Jay Tuckey's Blog
Under my TV I have a Raspberry Pi 3 running Kodi, which works great for watching/listening to all my media. However, with it idling and always-on, I thought it would be great to be able to use it as a Nextcloud server as well. Here’s some details on my setup, as well as a some […]
When trying to set up my new Kubuntu install I went to install the VMWare Remote Console, and to my annoyance the installer would fail without any feedback on what was going wrong. Here’s what I needed to do to fix it. To start with , some details of my machines and setup: Date: 2019-05-24 […]
This guide is based on one I found here: https://verybadfrags.com/2019/04/14/play-age-of-empires-iii-on-linux/ It was done with the following system: Date: 2019-04-20OS: Ubuntu 19.04Steam Play Version: 4.2-3Graphics: Nvidia GTX 860m with proprietary driver This is to fix the error that you get when trying to run Age of Empires III: “Invalid CD Key! – Error loading the PID […]
Recently I had to do a cleanup of a VMware Horizon 7 connection server, which involved removing all the existing desktop pools and recreating them. The trouble was, the old vCenter server had been removed, so when I tried to delete the pools using the Horizon Administrator Console, I got the error: Server ErrorUnable to […]
Went for a great ride with a few of the guys from work this morning
When I heard about the xonsh project – https://xon.sh I thought it sounded great, as I really enjoy the python language and am much more comfortable using python to write scripts than I am using bash. I also find the bash syntax very confusing, and am never sure of the right way to write a […]
I ran into an issue recently with our Windows Server 2016 servers not installing their updates. Instead, all our 2016 servers would get stuck with the message “Updates are available. Downloading updates 0%” however they would never actually download the updates. These servers were configured to our WSUS server, which was also a Server 2016 […]
In our Horizon View VDI environment we use UEM to manage some application’s user data. I used the Application Profiler included with UEM to create this profile for AutoCAD. One issue that we we have with AutoCAD is that it will reconfigure when launched by a new user. We tried to capture a default profile […]
Recently I have been investigating using better, more ergonomic computer equipment. To this end, several months ago I purchased an ergonomic keyboard, the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. During my investigation of keyboards, however, I came across a lot of discussion about alternative keyboard layouts, and their various pros and cons, and have decided to […]
Update 2018-03-25: Updated the script to make it more easily runnable from the command line (thanks Grant for the suggestion). I’ve also made the script available from on my Gitlab repo. To run the script from the command line, download it from the Gitlab repo, and then execute like this: # CMD Prompt powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy […]