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		<title>Migrating Virtual Machines from VMware to Proxmox</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 01:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What to Fix After Migration — and Best-Practice Proxmox VM Settings Migrating virtual machines from VMware to Proxmox is usually straightforward: convert the disk, boot the VM, and confirm it runs. But a VM that boots is not necessarily a VM that is correct, stable, or future-proof. This article documents real-world migration issues and the correct cleanup process after moving...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>QNAP NAS RAMDisk Full [Resolved]</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2022 16:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A problem that has been lingering around for over 10 years and does not seem to hold a resolution other than rebooting the QNAP is resolved, well at least for my particular situation.  Even on a fairly modern TS-1273AU-RP QNAP this problem persists. This QNAP has only one application installed, everything else is removed that can be removed.  Those apps...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>UFS Explorer Data Recovery to Recover Data from Buffalo LinkStation NAS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2021 18:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Buffalo LinkStation Pro Duo Network Attached Storage (NAS) &#8211; LS-WVL/E recently developed a problem where one of the drives had failed. The symptoms indicated that it was a drive, with the clicking sound and the red light for the drive as a fail. A replacement drive did not resolve the problem. After several other tests, it turned out that...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Windows 10 Path to Current Desktop Backgrounds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2021 22:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has made it increasingly impossible to easily manage a Microsoft Windows 10 system.&#160; The act of applying a new background to the desktop is relatively simple. But what if you would like to use that image elsewhere; where is this file stored. This wouldn&#8217;t be necessary if the background that was applied still existed at it&#8217;s original source. Here...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>iDRAC  7 and Java 8 Connection Failed Easy Work-a-round</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2020 04:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is an older Dell PowerEdge (&#8220;PE&#8221;) R720xd; it comes equipped with the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 7 (&#8220;iDRAC7&#8221;) Enterprise. The iDRAC has recently been provided a network connection and upon any attempt at launching the console from the Virtual Console Preview, it quickly resulted in the Connection failed messages. This guide will demonstrate how to download and install...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CentOS 7 vs CentOS 8 differences</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[admin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 20:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I ran into several scripts that worked perfectly on CentOS 6 and 7, but failed when moved to CentOS 8. Below are a few real examples along with the fixes. curl A script I was using (originally inspired by 802.1x authentication on macOS and a GitHub example) contained: # CentOS 7 curl --negotiate -u : ... On CentOS 8, this...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>iPhone Sucks! Another Reason</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2020 19:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a user of Windows and Linux desktop and server operating systems and a user for Android phones, I find it particularly annoying to have to figure out a problem on an iPhone.&#160; A little background.&#160; Someone I know became an iPhone user several years back because they wanted a stable phone with good support, battery life, and ease of...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Thin Provisioned Logical Volumes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2019 19:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One virtual machine for some unknown reason is utilizing thin provisioned logical volumes.&#160; This one virtual machine is the only one in a series of virtual machines.&#160; In any case, I didn&#8217;t understand what it meant to have a system running thin provisioned logical volumes until it crashed and I couldn&#8217;t revive it.&#160; Fortunately, there was a snapshot that the...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>NFL Pick &#8216;Em for 2019 Season</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[admin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2019 05:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[NFL PHP Pick &#8216;Em is a free php web app that allows you to host a weekly NFL pick &#8217;em football pool on your website.&#160; This fantastic tool replaced the use of spreadsheets.&#160; There was a time that this tool was not supported.&#160; However, I just checked out the www.phpickem.org website it is is updated for 2019. I wish I...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CheapSSL is NOT so cheap anymore!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[admin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2019 17:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t remember the specific dates or versions of the applications, but what I can state is that somewhere in recent years, Internet browsers and search engines, specifically Google, Google Chrome, and Firefox started to enforce the use of SSL certificates on websites. Websites will have higher page rankings with an SSL against those who do not. Chrome and Firefox...]]></description>
		
		
		
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