After I got my PMP certification, I set out to find my next certification. Of the certifications I looked at, I found the ITIL Foundation certification appealing mainly because it’s required by some of the big companies that I want to work with, and it’s not a difficult certification toContinue Reading
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One user reported his machine did not let him log on after the recent update. I checked several logs to find out the Nvidia driver was not installed correctly. This message is found on /var/crash/nvidia-415. Title: nvidia-415 415.27-0ubuntu0~gpu16.04.1: nvidia-415 kernel module failed to build I tried to use several differentContinue Reading
One user updated his Scientific Linux 7 recently. The version of Samba was upgraded from 4.4 to 4.8. The samba service was not running smoothly after that. One strange problem is that some people could access the samba share, but some could not. You can see the following messages inContinue Reading
A user reported that a certain PHP script stopped working on the server. The error messages are: Traceback (most recent call last): File “”, line 1, in File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/api.py”, line 65, in get return request(‘get’, url, **kwargs) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/api.py”, line 49, in request response = session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/requests/sessions.py”,Continue Reading
I helped a user to expand storage on a PowerEdge R530 server running Windows 2016. The server has 8 bays for 3.5 hard drives. 5 out of the 8 bays are used already, so we bought 3 additional drives to add storage to the server. Here are what I didContinue Reading
Dell announced the most powerful gaming laptop, Alienware Area 51M at the 2019 CES. What’s unique about the laptop is the upgradeability. Not only you can upgrade the GPU, you can also upgrade the CPU. The price of an entry level of the model starts at $2549.99 with 8th generationContinue Reading
We helped our users with a particular problem with Outlook for Windows. The symptoms are the same. It usually happens after the users changed their passwords. When they open Outlook after the password change, it would stuck on the splash screen and you never get a chance to enter yourContinue Reading
My PS4’s storage was getting full and I could not play any new games unless I delete some old games from the hard drive. I got a good deal on a Seagate 2TB Hybrid Gaming hard drive during the Black Friday sale, so I replaced the drive in my PS4. Continue Reading
Apple has a new service program for 128GB or 256GB SSD used in 13 inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) sold between June 2017 and June 2018. Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider will service the drive free of charge. Please visit this page to check to see if yourContinue Reading
