SSL Certificate Private Key Validation
I had an issue the other day with an SSL Certificate and Private Key that didn’t match. Here is how I validated it. First, ensure you have the cryptography library installed. pip install …
RDP to Azure VM from Linux
Recently, I needed to access an Azure VM from my Linux machine. I initially tried using standard Remote Desktop clients like Remmina and KRDC, but none of them could successfully connect. The core …
Ollama on a Minisforum with an AMD Radeon 780M
Last year, I picked up a Minisforum mini PC, and I have to say, it’s a pretty solid machine. I was originally running Windows 11 on it, but since I recently got a new desktop computer, I decided to …
EC2 Windows Server License Activation
Recently, I moved an EC2 instance from one AWS account to another AWS account using a shared AMI. Everything booted up and seemed to work fine but the license. Windows Server just refused to activate …
Register OLE Controls
I was recently migrating a legacy ASP website. After moving everything over and running some initial tests, I started seeing a lot of errors. After some digging, I realized the issue was missing OLE …
Promote subdomain to root in Azure
I’ve been working on setting up Azure with Okta, and I wanted to use a subdomain (foo.bar.com) for federation and authentication. After spending some time researching, I found that I needed to: …
Add Azure Function App Identity to MSSQL
I’m assuming you’ve already enabled a system-assigned or user-assigned identity for this. If so, all you need to do is execute the following commands in your database: -- Create the user CREATE USER …
Adding App Identity to Directory Readers Role in Azure
I’ve been trying to use a user-assigned identity to a SQL managed instance and I was getting the following error: Msg 37353, Level 16, State 1, Line 1 Server identity does not have Azure Active …
Mautic & GCP: Automate Database Password Rotation with Secrets Manager
For a Mautic instance hosted on GCP, I needed to automate the process of updating the database password. The credentials were automatically rotated by Google Secrets Manager, requiring a solution for …
Ghostty Transparency
I have been using this terminal, Ghostty and I really love it! If you are looking for a way to set transparency, I found this setting: background-opacity = 0.9 You can play with the values until you …