I had a really thorny problem recently where packets of a certain size were disappearing in action when being sent from Site A to Site B. After much troubleshooting, it looked to be a problem with the TCP MSS between...
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I've stolen this from TechRepublic, and am reproducing it here so I can find this info again when I need to. The original article is: How to properly automount a drive in Ubuntu Linux. The bit that I need to...
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PowerShell can be a very powerful tool when applied correctly, however it has some quirks - one of which is formatting size numbers for remote PowerShell connections to Office 365. By default, when you get a list of item sizes...
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When you connect a USB disk to a Synology NAS, the NAS assigns it a disk number, which forms part of the name of the mount point for the disk. The first disk you plug in will be usbshare1, and...
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Apple held their virtual WWDC2020 overnight and there were a raft of announcements. Two of the biggest however that will affect all Mac users were the announcement of macOS 11 and Apple are making their own ARM-based CPUs for Macs....
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Windows 10 (and Windows Server) has a feature where it keeps older versions of shared libraries and other things like that in a Windows Side-by-Side folder (SxS). Over time this folder grows and can end up taking up a fair...
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I had a really thorny problem recently with a client who responded to a phishing email and their account was compromised. As part of reviewing their account security, I enabled Multi-factor Authentication. Everything went well signing back into the account,...
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In the past, I've had a number of the original Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite units fail - they were all the original plastic-case units, and in each case it was the USB flash that died. It was difficult to pinpoint exactly...
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I had a very unusual problem recently with a client - his MacBook Pro running Catalina was constantly running out of disk space. He let it slide for a while, and then started to prune his data when space got...
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I have a Mac mini as a server here at the Automatica World HQ, and it's downstairs, in a cabinet, running headless with no peripherals attached. I needed to install some software that added a system extension, and was bit...
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