IT Infrastructure Architect

I recently purchased an aging Toshiba Portege Z30-A-189 for a bargain price on an internet auction site. The Portege is a lightweight ultra-portable laptop with good battery life and delightful ergonomics; I was lucky enough to use one a daily driver in a previous life,…

I recently purchased an aging Lenovo Thinkstation M92p Tiny from an auction site for a bargain price. It has an i5-3470T processor, 8gb Ram and a 120gb SSD. My intent was to install VMware to host a couple of very lightweight but critical VMs required…

I waste my money so you don't have to? In this article I explore potential uses for a Dell Wyse 3040 in my homelab, and I identify some roles to which it is definitely not well suited. I recently purchased a Dell Wye 3040 Thin…

I recently encountered a new Chromebook that was displaying a problem with Android applications. Out of the box, the applications installed and ran as expected. But after reboot, and subsequent reboots, Android apps would fail to start properly. They would launch but then freeze displaying…

An article called VMware Tools for Debian 10 arm64 on ESXi-Arm on Virten.net explains that a compiled version of Open VM Tools is not available in repositories for ARM builds of many common guest operating systems. Their workaround is to compile a version from the…