After upgrading to Windows 10 I faced an ‘unrecoverable error’ when attempting to resume my virtual machines. I found articles recommending you remove the cdrom device as it is handled differently in windows 10 which also led me to notice I could not edit the virtual machine. Solution – Power down the VM. You will… Read More »
Symptoms – Chrome is very slow to load, or just doesn’t load at all. If you check process explorer you can see all the chrome processes listed as normal but chrome will not open on screen. If you leave it long enough you might be lucky enough to come back and find chrome open on… Read More »
Upgraded to windows 10 and getting errors when sending emails from Outlook. Chances are you are using Google App sync which is not yet supported on Windows 10. Google is always behind when it comes to the latest MS software updates so its always good to remember to check if Google App sync supports the… Read More »
If you want Chrome to open pdf’s in the browser rather than downloading the pdf’s type the following into the chrome address bar – chrome://plugins/ Enable Chrome PDF viewer Pdf files should now open in the browser when you click on any pdf link on the web.
We often have problems with customers running out of space on a hard drive. There is a simple solution which works from Windows XP upwards. Take a look at junctions – https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb896768.aspx First download junctions.exe and add it to your system folder so that it can be run from any folder. If there is an… Read More »
I started with the minimal install and had to complete the following steps to get a basic web server up and running – I used create CT to setup the container in Proxmox, specifying a network device rather than IP Manually created & edited /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 Manually edited /etc/sysconfig/network Started the virtual machine Ran additional commands… Read More »
Occasionally a backup locks one of my KVM machines. Running any of the commands from the UI or from the command yields no results – Stop trying to aquire lock…TASK ERROR: can’t lock file ‘/var/lock/qemu-server/lock-136.conf’ – got timeout Reset trying to aquire lock…TASK ERROR: can’t lock file ‘/var/lock/qemu-server/lock-136.conf’ – got timeout Solution – /etc/init.d/cman stop… Read More »
This normally happens if there is whitespace included before or after your php tags in the functions.php file of your current theme. If you are able to edit your functions.php file you can remove the blank space and it nornally resolves the issue. If you are looking for a less hands on approach I found… Read More »
Running Apache on Centos 7 and getting garbage when downloading files using IE? You need to modify the /etc/mime.types file and append the msi file extension to the line relevant line as follows – application/octet-stream bin lha lzh exe class so dll img iso msi Resave the file once modifed and restart apache. This should… Read More »
A Google Chrome update means your java plugin does not run as expected. Simply enable the following by typing it in the chrome address bar -> enable, and then relaunch the browser. chrome://flags/#enable-npapi