If you are wondering why copying text from your VMware Workstation host to your Debian guest VM isn’t working, it is most likely because you either do not have the virtualization tools installed or have the wrong one installed. VMware does provide what is commonly called “VMware Tools”, however those need to be compiled from… Read More »
As much as I love Windows Server 2016 compared to previous versions, there is nothing that annoy me more that the Server Manager opening when I logon. Fortunately, there is a way to disable it using Group Policy editor. NOTE : If you are not within a domain group environment (Active Directory), there is an… Read More »
If your Power over Ethernet (PoE) device(s) connected to an EX 4300-48p switch suddenly lose power unexpectedly after some time working just fine, you may be experiencing PoE controller software issue. First of all, verify if you are not over your PoE power budget (this could be sometimes the case when you have a LOT… Read More »
Experiencing the following issue trying to update your Debian distro using apt-get? # apt-get update Ign:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch Release Ign:3 http://repo.r1soft.com/apt stable InRelease Hit:4 http://repo.r1soft.com/apt stable Release Hit:5 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates InRelease Ign:8 https://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge InRelease Hit:9 https://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge Release Err:11 https://packages.sury.org/php stretch InRelease FailReason: ConnectionRefused Reading package lists… Done W: Failed… Read More »
If you want your SRX firewall to handle DNS requests on your network, you need to configure the forwarders to make this possible, in addition to a few other parameters. First, make sure you have no local forwarders set on the device itself as it cannot be used along with the dns-proxy service – if… Read More »
Well this is embarrassing, my 11 years old workstation crashed while I had several VMware Workstation guests running (thanks for all those years of flawless runtime!). All my VMs had auto-snapshots enabled, meaning that VMware Workstation was automatically taking snapshots of my development VMs every day. Guests VMs with snapshot does not react so well… Read More »
Experiencing the following issue with Nmap on Windows? $ nmap -P0 -sS -T5 0.0.0.0 Starting Nmap 7.70 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2019-06-04 03:14 ric dnet: Failed to open device eth0 QUITTING! It appears that some version of Npcap (or WinPcap) is causing issues. Updating Npcap to version 0.995 solve this issue. If you are running… Read More »
Having the following message while trying to setup a DNS cluster with cPanel? Unknown API Error when attempting to contact the remote system This error is usually caused by firewall blocked port (most likely tcp-2087) and/or DNS record pointing to the wrong IP. To find out, have a look at the following log file :… Read More »
Here is the command how to show the available system memory on Windows with PowerShell command : (systeminfo | Select-String ‘Total Physical Memory:’).ToString().Split(‘:’)[1].Trim() Example : PS C:\Users\user> (systeminfo | Select-String ‘Total Physical Memory:’).ToString().Split(‘:’)[1].Trim() 32,767 MB
Here are some useful commands to manage the Exim mail server queue. Show the mail queue content : exim -bp Show the amount of mail in the queue : exim -bpc Delete a specific message in the queue, with the help of the first command in this example (exim -bp) to get the message ID… Read More »