Death of SMB1

Friends, Techs, SysAdmins, lend me your ears;I come to bury SMB1, not to praise it.The evil that vendors do lives after them;The reliance of the old lives on too long;So let it be with SMB1. MicrosoftHath told you SMB1 was insecure:If it were so, it was a grievous fault,And grievously hath many a device answer’d […]

ESXi Host Upgrades fail with space warnings.

Have you been trying to update a stand alone ESXi host and running into the dreaded “no space left on device” error? Failed to update bootloader: [Errno 28] No space left on deviceYeah, me too. Of course I check to see if there’s enough space – and there is. So what to do? Well, I […]

macOS Catalina recording static on Blue Yeti USB Microphone – FIXED

A fix for your Blue Yeti mic that won’t record clean audio in MacOS X Catalina.

vCenter 7.0 on VMware Fusion

You probably are here because you want to run VMware vCenter 7 on your Mac. Maybe using VMware Fusion, maybe another hypervisor. If you’re looking for some common failures because you already tried it a few times and run into errors – you can skip to the troubleshooting section. Let’s get the prerequisites out of […]

Apple pushes MacOS 11 to Apple Silicon

Apple has announced they will be leaving Intel behind for powering their core line of computers. I lived through two of these major transitions – once when Apple moved from Motorola 68000 series processors to IBM PowerPC processors, and again from PowerPC to Intel x86 processors. Now Apple has announced they’re scaling up their A […]