VertigoRay

Some things are better left alone. Others need to be figured out ... Figure IT out!

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Outdoor Floodlight

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Corn Lamp E26/E39

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BR Lamp 40D

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BR Lamp 30D

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BR Lamp 20D

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STEEMIT: Follow me and get paid to be social.

I’m going to start linking my blog articles in STEEMIT. Follow me and get paid to be social.

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PowerShell: Get-FileEncoding

I needed to create a pull the file encoding out a file. This proved to be dificult since most encodings don't require a blog. Here's some good information that I found on the subject.

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PowerShell: Write-Json

I needed to write a Json object in human readable format. This is my solution to this problem.

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ConfigMgr: Woes of Supersedence

I was tasked with getting an Office 2013 upgrade set-up for early adopters and forced on our deadline. After I built and tested the application, I marked O2013 as superseding O2010 and made O2013 available. The plan was to make another Required deployment for our deadline.  O2013 unexpectedly installed on several machines that night.

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Synergy - Send CTRL+ALT+DEL to Client

I'm mostly posting this here for ease of finding it in the future.  It seems like most people prefer to disable CTRL+ALT+DEL instead of actually allowing the Synergy service to initiate the Secure Attention Sequence (aka: CTRL+ALT+DEL).

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Salt Stack - salt-key-accepter

During my adventures with Salt Stack, I wanted to accept keys automatically on the master.  However, I wanted to do this more intelligently than just accepting all of them.

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I'm internet famous! :)

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THIS! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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POSH - Sig

Geeky signature line I stumbled across and modified for myself …

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Salt Stack - salt-grains-environment

During my adventures with Salt Stack, I was having issues wrapping my head around how I was going to control what environment my dev machines were in.  I even thought that pillar[environment] returning None was a bug.  Turns out, I just needed to think more about what process would work in my environment.

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GPO - Not Applying User Policy

We spent the day working on an issue where our User Policy wasn't being applied to the User AD Object logging into a computer. We confirmed the usual steps:

User AD Object is in the OU where the GPO is applied.

GPO is enabled.

Security Filtering is not filtering out the User AD Object.

The policy was simply not showing up on the computer (would not display with `gpresult /r`).  After some more digging, we found the issue:

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Salt Stack - salt-osx-dsconfigad

During my adventures with Salt Stack, I wanted a more robust way to configure and maintain the AD Bind configuration on my Apple computers.

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