Just install one of the old supported OSes on another drive, reboot and run the firmware update. It's a self extracting executable.

With HP and Dell, it's their intention to support you by providing an additional layer of management on top of the actual manufacturers product. But you have to be in warranty to be able to leverage that support. If you intend to run equipment longer than the 5 year warranty, don't use Dell or HP or live without any firmware upgrades or support. If you use Dell or HP, replace hardware when it's out of warranty.

HP Gen8 servers are from 2012-2013 so 7-8 years old and not the best candidates for new installations.

To do that....

Edit...

sudo vi /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf

And set...

user = "root" group = "root"

And then...

sudo systemctl restart libvirtd

@Seb1982 said in Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop Lag:

My Dell XPS 13 lags after upgrading to 20.04. All graphics are fine, but the system simply does not respond quickly enough. Sometimes all is fine, but often the pointer is about half a second behind, so is typing.

And, I assume, it was snappy under the previous version?

Since the initial issues, mine has stayed responsive.

If you install using the above method, it never tells you the random password assigned to your management interface. But no fear, there is a tool that sets that for you and is super, duper easy.

cd /usr/local/lsws/admin/misc sh admpass.sh

It is interactive. And voila.

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@JaredBusch said in Create Internal CA for Windows LDAPs and Linux apps:

@pmoncho said in Create Internal CA for Windows LDAPs and Linux apps:

When I export the key, I want to export the private key as well?

That depends. If you are only ever going to have devices using the key to auth against the DC that you created it on, then no.

But if you need to install the cert on a device and then have another device auth to that first device, then that first device needs the private key.

Thank you for the explanation.

@scottalanmiller said in Making an RDP Terminal Server with Ubuntu Linux:

I recommend the Remmina RDP client tool, it's the bomb.

I love Remmina as a client.

@IRJ said in Documenting Firewall Exceptions and Rules:

@DustinB3403 said in Documenting Firewall Exceptions and Rules:

I had to add some rules to a CentOS 8 server because some things stopped working that were previously working. (Not sure why this worked before, but it did)

Adding a few rich rules resolved the issue immediately.

None of this makes any sense. It's deny all and permit by exception. Why would you do anything else?

That's the default, and that's what was working just fine for a long time. Suddenly it began "not working" and needed the exceptions made.

@black3dynamite said in Mouse Issues on Windows 2019 on KVM Through Virt-Manager:

EvTouch USB Graphics Tablet is the default when selecting Server 2019 config template.

That's the one.

And the template didn't load properly when we selected it! It kept going back to Alpine!

@JaredBusch said in Deploying NodeBB 1.13 on CentOS 8 with MongoDB 4.2:

You can only remove this line if you are going to host the reverse proxy on the same instance.

No reverse proxy needed if you are going to just look at it locally without going over the network.

@dafyre said in How to mount remote filesystem over ssh (both Windows & Linux):

@black3dynamite said in How to mount remote filesystem over ssh (both Windows & Linux):

@dafyre Installing sshfs and winfsp via choco is older than the ones from GitHub.

If you installed them via choco do this to mount at the host root directory or other directories.
https://github.com/billziss-gh/sshfs-win/issues/102

Host root directory
\\sshfs\remoteuser@host\..\..

Specific directory like /var/www
\\sshfs\remoteuser@host\..\..\var\www

Thanks for the pointer. I did install using choco. I'm able to make it work now.

Edit: Just to see if I can, I may go back and do straight installs.

As I said above with the latest version I mount the root directory with \\sshfs.r\user@host

However, if you want to mount another directory like /var/www you have to do:
\\sshfs.r\user@host\var\www\
The trailing \ is very important!
It just doesn't work without it if your path is more than one directory deep. You also need to use backslash and not the forward slash.

@Obsolesce said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:

@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:

@Obsolesce said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:

@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:

@CCWTech said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:

@scottalanmiller said in Ubuntu Adjust Screen Brightness:

On Ubuntu 19.10, there is a brightness setting on the power screen in settings. But it doesn't seem to do anything. You can slide it, but nothing happens. Anyone having luck adjusting screen brightness on Ubuntu?

We've tested on multiple machines, all seem the same. Both Nvidia and AMD cards same lack of adjustment.

Running 19.10 and I don't even have a brightness setting at all.

I have it, but it affects nothing.

Laptop or desktop monitor? I can't imagine it working on anything but a laptop.

Desktop

That's why. I know of no OS that controls monitor brightness unless it's a laptop/tablet/phone/etc. Never an external monitor with separate power source.

Me either, but @CCWTech was asking for it. I've never looked for it before. No idea what it should do in that situation.

@JaredBusch said in Live boot:

No he wasn't. he was helping someone else.

Your response is both confirmation and denial to my question.

I get that it's a definition about what live booting is. I was asking why was he posting it. You stated "No he wasn't" (wasn't what, helping someone?) and then said he was helping someone.