Tag: Linux
All the articles with the tag "Linux".

Google Home and Kodi
Updated:I thought I'd take the opportunity to add a Google Home to my gadget collection. After all it's on a £50 off same this week, so comes in at £79 delivered.

PHP7.2 and MSSQL Drivers
I upgraded to PHP v7.2 on my Debian Buster/Sid today. Not a problem until I realised I'd broken my Microsoft SQL Drivers.

Mysql Broken After Apt Upgrade
Updated:My local install of mysql-community-server decided to fail today after applying some updates. I'm running Debian buster/sid so these kind of things are to be expected. But this was a totally new one to me.

Mobility Printing from a Guest Network
Updated:oday I have been mostly fumbling around in DNS trying to get untrusted devices on our Guest network to print to our PaperCut Pull Printing system using NAT.

VMware Remote Console for Linux
Updated:This has frustrated me for as long as I can remember. How do I manage our VMware vSphere estate when the tools provided don't work reliably on Linux? First

vSphere SSH failed to connect to host
Updated:When trying to apply patches to one of our ESXi 6.0 hosts I found I couldn't connect to it using ssh. Stopping and starting SSH from vCenter didn't work. Neither did disabling/enabling from the DCUI.

Horizon View Client v4.6.0
Updated:I decided to upgrade my VMware Horizon View client today. It still has the same kind of libgstreamer issues, this time with different libraries.

Java Keystore Management
Updated:In the process of getting a new queue management system installed I discovered they're using HTTP and not HTTPS. As part of out security process I had to r

Fun with NTP
One of our Debian servers had a large time discrepancy. Turned out NTP wasn't installed or working. After I installed ntp I still wasn't seeing a time upda

Horizon Client Stealing my Mouse
On my Linux VMWare Horizon client (v4.5.0 5650368) it doesn't seem to matter what choice I make about NOT Connecting USB Devices at Startup it still continued to take over my Logitech USB Receiver.