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When trying to connect to the console of any virtual on the host: Unable to connect to the MKS: A general system error occurred: Internal error Had to sift through quite a few solutions that didn’t help to finally find … Continue reading →

In an 8-drive Qnap TS 879 Pro, we had a drive fail. After replacing the drive, the rebuild started automatically. A couple hours later, the status showed only 1% rebuilt. At this rate, it will take a week to rebuild … Continue reading →

We had an application (Dazzle) on a firewalled Windows 7 computer that was failing due to an unknown error. We’d already whitelisted the domains as suggested by Endicia here . Analyzing the problem, we found connections to se.symcb.com/se.crl and se.symcd.com … Continue reading →

I’m working with an old vb program that produces and outputs a postscript file to a printer. With the old printer, the file always printed on both sides of the paper. We tested some new printers and some models printed … Continue reading →

On ESXi 5.0, busybox is in /usr/bin but on ESXi 5.1 it’s a bit deeper, /usr/lib/vmware/busybox/bin/busybox

After updating a wordpress site using the WooCommerce plugin, the site would no longer load. Searching the web showed that many others have had the same error. Tried a variety of solutions, nothing other than restoring the downgraded site worked; … Continue reading →

I thought this would be easier than it turned out to be. Documenting my steps here in case I need to do this again someday. I had a running Amazon EC2 instance and I want to copy it for possible … Continue reading →

Sometimes when trying to do stuff with lots of files, I see the subject error. I’ve found that you can sometimes have better results if you are in the directory so that there is no path in your argument, i.e. … Continue reading →

We noticed our torrents stopped uploading. When I try to run rtorrent via /etc/init.d it just seems like it restarts, but it’s still not listening on the designated port. I enter the command manually, something like rtorrent -n -o bind=192.168.1.2,port_range=44443-44443,directory=/home/user,session=/home/user/.rtorrent-session,peer_exchange=yes,scgi_port=127.0.0.1:16789 … Continue reading →

Dyn is no longer offering their free dynamic dns service, as of a few days from now! … with mixed emotions we are notifying you that in 30 days, we will be ending our free hostname program. This change in … Continue reading →