Author Archives: krylon

You might find yourself in a situation where you have an old motherboard based on a phoenixBIOS chip, and you desire to update the BIOS to the latest version. In this example, I had a Supermicro X7DWE-O.  The motherboard is … Continue reading →

If using Microsoft Authenticator, you may receive the following error message when trying to remove an account: You need to disable backup to delete <account>. This can happen if you are trying to delete the account that is also acting … Continue reading →

One case study involved an Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) system that was protected with Fail2fan.  However the server was also protected with Cloudflare, so there was some work needed to get the remote IP of the attacker (this topic was … Continue reading →

On Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) running PHP 8.2, you may run into an issue after installing the latest phpMyAdmin (5.2.1) using the PPA (ppa:phpmyadmin/ppa). When you try to log in to phpMyAdmin, you will get the following message:  Error: Unknown … Continue reading →

If you have a Sprint branded Blackberry phone (in this case a Bold 9930 running OS 7.1) that has an old phone number (MDN) on it, you may find that the number remains even after performing a Security Wipe of … Continue reading →

On a Blackberry (in this case a Bold 9930 running Blackberry OS 7.1), you can check for forced encryption on the device by going to: Options -> Security -> Encryption. There you will see a lock symbol illuminated for Device … Continue reading →

If you are having trouble getting Q-Flash Plus to work, below are some tips: Use a dedicated USB disk, freshly formatted using FAT32 with Windows explorer.  I’ve read some tutorials that said smaller size thumb drives are better but I … Continue reading →

At the very end of an upgrade from version 5 to version 6 of OMV, I received the error Updating workbench configuration files … Restarting engine daemon … Errors were encountered while processing: grub-pc W: –force-yes is deprecated, use one … Continue reading →

I had an unclean shutdown of OMV and when it restarted, all of the shares were no longer accessible. Also when rebooting OMV, you may see a console message related to “a start job is running for /dev/disk/by-label/your-volume-name” that takes … Continue reading →

When rebooting a Windows 10 system that had ICS enabled, the settings would be lost. Clients that were using the shared connection could no longer access it even though it still showed enabled. The workaround was to disable and re-enable … Continue reading →