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Cruise Ship – Prohibited Items List

I am heading on a vacation with family.  Doing some last minute review of what we would be unable to take along with us. The following items are prohibited on-board. These items will be confiscated and not transported aboard.   All illegal narcotics/drugs. (Including Marijuana prescribed for medical purposes and other items used as drug […]

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Re: Why you should upgrade to vSphere 6.5 / ESXi 6.5

Recently I went to extend a volume on one of my guest systems and received an error requiring me to power off the system before extending the disk. Error: Hot-extend was invoked with size (5368709120 sectors) >= 2TB. Hot-extend beyond or equal to 2TB is not supported. The disk extend operation failed: msg.disklib.INVAL Good News – With vSphere […]

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How a world champion of public speaking prepares for presentations

Toastmaters International world champion of public speaking Dananjaya Hettiarachchi reveals how he prepares for his award-winning presentations. “If your presentation title tells the audience what you are going to talk about, you have a bigger chance of losing the audience. But if your title creates curiosity, you have won the audience over.” – Dananjaya Hettiarachchi   […]

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My VMware Certification Experience

I recently received my VCP6-DCV Certification from VMware by Passing the 2V0-621 Proctored Exam with Pearson VUE. The Journey For many years I have used VMware products. I distinctly recall getting my hands on VMware Workstation back in 2001, and it was truly an amazing tool. I could emulate Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, QNX, and even a […]

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Docker hv-sock proxy (vsudd) is not reachable, Windows 10

Yes, I am playing (or trying to) with Docker.  My first step is to install Docker and get it up and running. So far I am confident that I have all the prerequisites, however Docker fails to properly start with the following error: Docker hv-sock proxy (vsudd) is not reachable at Docker.Backend.ContainerEngine.Linux.ConnectToVsud(TaskCompletionSource`1 vmId) in C:\gopath\src\github.com\docker\pinata\win\src\Docker.Backend\ContainerEngine\Linux.cs:line […]

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Tech Short: Capturing packets on Checkpoint

I’ve recently found myself capturing network traffic to troubleshoot reported issues. To successfully capture packets the use of tcpdump is required.  And while you may be familiar with using this tool, the use is slightly different on Checkpoint devices. The devices in this reference is Checkpoint R77.30 and R80 devices. To capture the correct network […]