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Noobie sysadmin here in over my head. I’ve deployed a new VM into our scale cluster. Can connect to it via the Scale intreface and thus gave it a static IP with the requisite subnet, gateway address, and DNS servers. It connects to the internet just fine and I can […]

I’m trying to stream my webcam over UDP using FFmpeg and connecting to it from an iOS device using VLC. This is what I currently have: #!/usr/bin/env bash ffmpeg -f v4l2 -input_format mjpeg -framerate 60 -video_size 1920x1080 -i /dev/video0 -f mjpeg udp://client-ip:1234 I’m successfully connecting to it on my phone, […]

seq 100 | ... wc -l What can fill in for ... so that that wc -l prints 10, ten times? A clunky way I can think of is: seq 100 | xargs -L10 bash -c '(for i; do echo $i; done) | wc -l' bash Wondering if there’s a […]

I have: OpenVPN server 10.14.0.1 First client 10.14.0.2, which runs: qemu VM with 10.29.0.15, Second client (me) with 10.14.0.14. All machines runs *nix OS. I want to SSH into VM. How to achieve that? What I’ve done: On the OpenVPN server: add these lines: client-to-client client-config-dir ccd route 10.14.0.0 255.255.255.0 […]

I’m using PPPoE dial-up connection instead of normal ethernet connection with a router. So there is 3 adapters on my windows 11 laptop, a physical one which shows connected but not recognized, a virtual one for PPPoE, and a wintun for the vpn. All the route are suppose to go […]

I am trying to find some Excel files that have text in them, say “LON, NON” in a cell. In Windows Explorer, I go to the folder with the files, and do a search: content:"LON, NON" I start getting results, but so far the (dozens of) files it has found […]

I have spent several days trying to get DISM to fix corrupted files. C:windowssystem32>sfc /scannow Beginning system scan. This process will take some time. Beginning verification phase of system scan. Verification 100% complete. Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. For online repairs, […]