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Apt update slow? Try this fix
On a cloud instance with a slow disk, running the dreaded
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Enable Hyper-V Integration Services for your Ubuntu guest VMs
For some legacy reasons, my main hypervisor has been Hyper-V running on a Windows Server. And contrary to popular belief, Linux actually supports Secure Boot and UEFI boot pretty well, and so you can create Generation 2 VM that runs Linux OS just fine. However, after installing the OS, you might have noticed that Hyper-V doesn’t talk to the guest VM very well – features such as shutdown or reset do not work. That is because the Linux kernel does not include Hyper-V drivers and agents. This is akin to VMware’s vmtools for the ESXi platform.
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A good font for coding
The folks over at JetBrains have provided a free programming font family, dubbed JetBrains Mono. It is open source and is highly optimized for coding, console sessions and configuration file editing views. Personally, I find it to be more legible than Google’s Source Code Pro or Ubuntu Mono. It is now my default monospaced font, but your mileage may vary.
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Google Cloud DNS will serve randomized records from 27 Mar 2020
Currently, Cloud DNS name servers return resource record sets in the order in which they were defined.
In alignment with DNS industry practices, Cloud DNS name servers will begin randomizing the order of the resource record sets starting on March 27, 2020. This will apply to both public and private Cloud DNS zones.
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Rules to block that annoying ads in your Android Outlook client
In an earlier article, we talked about how AdGuard helps you hide that annoying ad disguised as email in your Android Outlook client. In this post, we will talking about the rules required to make it happen.
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Repeated ADFS login prompts in Outlook? Disable WAM
Your company e-mail is on Office 365, authenticated via ADFS and you’re using the Outlook client from volume license version of Office Pro Plus and Outlook keeps prompting you for password:
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Removing WALinuxAgent from your Azure instance
Azure’s supplied Linux images come preinstalled with the Azure Linux Agent, a process that manages virtual machine interaction with the Azure Fabric Controller, such as providing the oh-so-useful availability status and the VM name to Azure. It also performs self-updates, by the way.
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Installing Caddy as a service in your cloud instance
Caddy should be everyone’s server of choice. Especially lazy people, and that’s everyone. This blog is served by Caddy. It is a modern web server written in Go. It does automatic HTTPS configuration. TF is automatic you ask? Take this blog for example – if it were to run in Nginx, the config file would look like this:
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