Bindings that provide pre-baked code and logic to help manage events inbound or sending things outbound However, much of the documentation is centered around C# and I found it difficult to find any clear Java examples that use EventHub

Scala Using with OpenTelemetry Span to automatically end the Span Block

Past couple of years, I've been spending quite a bit of time with OpenTelemetry (OTEL). As always, always looking for shortcuts in code. One of the things that is always just annoying is that span.end() just doesn't mesh well with "close" or "

Parse Log output from Hadoop Yarn MapReduce DFSIO Benchmark Utility to CSV Files

Recently I've been spending my time running lots of dfsio benchmark jobs. The DFSIO utility is part of the Hadoop distribution and can be found in jars located in ./hadoop/share/mapred – the JARS have a name like "hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient-*-tests.jar. Output from the tool is a

Generate OpenTelemetry Compliant TraceParent TraceContext Headers using Bash

For the past year or so I've been working with Observability and quite a bit of Open Telemetry.  One of the requirements of triggering a great front-to-back trace is providing a W3C compliant header in the Open Telemetry format. That format detailed in [W3C Trance Context](https://www.