If you forget your root password for Bash on Windows, you can do the following to reset your password:
First, run: lxrun /setdefaultuser root . This will open a new Bash window as root.
From there, run: passwd your_username and then enter your new root password
Then change the default user for Bash back to your user: lxrun /setdefaultuser your_username
That’s it! Enjoy Bash on Windows 10.
So you’ve seen that Microsoft released an evaluation version of the Windows Server 2016 RTM and want to install it? Let’s get this started then! I’ll be doing this on my ESXI hypervisor. I’ve uploaded the ISO and created a VM. My machine had 1 CPU, 100GB of space, and 4GB of RAM.
Once you get the VM booted, you’ll see the purple screen you’ve come to recognize:
Click Next, and then you’ll have one option to install. You can’t say this is hard:
Next, you’ll have to choose the version that you want to install. You can install the eval with the desktop GUI or without it.
Choose the drive you want to install on and you’ll be off to the races.
It’s booting!!!!
And that’s it! You’ll boot into the screen below and you’ll be off on your Server 2016 adventure.
I had an iLo that I couldn’t access today via its HTTP / HTTPS interface. You can simply SSH into it and use the reset or restart command (depending on version) to reboot the device. In my case, it came back up and it was accessible!
Sadly had to use this one this morning… fire up SSH and run this command to force a reboot:
reboot -n -f
You’ll lose the SSH connection and the host will reboot
I’ve been a big fan and user of Ublock (and now uBlock Origin) for a while now, but hated having seperate whitelists on all my devices. I recently found out you can indeed sync those lists if you sync settings within your Chrome or Firefox browser!
Simply right-click on the uBlock icon and click on Options
And on the first page that pops up, you’ll see this option which you should check off:
On your various settings, rules, and whitelist pages you should now see these arrows:
Click the up arrow to upload your current list and then on your other devices, you can enable the setting and hit the down arrow to download that list. And you’re all set!
More info can be found on the github wiki