Tech Tips Made Easy
I hope you had the chance to optimize your web experience by changing your Chrome flags through last week’s Android customization post. This week, we want to head back to a fairly beginner’s task, changing the settings, or completely disabling, auto-correct functionality on your Android devices. Auto-correct, or auto-cucumber, or arto-monkey as it is sometimes referred to, is responsible … Read more
The following example changes the password of login Mary5 to a strong password.
Shrinking a log file to a specified target size SQL Dev servers typically use “Simple” for the Recovery Mode while SQL Prod servers use “Full.” The SQL query below assumes that you are temporarily switching from Full Recovery Mode to Simple and then back to Full. The following example shrinks the log file in the AdventureWorks database … Read more
When trying to map a database [go to Security > Logins > username > Properties > User Mapping > Select Database > set as db_owner and then okay, I keep on getting the following error message: User, group, or role ‘someuser’ already exists in the current database. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 15023) What is causing … Read more
Set the following options in File Explorer options:
You might be replacing a broken drive or thinking about upgrading to a faster solid state drive. Whatever you’re planning, it can often be an inconvenience when you’re switching from one hard drive to another, especially if it’s the drive that contains your operating system or important documents and media files. Rather than slowly and manually copying across … Read more
See source link with photos. On one of the servers running Windows Server 2016, an additional disk (not a system one) connected as a SAN LUN over FC gets offline after each restart of the server. If you open Disk Management console (diskmgmt.msc), you can see that this disk is in Offline state. To make the disk … Read more
After setting up 2 Factor Authentication on GitHub, I couldn’t push my remote repositories from the command line anymore. When I tried to push a remote repo, the command line threw this error: ~ :> git push origin my-branchUsername for ‘https://github.com’: myusernamePassword for ‘https://[email protected]’: mypasswordremote: Invalid username or password.fatal: Authentication failed for ‘https://github.com/my-repository’ The error … Read more
In /etc/pihole/setupVars.conf you should have 2 settings: As soon as there are valid IP addresses entered, they will show up on Admin/Settings/System
When I initially set up my Pi-Hole, I only had IPv4 on my system. Thus Pi-Hole only downloaded IPv4-capable blacklists. So I turned IPv6 on on my home router, and enabled DHCPv6.I turned IPv6 on on my Pi-Hole computer, and rebooted. ip -o addr then showed that I had an IPv6 address. Actually, it has … Read more