Thursday, March 28, 2019

Outlook has a portrait orientation that causes emails to be opened with a single click, and it is a severe (ok, minor, but still) annoyance when using the window snap feature on a desktop.

Tagged as Outlook Windows Snap Tiling Window Manager

Monday, March 25, 2019

Learn how to setup the TL-WN725N USB wireless adapter in Linux from the command line. These instructions use wpa_supplicant and Arch Linux.

Tagged as Linux Wireless TL-WN725N Command Line

Sunday, March 17, 2019

Changing NTFS permissions with powershell saves a lot of time when you need to make changes to a large group of files or when it is required as part of a larger automation project. This article should help you understand everything you need to know to manipulate security permissions with PowerShell.

Tagged as PowerShell Windows Security NTFS

Monday, November 26, 2018

When a user account is repeatedly locked out how do you find the cause? What server are the attempts coming from and why? In this post I will explain how to find the source of failed logon attempts and provide a checklist of solutions.

Tagged as Windows Active Directory Account Lockout Credential Manager SYSTEM Context

Thursday, September 13, 2018

These are 4 essential pieces of information about jumbo frames (mtu 9000) you must know. What are Jumbo frames? How do you can you test whether they are working? What are symptoms of misconfigured network equipment? Read to find out

Tagged as Networking

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Learn how to extend your VirtualBox VM's virtual disk using VBoxManage. There is no GUI option to extend your VirtualBox disks. This post shows you how to get this done from the command line

Tagged as Virtualization VirtualBox VBoxManage

Thursday, December 7, 2017

This post details how to extend a Linux LVM volume without requiring a reboot. This works from the command line in both CentOS7 and Ubuntu

Tagged as Linux LVM Storage Command Line

Saturday, March 25, 2017

When you maintain infrastructure from a Windows machine you need a great SSH client. I've used many of the best clients and have found wht I would call the best SSH client workflow on Windows - ConEmu/cmder. Click to find out why

Tagged as Windows Linux Infrastructure SSH cmder conemu

Friday, March 17, 2017

Here we're going to look at setting up WordPress on your own server, or a cloud VPS, running Ubuntu 16.04LTS. There are *free* options for hosting your own site that are better than paying for a cheap host. Read more to find out how...

Tagged as WordPress Linux Hosting Install HowTo Ubuntu LEMP

Monday, January 30, 2017

The Linux TOP command provides valuable monitoring and troubleshooting information. However, there is a lot of information in a very condensed format and it can be tricky to sort through what is important and what isn't. Click to learn more about TOP.

Tagged as Linux TOP Linux TOP Linux Monitoring Linux Troubleshooting