Although it is well documented that the Dell Latitude E6420 supports up to 8GB of RAM. Since memory prices have dropped over time, it was well worth the chance to upgrade the 8GB of RAM to 16GB of RAM. This may not work for everyone, but, it certainly worked on one Dell Latitude E6420 laptop. Using crucial.com the memory scanner…
Read More »There was a time when Microsoft Windows 95 ruled the scene. That time has come to pass a long time ago. However, while going through some 20 year old notes, I came across this little gem to upgrade a system that has Microsoft DOS 6.22 with Microsoft Windows 95 to Microsoft Windows 95B and keep the settings and files in…
Read More »Everyday with Linux there seems to be something new to learn or a little tidbit that is worth remembering. This time, the sysrq. Activates the System Request Key (aka. the Magic SysRq key), if thi value is set to anything other than zero (0), the default. sysrq The System Request Key allows immediate input to the kernel through simple key…
Read More »There are many articles that more than adequately detail a basic installation of the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). This article assumes two things. The GPO has been configured and that this is a fresh installation of Windows Server 2012 with WSUS installed. No computers have connected yet. This article picks up at this point. Additional updates and configurations were…
Read More »All subversion checkouts, commits and other basic operations work as expected, but when attempting to copy, move or tag (copy) a (502 Bad Gateway) error presents itself. The error may be similar to the one presented below. Setup There is a machine running nginx on port 80 (and 443 SSL) that serves as a reverse proxy for among other things…
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CentOS7 offers a completely different approach to resetting a forgotten root password than the it’s earlier distro of CentOS6.x. Here are multiple approaches that was tested on CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core) with success. The last one being one that I combined from the many different approaches into fewer steps. Reset the Root password (version 1 Reboot the system to…
Read More »Migrating to newer version of a web application from one domain to another has had it’s challenges. Since this web application has multiple projects, each project may be migrated one at a time. The goal is to redirect traffic to the new projects as they are migrated to the new domain. As part of that goal, the projects that have…
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