Had an issue where a Windows Server 2012 R2 system could not be accessed by RDP or remote management, as the network type had changed to Private (and thus the firewall wasn’t letting these connections through). File sharing was still working.
Found solution via SpiceWorks forum. Restart the Network Location Awareness service (needed to log on to system locally to do this). This triggered a redetection and the type went back to Domain. RDP etc. then worked again.
Scenario:
Dell Latitude 7490 with existing SATA m.2 SSD. We want to upgrade to larger NVMe drive (Crucial 1Tb).
First tried new drive in Startech NVMe USB enclosure (M2E1BMU31C). Downloaded Crucial cloning software (locked version of Acronis). Problem – not recognised as Crucial drive so Acronis won’t run.
Posts suggest that the new drive should be installed in the laptop first and the system booted via USB. So take current drive out and put it in a SATA USB m.2 enclosure. Attach this to USB-C port and reboot.
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There are a couple of GUI routes for setting the system web proxy for Windows 10 – the old control panel page (via Network and Internet – Network Options):
And the new settings style:
Note that the new style does not warn you that you may not be allowed to set the proxy – you can change the settings, but if you select another panel and then go back to Proxy your settings will be gone.
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Also see Publishing websites with Jekyll, Apache and SVN
If you send console output via email (like, say the output of jekyll build as part of a SVN post-commit hook script) if there are ANSI control characters in the string (e.g. colour codes) this can break things. In this case the mail command (Debian 9 default exim) was only sending text up to the first ANSI code, which meant that the jekyll build error messages (which are yellow and red) were missing.
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The default terminal shell in macOS Catalina has changed from bash to zsh. Unfortunately it seems the Anaconda installer doesn’t know about this yet. To fix the install copy the section of code added by Anaconda from
~/.bash_profile
to
~/.zshrc
See this post for example.