Short Version: CTRL+ALT+F1, sudo apt-get autoremove chrome-remote-desktop, reboot. Full Article: I know, its a specific article title – but surely some poor soul will wander in here from the depths of Google and quit pulling their hair out. As you may have already discovered from the title… Google’s Chrome Remote Desktop no-worky on Linux Mint 19 at the time of writing (July 2018). That’s because it …
You’ve been to 43 tutorials. You’ve been to 17 youtube videos. Heck, you’ve been to Reddit and they’re so smart over their in their wonderful /r/Nginx subreddit, they forgot how to explain it to us beginners. How the crap is it that nobody can figure out how to explain a frigg’n reverse proxy (using Nginx) in plain, dumb-ol English? I mean seriously. Let’s begin the tutorial …
After you’re done freaking out that you can’t upgrade your ESXi host (from 6.5 to 6.7 in this particular case – but likely similar across the board with 5.5 and 5.1) you need to remove it from the cluster. Enter Maintenance mode and Flush VMs. Remove from Cluster Upgrade
Sometimes you find your WSUS server keeps crashing over and over again. WSUS is unavailable and/or the WSUS management console hangs. When you start to investigate as to why Windows Server Update Services crashes, you’ll notice the following error message being logged in the HTTPErr log files: 2017-05-08 05:03:53 203.0.113.144 56433 203.0.113.4 80 HTTP/1.1 POST /SimpleAuthWebService/SimpleAuth.asmx 503 707060612 AppOffline WsusPool In the Eventlog you might find an …
This beautiful article from virtubytes.com helps to upgrade Vcenter without having a login for vmware’s website. Let’s start with that overview on image profiles and how to distinguish them in the online depot. This information could have easily been a post in itself, but if you are new to image profiles and the online depot, it may prove beneficial to be all in one place. …
So, you probably already know about the option to right-click on an application in Windows 10 and being able to choose “Run as Administrator.” But, what if you want to run as a different user entirely? With a quick registry edit, you can add the following “Run as a different user” option to Windows 10 apps. This doesn’t work for Windows Universal Apps, just apps …
I utilize “Serva” to PXE boot just about every OS I could ever need in my small computer repair shop. It’s awfully handy to plug in an ethernet cable, and pick whatever operating system I need. Linux Mint (or Ubuntu) began to have a nasty side-effect though when doing this. You see, they thought it was a good idea to move away from the ETH0 …
SOLUTION: Go to the server that handles your DNS Open DNS manager Expand the server, Expand the Forward Lookup Zones Make sure that you have a zone called: yourdomain.com if not, creating it. Expand the zone Check to verify that you have a “www” A record and if you’d like add a record without anything (that allows typing http://yourdomain.com without the www) and both should …
Facebook is jarring enough without it bombarding you about when your friends do something that have nothing to do with you. Notifications are sacred red circles of action, and if it doesn’t involve me directly, it’s not something I want. At all. Here’s how to disable it on the iPhone/iPad/Android version of Facebook as of the time of writing: Click the “three bars” tab called …
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March 17, 2016
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I’m sick of scouring the internet for which Apple computers are upgradable and which aren’t. As a computer repair shop owner of 4 years, and IT systems admin — I have a hard time buying a laptop that I can’t repair. Hard drives and solid state drives deteriorate and die (no matter what!) so something swappable is very important to me. Here’s what I’ve found …
