Remove byte-order mark from the beginning of the file
When a file is saved with BOM (byte-order mark) on a Mac or Linux machine Windows PowerShell cannot execute the script. Unfortunately the “cat” command by default does not show the byte-order mark at the beginning of the file. As Oriol stated…
Clear the browser cache for one site in Chrome
Some sites do not load properly when old cached data is stored in the web browser. To clear the cached images, cookies and other site related data for one specific site in Chrome We didn’t use the developer tools, but to be able to see the options…
Find blocking queries in MSSQL
To find queries that block others in Microsoft SQL databases, execute This returns the list of active sessions and indicates what session blocked it. To get the query of a session, execute
MSSQL database migration to another database server
When a database is migrated to another server by copying the database file or restoring it from a backup file, the original database user account references are also carried with it. Those accounts contain the account IDs specific to the original…
RuntimeError: Volume vol-… attached at xvdf but does not conform to this resource’s specifications
When the Chef aws cookbook’s ebs_volume.rb resource tries to bring a volume online, partition, and format it we get the error message: RuntimeError: Volume vol-… attached at xvdf but does not conform to this resource’s…
The installation of this package failed
When we tried to install the Microsoft Access Database Engine and Office 2007 System Driver on a Windows Server 2016 an error message popped up immediately: The installation of this package failed When we ran the installation with the logging option, we…
Invoke-WebRequest : The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel.
Older PowerShell versions do not use TLS1.2 as the default version during the SSL handshake. When the API requires TLS1.2 the error message appears: Invoke-WebRequest : The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel. To…
Extend a Linux partition
When the Linux disk drive is full, first we need to identify the reason for the drive overuse. Many times the drive is filled with one large log file, that can be identified and truncated. To list the directory sizes under the current directory execute…
Configure AWS Route 53 to host a web site in AWS
To be able to fully control the routing of a DNS name use Route 53 Create a new Hosted Zone In the Route 53 console click the Create Hosted Zone button Create a new public Hosted Zone Return to the domain registrars website and set the name servers to…
Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rename
Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rename ‘C:\Users\MY_USERNAME\.config\configstore\update-notifier-nodemon.json.3604946166’ -> ‘C:\Users\MY_USERNAME\.config\configstore\update-notifier-nodemon.json’ In case of this error…