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Debian: Offline Package Installation

System Administration

If you need to add services or packages to a VM that has no internet access to pull down packages, here's an offline method. NOTE: These steps were performed and vetted when updating a template that was already deployed inside an isolated network (without int...

Administration
deployment
Linux
debian

Debian: Setup Static IP Address

System Administration

NOTE: This works on Debian 13.4. Here are notes and steps to assign a static IP address for a Debian host. NOTE: If you are doing this for an Ubuntu host, see this page: Ubuntu: Setup Static IP Address Net Tools (ipconfig) Install net tools, so we can use ...

debian
Administration
deployment
Linux

Windows 10 Moving Recovery Partition

System Administration

If you've tried to expand a disk, but the Recovery Volume is in the way, here's how to move it. Cached from here: https://thedxt.ca/2023/06/moving-windows-recovery-partition-correctly/ Moving Windows Recovery Partition Correctly  June 10, 2023 Recently...

Old NET Core Setup on Ubuntu 22

HowTo

This used to be the method of setting up the dot net runtime and SDK on an ubuntu machine. But, the Ubuntu packages for dotnet conflict with Microsoft’s, and give errors when attempting to list the runtimes that got installed. NOTE: This old method is left, ...

Windows: Repair a Domain Machine Account

System Administration Windows

Here's a quick way to repair the domain membership for a machine account. It doesn't require two reboots and new machine account churn. To do so, open an elevated command line prompt and do this: Test-ComputerSecureChannel -Verbose # and only if that retur...

ESXi - Fixing Inaccessible NFS Share

System Administration

When your NFS share drops off in ESX, and all the VMS show xxxxx (inaccessible), the ESX host probably lost comms with the NFS share. NOTE: See bottom of article for esx243 NFS script. To fix this isn’t a simple right-click reconnect, unfortunately.So, here ...

Visual Studio IDE Color Fixes

.NET

For true black theme, use Vanta Black theme. But, it will bork several color settings that you have to correct. Here's how to touch them up: These settings corrected several overly bright or distracting elements in Visual Studio 2026 when using a very dark ...

Windows: Remote CPU Usage

System Administration

Open powershell, and run this: Get-Counter -Counter "\Processor(_Total)\% Processor Time" -ComputerName "hostname" -Continuous -SampleInterval 2

Kat's Concert Events - WIX Setup

System Administration

Wix Concert Events Page Using CMS, Repeaters, and Velo Purpose This setup replaces a manually maintained concert-events page with a Wix CMS-backed page. The goal is to maintain all concert records in one CMS collection, while Wix automatically displays them...

Unit Test Access to Internals

.NET

Problem Sometimes, you write a unit test that needs access to a method in the assembly/library under test.But, it's visibility is set to private or protected, and not visible. This is because, a unit test project works the same as a consuming library/process...

Language and Culture Support

.NET

Here’s a starting list of language and cultures: CULTURE SPEC.CULTURE ENGLISH NAME -------------------------------------------------------------- Invariant Language (Invariant Country) af af-ZA Afrikaans af-ZA ...