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CSV opened in Excel is showing   instead of a space between the DateTime and the period (am / pm) That is because it is being opened in Excel using CP-1252 instead of UTF-8 and thus rendering the NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE incorrectly...

I had 2 Domain controllers that stopped replicating their SYSVOL to each other. These are some of the commands used to understand what is happening and then to get it working again. Learnings Edit your Group Policies on the PDC / Operations Master (see the netdom...

Note: If you are filtering DNS for Proxy & Filter Avoidance or have configured you network to only allow connection to trusted DNS Servers the first two will fail so use the Web Request options linux / wsl DNS Query dig +short myip.opendns.com...

In an Administrative cmd or powershell terminal run # /expires:never sets account to never expire NOT password net user toggenator2 * /add /expires:never # Password never expires wmic UserAccount where Name="toggenator" set PasswordExpires=False # or use powershell...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

$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 =...

So just found out that budget Synology Units can't run Active Backup for Business if their CPU's aren't enabled for virtualization The RS819 runs a Realtek RTD1296 quad-core 1.4GHz CPU and the Package Center doesn't offer Virtual Machine Manager or Active Backup for...

Despite setting Google Chrome as the system default using Settings => Apps => Default apps Outlook continued to open links in Microsoft Edge. This is how to make Chrome the default for Outlook Click File => Options In the Outlook Options Dialog select the Advanced...

I found this amusing. The developers at facebook have a nicely formatted warning in the Developer Console so people don't self-own.

To rebuild the Docker service named php run this command docker compose build php --no-cache --no-cache says repull everything and build from scratch Here is a screen shot of some of the options I use to get my container to build in WSL2 on Windows 11. Specifically...

Trying to connect my browser to a web server accessible over an SSH tunnel by connecting to http://localhost:8200 and I get. I know the remote Web Server is running and the SSH tunnel is working. So what is the problem? Notice the output of ping localhost it is...

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