Apple Watch

Wearables/Smartwatches are first thing after tablet “revolution” that were mind-boggling to me, and as with tablets I decided to get one of these wearables and to see if it makes sense in my life. I wear watches every day, and have quite a few timepieces, so smartwatch (maybe) can make sense for me. I don`t own expensive watches, I wear them more as an everyday jewellery and as addition to my style on different occasions.  Some of them I have more than 10 years. Read More

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AD: Directory Services could not start

While recently testing few scenarios in HyperV I somehow managed to corrupt one of my domain controllers in lab. LAB was based on Windows Server 2008 Datacenter. While rebooting server, server booted fine until the stage where I had to login into Windows.
Instead of getting login screen I got blue screen for fraction of a second, and then everything rebooted again. Read More

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NetApp FAS: How to reformat storage

I recently came upon few NetApp FAS SAN Filers. In order to get more space out of them, I had to reconfigure them. Person who initially configured them had too much disks attached to root aggregate, I wanted to completely reconfigure storage so I had to destroy current configuration and rebuild all the RAID fields. Read More

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