I have a Synology NAS and disks are redundancy protected to telerate one disk loss and because I had backups of my VM on my NAS, I should be able to re-create such a VM quickly when I lost it,
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I configured a new Ubuntu(20.04) desktop and wanted to be able to log into it remotely. Tried many times with xrdp but kept on getting “authentication is required to create a color profile“, “authentication is required to refresh the system
Use Cloud function to start and stop Cloud sql
We have setup a Cloud sql database for development but would like to save cost by shutting it down during night. This article shows how to achieve this. The overall architecture is Cloud function is used to hold Python code
Using Putty to connect to Google Cloud VM (Compute Engine)
You can always use the SSH link on the cloud page to connect to your VM, however that user name is what’s your Google account name. Below I’m showing how to use Putty to connect to the same instance with
Blurry text on big monitor (full HD)
I recently bought a 2nd monitor (Samsung S24F350FHE 23.6” Full HD) and connected it to my laptop; It however annoyed me that everything I dragged to this big screen appeared ugly – fonts looked blurry comparing to what’s on my built-in
Configure Google Cloud Platform – Creating a virtual machine
In this article, I’m going to demonstrate how to configure a Virtual Machine(VM) on Google Cloud Platform. Create a VM Go to Home->Compute Engine, and “CREATE INSTANCE” Once an instance is created, it will
Google Cloud Platform – Introduction
I’ve been trying Google Cloud platform for a while and this article is about my experience with it. If you’re interested, you can get free trial for a year ($300 worth of credit). Initially Google Cloud platform looks daunting –
Excel There was a problem sending the command to the program
It suddenly happened that whenever I tried to open an Excel file(.xlsx), I always received the following error message: “There was a problem sending the command to the program” Excel just opened itself without opening the actual xlsx file, which
Email spoofing
Email spoofing means someone claims to be somebody else and asking for something that he/she wouldn’t have had access to. For example a person could be pretending to be the CEO of the company and asking for immediate payment outside
Web hosting change
For several years one of my clients had been using Dreamhost which provided stable and good performance service. I was approached though as they received email notification from Dreamhost advising that their VPS server would not be granted full access and