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IT related tech tips since 2006Just tried Qubes OS for a few days
https://www.qubes-os.org Love the concept Installed Windows 11 in a cube but had to bypass Windows 11 checks for TPM to get it installed Found Windows 11 networking with the default settings was non-performant (my 100/40 internet service was running at 30/<30 in...
iVMS-4200V3.12.0.7_E Fails to Start and Cannot add devices
Problem: Trying to run HikVision iVMS on Windows 11 Pro and I just couldn't get the iVMS device manager to show and the app would hang with an error message saying do I want to wait or close it. Error from Application Event Log Log Name: Application Source:...
Install Fedora 41 on M1 Macbook VMWare Fusion
Alternate download images available here https://alt.fedoraproject.org/alt/ Get the Fedora 41 netinst ISO https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/41/Everything/aarch64/iso/Fedora-Everything-netinst-aarch64-41-1.4.iso Download and create VM in...
Adding a CUPS-PDF printer with custom output dir on Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
I'm doing this inside a Dockerized CUPS so may not work as hoped for you. Install the non snap version of CUPS Login via SSH or get a terminal up and copy cups-pdf.conf to cups-pdf-[slug_name_here].conf e.g. Open cups-pdf-test.conf and edit the out folder Note: When...
Clean Graphics Driver with DDU
https://www.wagnardsoft.com/display-driver-uninstaller-DDU- Be careful you have to find the actual DDU and not all the misleading download links How to use: https://youtu.be/F8OLhUAPDq0?si=phauUo0Cqt6zyXYV
MSP – Information
Great resource website and community for MSP's https://thetechtribe.com/
Docker Desktop on Ubuntu 24.10 on Proxmox (Nested Virtualization)
kvm-ok says that it is not supported sudo kvm-ok INFO: Your CPU does not support KVM extensions KVM acceleration can NOT be used Restarting after changing CPU to 'host' did the trick! I have an AMD that supports virtualization KVM Hardware virt is on but Docker...
Check for Valid PDF on Linux Command Line
Just become a first time user of PDFgear and found it exiting with a .NET Runtime Event ID 1026 error when opening a PDF. The PDF I was trying to load and edit was generated by a web application that in turn generated PDF's using GLabels. So I needed a way to see if...
PDFgear an Adobe PDF Pro Alternative
Adobe PDF Pro is getting close to $30AUD a month and at almost $350 per user / per year that is a big spend. The other problems is the constant nag to push you into the Adobe Cloud and then the continued account drain to have something available that you might only...