All posts by 17% Mister Wizard
Why Is Devuan Important?
You may be asking yourself, what the hell is Devuan. If that is the case please see our article Devuan Server. To briefly summarize, Devuan is a fork of the Debian Linux distribution. Its stated first goal is to provide a distribution without the controversial Systemd installed by default. Whether you are a fan of… Read More
Convert OVA to VHDX for Hyper-V
If you have found yourself in a scenario where you would like to use Hyper-V as a test environment for your virtual machines, but you are using VMware ESXi Server,Citrix XenServer or VirtualBox then this tutorial is for you. In this article we are going to detail the steps required to convert an OVA export… Read More
Devuan Server
Devuan is a fork of the Debian Linux distribution. Devuan is spelled in Italian and it is pronounced just like “DevOne” in English. Its stated first goal is to provide a distribution without the controversial systemd installed by default. The Debian 8 Jessie release has caused polarization amongst Debian developers and users, due to the… Read More
Modify WinPE Images Using DISM
If you read our previous article PXE Boot Almost Any ISO Image, then you will note in that article we detailed the steps to boot Macrium Reflect 6.0 over PXE. While it was not discussed in that article, Macrium Reflect Rescue media is WinPE based. The important takeaway here is that you are not stuck… Read More
PXE Boot Almost Any ISO Image
Over the past few years with the advent of low cost USB drives, CD Drives have basically become legacy devices. For that matter, most new computers don’t even have one. With that said, there are lots of tools we typically use that boot from CD and yes these tools can be made to boot from… Read More
Jenkins CI/CD Application
Jenkins is an award-winning, cross-platform, continuous integration and continuous delivery application that increases your productivity. Use Jenkins to build and test your software projects continuously making it easier for developers to integrate changes to the project, and making it easier for users to obtain a fresh build. It also allows you to continuously deliver your… Read More
OpenVPN Map Drives At Login
Every so often I have clients requesting that OpenVPN GUI automatically map networked drives once connected to their OpenVPN Server. Fortunately OpenVPN GUI has built in support for running batch scripts once Connected or Disconnected. Note this tutorial is for the Windows based OpenVPN GUI client only. So without further ado, here we go. The… Read More
Custom Spark IM Installer (WiX)
If you are using the Spark IM Client in your enterprise and would like to manage updates with a software install GPO, then this article is for you. This process was created in lieu of building a custom branded Spark IM client. If you would like to build a custom client, please see Build a… Read More
Subversion 1.9 on Debian Jessie
If you would like to use the latest version of Subversion and prefer using the package manager like me, the following steps below will enable you to install Subversion 1.9 from the WanDisco repositories. At the time of writing, the latest version in the WanDisco repo is 1.9.2. It is important to note that the… Read More