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.
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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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I recently setup a Ubuntu Dev server and wanted to set it up so that it would use the Google SMTP relay to send emails. After fighting with it for a while I was able to setup Postfix to use Google SMTP relay. Here is how it is done: This config changes sender addresses from
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TL;DR: The Google Wifi router won’t forward consistently unless the target uses DHCP I recently moved to a standalone linux server for my VPN and set it up with a static IP. I was able to setup port forwarding on my Google Wifi, but it was completely hit or miss on if I would get
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I TL;DR: click the circle “i” icon in the Bluetooth menu to go to device information and select the device type as “speaker”. I recently ran into an issues when trying to play music on a Bluetooth speaker where the volume was super low. If it turned it down and then back up I would
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