For Christmass i did receive an Oomph, a what?! An Oomp! As i'm a lot on the road for work and i really enjoy a cup of good coffee the Oomph is a great device! From one of my customers I received an Oomph and I did hear of it on Kickstarter. After receiving and...
As I was using a Miraki AP (MR12) and the license was about to end I started looking for a new AP. The Web GUI for Meraki is really nice, but the MR12 is slow and already 3 years old. Also the licenses are pretty expensive so I decided it is time to upgrade. When...
As there is a change within the law we need to have make sure all Personal Data send through a website is securely send. Now as I'm running several DirectAdmin Servers we have the option to use Let's Encrypt. A great addon / feature to DirectAdmin to generate and...
As a fan of kickstarter projects and beers I came accross the BOx (Bottle Opener X). This is, as told by the developers, the world's first smart bottle opener. As a tech guy this sounds interesting so I decided to back this project. Finally! 15 november 2016, the day...
As i have equipped my home with some Hue lights, a NetAtmo and a few Raspberry Pi's I came accross IFTTT like a year ago. This made it really easy to connect stuff and do things based on some IF statement. Like IF it starts to rain change my Hue light bulb to blue....
While installing a new SharePoint 2013 system on a Windows Server 2012R2 I encountered an error while starting the Setup for the first time. The installation of the Prerequisites went fine and after several reboots i was ready to start the SharePoint 2013 installation...
In the Easter weekend I suffered some eye injury on both my left and right eye. My sight went fro 100% back to 5% on the left and right eye. From that day I knew it was going to be a long recovery with several surgery's. As a tech guy i already have some Smart Devices...
Since a few months I was using Philips Hue lights, first only 2 normal bulbs (white) for in my living room and bedroom. I was pretty amazed, the GeoFunction did put my lights on when i came home from work, and if i was in traffic i could turn on the lights so it...
While browsing on the interwebs I did find a great post about a MagicMirror by Michael Teeuw http://michaelteeuw.nl/. This gave me the cool idea to use my old iPad for my own Home Automation system. As I moved to my new house in september 2015 I would like to automate...
As I'm a fan of new tech stuff I also have several Raspberry Pi's in my home. One offcourse as mediacenter, but also I have one that is acting as FTP box for backups and my Private Cloud on my 100/100 home fiber connection. This Pi is running also Cacti and as the...
Today I had to shrink a database that was about 250GB and had 100GB free space to create some space on the disk. After running the command you are not able to see the progress of the Shrink, and as this can take some time you want to see how the action is proceeding....
Because we have a support case with the MSFT team I was asked to download some Microsoft DEMO vm's for Dynamics AX 2012R3 CU8. When i downloaded the VM's and started these everything was working fine for a few minutes. I was making some modification when suddenly the...