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Using screen after su: Cannot open your terminal

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If you try to use screen after using su to switch user you might get the following message; Cannot open your terminal ‘/dev/pts/0’ – please check.

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Force a reserved Windows 10 update early

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To force an early Windows 10 upgrade from Windows 7 or Windows 8, follow one of the two methods below. You will need administrative privileges to

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Searching Active Directory from any domain PC

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If you’re on a domain and would like to search Active Directory from any PC, you can run the following command to open the Active Directory query window.

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Use WHM CPanel as Dynamic DNS Service

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Several of the previously-free Dynamic DNS providers have gone paid. I already have a cPanel-based hosting account, so I figured why not use the DNS Zone-editing

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Internet Connection Sharing has been disabled by the Network Administrator – Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10

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To workaround this issue you’ll need to jump into the registry to enable Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). This is usually deployed via Group Policy on

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Find the BIOS Version from the Command Line and Powershell

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Similar to finding the Dell Service Tag via the command line, we can use WMI to retrieve the BIOS Version. This is useful for finding out

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tvheadend, Plex Media Server & Chromecast

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I use my Chromecast regularly for all my media streaming, however it never allowed me to watch Live TV. Why not consolidate the two? As I was

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Find a Dell Service Tag from the Command Line and Powershell

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No-one likes rearranging their desk to find the little white sticker. It can be run from regular command or PowerShell session. Administrator permissions aren’t required.

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Duplicity with Google Docs & Google Drive

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The man pages for Duplicity suggest the syntax for Google Drive is the following; gdocs://user[:password]@other.host/some_dir This is correct, but doesn’t clearly explain the purpose of

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Unblock-Us, Netflix, Hulu and OpenWRT

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Netflix and other US-based streaming sites like Hulu aren’t currently available in several countries. As a semi-legit workaround, many blocked countries are resulting to using

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