I recently decided to move away from using my Wifi access point as a router, and instead use an old my Raspberry Pi 2 as my router. I had a few reasons for doing this: I wanted a more up-to-date device as my internet facing box. My Wifi AP hasn’t received any firmware updates in […]
Author Archives: Jay Tuckey
How to install Kodi 18.3 on Raspberry Pi 3 with Raspbian 10 Buster
Since the release of Raspbian 10 Buster, I have really enjoyed using it on the Raspberry Pi 2 that I use as my network router. The main features I like are: Newer services and libraries, including: Nginx MariaDB Python 3.7 Fish Shell version 3.0.x However, the Pi 3 I have hooked up to my TV […]
How to enable BFQ IO Scheduler on Ubuntu 19.04 – with Ansible playbook to set it up
I was trying to enable the BFQ scheduler on my laptop running Ubuntu 19.04, because as I moved around and created some large files my computer became basically unusable. After some investigation I found the page on the BFQ scheduler and how it is meant to address these sorts of issues. There is some instructions […]
Running Nextcloud on the Raspberry Pi 3 – Nginx Reverse Proxy, fixes for upload timeouts and more
Under my TV I have a Raspberry Pi 3 running Kodi, which works great for watching/listening to all my media. However, with it idling and always-on, I thought it would be great to be able to use it as a Nextcloud server as well. Here’s some details on my setup, as well as a some […]
How to get VMWare Remote Console to install on Kubuntu 19.04 – Probably works on other Ubuntu Versions also
When trying to set up my new Kubuntu install I went to install the VMWare Remote Console, and to my annoyance the installer would fail without any feedback on what was going wrong. Here’s what I needed to do to fix it. To start with , some details of my machines and setup: Date: 2019-05-24 […]
How to Play Age of Empires 3 on Ubuntu Linux using Steam Play – Solving the “Invalid CD Key – Error loading the PID Generator DLL”
This guide is based on one I found here: https://verybadfrags.com/2019/04/14/play-age-of-empires-iii-on-linux/ It was done with the following system: Date: 2019-04-20OS: Ubuntu 19.04Steam Play Version: 4.2-3Graphics: Nvidia GTX 860m with proprietary driver This is to fix the error that you get when trying to run Age of Empires III: “Invalid CD Key! – Error loading the PID […]
How to Clean up VMware Horizon View pools without vCenter online and remove missing desktop pool from Global Entitlement using ADSI Edit
Recently I had to do a cleanup of a VMware Horizon 7 connection server, which involved removing all the existing desktop pools and recreating them. The trouble was, the old vCenter server had been removed, so when I tried to delete the pools using the Horizon Administrator Console, I got the error: Server ErrorUnable to […]
Saturday Morning Ride – 2018-10-27
Went for a great ride with a few of the guys from work this morning
Using xonsh shell with pyenv on Ubuntu 18.04 – and a few errors I had getting source-bash to work 😉
When I heard about the xonsh project – https://xon.sh I thought it sounded great, as I really enjoy the python language and am much more comfortable using python to write scripts than I am using bash. I also find the bash syntax very confusing, and am never sure of the right way to write a […]
Fix for Windows Server 2016 Stuck at “Downloading 0%” from WSUS server – UpdateServiceUrlAlternate Registry Key
I ran into an issue recently with our Windows Server 2016 servers not installing their updates. Instead, all our 2016 servers would get stuck with the message “Updates are available. Downloading updates 0%” however they would never actually download the updates. These servers were configured to our WSUS server, which was also a Server 2016 […]