IT Tips

Veeam Backup of a VMWare VM to Physical

I recently installed Ubuntu 24.10 on my Workstation and was running Windows 11 Pro as a guest in VMWare Pro Workstation I have a dual screen setup and on one screen Windows 11 would become non-responsive and require me to lock and re-login to the Ubuntu host to again...

Remove SentinelOne from Safe Mode

To remove all remnants of Sentinel One you use the installer .exe package without having a passphrase or site key Download the SentinelOne Installation package in exe format of the same version or greater than the sentinelone agent you have installed Boot the computer...

Git Credential Manager Setup

Goto https://github.com/git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager/releases/tag/v2.6.0 and download latest release I did this on linux or WSL to allow doing a git clone of a private repo using the https:// URL # get the latest gcm wget...

Just 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...

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...

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

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...

Exetel Speed Boost

I normally have 100/40 connection but just trying out Exetel Speed Boost which is 250/25 Worth doing if you have a big download or two to do...

Australian Cyber Security

Australian Gov. Cyber Security Websites with information on recommended Cyber Standards https://www.asd.gov.au/about/what-we-do/cyber-security https://www.cyber.gov.au/learn-basics...