Friday, August 31, 2018

The latest version of OpenStack (Rocky) can leverage bare metal servers directly

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The source link from ZDNet: https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-openstack-cloud-release-embraces-bare-metal/ Now you can provision bare me...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

ServiceNow - requiring input from a user completing a task from workflow

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Background A normal part of workflow is requiring some additional information from someone involved in the workflow. A lot of information ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

The Lenovo P1 is a thin-and-light laptop with a Xeon and 64GB RAM that will be available by September

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https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/8/13/17682992/lenovo-thinkpad-thin-laptop-work-travel Additionally, they've got a P72 tha...
Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Processing JSON in automation scripts in IBM Control Desk 7.6

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Background You may need to deal with JSON-formatted data in an automation script, and it can be a little tricky. I've written this pos...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

It only takes an hour to get a test BigFix environment installed and working

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The only caveat (which they've maybe fixed now) is that the SQL Server that's bundled with the BigFix Eval is borked, so you first n...
Monday, July 9, 2018

How to change the BigFix WebUI database userid and password

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I recently installed the BigFix WebUI with the wrong password and needed to fix it. I found the encrypted information in the db_config.json ...
Friday, July 6, 2018

For business use, don't buy a laptop with higher than 1080p resolution

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The high resolution screens available today are amazing for graphics and gaming, but absolutely horrible if you need to use any traditional/...