You go to your Package Center and your packages don’t load at all. The error is Connection failed. Please check your network and time settings. The problem is the URLs required by the Package Center can’t be resolved. There are a few issues that can cause...
Upon entering your office, you hear beeping from your NAS. You log in to DSM and see that there is an alert that a drive has been removed, causing a System Partition Failure. The problem is the drive was never removed. To get the missing drive to show back up again,...
If you recently changed your Unbound configuration and now you can’t access the Internet, you can verify Unbound is behaving properly by doing the following two things: Verify Unbound is actually running.Verify your configuration is actually running. This was...
I had an interesting interaction when using DietPi. I turned on the killswitch option in the VPN section and suddenly I couldn’t access the web interface for any installed package on the Raspberry Pi. It looks like DietPi didn’t include scripts to...
You added a network Location to This PC in Windows 10 from your NAS or other computer. You move stuff over and when you go to your network drive, the folders that you just moved aren’t there. Where did they go? Did something go wrong in the move? Luckily, no....
There’s so much to learn that you may be wondering how to progress in your IT career. One way is to create your own IT goal tracker. You can go as crazy as you want, even whipping up color coded Excel spreadsheets. I personally write down my goals and keep a...
This article is all about finding virtualization personal project. If you’re looking for a job in IT and someone asks you what you’re up to or what you’re working on, your answer should never be nothing. In this personal project ideas series,...
There’s a trend in bringing in outside personnel to assist with documentation efforts. IT departments know they lack proper documentation and lack the time to concentrate efforts on documenting their systems. So it’s understandable to want to hire...
Learning IPv4 CIDR notation will allow you to simplify network configurations and network information management in IPv4 networks. CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) notation is a more concise representation of network addresses. It allows network administrators to...
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