I really wanted copy and paste between Windows and VMs running in ESX. This is what finally worked for me. Note this was for ESX “6.0.0 Update 3 (Build 5050593)”. I was using VMware Workstation 16 Player “16.1.2 build-17966106” on … Continue reading
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I needed to create a small OKD/OpenShift setup so I could play around with it and get comfortable with using it, developing on it and administering it. Additionally I wanted it to be somewhat similar in setup to what we … Continue reading
I had setup a mirrored RAID in OMV and then the PC hardware, not the disks I should emphasize, failed and I needed to move the system disk and two data disks to other hardware. Because I decided to test … Continue reading
After upgrading my MythTV server from 0.25 to 0.29 as described in MythTV on CentOS 7 I found that the last tab for MythWeb, “Backend Status” was giving me a: 404 Not Found It really had me stumped and then I … Continue reading
I upgraded my WordPress host to CentOS7 with PHP7.3 and everything seemed fine until I went to upgrade and I got: Update WordPressDownloading update from https://downloads.wordpress.org/release/en_NZ/wordpress-5.4.2.zip…Download failed.: cURL error 2:Installation Failed Also from Health check Communicating with the WordPress servers … Continue reading
MythTV is the best Open Source media recording application MythTV Wiki This article follows the path I traveled when setting up a new MythTV server running on CentOS 7. The setup I followed in setting up the host is detailed … Continue reading
There are a number of posts on how to do this. I have created this post mostly for my own records so I know I will continue to have a record of what I have done. Setup Ensure you have … Continue reading
Simple and official way to rename a host: hostnamectl set-hostname centos7-base.cantabrian Then restart the host. You should find the new name is reflected in the file: /etc/hostname Note: You only need to edit “/etc/resolv.conf ” if you are changing workgroups … Continue reading
I am setting up a new CentOS 7 server, in 2019, because I want a long life public facing WordPress host that I can update easily. For example when the “Heartbleed” security bug, in the OpenSSL cryptography library, was discovered … Continue reading
I have an aging MythTV frontend and separate backend that I need to upgrade. The plan of attack is to create a new system, get it running smoothly and work out a migration strategy. Then once the new system is … Continue reading