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 […]

Black Screen when running Kodi over Raspberry Pi 4

Apparently this applies to TVs too old to have CEC. You can fix this problem by adding these configuration in config.txt. gpu_mem=320force_turbo=0hdmi_ignore_edid=0xa5000080disable_overscan=1framebuffer_width=1920framebuffer_height=1080hdmi_force_hotplug=1hdmi_group=1hdmi_mode=16hdmi_ignore_cec=1 #comment this if yours has CECdtparam=audio=ondtoverlay=vc4-fkms-v3dmax_framebuffers=2

How to Setup L2TP VPN Connection in Linux

L2TP (which stands for Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol) is a tunneling protocol designed to support virtual private networks (VPN connections) over the internet. It is implemented in most if not all modern operating systems including Linux and VPN-capable devices. The […]

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 […]