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Dynamically Deploy Telegraf and Windows Monitoring Configurations with PowerShell
Technology & Homelab

Dynamically Deploy Telegraf and Windows Monitoring Configurations with PowerShell

This is a Telegraf deployment script for Windows Server environments.

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Invite users to a Ghost blog without sending an email
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Invite users to a Ghost blog without sending an email

The Ghost platform makes it all but impossible to add new users if you don't have a mail server configured. In this post, I will show you how to work around this and

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Deleting Devices and Entities in Home Assistant
Technology & Homelab

Deleting Devices and Entities in Home Assistant

One of my major bugbears in Home Assistant has always been that there's no proper way to completely delete a device or entity. However, that's not quite true...

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Flashing ESPHome Firmware to ESP-01S
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Flashing ESPHome Firmware to ESP-01S

In this post I'll run through how to create and flash ESPHome firmware for an ESP8266-based temperature sensor.

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MacBook Pro Touch Bar - Fix stuck keys
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MacBook Pro Touch Bar - Fix stuck keys

Those of you who rarely perform a full shutdown or reboot on your MacBook may occasionally encounter issues with the Touch Bar. One such issue is stuck keys. Unfortunately for me my escape

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Upgrading and Repairing the Bora
Automotive

Upgrading and Repairing the Bora

After buying my Bora I decided to carry out a number of repairs and upgrades. The end goal was to resolve the issues I identified before purchase and de-chav it. I have a few things planned, such as...

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New car - VW Bora Sport
Automotive

New car - VW Bora Sport

I went to see a VW Bora Sport. As you'll see, it had been pretty distastefully modified, but there were some silver linings to the cloud of distaste. I was happy with the car and bought it, after knocking the price down by 30% of course!

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Goodbye to the Golf
Automotive

Goodbye to the Golf

I had some amazing times in and with this car. Below you can see where it started, only a few days after I bought it. Bone stock but I...

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Discord notifications 2: Veeam Backup & Replication
Technology & Homelab

Discord notifications 2: Veeam Backup & Replication

Part 2 of a Discord notifications series. Part 1 details notifications for Sonarr, Radarr and Lidarr. In a similar fashion to part 1, this setup has been running for a while and I'm very pleased with it's flawless functionality.

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Install Windows Server on the HPE Microserver G8 in AHCI mode
Technology & Homelab

Install Windows Server on the HPE Microserver G8 in AHCI mode

My problem was that once the server was put into AHCI mode instead of using the RAID configuration, the Windows Server installer would complain that it couldn't install to any of the disks as they were not compatible.

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How to install Lidarr on Ubuntu
Technology & Homelab

How to install Lidarr on Ubuntu

Lidarr is still in alpha, but you can install it on Ubuntu with some ease. Credit for this goes to my friend Dan.

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Discord notifications 1: Sonarr, Radarr and Lidarr
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Discord notifications 1: Sonarr, Radarr and Lidarr

This is made extremely simple thanks to Sonarr's built-in support for Slack notifications and Discord's built-in support for Slack webhooks. Of course Radarr and Lidarr support this too, as they are forks of Sonarr.

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Disable the password complexity for Active Directory on a Domain Controller
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Disable the password complexity for Active Directory on a Domain Controller

I recently ran into an issue where I couldn't change the password of an account in AD from one of the Domain Controllers. I realised it's because it has a different Group Policy than other computers. Run > gpmc.msc

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Rebuilding the BCD with BCDEdit
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Rebuilding the BCD with BCDEdit

BCD stands for Boot Configuration Data. The BCD file lives in a folder called "boot" on the active partition of your hard drive. It contains information that instructs the computer on how to load the OS.

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