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Networking 22 Jan 2021 👁 83 views

341 K8GB: Cloud Native GSLB for Kubernetes Explained

Today I am a happy bunny!!!! Yury Tsarev (a very clever dude) did a presentation to one of the Kubernetes co-founders Tim Hockin. The demo was one of absa banks opensource projects called K8GB (a cloud native GSLB for K8s): https://www.k8gb.io/ Why do I like K8GB? Because it uses a single CRD that integrates to […]

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Technology 22 Jan 2021 👁 270 views

342 Windows 10: Fix Flashing Desktop Icons in 3 Steps

Just popping this here as I have had this a few times. Have you ever had your desktop icons flash and if you check explorer.exe its using high CPU. If so try: Step 1. Delete the Icon Cache Save the following as a batch file on your desktop and run it as admin: Step 2. […]

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Open Source 29 Mar 2007 👁 100 views

350 Get Process Name Without Admin Rights in C# (3 Steps)

Unfortunately, the following (seemingly harmless code) requires administrator rights (and on Windows 2003 you will need to be member of “Performance Monitor Users” group): In most cases this is not appropriate and certainly not in a Citrix environment. If you call it without the correct permissions you the following stack dump: Below is a light […]

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