After upgrading to Windows 10 a while back, I noticed that some of the taskbar icons started to look funny and had a white background instead of being transparent like the others. While this UI problem doesn't cause issues with launching or running the program, it is an annoying eyesore.
Over time, the ZyXEL access points, specifically the WRE6505 tends to degrade performance and it must be reboot to fix the problem. Usually you can just login to the web interface and reboot devices like this remotely, but unless I'm missing it there is no way to reboot those things through the web GUI. But there is still a way to do it remotely: telnet!
If you've run across this page, chances are you're looking for a way to set the default gateway on a Cisco SG300 family switch. When the switch is in layer 2 (L2) mode, it's a piece of cake. Administration -> Interface and there it is, right in front of you. (Basically...)
Starting with windows 8, it shipped with a handy tool called mklink. Before windows 8, you had to download junction.exe from Microsoft which is basically the same thing, just a different name and a bit older.
There's a new security / privacy standard coming down the pipe where laptops or devices that connect to public wifi hotspots, will spoof the internal MAC address of the device for privacy reasons. Normally, the mac address is hard wired to the network card as it comes off the factory line, but through software, you can easily change it to something different.
With Windows 10, there is a new feature that you can enable on SOME laptops that have wireless cards, labeled: Random Hardware Addresses.
Drupal 8 is officially out and it's time to learn composer! Drupal 8 has included a lot of various dependencies on other projects across the web, and one of them is the use of composer which is a PHP dependency manager. It's like yum or apt-get, but not like them at the same time...
If you're on a CentOS WHM hosting platform and added yourself as a sudo user in the wheel group but anytime you try to do sudo from your own account you get: sudo: PERM_ROOT: setresuid(0, -1, -1): too many processes the solution is actually super simple to fix.
If you're reading this article, chances are you have a Drupal installation where a module or handful of modules keep getting disabled on their own, automatically and at completely random times. I too have run into this (more than once) and decided to blog about it to get a little more exposure on how to possibly fix it.
Chances are, if you're looking for a fix to this problem, you are running on a server that once ran PHP4 or older versions of PHP5. Since PHP 5.3, the php.ini file structure has changed and using an older PHP.ini file can cause problems with PHP5.4. Simply rename the php.ini file in your root user directory and it should clear up the problem. Look at the phpinfo page for the location to a loaded php.ini file on the system and copy it over to use if you still need to use it. Some setups (I believe suPHP) use .user.ini instead of php.ini.
I use Hostgator for my website hosting since about 2006 and for the most part, they've done a fantastic job of uptime and customer service. Since I started with them back in the earlier PHP days, the server I've been assigned to, hasn't been updated to force PHP 5.3 by default yet so I'm stuck at PHP 5.2 (or PHP 4 if I so choose) except... I don't want it to default to PHP 5.2.