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Jul 24, 2020
in Technology
6 min read

Introduction: Project "Low Rider"

So, on a spur, on Independence day weekend, I found saw a for-sale AD, for a 1964 Chevrolet Bel Air.

Jul 18, 2020
in Shop-Talk
3 min read

My New Old Atlas Lathe

A few months back, I picked up an amazing deal on a 1940s Atlas lathe, which was mostly intact, and came with many extra parts, and chucks.

Jun 26, 2020
in Home-Automation
6 min read

Converting a fan, into a smart fan!

Introduction

Mar 17, 2020
in Home-Automation
3 min read

HASS - Node Red - Installation

Splunk - Adding TrendLine for Percent Change

So- Just a quick example on how to execute a trendline for the percentage change on a chart.

Feb 11, 2020
in Development
9 min read

Splunk – 8.0.1 Metrics vs Events Licensing Comparison - Updated with Metrics MK

Note- this page is hidden from view due to inaccuracies discovered long after this article was published. The below method is flawed, and actually only records the first instance from each perfmon category collected.

Jan 14, 2020
in Development
4 min read

How to Search Splunk and Service-Now from your browser's search bar.

Introduction

So-

At least a few times a day, I find myself typing index=… into my browser's search bar, and expecting something to happen…

If I were to not catch my mistake and press enter, it would just bring me to a random google search result full of garbage results.

But- what if, you could actually search Splunk or other products directly from the address bar?

Well- it turns out, you can. And- below, I am going to show you how to do it.

This guide should work for either chrome or chromium(not tested). I am quite certain, it would also work for firefox or other browsers as well… but, I have not checked their documentation.

Jan 7, 2020
in Development
5 min read

Splunk – 8.0.1 Metrics vs Events Licensing Comparison

So- over a year back, when metrics was a new concept to Splunk, I ran a licensing and storage comparison HERE.

Dec 20, 2019
in Development
4 min read

C# - Dynamically Invoking Method on RuntimeTypes

I have an interesting project I set out to create today-

Nov 7, 2019
in Development
2 min read

Unknown error (0x80005000) – Getting AD Group Members

Earlier today, somebody asked me to help troubleshoot a piece of code which was randomly erroring out- with a very undescriptive exception, only containing Unknown error (0x80005000)

The code in question, was recurring over groups, to gather membership. After ruling out permissions issues, I decided to try and replicate what was happening.