Midnightreign.Org

Trailer Grab for Plex

While this utility is aimed at Plex style content folders (particularly movies), it's not only for Plex. With a bit of tweaking it can be used for any kind of

Technical

XenServer / XCP-NG VM AutoStart

Newer versions of XenServer expect you to use vApps to handle virtual machines auto starting. This may not be appropriate in some situations. You can still enable auto-power on via

Technical

Restart != Shutdown

It would appear that according to Windows 10, shutdown is no longer a similar concept to restart. I just installed some drivers for a new device. I get a Windows

Personal

Change of iTune

I always maintained that I would never own an iPhone. Android all the way. I even tested the waters with a Windows phone, but that hit the trash heap after

Software

Software moved to GitHub

I've moved my various projects to GitHub. They can be found via the link at the top of the page, or from these direct links: Moni8er Battlefield 4 MapList Generator Battlefield 3 MapList Generator BF Hardline MapList Generator

Personal

In the beginning...

...there was blog. And it was good. Actually it wasn't. It was terrible, and it's still terrible, but it's mine. I've spent the past few days importing and converting all

Technical

Ionic Framework with Angular, Cordova, etc.

I suck at titling things. I want clever titles, but sometimes you just have to go with the obvious. For the past few months, I’ve been developing a mobile application (for both IOS and Android, developing primarly on IOS) using the most horrible

Personal

A year later...

I wasn’t going to post anything because I like to keep my private life, well, private. But then I realized that the reason I refrain from posting here about

Technical

Firefox is a pain in the ass

…at least from a system administrator point of view. Firstly, although it appears by default to be configured to ‘Use system proxy’, it ignores the system proxy settings – unless it simply takes the actual proxy settings, and nothing else. The Windows system proxy in

Technical

Some annoying things

Today I learned the following things while creating a web filtering proxy for my home network: Dan’s guardian is defunct. E2Guardian is a better option, and it can do MITM SSL filtering. It also wasn’t complicated to configure. Windows DNS server has

Software

Battlefield Hardline Maplist Generator

This is a utility to generate RANDOM Battlefield Hardline map lists for server admins. You can generate human readable lists for manual entry into admin tools such as procon, or you can generate maplist.txt style lists to copy and paste directly in to

Technical

Docker Comms #2

So after “fixing” docker, which ultimately broke something within one of my containers, the docker devs reverted the behaviour and I was able to undo all the changes I had made, and everything worked the way I was used to. Until Docker 1.6.

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Docker Comms

Quite a while back I started messing around with Docker, after the forum software. I use elsewhere started making builds for it and then eventually made Docker the only supported deployment method. So I started messing about with Docker fairly early, although I didn’

Work

The Chicken and The Egg

I’ve spent a long time recently going through a client’s Group Policy Object infrastructure. A large part of the GPOs are invalid – either completely broken, referencing missing items, empty, unlinked, and referencing invalid scripts (like VBScript inside a batch file – it’s

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BF4 Maplist Generator

I have made what is potentially the last update to my BF4 Maplist Generator. It now supports the final expansion for what has to be the worst Battlefield release in the entire series. I also fixed the commenting system – thanks for pointing out the

Software

Moni8er-1.0.5191.37002

I’ve made quite a major update to the Moni8er utility. I completely re-wrote how it does things, and there has been a significant performance boost. For a full run from scratch: Scanned 6,601 Files, 3,111 Folders consisting of 189Mb of XML

Personal

Did not finish

I have been a voracious reader ever since I was a child. While I was in primary school, my dad would take me to the public library on a weekly basis. As a child, you were only allocated two cards, that allowed you to

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New update.dll

I’ve updated the update.dll, made it error out silently by default. This is by no means a critical or important change, you can replace the existing update.dll included with any of my utilities with the new version, or just wait for

Software

Battlefield 4 Maplist Generator

This is a utility to generate RANDOM Battlefield 4 map lists for server admins. You can generate human readable lists for manual entry into admin tools such as procon, or you can generate maplist.txt style lists to copy and paste directly in to

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Battlefield 3 Maplist Generator

This is a utility to generate RANDOM Battlefield 3 map lists for server admins. You can generate human readable lists for manual entry into admin tools such as procon, or you can generate maplist.txt style lists to copy and paste directly in to

Technical

Moni8er

I wrote a little utility program that runs on Windows for Mede8er media players. It is intended for newer X2 and X3 models that support Jukebox view. The utility essentially replaces the “Scan folder” function in the Mede8er, and allows you to create the

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Moni8er - A Mede8er Utility

Moni8er is a utility for creating the necessary database files that the Mede8er device requires for its “Jukebox” view on X2 and newer models. If you’re not using jukebox view, you do not need this utility. Please see the included README.txt file

Commentary

How can we screw you today?

I’m amazed that more people don’t suffer from depression. I’m feeling it a bit at the moment, and I tend to get “Monday Blues” on the odd occasion. THAT sucks. I really sympathize with people that suffer from long term depression.

Personal

The Thinking Game

I suppose it’s a problem that a lot of people experience – I don’t want to claim any kind of uniqueness here. I mean, everybody is an individual (bleat), but I have a real problem with procrastinating about things. I get stuck on

Technical

iPod Annoyances

I love my iPod. I mostly use it in the car and while I’m on the train / walking to/from the station. The biggest annoyance with it though, is that while I’m driving, the screen randomly changes from portrait mode to landscape