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As 2022 comes to a close, it's time to look back and reflect on the ups and downs of the past 12 months. For me, this year brought many exciting and memorable experiences, including starting a new job, diving into the world of Ruby on Rails, and welcoming my second

As a developer who recently switched from VSCode to RubyMine, I have found it frustrating that I could not figure out how to configure the IDE to open source files directly from the commit window. In VSCode, this was a simple setting that I could easily change, but in RubyMine,

Some devices on my network were unable to access Plex directly since migrating to OPNSense with Unbound DNS. After much troubleshooting adding plex.direct to Services->Unbound DNS->Advanced->Private Domains and applying/restarting Unbound those devices now connect directly. Happy streaming!

QNAP Hybrid Backup Sync 3 (19.0.0120) jobs failing due to periods in bucket names / SSL certification parsing. Simple temporary workaround!

Updating my ESXi server to ESXi-6.7.0-20200804001-standard (Build 16713306) resulted in the following error: > [InstallationError] [Errno 28] No space left on device vibs = VMware_locker_tools-light_11.1.1.16303738-16701467 Please refer to the log file for more details. Unfortunately swap was already enabled to I had to manually

Ubuntu software center on 20.04 kept throwing an error today and wasn't working. To resolve simply kill the process in your system monitor. * Open system monitor and select the processes tab * Search for snap-store and then hit end process * Re-open Ubuntu Software Center. I'm not sure why this was

> The EF Core tools version '3.1.1' is older than that of the runtime '3.1.4'. Update the tools for the latest features and bug fixes. In order to update EF Core tools on Ubuntu 18.04 from the terminal simply run the following  command: dotnet tool update

I'm typically an early adopter of new Ubuntu LTS releases and as such I reformatted my laptop with the release hoping to get going with .NET Core right away but the posted install guide on Microsoft docs didn't work. I went back to the docs a few days later and

If you're anything like me in the terminal you're continuously using the up arrow to look back through commands. Today I found that if you hold the CTRL key then press R it will load the previous command search (I use Ubuntu 20.04 LTS). Start typing and if the

1. Create a mount location on your Ubuntu host. > sudo mkdir /media/ 2. Create a credentials file (I created mine at /media/nfs-credentials with sudo touch /media/nfs-credentials and put the following lines in the file. > username= password= Edit /etc/fstab and add a line at the bottom being careful

> [email protected]:~$ sudo apt update [sudo] password for brennan: Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease Get:3 https://packages.gitlab.

Error: [InstallationError][Errno 28] No space left on device vibs = VMware_locker_tools-light_10.3.5.10430147-12986307 The solution is to manually upgrade VMware_locker_tools package by following these steps via SSH on the host: 1. cd /tmp 2. wget http://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/esx/