Years ago, when I spun up my OpenSuse VM to run my website and Nextcloud, I used the Nextcloud installer from the software repository included with OpenSuse. I realized after a few years now that decision was a huge mistake! Don’t ever do this!| TekWeis.com
If you want to know how to stop Wayland from being used on your machine (If using the Gnome display manager gdm3) and to force Xorg only, just uncomment the line, “#WaylandEnable=false” in the /etc/gdm3/custom.conf file. Reboot and enjoy.| TekWeis.com
This is my new favorite extension to use on my browser. This little utility blocks all those annoying, “This site uses cookies” pop-up messages. This extension is a version of the extension that is not associated with AVAST. It works great. Along with uBlock Origin, this extension makes web browsing a little more less annoying.| TekWeis.com
Dell salespeople are notorious for trying to trick you into a phone call with them by sending cold-call meeting invites to try and trick you into having a call with them. This stupid tactic needs to stop. I will never buy Dell hardware or any other professional services from them because of this bullshit tactic.| TekWeis.com
Zabbix is a fantastic open-source application for monitoring your network attached devices. In regard to monitoring Windows endpoints, there are many Windows services that you will not want to see alerts for in your Zabbix dashboard. You can add exclusions to the template so that this excess clutter is not shown. This is a question that is asked a lot in the Zabbix forums, and the answers do not always seem to clearly give a beginner to Zabbix easy to follow steps for this. So, here it is.| TekWeis.com
BrightTALK is an organization that is supposed to be a media company providing technology webinars you can watch. The problem is they are one of the most obnoxious spammers on the planet. If your email addresse gets on one of their lists, you are screwed! Their unsubscribe options do not work and seem to actually sign you up for more SPAM from them. The only way to deal with them is to reject their email and protect everyone in your organization. I do this by creating a rule in Exchange online.| TekWeis.com
There may be a time when you need to hide an installed application so that it will not be uninstalled. An easy way to keep an application from being uninstalled is to just hide it from appearing in Windows add/remove programs. This is easily achieved by adding the SystemComponent value DWORD in the uninstall section… Read More »| TekWeis.com
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I’m posting this as I spent too much time on figuring out how to convert the current IP of a machine and turn the IP address into an array. I needed this so I can change the last octet to a couple of other values that I would set later in the script. Powershell has… Read More »| TekWeis.com
Nala is an improved front-end for the apt package manager in Ubuntu/Debian Linux. It adds many features and a better visual representation to the activity of the command. A really good article about Nala can be found here at ItsFoss. There are many more features and arguments to nala than the normal apt command offers.… Read More »| TekWeis.com