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Month: December 2021

Remove Black Stripes Down Either Side of Monitor Output – USB32VGAPRO

November 5, 2022December 27, 2021 by Tristan Self

A quick and effective way to get additional desktop space is to use a USB Graphics Adapter, in my case I used the Star Tech USB32VGAPRO. It supports a good range of resolutions but in my case I wanted to use 1680×1050 which is the same as my in-built graphics resolution outputs at. However when … Read more

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Monitoring PSU Status on Hardware Kemp Load Master (or ECS Connection Manager)

November 5, 2022December 21, 2021 by Tristan Self

We recently deployed some hardware Kemp ECS Connection Managers (which are designed to front the Dell ECS storage platform), however we were a bit dismayed to see there was no way to monitor the hardware status via GUI, SNMP or the Rest API. We had this issue raised after we had a PSU failure occur … Read more

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Secure Your Email with SPF, DKIM and DMARC

November 5, 2022December 3, 2021 by Tristan Self

Email was never designed to be secure, anyone can use your domain to send an email, “spoofing” as it is known. This can be useful to make sure your receive email if you are using a cloud hosting service, or it can be a complete nightmare; nefarious persons may spoof your domain to trick your … Read more

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