You need OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 or above to do this. You probably know that when you plug one of the new 12inch MacBooks into a power source it’ll make a chime noise (the same as iPhones and iPads). But did you know you can make your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air do the same thing? […]
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At the time of writing Apple have artificially limited the maximum RSA key size on OS X (and perhaps iOS too) to 4098 bits. Side note: the way you change the limit differs between OS X releases. In OS X Apple (for one reason or another) artificially limits the maximum RSA key size for certificates to 4k
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At the time of writing you can’t currently use reverse DNS with a PIP that you may have configured with your VM. Azure reverse DNS is attached to the cloud service your VM is in. Instructions on how to install and add a subscription to Azure PowerShell can be found here. 🙂 Microsoft have recently announced
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At the time of writing PIPs are in Public Preview. As you’ll notice below, you can’t assign a PIP using the management portal but that may change when PIPs are out of preview and in general availability. Also note that at the time of writing PIPs are free and you can assign one PIP per VM and have
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Please note that the following tutorial is intended for users of Windows Vista/Server 2008 on-wards. With Microsoft Azure you have two ways of managing your account. The first and easiest way is to use the web management portal (https://manage.windowsazure.com) and the second way is to use Azure PowerShell. In this tutorial I’ll lay out how
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