I was recently setting up a server on Microsoft's Azure platform from work and by default Azure pick I high port number¹ and NAT it to port 3389 for RDP. I must have spent a good hour trying to work out why I couldn't connect to the server when …

Recently I watched a video by Tom Scott about a Museum of Failure. It's a fascinating video and well worth watching.

Often there is a lot of emphases put on learning from the great successes, seeing what successful people or projects have done and trying to emulate them. But learning …

Yesterday I was at a CIO forum and one of the presentations was about Enterprise Architecture Planning within the West Australian State Government. They were pushing the idea that government departments should work together as a single organisation rather than as separate and sometimes competing entities and they used the …

This is another note to self, it is very simple and I've done this a few times before but every single time I need to go back to the documentation.

In this example I'll install heimdall which is used for flashing new firmware onto samsung phones.

First go to https …

We have a setup at work where we have two Hyper-V servers in a failover cluster mounting a VHD on a NAS¹ as an iSCSI target running a number of VMs that get backed up by Veeam.

Recently we had a hard drive failure in the NAS. The NAS …