If your Windows starts to crash a lot, you can try the following 3 commands to fix some common problem sources. The commands may take a while to run, but if they work, you save yourself a fresh installation of Windows.
We use Seq to monitor our applications because it allows us to see all the important information at one place. Our customised dashboards help us to spot anomalies and corelate events without much effort.
Unfortunately, there is no direct way to clone a dashboard as a starting point to customise it for a different application. But with a little workaround we can get what we need, nonetheless.
Installing packages with Winget is usually a straightforward task. However, when it comes to PowerShell 7, we need a little additional option to get everything correctly set-up.
Renewing SSL certificates for applications we deploy with Octopus Deploy is a straightforward task. We can go to the certificate store, replace the old certificate with the new one and the next time we deploy the certificate is on the server. If we need to update the certificate for Octopus Deploy itself, we need to go through more hoops that are not as clear. Let us see what we need to do.
With Windows 11 came a new context menu in the file explorer. What before was a one click action, now takes us two steps:
So far, I accepted this extra step as the price to get all the other Windows 11 benefits. But as it turns out, this is unnecessary. We can get the old context menu back with a single entry in the registry.
When we run Linux on a Docker container, we may not know what terminal application or shell currently runs. If we want to find out, we can run two commands to get an answer.
When we want to connect from the host system to an API inside a Docker container, we can map the port with
the -p option and then access it through localhost. So far, so good. But what do we need to do if we want
to make the connection in the reverse direction?
As I moved to a larger SSD, I had a problem: How can I move the systems partition of Windows at the end of the SSD so that I can use the free space to extend my existing C: drive on Windows?
In Windows, we sometimes run into files or folders we can not access, even with elevated privileges. The takeown tool helps us solve this problem by letting us take ownership of those files or directories. Once we own them, we can adjust permissions or grant access as needed.
The basic command looks like this:
If you have two repositories with the same name in GitHub Desktop, you have a hard time to figure out which one is which:
This can happen when we need to work on a fork of the project and the original one at the same time or when we have a backup in a different folder where we need to check something but do not want to do the work in our main repository.