Having the following error trying to install a unsigned package from Yum repository on CentOS/RHEL? Unless you get an officially signed package(s), you will need to override/accept the installation of unsigned package (if you trust the source/issuer, of course). If installing a locally located rpm file(s), you may use the command “rpm -ivh package-name.rpm“. If… Read More »
Running into a endless loop of “Search results may be incomplete because items are still being indexed” issue while searching within a folder in Outlook and missing elements in the results? This is an occasional behavior that I have particularly noticed with Windows 7 and Office 2010, but not limited to this software version combination.… Read More »
Since the latest Windows Updates, you might be encountering the following error when you RDP to another computer or server : An authentication error has occurred. The function requested is not supported Remote computer: This could be due to CredSSP encryption oracle remediation. For more information, see https://goomicrosoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=866660 This is basically due to the fact… Read More »
Have you lost your session profile since the last time you logged in on your Windows PC (meaning login with your user account and your settings and/or files vanished)? There might be multiple causes for that, such as you logged into a temporary profile or you joined the PC to a domain. (If this happened… Read More »
Having the following issue connecting to a device using SSH after upgrading to macOS High Sierra 10.13.2? Unable to negotiate with 0.0.0.0 port 22: no matching cipher found. Their offer: aes128-cbc,3des-cbc,blowfish-cbc,cast128-cbc,arcfour,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc,rijndael-cbc@lysator.liu.se This is an expected behavior if you attempt to connect to a legacy system or network device running older version of SSH. To workaround… Read More »
Since Windows 10, Microsoft made it harder for users to disable automatic updates and downloads. When triggered automatically, there is no function on the user interface to stop them, unfortunately. If you are running with the default settings, you might at some point end up working on your computer and noticed that your bandwidth was… Read More »
There might be some (rare) circumstances where you would like to change a UID or GID on Linux system. If you know what you are doing and the implication behind this change (see warning comment below), this can be achieved using the commands below. Change User ID (UID) : usermod -u <ID> username Example :… Read More »
You probably experienced the following issue, running “Yum update” on a RHEL 7.3 system : error: Failed to initialize NSS library There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: cannot import name ts Please install a package which provides this module, or… Read More »
I had the luck of experiencing the following blue screen on a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controller server at boot lately : *** STOP: 0x0000007E (0xFFFFFFFFC0000005, 0xFFFFF880018C9836, 0xFFFFF880009A9008, 0xFFFFF880009A8860) Related facts with this server : – Haven’t been rebooted since two years – Windows Updates haven’t been run for two years – Running minimalistic… Read More »
Particularly useful when building appliances or when you ship pre-build systems to a remote location where technical knowledge of people at the remote site is limited, you can easily make the system “print” the IP acquired by DHCP or even the static assigned one to the system console login. You will need to create two… Read More »