Saturday 30 March 2024

NFS Datastore inaccessible after ugprade to ESXi 8.0 update 2

After recent upgrade From ESXi 7.0 U3 to ESXi 8 update 2, i lost access to my NFS datastore. After hours of online search, i realized the culprit was the esxi firewall.

Resolution:

1. Enable SSH in esxi   

2. Log into ESXI host via ssh using putty and execute below command:

Tuesday 27 August 2019

Unable to start Picoweb on micropython [Resolved]

I've recently delved into microcontrollers and iin this case, teh ESP32 DevKIT(pictured above).
Amongst the numberous possibilites of this nifty device is its ability to function as a webserver. There are various frameworks for web application and i chose picoweb.
Instructions for deployment appeared quite simple.
IDE used in my case is uPyCraft V1.1
Assumption made is that unit already has internet connection

Friday 23 August 2019

Unable to Update Unifi AP Firmware (Resolved)

Recently i updated my Unifi Controller from v4 to v5.10.26 after which i could not recieve information regarding the units and i was unable to upgrade the APs to the current version.
after numerous checks and online information, i got no where.

Friday 29 January 2016

Install Nginx with uWSGI and Django on Raspberry Pi


This tutorial is aimed at installing a lightweight web-server  on the Raspberry Pi with python support.
The required packages are:
1. django
2. uWSGI
3. NGINX
4. Python

Note: This installation is based on the assumption you already have a correct django project.

Friday 22 January 2016

Send your public IP Address via mail.

I have a setup that i like to monitor/access remotely but the IP address assigned to me by my ISP is DHCP assigned and changes all the time and paying for a static address is expensive.
I have a raspberry pi that i use for automating processes and this hosts the script I wrote a python script that gets my public IP every 5 mins and sends it to me via mail.

Monday 26 January 2015

ORA-01882 timezone region not found[SQLDeveloper]


If you get the below error when connecting to an Oracle database for the first time, here is a resolution to the problem.

Friday 11 July 2014

RuntimeError: Unable to import decimal

After converting a python file to .exe with cx_Freeze, and attempt to run it, i get the following error even though i imported decimal as the error and various tutorials suggested.

Here is how i resolved it.