So when I have to work on some ancient out of Microsoft Support system. I take an disk image using CloneZilla to make sure I can access the data if things go skew whiff or there is a need to refer back to it later It's nice to be able to boot the OS from the...
I'm currently use a Windows 10 Pro VMWare Virtual Machine on my Fedora 32 installed workstation but getting it's getting recursive as I've installed Ubuntu in the VM. This is how to locate the home directory of the linux user cd %LOCALAPPDATA% ::...
Windows 10 ProVersion 2004 (OS Build 19041.388) In an elevated command prompt Trying to delete C:\Windows.old getting access denied Also got "The data area passed to a system call is too small." while running cacls Commands to run to delete C:\Windows.old takeown /f...
Commands to run to get moby-engine running on Fedora 32 # as root or sudo'd dnf install grubby grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="systemd.unified_cgroup_hierachy=0" # check the output of the above grubby --info=ALL sudo mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd sudo mount -t...
Start with a wide long image. This is just a screen shot of my desktop. widescreen.png Convert it to postscript using convert from ImageMagick # install ImageMagick sudo dnf install ImageMagick convert widescreen.png widescreen.ps Use poster to chop and format the...
So just had to downgrade my running Kernel to use an earlier one using: grubby --set-default /boot/vmlinuz-5.6.19-300.fc32.x86_64 I couldn't get the the vmware modules to compile on 5.7.6-201.fc32.x86_64. These things change rapidly and they will probably make an...
Network manager allows you to add certs to an OpenVPN connection but the connection fails with SeLinux enabled You know it's seLinux because when you disable seLinux it works # disable seLinux NM openvpn works setenforce 0 # enable seLinux NM openvpn fails setenforce...
So just booted my Fedora box into version 5.7.6-201.fc32.x86_64 kernel and got stuck at the UEFI boot logo and no further. Theoretically the NVIDIA driver should dynamically build and install it's kernel module in the later kernel when you follow the directions at the...
I want to change the name of a column in my database and to do that I have to create a migration and drop a table The query I want to run is UPDATE pallets SET production_date = print_date; Seem so simple in SQL but to do it in CakePHP 4 took some finding Copy data...
Just using Scribus to design and print some lapel cards Regarding Scribus - It seems that the stable version will not run or install easily on Fedora 32 so I have had to make do with the Scribus Version 1.5.6.svn Beta. So after getting around the flakey behavior of...
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