vRO, Active Directory, converting SID and GUID

I am writing some automation to handle Active Directory objects, mostly managing ServiceConnectionPoints (SCP) and regular Group objects. If you want to retrieve multiple LDAP Attributes having the same name (like the keywords collection of an SCP), you will have a bad time when using ActiveDirectory.getEntry(), because it has no public Method documented to retrieve …

Mapping VMware vCenter Disks to Linux SCSI Block Devices

VMware and SCSI There comes the time you want to automate stuff, or just need the information, which VMware vmdk Disk belongs to which OS Device inside the OS, depending on your architecture, you can be in quite a trouble, when picking the right VMware backing for your OS Devices. After some google-foo, you might …

Secure Facebook emails with PGP

Emails are the postcards of our times, the only difference is, we are not just sending them once a year from our holiday, but multiple times a day, and include conversations that we would not dare to write on a postcard… Email was designed to be used unencrypted. There are extensions like StartTLS (don’t really …