TeamCity is a Continuous Integration (CI) tool that enables software development teams to build and test their software. Sometimes the server is too busy to serve the users and the web user interface does not respond in time. TeamCity logs all actions in a log file so we can find the date and time of …
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Native resolution in Remote Desktop client on MacOSX
When you connect to a Windows computer from your Macintosh workstation the best remote desktop client is the Microsoft Remote Desktop app from the Apple Appstore. To configure the remote desktop connection for the best experience Select Native resolution Scale content for Full screen mode To be able to unselect the “Use all monitors checkbox”, …
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How to move a window on the Macintosh if the header is not visible
There are times when a window opens on your Mac and the header is out of the screen or hiding behind the Macintosh Toolbar. To show the toolbar Option 1. Click the window to select it, Press Command 1 to switch the window to full-screen mode, Press Command 1 again to exit full-screen mode, The toolbar …
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How to restore a Microsoft SQL database from backup with the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (MSSMS) user interface
There are multiple reasons to restore a database from backup. One of them can be disaster recovery, the other is to bring the production database to the developer machine. In both cases, the computer already has the old version of the database. In the new version of Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (MSSMS) we cannot find …
Error waiting for instance (i-…) to become ready: unexpected state ‘terminated’, wanted target ‘running’
When you launch a server instance with Terraform, sometimes the error message does not contain the underlying cause. When the cloud provider cannot complete the request, many times Terraform displays a generic error message: Error waiting for instance (i-…) to become ready: unexpected state ‘terminated’, wanted target ‘running’ To find the root cause of the …
Upgrade a server on an AWS EC2 instance with minimum risk and downtime
When you need to upgrade an application on an AWS EC2 instance with minimum downtime, there are many options. Upgrade an EC2 instance Stop the application, so users don’t make more changes, Create a backup of the database (snapshot of the RDS instance), Create a backup of the server (backup image of the EC2 instance), …
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Test your RightScale script without creating unnecessary revisions
There are certain functions in RightScale scripts (RightScripts) that you cannot test without launching a new instance. To test your script: Edit the Head revision of the RightScale script and save it, Attach the Head revision of the RightScale script to the Head revision of the RightScale Server Template, Select the Head revision of the …
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Custom Git Status and Git Pull commands to work with all of your repositories
If you work with many Git repositories it is easy to miss a repository when you commit your changes, and very time consuming to pull from all repositories. It is easy to automate both processes. In this example, we will place all files in the ~/Git/devops-scripts folder. If you want to place your files at another …
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Useful Bash commands
Most of these commands work in all Linux, MacOSX, and Unix shells, but some of them only work in selected shells. Find files recursively by file name pattern find . -name ‘*.MY_EXTENSION’ Find files, but exclude a directory from the search. (The -print is needed at the end of the line) find . -path ./tmp/windows …
Windows 10 can’t connect to this network
If your Windows 10 computer can successfully connect to some wireless networks, but cannot connect to certain wireless networks, it is possible, that the stored credentials are out of date. To force Windows 10 to ask you for the updated username and password In the Start Menu select Settings, On the Windows Settings page …