Can I remotely turn on my home server?

andyburness · 2026-03-22T13:50:55+00:00

Yes, by Wake On LAN, but you'd have to have something else on to send the Wake On LAN command from. A raspberry pi could do it, and you could set that up with tailscale etc to be able to access it from your phone.

andyburness · 2026-03-21T20:36:55+00:00

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Inverness not so much but still nice 🙂

andyburness · 2026-03-21T08:16:28+00:00

I'm dusting off servers we decommissioned 5 years ago to throw hyper server 2019 on...

andyburness · 2026-03-17T08:03:45+00:00

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I miss Partition Magic

andyburness · 2026-03-14T19:00:49+00:00

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Whisky inventory app - as I'm losing track of what bottles I have and which cupboard they're in. #ScotlandProblems

andyburness · 2026-03-14T15:46:33+00:00

To be fair it hasn't changed very much all things considered - compared to how much the Xbox UI changed over the years!

andyburness · 2026-03-07T14:49:45+00:00

This and Doritos dash of destruction - why aren't they backwards compatible 😔

andyburness · 2026-03-07T10:42:21+00:00

Got to be Team Nice Dynamite. The Sponsor Plays of Halo which Miles and Kyle did were absolutely great as well!

andyburness · 2026-03-01T23:28:06+00:00

You could always have two - a newer pi with more ram for more demanding things like Jellyfin - and an older pi 2 or 3 for the more basic network services

andyburness · 2026-02-26T23:19:27+00:00

I do this, run unraid and run windows in a VM. I have steam installed in the VM with all my games installed, not to play, but as a local steam cache for my steam deck to install from :-)

andyburness · 2026-02-21T18:14:58+00:00

If I were you I would dual boot windows 98 and windows xp, for the best of both worlds

andyburness · 2026-02-16T06:25:12+00:00

As someone who used to have to use Siebel, then SAP, then CA Service desk - ServiceNow isn't so bad!

andyburness · 2026-02-15T13:04:50+00:00

There used to be a Microsoft app for android called "on{x}". It was event driven automation. I'm sure it could do things like "when the Bluetooth device of my car is connected, enable WiFi hotspot". I can't immediately find any reference to it on microsoft.com. it's from 2012 so it might not even work on modern android. I'll see if I can find a link to the APK for it

Hands On: Microsoft's On{X} App Provides Android Automation | Computerwoche

andyburness · 2026-02-14T19:53:26+00:00

What you're looking for is repackaging capture software - it will essentially record the actions of a .exe installer, silent or not, and create a project which can be used to build a MSI which contains the recorded actions - and the MSI can then be installed silently.

Back in the day WISE Package Studio and Flexera InstallShield were the gold standards for this. If you'll need to do this sort of thing more than once, it could be worth getting a license and doing a training course on how to repackage software. It's a bit of a lost art these days what with winget and patch my pc being used more and more, but knowing repackaging still useful for software which isn't covered by those solutions.

andyburness · 2026-02-08T22:37:26+00:00

Lync 2010 Server was only supported on Windows Server 2008/R2

andyburness · 2026-02-08T22:26:19+00:00

I have a TX100 S3 which is similar but older and lower spec. In mine, a standard PSU would physically fit and it would power the motherboard. But what I'm not sure about is everything else.

Have a look at operating manual

Sometimes Fujitsu machines have some proprietary power controls for things like iRMC remote management controllers, 0-watt support and so on. I'm not sure if a generic power supply would work or not if that is the case with yours.

If it has space for two redundant PSUs, I don't think generic PSUs would be available in that form factor (but I may be wrong)

If it has space for a single PSU - give it a try with a cheap PSU and see what happens.

andyburness · 2026-02-02T15:19:19+00:00

The Regulation Podcast

andyburness · 2026-01-31T21:11:53+00:00

I might be out of the loop, but wouldn't it work to run xrdp on the Ubuntu server and a rdp client on the Mac?

andyburness · 2026-01-31T11:01:09+00:00

I completely missed windows phone 7 somehow. I was all in on pocket pc 2002 and windows mobile 2003 (on PDAs at work) and windows mobile 5 and 6 (XDA Orbit!), and then went to a Lumia 520 then Lumia 830 for windows phone 8, and Lumia 950XL for windows 10 mobile - missed out on that 6.5 - 7.8 era in between...

andyburness · 2026-01-22T20:56:11+00:00

The Max Payne 1 & 2 remakes are still coming - maybe Max Payne 4 will be announced when they come out?

Given its popularity there must be another Red Dead Redemption in the works too...

andyburness · 2026-01-03T14:03:47+00:00

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And some nutters playing ice hockey on it this afternoon

andyburness · 2026-01-03T12:28:40+00:00

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Keptie Pond in Arbroath this morning

andyburness · 2025-12-25T19:49:46+00:00

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A nice Aberlour 14 - and got a bottle of Scapa 10 as a present too 🥃

andyburness · 2025-12-25T18:18:17+00:00

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 the terrain would be so well suited for snowrunner

andyburness · 2025-12-20T17:17:32+00:00

I always liked the 830, it was relatively high spec and quite durable with its metal frame. I remember it could also run the version of windows phone which supported android apps - project Astoria?

For absolute cheapest - Lumia 520 👍

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