Environment & problem creation: I have an old computer running Windows 10, because the hardware is too old to upgrade to Windows 11. This runs with a user account connected to the internet/M$. Let’s call this computer C1. Then I have a new computer running Windows 11 with an offline […]
Daily Archives: January 10, 2026
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My Windows 11 (24H2) computer has Hyper-V enabled, and with that comes something called the “vEthernet Default Switch”. I have disabled NetBIOS on my ethernet adapter (via DHCP), and also the several bridge adapters for Hyper-V. But the so-called vEthernet Default Switch is recreated every time windows boots, and its […]
Here’s the Windows 11 SmartCard popup for the CAC card PIN. A recent update in the last six months has caused the dialog to occlude the first line. Is there any way to determine what caused this? Can I fix it? The dialog works so it isn’t a big deal. […]
I have a stale Proxmox (qemu) VM. I have tried qemu unlock ... and I tried to delete the lockfile (permission denied). Is there any other way as rebooting the hypervisor to release the lock? Clarification: I try to reboot a VM, but the shutdown hangs (since hours), than I […]
I’m setting up a build and I need libgl1 for some OCR work, we’d prefer the app have a turnkey install (not having to call apt-get). If it’s not possible it’s not possible (we’ll add it to a shell script…or something) but it seems surprising that say pip install opencv-python […]