My server was unreachable. I stuck a monitor in to troubleshoot and saw the below: BusyBox (initramfs) prompt.

recover-ubuntu-server-busybox

After sometime of googling around, I came across

this tutorial(https://askubuntu.com/questions/137655/boot-drops-to-a-initramfs-prompts-busybox) on askubuntu.com and the procedure actually solved my issue: for keeps, I'm posting the solution:

Commands used are in Bold.

1) Exit from initramfs console
2) At second initramfs prompt, replace your partition path correctly

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I recently installed Ubuntu desktop: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS bionic:

root@UBUNTU-DESKTOP:/home/tokunbo# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic

I gathered that the method of configuring/setting up manual IPs on Ubuntu 18.04 has changed / is very different from other Ubuntu versions. Here is a sample tutorial: how to configure IP-address in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

I decided instead to configure manual

I got below error after trying to import a Kali-Linux appliance downloaded from the Kali Linux Virtual Images page

kali-offensive-security

Error reading OVA '<dir here>/kali-linux-2019.2-vbox-i386.ova' (VERR_TAR_UNEXPECTED_EOS).

Result Code:
VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0x80BB0005)
Component:
ApplianceWrap
Interface:
IAppliance {8398f026-4add-4474-5bc3-2f9f2140b23e}

vbox-error-appliance-wrap

To fix this, first extract the .ova content and then compress again as follows:

1) command: tar xvf filename.ova ....... where

Got this error while trying to do an RDP into a Windows Server 2012, R2.

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A google search and information found led me to install a below Microsoft Update on my server.

URL: 2018-05 Security Monthly Quality Rollup for Windows Server 2012 R2 for x64-based Systems (KB4103725)

I was looking to split my Debian desktop screen, tile my windows the way I want. Here is how I got it done.

Launch Windows Manager, click on Keyboard-Tab,

Scroll down via the 'Action' column to the "Tile Window" settings.

To set the "ShortCut setting", double click on each Action and Press your shortcut key-combination.

Window Manager(before)

window-manager

Windows Manager (after)

Note: Control+Super+Left....where Super is the Windows-Key

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Here is my desktop view: firefox on the left and chrome on

After installing a Guest-OS, I tried to increase the screen-resolution(using the arrow key at the lower-right corner of the virtual-box guest OS screen)... to fit into my host. Here is a screenshot of the error I got:

screenshot 2018-ubuntu-guest-os-resolution

A little googling around and I found a nifty command that solved the issue:

Log into the Guest-OS, and as root, use this:

command: apt-get install virtualbox-guest-dkms

Blogdesk is my tool of choice for updating my many blogs. Today, I get the error below:

An error occured while uploading the Post.
Error uploading images
XML Parser has reported a WININET.dll error, description is:12029 - A connection with the server could not be established.

blogdesk-xml-parser-error-1

A little troubleshooting: I found out that I had browser proxy settings configured in Internet Explorer. Removing this and using IEs default setting partially solved the problem.

Other information I found online

cisco packet tracer-1

Download Cisco Packet Tracer into a directory. Packet tracer6.3 for both Windows & Linux is available here: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~kotfid/packettracer/

Unpack the file into a directory of your choice.
command: tar -zxvf PacketTracer63_linux.tar.gz

'cd' into the directory(cpt63 - for example)

command: chmod +x /cpt63

command: ./install

First prompt: do you accept the terms of the EULA? (Y/N)
- type 'Yes' and then press Enter-key

Another prompt will appea regarding the location to install

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A very easy way to get your virtual machine environment up and running is via pre-configured images. VirtualBox supports images of a hard disk.

OSBOXES provides freely downloadable images of almost all linux distros, which can be easily imported into VirtualBox.

1) Download your preferred OSBOX image from here:
https://www.osboxes.org/virtualbox-images/

In this tutorial, I downloaded Ubuntu Server 16.04.5(32-bit) from here: https://www.osboxes.org/ubuntu-server/

2) Unpack the image file: a

I just installed Google Earth on my Debian desktop.

google-earth1

PROCEDURE

1) download google earth for i386 and place in a directory of your choice:
command: wget https://dl.google.com/dl/earth/client/current/google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb

2) unpack and install
command: dpkg -i google-earth-stable*.deb

Selecting previously unselected package google-earth-pro-stable.
(Reading database ... 244286 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack google-earth-stable_current_i386.deb