Disable Copilot in Windows 11

AI technologies are great, but the new AI-powered recall feature in Microsoft's Co-pilot on Windows 11 raises privacy concerns. This feature has the capability to take periodic screenshots without notification, highlighting potential risks to user privacy(read here).

You can however chose to disable below feature with below steps...ironically provided by copilot itself 🤣

Connect-VIServer The SSL connection could not be established, see inner exception [Solved]

Recently, i've taken up familiarity with Powershell interfacing with VMWware for automation and first issue i came across was when attempting to connect to EsXi with below command

"Connect-VIServer -Server $vCenterServer"

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:

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

How to install TP-Link TL-WN725N V2(WiFi) on Raspberry Pi

Got my raspberry pi and was excited about it. After using it for a while, i decided to go wifi on it.

I purchased TP-Link TL-WN725N V2 and unfortunately, it wasn't among the plug and play devices drivers that raspberry had, so i had to download and install it. Again, unfortunately for me, it wasn't as straight forward as other installations i've done.

All round the web, there are various tutorials on how to get it running and a lot of it depends on your current pi running OS. Along the line i stumbled across a script that did it all with minimal stress.

Upgrading/Installing Openfire on Elastix

Recently my Openfire installation on Elastix has been bugging me about a new release but whenever i attempt the upgrade, it doesn't get updated. running 'yum update openfire' gives me no new update available.
This is how i went about the solution.
I went online, found pieces of solution  here and there and brought them together and the solution is listed below.
Required solution is a SSH connection,i use putty.exe.
IMPORTANT: Make a backup of all relevant data, if this is a virtual machine(like mine), make a snapshot before continuing

Upgrading Openfire

Authentication error has occurred. The specified target is unknown or unreachable. Win XP SP3 NLA Error

This was something that was really vexing me and through online search and reading LONG stories, i was able to fix it, now i'm giving the solution to others as simply as i can put it.

I have a Win2008 server farm with RD enabled and is set to recieve connections from NLA clients only.

Windows Installation With Windows Deployment Services(WDS)

After searching the net and coming accross many confusing walkthroughs on setting up WDS, i ploughed through and decided to give a straight forward and easy walkthrough on how to do it
I initially decided to do a writeup of  my experience installing Windows via WDS,