Orchestration and Automation
Orchestration in IT is a term that is used by a variety of systems and people can mean different things in different contexts. When a company is trying to transform a manual business process into an ‘auto magical IT process’ it is either a type of automation or orchestration they are trying to achieve. Some […]
Sega Mega Drive / Genesis 6-Button (X,Y,Z) Controller
In this post we will look at how to interface with a Sega Mega Drive 6-button controller. I will use an Arduino pro Micro (Leonardo) board to imitate the protocol between a Sega Mega Drive console and the controller. The button presses will be converted to keyboard presses. The Arduinos in the Leonardo series can […]
Install BizTalk Server 2016 on a single machine
This post is about how to set up a lab environment for BizTalk Server 2016 locally on your PC. BizTalk is an integration platform from Microsoft. Index Background Briefly about BizTalk Prerequisites BizTalk Server 2016 Requirements Install Windows Server 2016 Install Visual Studio 2015 Install Visual C++ redistributable package Install SQL Server 2016 SQL Server […]
Brief look at Active Directory and Domain Controller
In this post we will look at Windows specific things as Active Directory (AD) and Domain Controller (DC). These are techniques to group windows machines together, so you can manage them centrally. For instance, you don’t have to run around in the office with a disk to install software, one by one on the computers. […]
DNS names vs. NetBIOS names
There is a lot of confusing regarding DNS and NetBIOS names. This post tempts to straighten things out here. Info. This post is tagged with “my notebook”. That means, that the purpose of the post is mainly for me to remember something I did. The information here might be incomplete, hard for others to read […]
Crossover: Star Wars and Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Lately, I have been in a mood of publishing old images. This one I made in 2016 before the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Around the same period, I discovered the anime Legend of the Galactic Heroes. I am surprised that I didn’t know about Legend of the Galactic Heroes before and […]
DNS server in local network (Hyper-V)
In a previous post (https://www.raspberryfield.life/2019/03/12/create-a-lan-between-vms-in-hyper-v/) we looked at how to create a private network in Hyper-V. Now, we will add a DNS-server to that network. Info. This post is tagged with “my notebook”. That means, that the purpose of the post is mainly for me to remember something I did. The information here might be […]
The Treehouse Part 3.
Maria and Mishka are defending their treehouse.
To the Archive [MM016]
Here is another early comic from February 2017.
Create a LAN between VMs in Hyper-V
This post will explain how to set up a LAN between two virtual machines (VM) in Hyper-V. Info. This post is tagged with “my notebook”. That means, that the purpose of the post is mainly for me to remember something I did. The information here might be incomplete, hard for others to read or contain […]