It has been two weeks ago since I released the first (private) beta version of HouseAgent. A handful of people starting testing and playing with it, and I noticed that documentation and instructions are lacking a bit. In this blog post I will guide you through the process (in very basic steps) of installing the [...]
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Introducing HouseAgent
June 14th, 2011
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HouseAgent is a multi platform, open source home automation application. That was the short introduction of something I have been working on for quite some months already. HouseAgent has been running as my own home automation software for some time. I hear you asking, why not use one of the standard software products available? There [...]
Disable hibernation on multiple Windows 2008 servers using Windows Powershell
February 21st, 2011
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By default hibernation is disabled on Windows 2008 server machines. However, a file called “hiberfil.sys” (equally sized to the amount of memory in the machine) is created in the root of the system volume. On a machine with 2GB of memory, this is not a big issue. However I discovered this on a VM with [...]
Mass creation of HP WSEM WiFi guest accounts using SSH and PowerShell
July 7th, 2010
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I was asked to create 365 (1 year) of WiFi (daily) guest access accounts, and export them to CSV. Of course I didn’t want to create them by hand.. this is where PowerShell came in. I used the following PowerShell script to create random WiFi guest accounts:
The case of the black Windows startup screen
June 21st, 2010
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Today I had a nice issue. One of the servers at work suddenly had a “black” Windows startup screen. It looked like this:
