Jason Antonacci: Clever Guy

On 2007-08-02, Jason Stangroome posted a blog article "PowerShell Registry Find and Replace" at URL http://blog.stangroome.com/2007/08/02/powershell-registry-find-and-replace/ . The article is still there, however the PowerShell code is presented without a examples or a usage statement. Hence I am re-posting his content here, reformatted for legibility and with an example. PowerShell function Find-RegistryValue requires one parameter, -seek , of type string. The string should be wrapped in single or double quotes and contain appropriate character escapes; for example use '\\' versus '\'. The -regpath parameter is automatically populated by Get-Location , do not attempt to provide it as a string.  Instead use Set-Location Registry::[...] first to provide the proper context before running Find-RegistryValue . function Find-RegistryValue ( [string] $seek = $(throw “seek required.”), [System.Management.Automation.PathInfo] $regpath = (Get-Location)

Noticed git clone ssh://[...] was consistently hanging on my development VM and outbound SSH connections did too.  Enabling SSH debugging, the process hung on "sign_and_send_pubkey" until interrupted via CTRL+C: $ ssh -vvv remotehost.localdomain OpenSSH_6.6.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013 [...] debug1: Offering RSA public key: /home/cleverguy/.ssh/id_rsa debug3: send_pubkey_test debug2: we sent a publickey packet, wait for reply debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 535 debug2: input_userauth_pk_ok: fp 66:...:88 debug3: sign_and_send_pubkey: RSA 66:...:88 ^C $  Googling "ssh hangs debug3: sign_and_send_pubkey:" identified Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 890522 . Which, while closed as a duplicate for Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 907156 , was much more useful for resolving the immediate issue.  Specifically Comment #11 , from 2014, suggested command: $ sudo kill -9 $(pidof gnome-keyring-daemon) This immediately resolved the SSH authentication hang and

Xfce4 would not start a screensaver on my Linux system.  Researching it, it ran xflock4 from the command line ad received an error: Property "/general/LockCommand" does not exist on channel "xfce4-session". To fix this, additional configuration needed, but no hacks. First, verify xflock4 and xfconf-query are available. $ which xflock4 xfconf-query /bin/xflock4 /bin/xfconf-query Next  install a lock screen package that provides 'xlock', 'slock', 'i3lock' or similar.  $ sudo yum install -y xlockmore-gtk i3lock Last, add an executable (with options) as /general/LockCommand in the xfce4-session settings. $ xfconf-query -c xfce4-session --create -p /general/LockCommand --set "xlock -mode matrix" --type  string $ xfconf-query -c xfce4-session --create -p /general/LockCommand --set "i3lock -c 000000" --type string Test by running xflock4 from the command line or through the GUI.

TL;DR EMC VNX IS your grandfather's SAN Per " Using EMC VNX Storage withVMware vSphereVersion 4.0 " published 2015-JAN, does not support vSphere " Multipathing Configuration for Software iSCSI Using Port Binding " (aka MPIO). Port binding is not new, Virtzilla's whitepaper was published in 2012, but EMC likes the old days. EMC recommends "implicit assignment", which relies on the ESXi TCP/IP stack determining the correct vmkernel port based on directly connected networks.  If it is still profitable, why improve it? Unfortunately, customers pay for, and expect, an Active/Active SAN and only get half. Now get off my lawn!

ESXi mounts NFS as root with group root.  FreeNAS 9.3 does not have a root group.  This results in a successful NFS mount by ESXi, but creating a test directory fails with error: VMware: Call "FileManager.MakeDirectory" for object "FileManager" on vCenter Server "[...]" failed. Change the FreeNAS Unix (NFS) Share Advanced Settings "Maproot User" and "Maproot group" to the equivalent FreeNAS local groups to correct this. Thanks to Benjamin Bryan for blog post  https://b3n.org/freenas-9-3-on-vmware-esxi-6-0-guide/ which was instrumental in solving this issue!

User Experience As a long time Nokia user from the S60 days (Pre-Elop), I was skeptical about Windows Phone. From 7.5 Mango to 8.1 Denim, there was reassuring progression with new built-in features and apps to fill any gaps.  The user interface is clean, modern, intuitive and consistent. And Cortana is truly incredible, especially in the car: selecting playlists, dictating texts and making calls. In comparison, Android is fragmented. Google, HTC, Samsung and LG all have their own Android interfaces that all appear a work in progress.  And OK Google is minimally functional on-line and useless off-line. Market Share Despite being a superior platform, Windows Phone is unable to complete against iOS and Android. User adoption peaked in 2013 at 3.2% and "rallied" this year to reach 2.7%. Not encouraging numbers. App Store In March 2014, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America  discontinued their Windows Phone apps*. Banking apps are an essential, unlike Goat Simulator.  T