One of our machines threw this error when we tried to install the latest Intel display driver from their website. This happens when your computer manufacturer changes a setting in the bundled driver indicating that drivers only obtained from the…
Has an SSH connection taken too long to return the password prompt? There are two possible fixes to it. There are two possible ways to fix this, First, disable Reverse DNS lookups on SSH connections on the target machine. Edit…
On of our server providers was running a deal on servers equipped with the newly released AMD Ryzen CPUs. We got a couple to test them for future placements. Right off the bat we started experiencing issues with them, the…
The elusive latest version of OpenSSL, we finally meet. As everyone knows, CentOS does not always ship with the latest version of softwares. The core repo focuses more on stability rather than freshness. We recently needed to update OpenSSL on…
Homebrew is a package manager similar to Yum on CentOS and Apt-get on Ubuntu. You may at times need packages that are available on other Linux distributions that are not, out of the box, available on your Mac. To install Homebrew is pretty…
CentOS is really slow to update versions of software’s it maintains so we’ll have to add an external repo to install PHP 5.6 on our server. Make sure you backup everything on your server. Start off by removing any previous…
We’ll be using a freshly installed server with Ubuntu Server 16.04, Ubuntu Desktop should also work. By default Ubuntu 16.04 ships with Python 3 but you won’t be able to call it if you issue the following at shell: python…
So far only one of our systems received the Windows 10 Anniversary update (build 1607). This had us a little antsy, thankfully Microsoft gives you the option to force install the update. Here’s how: First make sure you don’t already…
Let’s start off with a freshly installed server running Ubuntu 16.04 (server). This article assumes that you have Apache and PHP installed already. Issue the following command at shell to install the base ImageMagick library: sudo apt-get install imagemagick The…