CarlC Computer Tips, Tricks, and Support
Like many of you, I have a Raspberry Pi that I’ve been using for a while. The only issue I’ve ever had with the Raspberry Pi is having to increase the boot partition from 44M to something descent, say 250M. Without the extra space, I’m stuck on older kernels. The first thing you will want […]
I do love VMware… ESXi lets you test many things with a few clicks of the mouse…. So, I had been testing moving from Sonicwall TZ300 to OPNsense for my home setup. While I still recommend Sonicwall for professional businesses, for home use, Sonicwall’s pricing is way over the standard home budget. OPNsense proved to […]
When trying to boot Centos 7 or Centos 8 USB sticks, I found that the installation would stop on the “Starting dracut initqueue hook” and then run the dracut initqueue stop. When you do get into the logs, you will find that this is because the system can’t find /dev/root …. It can’t see the […]
The Barracuda Email Security Appliances are really good at blocking spam, and while you can use the built in SSL certificate, it’s not really as good as having a real SSL cert for your appliance. In order to use Let’s Encrypt, www.letsencrypt.org, certs, you will need to setup the entire process on a linux […]
I happen to use remi as the repository for some of our PHP programs. After upgrading from remi php 7.0 to 7.1, I found us with these errors: [In apache error log] [24-Oct-2018 21:00:01 America/New_York] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function oci_connect() in /var/www/html/<some php program> on line “x” PHP Warning: […]
Wow… This is a problem that you kind of, after looking at it, cannot point fault at, but realize it just takes a little common sense to fix it… let me explain… When you create a new Sonicwall setup, Sonicwall by default sets the HTTPS certificate name to 192.168.168.168…. If you go into your […]
Old saying… That person needs a high five… in the face… with a chair! There are days AT&T does a great job… of making me want to ripe out my hair… AT&T has a <word of person who does not know his/her father> of a modem on their hands, it’s the Pace PLC […]
I’ve been upgrading various Windows 10 systems from the older 1607 to the newer 1703… I had done over 20 of these updates, just load the Windows update agent and off you go [or let Windows update take it’s course]. Had my own VM that was originally from Windows 7 Pro upgrade to Windows […]
I’ve reviewed the original “Veeam Endpoint Backup” and found some limitations, now Veeam has killed off the name of “Endpoint” and changed it to a free/paid version called “Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows FREE” [must get the “free” in all caps since Veeam called it that]. In my previous rant, err, complaint, the issue […]
I’m running into more cases of people needed to talk to Windows Active Directory to allow valid users to login to the Sonicwall via the SSL-VPN client. Select the [Configure LDAP…] button. Insert the NAME [FQDN] or Local IP address of the AD Server. For the “Give login name/location in tree”, the […]