What version of debian am I running? What is my system uptime? What is my current display resolution? what cpu do I have? All of these questions and more may keep you up at night. This simple trick will help answer your questions so you can get back to sleep. Screenfetch Neofetch Sudo apt-get install […]
View full articleI was curious what wireless card I had in my Thinkpad T540p. I have Debian 9 installed on it. A quick search reveled an ubuntu forum post that provided some terminal commands for listing various hardware. List hardware: lspci Adding a pipe (|) and grep command with “Wireless” as the filter yields the following To determine […]
View full articleHow to install Google Chrome in Linux (Debian). One does not simply “download” chrome as on pc or mac. Nor does one simply apt-get install chrome. It’s always more complicated. The “simple” way, per allaboutlinux Go to Google’s chrome download page find the linux version “64 bit .deb (For Debian/Ubuntu)”. Download it. file name should […]
View full articleI was surprised that the “sudo” command did not work after installing debian. Fortunatly, it is very easy to install and configure. Bash: sudo: command not found How to Enable sudo http://milq.github.io/enable-sudo-user-account-debian/ Login as root su root Apt-Get sudo Apt-get install sudo Add user Adduser bob sudo Log out of root, log out of bob, […]
View full articleMy SCCM upgrade project has been sitting since August 2017. I had wanted to upgrade my SCCM 2012 to the current branch, in order to do a system deployment (200+ convertible laptops on W10 “Creators” 1703). Due to time constraints and seeming endless issues, I ended up going with simple WDS + MDT. […]
View full articleThis post was republished to JarenHavell.com at 11:43:10 AM 4/5/2016 One lazy trick the IT guy uses to fix your computer Catchy internet marketing titles aside, this article shows you how to use msra.exe to remotely connect to computers that you control. Tired of walking through the snow and rain to help with simple helpdesk […]
View full articleOriginally Posted on Tuesday, December 29, 2015 Three days before Christmas, just as I was falling asleep, I had a vision of a led Christmas tree card. I imagined it would have a number of charliplexed LED’s blinking in a decorative fashion. I had a few AT Tiny85 microcontrollers on hand from prior projects on […]
View full articleServer Room Environmental Monitoring -Light and Temperature April 27, 2011 by Jaren Update: Featured on Hackaday! Did I leave the light on in the server room again? Kind of like “did I leave the oven on” question… it’s going to bug me all night! At least I am well on my way to answering that, and […]
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