Remote Desktop usually was a breeze on Ubuntu but this time, for some reason, it refused to work. The alternate is simple, use another VNC server. Install x11vnc sudo apt-get install x11vnc Set a password for incoming vnc connections sudo x11vnc -storepasswd VNCPASSWORD at this point you are good to…
The Windows 10 update started rolling out to users a couple of days ago, 29th July to be exact. But not everyone has been able to upgrade yet. A lot of people are still waiting for that pesky pop up saying the Windows 10 update is ready to install. Well,…
I’ve got 15 work laptops that needed to be upgraded to Windows 10, all are eligible for the free upgrade but some of them refused to upgrade via the ISO method saying the setup couldn’t verify the license key. At first I suspected that the setup was throwing the error…
I recently tried to install Windows 10 on my laptop but on multiple occasions it returned to Windows 8.1 right after running the setup. HP Envy M6 Touch Smart Intel i5 4200U 8GB RAM Samsung 840 EVO 256GB MSATA SSD Hitachi 750GB 5400rpm drive The notebook originally only came…
WHM will count any file who’s owner is the same as the cpanel account. In case cPanel reports Others in the quota then run the following command as root: find / -user USER >> The resulting file will list all the files under the ownership of the account owner. Firstly,…
Horde for some reason doesn’t pick up the system timezone and defaults to UTC, to fix this you’ll need to edit Horde’s own php.ini at Add the following line (affixed with the your desired timezone) date.timezone = Asia/Singapore Now restart apache and verify the change has taken effect. Note: A…
It happens, rarely as it may, that Plesk will not report the correct disk usage for a subscription. To get it recalculate things issue the following at shell /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/statistics –calculate-one –domain-name DOMAIN.TLD Credit:
We recently ran a scan for a clients site (ssllabs.com) and got the following error messages This server supports anonymous (insecure) suites (see below for details). Grade set to F. This server is vulnerable to the POODLE attack. If possible, disable SSL 3 to mitigate. Grade capped to C.…
I recently experienced this error on a DigitalOcean node with 512MB ram. The full error below: Starting MySQL (Percona Server). ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file () The log had the following errors logged 2015-05-25 03:46:27 3518 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 128.0M InnoDB: mmap(137363456 bytes)…
Scenario: If you access a url with a trailing slash it causes the port number of nginx to be appended to the URL and in most cases either breaks the page or causes a blank page. To fix this you need to configure nginx to prevent adding the port number…
