Kenno's Open Note

How to set timezone in FreeBSD 12.0

FreeBSD 12.0 install media :20180208 misses a lot of timezone file. E.g. it doesn’t have /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney. Ensure: zoneinfo package is installed. Then run: # tzsetup And confirm: Fri Feb 16 00:19:48 AEDT 2018

Where is the Startup folder in Windows 10?

Here’s one way to locate it: Click on the Windows Start Menu icon. Type “Run”, and click on Run (Desktop App). Then, when the Run dialog box presents, just enter shell:common startup and hit the Enter key Ref: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/startup-folder-in-windows-8

Fix: VirtualBox installation fails on macOS High Sierra 10.13.4

Just a quick note to remind myself how I fixed the problem installing VirtualBox 5.2.10 on a Mac laptop running 10.13.4. The installation seemed to go well until it reached the end and reported failing to install. I’ve had this issues for a few weeks already and Google for solution seems to have hit and missed until today. I finally found a solution posted here: https://github.com/docksal/docksal/issues/417. Basically, I need to go the System Preferences and tick the box to allow ‘System software from developer “Oracle America, Inc.” was block from loading’.

Make Github code viewer more pleasant on Firefox on FreeBSD

Ever since I have FreeBSD 12 installed on a spare laptop, I notice that this is the most frequently used portable machine at home. (Of course, I still use my main desktop, which runs Fedoda 27, for everything.) I think one of the main reasons is that I like the experiences when I started using Linux years ago – not everything works out of the box, and sometimes I’m forced to learn and understand better about an issue before it can be fixed. ...

Ansible 2.5.0 { "changed": false, "cmd": "None -s system-product-name", "msg": "[Errno 2] No such file or directory

I just updated Ansible to version 2.5.0 tonight, and I came across this issue when I tried to run a playbook for an Ubuntu 16.04 machine: PLAY [Ansible Playbook for configuring odroid.***.com] *************************************************************************************** TASK [Gathering Facts] ***************************************************************************************************************************** fatal: [odroid.***.com]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "cmd": "None -s system-product-name", "msg": "[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'None'", "rc": 2} According to the issue #37911, the remote system doesn’t have the dmidecode package installed. This is true in my case, and it can be verified as the following: ...