TL;DR: If automatic updates aren’t upgrading your Windows 11 VM on ESXi 6.5, you can manually upgrade using the latest ISO. Download the ISO from aka.ms/downloadwindows11, mount it, and run D:/setup.exe /product server in Command Prompt (replace D: with your ISO drive letter). Do an in place upgrade and as always back up your VM before proceeding. In a previous […]
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I recently found myself needing a cheap and easy solution for playing videos on a loop at trade shows on tv and screens I may have absolutely no control over. The goal was to come up with a cheap lightweight solution that I could just pop in and go with. Although you would think there
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Creating a database for your WordPress website using the terminal is a straightforward process. Follow these steps to get started: mysql -u root -p You will be prompted to enter your MySQL root password. CREATE DATABASE wordpress_db; Replace wordpress_db with your desired database name. CREATE USER ‘wp_user’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’; Replace wp_user with your desired username and password with a strong
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The local security questions for local users on Windows can be annoying, so let’s go over how to disable them. Step 1: Accessing the Registry Editor First things first, we need to get to the Registry Editor. Press Win + R, and then type regedit. This command will open the Windows Registry. Step 2: The
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Recently, I was rummaging through my digital archives and bumped into many old videos with a .ASF extension. Now, I’m no stranger to odd file formats, but this one had me scratching my head. Thankfully, VLC Player came to my rescue for playback, but when it came to converting these to a format I could
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The 2009 Apple Xserve, also known as the Xserve 3,1 (XS3,1), never supported the Intel Westmere Xeon family. However, the 2010 Mac Pro, Mac Pro 5,1 (MP5,1), did. Since their logic boards are similar, you can flash your XS3,1 with the MP5,1 firmware. This will enable you to use 6-core Westmere Xeons and after the
As the title implies this is a pinout of the SSD cable used to add a SATA-LIF SSD drive to a 2009 Xserve. I put this together by doing a pin to pin ohm out of the connector and using various resources online to identify the 24 pins on the SATA-LIF side of the connector.
Apple 2009 Xserve SSD Cable 821-0838 056-2937 051-7975 pinout Read More »
TL;DR: You must define your DNS server using an IPv4 AND IPv6 address. I have been using the built in VPNs on MacOS and iOS for years now. For a long time I used OS X server as the VPN server, but when Apple abandoned it I moved to linked and decided to harden the
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You can quickly and easily update VMWare tools using the command line, which can be helpful in a single server environment: Start by turning on SSH on the ESXi host you need to update. This first part is optional but recommended. Log in and go to the directory containing VMWare Tools cd /productLocker/ and back
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TL;DR: The issue is likely that the EFI for VMWare isn’t finding the Boot.EFI file. You just need to tell it where it is. Scroll to bottom of article for instructions. I have an old Xserve with ESXi 6.5 on it that I got Monterey running on, however when I used Nakivo to make backups
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