I recently read a story about a developer who lost his GitHub account overnight. There was no explanation and he never figured out how to recover it. He was lucky that his most important repos were backed up on his computer, but it got me thinking. About a week ago my kids were playing on […]
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When using IKEv2 or any other VPN on Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, macOS) with the OnDemand feature, the VPN will automatically connect under specified conditions, such as when your device connects to WiFi or cellular networks. However, there are certain situations where you might not want the VPN to connect automatically—for example, if you’re connected
TL;DR: If automatic updates aren’t upgrading your Windows 11 VM on ESXi 6.5, you can manually upgrade using the latest ISO. Download the ISO from aka.ms/downloadwindows11, mount it, and run D:/setup.exe /product server in Command Prompt (replace D: with your ISO drive letter). Do an in place upgrade and as always back up your VM before proceeding. In a previous
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I recently found myself needing a cheap and easy solution for playing videos on a loop at trade shows on tv and screens I may have absolutely no control over. The goal was to come up with a cheap lightweight solution that I could just pop in and go with. Although you would think there
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Creating a database for your WordPress website using the terminal is a straightforward process. Follow these steps to get started: mysql -u root -p You will be prompted to enter your MySQL root password. CREATE DATABASE wordpress_db; Replace wordpress_db with your desired database name. CREATE USER ‘wp_user’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’; Replace wp_user with your desired username and password with a strong
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The local security questions for local users on Windows can be annoying, so let’s go over how to disable them. Step 1: Accessing the Registry Editor First things first, we need to get to the Registry Editor. Press Win + R, and then type regedit. This command will open the Windows Registry. Step 2: The
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Recently, I was rummaging through my digital archives and bumped into many old videos with a .ASF extension. Now, I’m no stranger to odd file formats, but this one had me scratching my head. Thankfully, VLC Player came to my rescue for playback, but when it came to converting these to a format I could
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The 2009 Apple Xserve, also known as the Xserve 3,1 (XS3,1), never supported the Intel Westmere Xeon family. However, the 2010 Mac Pro, Mac Pro 5,1 (MP5,1), did. Since their logic boards are similar, you can flash your XS3,1 with the MP5,1 firmware. This will enable you to use 6-core Westmere Xeons and after the
As the title implies this is a pinout of the SSD cable used to add a SATA-LIF SSD drive to a 2009 Xserve. I put this together by doing a pin to pin ohm out of the connector and using various resources online to identify the 24 pins on the SATA-LIF side of the connector.
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TL;DR: You must define your DNS server using an IPv4 AND IPv6 address. I have been using the built in VPNs on MacOS and iOS for years now. For a long time I used OS X server as the VPN server, but when Apple abandoned it I moved to linked and decided to harden the
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