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Motivation: Wanted convenience of a Dictionary on the server side MVC controller (for some key look-up based logic), yet send the same list of objects down to Knockout Ajax client, which most readily consumes lists as Javascript object arrays. [Read More]

Get-AzureVM | #this first one gets the entire list of VMs in subscription Get-AzureVM | # this one gets the detailed object for each specific VM %{ $port = ($_ | Get-AzureEndpoint | ? {$_.name -like "Remote*"})[0].Port; $null = $_.DNSName -match 'https://(.*?)/' write-host "$($_.Name) - $($matches[1]):$($port)" } [Read More]

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Looks like my particular issue was the default partition size on my 16GB thumbdrive. Once I formatted the USB with a 2GB partition and installed Syslinux to that, it booted up right away where previously it would hang on the first “Syslinux Copyright Peter Anvin” message. More details: [Read More]