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January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Linux: ‘Initramfs Unpacking Failed’ Error Upon Booting

Error: initramfs unpacking failed: Decoding failed Resolution: sudo sed -i 's/COMPRESS=lz4/COMPRESS=gzip/g' /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.confsudo update-initramfs -u# reboot…
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January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

How to Add Printers on Linux Mint 20

Overview: The Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) is an open source printing system developed by…
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January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Linux Mint 20.04 Workstation Setup

Common Workstation Utilities: # Screenshot sudo apt install flameshot # RDP Client sudo apt install…
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January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Linux: How to Add a Line into Crontab from Command Line

The easy method: newline=@reboot /usr/bin/numlockx(crontab -l && echo "$newLine") | crontab - Alternative (longer version)…
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January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Enabling Virtualization Extensions in BIOS

The following steps are general instructions to perform this task on most computer bios: Boot…
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January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

How To Inject NIC Drivers into the ESXi Installation Image

Update 1/10/2021: ESXi-7.0 isn't compatible with the drivers in our previous illustration. Thus, this is…
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January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

How to Install Visual Studio Code on Linux Mint 20.04

Linux Mint versions earlier than 20.04 would allow a user to install snapd, prior to…
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January 10, 2021January 10, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Linux: How to Manually Create a USB Bootable Drive for ESXi

Step 1: Find the USB mount root@kimlinux:/home/kim# ls /dev/s*/dev/sda /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb3 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sg1 /dev/snapshot /dev/stdin/dev/sdb…
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January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

How to Disable or Remove Windows Defender

Step 1: Disable Real-time monitoring immediately to minimize current runtime memory resource utilization Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring…
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January 8, 2021January 8, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

The 10 Commandments of C Programming

Source: some ancient programming god Thou shalt run lint frequently and study its pronouncements with…
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January 5, 2021January 5, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Java Virtual Machine Optimal Memory Tuning

Overview: There are five available garbage collectors (GC) for Java Virtual Machines (JVM). Here are…
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January 1, 2021January 1, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

How To Install Zabbix Client on CentOS 8

# Open the commonly known Zabbix ports firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=10050/tcp --permanent firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-port=161/tcp --permanent…
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January 1, 2021January 1, 2021 kimconnectkimconnect

Linux: Using Bash to Search for Files Matching Certain Extensions

# using tree: list any files in a directory parentDirectory=/home tree --prune $parentDirectory # using…
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December 31, 2020December 31, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

How To Install Microsoft Edge on Ubuntu / Debian / Linux Mint

Step 1: Add Microsoft Repository curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > microsoft.gpgsudo install -o root…
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December 31, 2020December 31, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

How to Install Internet Explorer on Ubuntu 20.04

Step 1: Install PlayonLinux kim@kimlinux:~# sudo apt install playonlinux -y Step 2: Install Internet Explorer…
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December 31, 2020December 31, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Expanding System Volume C Drive of Windows Hyper-V Virtual Machine

There are three three steps to expand a disk of a virtual machine: Connect to…
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December 31, 2020December 31, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Setup PXE Client Booting for Microsoft Deployment Toolkit with Multiple VLANs

Part A: Configure Clients Ensure that machines on the network would boot on a predetermined…
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December 30, 2020December 30, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Linux DNS Networking

DNS client on Linux: /etc/resolv.conf specifies the nameservers for resolver lookups. The order of lookup…
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December 29, 2020December 29, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

Microsoft SQL: Shrink vs Truncate

Shrink The shrink command is to reduce the physical log file size of a database.…
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December 29, 2020December 29, 2020 kimconnectkimconnect

A Case for Graylog 4

Overview: A practical real-world application to aggregate logs would be Graylog. Its current incarnation is…
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