What is this article about? When you try to install VirtualBox v.6.1.30 on Windows 11, you will see the following error: This app can’t run on this device: This app can’t run because it causes security performance issue on Windows. A new version may be available. Check with your software provider for an updated version that runs on this version ...
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How to setup the OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 on your local machine
Are you looking to develop a few projects on your local machine and push them on to a real OpenShift Container Platform without having to worry about cloud hosting of your container platform? Would you like to do that on one of the newer versions of OpenShift Container Platform such as version 4.6? Look no further as CodeReady Containers puts ...
Read More »Fun with VMware on a 64 GB Mac
I’m having a lot of fun with VMware on this 64 GB Mac: My main OS, obviously, is macOS running work-related stuff.Then, I have Ubuntu Linux for development.I have Kali Linux for doing security work.I have Windows 10 for practicing exploit development.And, finally, I have macOS running in a VM for my personal stuff.I could probably get Android and iOS ...
Read More »Compute MD5 Checksum Hash on Windows and Linux
Use the following commands to print out the MD5 hash for a file. On Windows: 1 2 3 4 > CertUtil -hashfile myfile.txt MD5 MD5 hash of file myfile.txt: 76383c2c0bfca944b57a63830c163ad2 CertUtil: -hashfile command completed successfully. On Linux/Unix: 1 2 $ md5sum.exe myfile.txt 76383c2c0bfca944b57a63830c163ad2 *myfile.txt Published on System Code Geeks with permission by Fahd Shariff, partner at our SCG program. See ...
Read More »Test Environment for Ansible on a Windows System Without Linux Subsystem Support
Some weeks ago, I gave a workshop about Ansible and I was asked how to set up a local test environment for Ansible. Requirement is that this test environment can run on a Windows 10 without a Linux subsystem. I don’t why, but it was not my first customer where Windows 10 could not be used with Linux subsystem (Don’t ...
Read More »Docker | Windows 10/ Mac OS | unauthorized: incorrect username or password when trying to pull images
It happens because the docker client (on macOS or Windos 10) allows you to sign in with your email address and password. If you sign out and sign in with your Docker Username and password everything will work. So here’s a better description of the issue Description When trying to pull images from the Docker registry docker: Error response from daemon: ...
Read More »Running Ansible on a Windows System
On my last conference talk (it was about Ansible and Docker at DevOpsCon in Berlin), I was asked what is the best way to run Ansible on a Windows system. Ansible itself requires a Linux-based system as the control machine. When I have to develop on a Windows machine, I install a Linux-based virtual machine to run the Ansible’s playbooks ...
Read More »Managing Windows Services from CLI
In this short guide, I’ll be reviewing the necessary information for how to manage services from the command line on Windows workstations and servers. It should also go without saying that “services” are an integral part of pretty much all computer systems. You should also be aware that “services” are sometimes referred to as daemons (pronounced “demons”), especially in various ...
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