Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS with a 460.80 Nvidia Driver Just did an upgrade from 5.8.0-59-generic to 5.8.0-63-generic kernel last night and this morning my monitor connected to the VGA port on the card failed to work sudo lshw -c video *-display description: VGA compatible...

This is a graphic I use to figure out which section to add the firewall rules to in the Unifi UDM/USG controller. https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003173168-UniFi-UDM-USG-Introduction-to-Firewall-Rules

Not working I first chose "Beta Channel (Recommended)" and did a Check for updates and no Windows 11 option appeared Working Then I chose "Dev Channel" and checked for updates and Windows 11 appears!!! Settings in a VMWare Guest so you can install Windows 11 Insider...

Create a dot desktop file ( ~/.config/autostart/start-windows-10.desktop) [Desktop Entry] Name=Run Windows 10 Pro at Login GenericName=windows-10-start Comment=Run Windows 10 Pro at Login Exec=vmrun -T ws -vp "Your-VM-Password" start...

Just had a powershell script that was failing When I went in to the registry key that stores the results of the script running I saw some corrupted characters The problem turned out to be I had a file that was encoded in UTF-16LE So I saved the powershell script as...

Send-MailMessage & App Password Doesn't Work So today I tried to test SMTP Auth using Powershell $appPassword = 'my_app_password_here' $From = "james@toggen.com.au" $To = "user@example.com" [securestring]$secStringPassword = ConvertTo-SecureString $appPassword...

I take lots of screenshot per day. Greenshot is a handy utility that makes that very easy. I find it useful for: capturing the settings in configuration dialogs, creating step by step how to's and documenting before and after changes....

Just a warning to myself and others. If you want to run a Windows x86 Virtual Machine on a Macbook using VMWare Fusion or similar virtualization products. Buy a Macbook with an x86 Processor. The Apple M1 is an ARM archictectured processor and while there will...

So a few days ago we started having wild weather - high winds and rain. That day (Wednesday) I lost my NBN connection. On Thursday the winds picked up and the rain bucketed down and it snapped limbs and blew down trees throughout the region where we live. It wasn’t...

I have a HFC NBN service with TPG I use a Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine Wireless Router to connect to a TPG NBN business plan The first indication of a problem Got up this morning and my Android phone had the "no internet" exclamation mark on the WiFi Icon Checking UDM...