How to add USB devices to a VirtualBox VM

Here’s how you enable USB support for for your VM. Just be sure that your system account is part vboxusers system group! You’ll get a list of connected USB devices. Take note of the vendorid and productid of the device […]

Setting up SSH Access on Synology storage and Create New Git Repository

Go to the Control Panel > Advanced Mode > Terminal & SNMP. Click the Enable SSH Service option under the Terminal tab. Change your default SSH port, if desired. NOTE: Synology restricts SSH/Telnet connections to members of the Administrators group […]

BMC Remedy AR System Server – 9.x – AREA Configuration with TLS, Import SSL certificate

Does Remedy support TLS protocol?   Remedy works with TLS protocol since the time it has become serverj.   Thus now Remedy can work with SSL or TLS. How to create keystore and import the certificate to configure Remedy with SSL/TLS?General Steps:1. […]

Install and run Xscreensaver over elementary OS

Select and install: xscreensaver, xscreensaver-data, xscreensaver-data-extra, xscreensaver-gl, and xscreensaver-gl-extra sudo apt-get install xscreensaver -y sudo apt-get install xscreensaver-data xscreensaver-data-extra -y sudo apt-get install xscreensaver-gl xscreensaver-gl-extra -y Configure xscreensaver as a startup application: mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart echo “[Desktop Entry] Type=Application Exec=xscreensaver […]

How to prevent Elemenary OS from sleeping or suspending

Figured this out; the settings in System Settings->Power don’t seem to make any difference, at least on  particular BIOS or motherboard or whatever. However, this command will fix the problem and prevent the machine from ever sleeping: sudo systemctl mask […]

Workarround to convert overlay objects into custom

1) Export Base + Overlay in .def format. 2) Delete Base objects in .def file. 3) Delete Base info from .def file. 4) Find and Replace all “90015\2\2\” with “90015\2\4\” from the .def file. 5) Delete all __o sufixes from […]

Automatically passed parameters into a Windows batch file

The following table outlines how you can modify the passed parameter.   Parameter Description %1 The normal parameter. %~f1 Expands %1 to a fully qualified pathname. If you passed only a filename from the current directory, this parameter would also […]

Enabling case-insensitive searches with an AR System server 8.1 or 9.x with Oracle

Note: This is a guide provided by Support as a courtesy. There may be better or different ways to set Oracle to case-insensitive and it is up to the DBA Team to perform this Oracle task.   Enabling case-insensitive searches with […]