Some reasons NOT to use Windows 11 Home on business computers If you run a small business of one or a few employees you might buy Laptop or Desktop computers with Windows 10 Home and never have an issue with it. But why would you make the extra investment in Windows...
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Command to check the PPPoE connection on a UDM (Unifi Dream Machine)
Logging in via SSH ssh -l root <ip address of udm> Checking a PPPoE Connection (NBN) After logging in via SSH tail -f /var/log/messages | grep pppd The above command will let you see the PPPoE connection being established and connected if everything is OK or show...
Can I disable Network Disk access to a VM Disk and still boot the Azure VM from It?
Question: Can you Disable public and private access on a managed disk and still boot the Azure VM? Answer: Yes, after doing the below I could still boot the VM and run it.
What is AM and PM?
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/am-and-pm.html
Ubuntu 25.04 Virtualbox Guest on Windows 11 Pro Host with 4K Screen Resolution
Just installed Ubuntu 25.04 on Virtual Box v 7.1.8 r168469 To get the full 4K resolution I had to Increase Video Memory to 128MB Enable 3D Acceleration Boot Ubuntu 25.04 Manually change the resolution in the VM to 3840 x 2160 And because I want things easy to read...
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Malware Scanner Provided by Microsoft
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/safety-scanner-download Microsoft Safety Scanner %SYSTEMROOT%\debug\msert.log It has some issues with how it initially describes files as "Infected" but which turn out NOT to be an issue...
ActiveSync has been removed from Windows 11 Mail Apps so use Outlook Web Access Thunderbird and Owl-For-Exchange
Two things https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/download https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/owl-for-exchange
Network Diagrams
A good option for network diagrams which you can embed into your github readme https://www.eraser.io https://docs.eraser.io
Google Chrome won’t start
Problem: Attempting to start Google Chrome on Linux raises an error: chrome_crashpad_handler: --database is required Try 'chrome_crashpad_handler --help' for more information. [16749:16749:1216/070559.766183:ERROR:filesystem_posix.cc(63)] mkdir : No such file or...