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This Blog contains a collection of posts starting in the mid 2000's down to the present. Mostly it catalogs day to day experiences in IT
Gather Round Adelaide April 2025
The Pink Lake
Malware Scanner Provided by Microsoft
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/safety-scanner-download Microsoft Safety Scanner %SYSTEMROOT%\debug\msert.log It has some issues with how it initially describes files as "Infected" but which turn out NOT to be an issue...
ActiveSync has been removed from Windows 11 Mail Apps so use Outlook Web Access Thunderbird and Owl-For-Exchange
Two things https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/download https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/owl-for-exchange
Network Diagrams
A good option for network diagrams which you can embed into your github readme https://www.eraser.io https://docs.eraser.io
Google Chrome won’t start
Problem: Attempting to start Google Chrome on Linux raises an error: chrome_crashpad_handler: --database is required Try 'chrome_crashpad_handler --help' for more information. [16749:16749:1216/070559.766183:ERROR:filesystem_posix.cc(63)] mkdir : No such file or...
do-release-upgrade 22.04.4 LTS Fail
lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS Release: 22.04 Codename: jammy sudo do-release-upgrade Checking for a new Ubuntu release There is no development version of an LTS available. To upgrade to the latest...
Cannot connect to WSL2 app running when networkingMode=mirror
Not sure if this is useful or will even help but leaving it posted just in case. Run the server so it binds to all local ip addresses bin/cake server -H 0.0.0.0 I have Hyper-V installed so change the rules to make it work Set-NetFirewallHyperVVMSetting -Name...
pfsense – Learnings
If your: RDP session over an Unifi UDM to pfsense IPSec VPN starts with a black screen and then drops out Terminal sessions hang when you try to load a file in VIM Then go into System => Advanced => Firewall & NAT and under VPN Packet Processing reduce the MSS. I...
Getting VMGuest.ISO OUT OF INSTALL.WIM on WINDOWS 2012 STD SERVER
find install.wim open and extract with 7zip.
Working around WSL Installation Error Windows 11
Just tried to install WSL on a fresh install of windows 11 with the recommended command run as administrator wsl --install Kept getting downloading: ubuntu an error occurred during installation. distribution name: 'ubuntu' error code: 0x80072ee7 Tried rebooting What...