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ESX boot hangs – stuck on Initializing IOV
I got the following error when booting ESXi 6 from a USB key but I believe the same problem is possible for other scenarios. So what I am talking about is you start ESX and it does the initial phase with the progress line along the top and then it floods the screen with yellow… read more…
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Port-based VLAN on managed switch to ESXi
This exercise is driven by a need to connect my MythTV’s 3 HDHomeRun network tuners to my MythTV server. This is filled with various challenges:My MythTV runs in a VM on a VMware ESXi 6.0 server The ESXi server only has one network adaptor, NIC. Experience has shown that the HDHomeRuns are more reliable on… read more…
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Clear cache for add-ons in Kodi
I have been doing some work with MythTV and the Kodi MythTV addon. This has been around upgrading my MythTV from 0.25 to 0.29 which is quite a steps and I have had to go back and forth between versions. One of the biggest challenges is that I am using Kodi on Windows 10 as… read more…
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Cannot mount block device : Error mounting CentOS share on OMV
I needed to have a scheduled job to copy files from my MythTV server to my Open Media Vault server, but when I tried to mount the Samba/SMB share I got the following: root@nas2:/mnt# mount -t cifs \\\\192.168.202.44\\public /mnt/192.168.202.44 -o domain=CANTABRIAN,user=backup,pass=mypassword mount: block device \\192.168.202.44\public is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: cannot mount block device \\192.168.202.44\public… read more…
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Spark Cricket League 2020: Inventory Busters vs CRM & Crick Baazingers
What a shame that we only got to the quarters before Covid-19 stopped play. In the qualifiers The Inventory Busters(89/4) won over CRM(88/9) and P2P Tigers(114/6) won over Data Mafia(87/7) so it would have been an interesting paring in the finals of Inventory Busters against P2P Tigers. This would have been a good game and remember… read more…
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Spark Sport – F1 Hyper Stimulator
Friday Spark Sport brought in the folks from Hyper Stimulator and put down a couple of their cars in the atrium at Spark City and let us have a go and boy was it fun. I really enjoyed it and those that tried had a great time also. In our case we were driving a… read more…
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Spark Cricket League 2020
Friday 14th the Inventory Busters first match with P2P Tigers in Victoria Park Auckland [show_slider name=”spark-cricket-league-2020″] read more…
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Archiving a CD using Exact Audio Copy (EAC)
****** NOTE this post is in a VERY incomplete state, at some point I will fix it ******************* Overview ======== This describes the steps I follow when ripping a CD using EAC running on a Windows XP virtual machine. Quick Steps =========== Assuming EAC is configured and you have a configured drive the short… read more…
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