2019 – PODTECH

Mac OSX

Chrome/Catalina Certificate Issue

Chrome/Catalina Certificate Issue If you are having issues trying to reach a self signed website, router or esxi host, with an error: NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED . You will notice you cannot ignore and proceed in the new Mac OSX Catalina release! A quick solution (ensure you trust the site) In the chrome browser whilst on the page,…

Miscellaneous

Upgrade Windows 2016 Eval License

Open a command prompt as an administrator and depending on the version, run either of these: Dism /online /Set-Edition:ServerDatacenter /AcceptEula /ProductKey:12345-67890-12345-67890-12345 OR Dism /online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /AcceptEula /ProductKey:12345-67890-12345-67890-12345 This is useful if you are seeing a ‘cannot upgrade from this edition’ error message.

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VMWare Workstation – Different Snapshot Directory

VMWare Workstation : Instructions to ensure snapshots can be saved in a different drive that the VM. Stop the VM Edit the VMX file add the following lines to the bottom of the vmx file workingDir = “SNAPSHOT_PATH”sched.swap.dir = “VMX_PATH” Save the file and start the VM by clicking through the vmx file (to ensure…

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AWS + Azure Swap Space

Allocating swap space to a vanilla ubuntu server on Azure or AWS. By default, you will have zero swap. Possibly resulting is unknown app/memory related crashes. Add a bit of swap for a buffer! fallocate -l 1G /swapfile;chmod 600 /swapfile;mkswap /swapfile;swapon /swapfile;echo "/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab;swapon --show;free -h;

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Ubuntu – Disable/Enable PHPMyAdmin

Enable phpmyadmin: a2enconf phpmyadmin.conf systemctl reload apache2 Disable phpmyadmin: a2disconf phpmyadmin.conf systemctl reload apache2

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Create a Pi Compute Module Image

Windows Setup Download the Windows Raspberry Pi Compute Module Boot Loader: https://github.com/raspberrypi/usbboot/raw/master/win32/rpiboot_setup.exe Install the RPI Boot Setup file With the board powered off, ensure the USB Boot jumper link is enabled. Attach the Desktops USB to the ‘Micro USB Slave’ port Attach the micro USB power supply to ‘Power In’ to power up the board […]