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Kapacitor duplicate alerts

Just a quick post for anyone using the TICK stack and finding Kapacitor is generating duplicate alerts. To allow Kapacitor to get a stream of events from InfluxDB it creates a subscription for itself in InfluxDB with it’s URL i.e. http://kapacitor:9092. The subscriptions include it’s ServerID or ClusterID. This happens first time Kapacitor starts whereContinue reading “Kapacitor duplicate alerts”

vSphere EVC, vMotion and MDS Mitigation Problems

Recently I encountered an issue with vSphere where I could not vMotion VM’s between hosts in the same cluster, even though they were the same generation CPU and EVC was enabled. This was interesting to troubleshoot, so I thought I would post my learnings and solution for anyone else encountering this problem. Firstly this isContinue reading “vSphere EVC, vMotion and MDS Mitigation Problems”

VMware ESXi and ESX 3.5 Update 2 – Can’t start guests after 11 August 2008

There’s a major bug which has affected NZ and Australian VMware users today, and is expected to hit users in the rest of the world when their clocks roll over to 12th of August 2008. It prevents any guest operating systems from starting or using VMotion on ESX and occurs in VMware’s latest version ESXContinue reading “VMware ESXi and ESX 3.5 Update 2 – Can’t start guests after 11 August 2008”

GPS Car Navigation – Points of Interest

A recent discovery of mine is the ability to add additional POI’s (Points of Interest) to in-car navigation systems. Initially was sceptical about the usefulness of this, until I found some community sites which allow you to download pre made POI files. There is a huge variety available based on Country, Category or both.The mostContinue reading “GPS Car Navigation – Points of Interest”

SkyTV NZ digital decoders get component output

Sky released an update for it’s digital decoders recently which enabled most models to output component signal via the scart connector. You can check which version you have by looking at the bottom of the Sky Decoder on the Telepermit sticker.SKY decoders upgrade

Vista, Live Messenger & Netgear DG834

After 2 weeks of trying to get this working, probably 6 hours work all together. I’ve finally found a solution.I was getting error code 81000306 everytime I tried to login from Live Messenger both version 8.0 and 8.1 beta. Also Gaim and Trillian could not connect to MSN.Tried Safe Mode with Networking, Disabling Services, Uninstall,Continue reading “Vista, Live Messenger & Netgear DG834”