Author Archives: dsg_admin

Remove any potential special characters or spaces from an IP address using AWK

Posted on July 12, 2023 by dsg_admin

Got stuck earlier in an interesting regex mystery and I command-line FU’d an AWK Solution. PROBLEM I want to strip out all spaces and/or special characters from an IP address PROCESS I know how to validate an IP address no … Continue reading →

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Sudo password fails even though it is correct [Fedora]

Posted on April 15, 2023 by dsg_admin

Newer fedora distros keep track of authentication failure attempts. This may prevent sudo from working even though the password is correct! In this example, I verified my user ‘ben’ is in /etc/sudoers Yet when I performed a simple operation the … Continue reading →

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Obtain list of all physical hard drives (SSD, NVMe, VDA, HDD)

Posted on March 20, 2023 by dsg_admin

I came across an issue recently whereby I had a need to display all physical hard drives on a system whether it be HDD, VHD, or SSD (NVMe) drives that were above a certain size, excluding any USB or CD-ROM/DVD … Continue reading →

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iterm2 adds line break when copying text

Posted on October 10, 2022 by dsg_admin

I had an issue that drove me crazy for weeks. When I would highlight text in iterm2 to copy it, upon pasting it would always add a carriage return (line-break) at the end of the line. Thus the line that … Continue reading →

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Double click select entire word in terminal (iterm2) on MAC OSX

Posted on October 3, 2022 by dsg_admin

I have had issues when using Remote Desktop Manager Free (RDM) for MAC OSX. Firstly ensure that you have iterm2 selected as the terminal Next you want to be sure you are using the Legacy Engine set to NO under … Continue reading →

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Determine the Active Network Interface and IP address from Terminal on a MAC

Posted on September 28, 2022 by dsg_admin

On a MAC (OSX) Using the command line (Terminal) often you want a quick way to determine the Active Network Interfaces along with the IP address. Here is a quick ‘alias’ you can make to get the IP(s) Example Output … Continue reading →

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Chrome: Your connection is not private. NT::ERR_CERT_INVALID

Posted on September 12, 2022 by dsg_admin

PROBLEM Unable to view or access website because Chrome Shows (Your connection is not private. NT::ERR_CERT_INVALID) SOLUTION Go to URL Wait until you see the ERR_CERT_INVALID message appears Click anywhere on the page type the word “thisisunsafe” Boom Baby!

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Intel SP2600TP Board Boots at Bios Screen to error 26 in lower right corner

Posted on August 25, 2022 by dsg_admin

PROBLEM It was seen recently on a T7000 whereby an Intel S2600TP system that boots and the only thing on the screen is the following with the number 26 in the lower right corner. Text on the screen reads as: … Continue reading →

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Obtain and setting the BMC date and time using ipmitool

Posted on August 16, 2022 by dsg_admin

There are times when viewing the ipmi logs via the following command, the date and time is incorrect. To obtain current BMC time according to the BMC Dynamically change the BMC time Verify the new settings:

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Mapping MAC Numeric Keyboard on VMware Console using Karabiner Elements

Posted on August 12, 2022 by dsg_admin

I regular problem of mine was launching the VMware remote console on my MAC, and being unable to use the Numeric Keypad. I used Karabiner Elements to create my own custom rules that allow me to do this. First step … Continue reading →

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