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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...

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...

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...

QCAD

Going back through my blog posts it looks like I first started using QCAD over 16 years ago (2009). It started with the Open Source version but then I started paying for QCAD Pro I have sometimes received DWG CAD drawings of Site Plans and used QCAD to tweak them to...