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Window XP – TimeZones – 1 Hour Out

Today I had to go old school. Problem: Windows XP time 1 hour out. The user changes it to the correct time but it keeps resetting to the wrong time. Cause: Operating System (Windows XP) is so old that it no longer gets Time Zone updates so it had the wrong Daylight...

N-Able RMM Remote Access Take Control

There is supposed to be an ability for the Take Control client to click Restart & Shutdown and then reboot into safe mode with networking and reconnect but I am finding that it sometimes doesn't work. So to work-a-round: Open msconfig Choose boot tab Safe Boot and...

SSH Terminal FREEZES

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=270724 I had an issue where my SSH terminal was freezing in a Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS. I would do a command with small output and it would return but when using larger commands or sudo it would hang. I have a funky networking...

Linux Firmware Updates

Just did a firmware upgrade on a Wyse 3040 running $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Release: 22.04 Codename: jammy To show a list of available upgrades sudo fwupdmgr get-upgrades To run the upgrade...

Cannot Access Multiple Azure Portal Blades

Problem You get a heap of errors similar to the following when trying to access different blades in Azure Portal Error: Failed to retrieve the blade definition for 'VirtualMachinePropertiesBlade' from the server. self.importscripts failed Cause DNSFilter (or another...

Selecting wrong disk as OSDisk in Azure Migrate

Problem: With a multiple disk Hyper-V VM replicated into Azure you run a Test Migration in Azure Migrate and the Boot diagnostics for the VM show "Boot failure. Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device" Cause: Selected the...

Competent Car Service in My Area

Air conditioning Just in time for the Melbourne summer our Car Airconditioning stopped working (ended up being a failed aircon hose) these guys fixed it in about an hour => https://regasmelbourne.com.au/index-2.html I drove to them but also they have a mobile service....

pfSense Community Edition on Azure with 2 NICs

$vnetName = "tgn-vnet" # storage account append the SAS to this url if you are copying from another Account $vhd = 'https://tgnvhddisk.blob.core.windows.net/vhd/TGN-PFS-01.vhd' $pfsenseResourceGroupName = "tgn-rg" $storageAccountName = "tgnvhddisk" $frontendSubnet =...

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