Unbox a ROK

Windows Server 2022 Essentials is sold only as a Reseller Option Kit (ROK). While I understand that this is a kind of vendor-specific OEM product, I wasn’t sure what to …

Revive a Dead UniFi USG

You’re streaming a movie and your Internet dies. You dink around until you’ve confirm that it’s not the fiber modem; it’s the trusty UniFi USG:  there are some lights flashing …

Windows Image Restore Woes

Man it is hard to restore a computer backup from a Windows Backup image. Especially if you are trying to restore to a new Hyper-V virtual machine. Here are a …

Mariadb apt update Fails on jaleco.com Repository

Today I decided to check for updates on an Ubuntu 20.04 server. sudo apt update failed with these messages: E: Failed to fetch http://mirror.jaleco.com/mariadb/repo/10.4/ubuntu/dists/focal/InRelease Clearsigned file isn’t valid, got ‘NOSPLIT’ …