Wondering Why Settings aren’t getting saved in HP V1910?

HP V1910 is an excellent enterprise grade managed switch for homelab usage. You can easily get it for cheap on eBay. Now, as I was messing with management UI, I noticed my settings weren’t being saved. Well, it turned out that I needed to hit the Save button (!) This took me several frustrating hours to figure out, after my settings weren’t being persisted post-reboots. You’re welcome.

Hostname Pings Don’t Work Post Eero – How to make ’em work

Just got Eero to replace Google Onhub Routers. Quickly found out that Eero lacks a DNS server which means I cannot access any of my home servers using their hostnames. Also, all my home servers were not showing any hostnames in Eero App which was very weird. Ping from my macOS computer wasn’t registering Why do I need hostname access? I’ve management URLs and Shared drives that use hostname. I’m not going to use IP …

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Trick 3: Bulk Download 4K Wallpapers (Updated)

Way way back in 2015, I wrote this post about auto downloading huge amount of 4k wallpapers. That trick worked very well. Now this trick is essentially an enhanced version of that trick. Previously, with downloading, the file names were pretty insignificant, representing only the ID of the file on the site. In addition to this, everything was downloaded in one single folder, i.e. no organization. As a result, identify what file shows what was …

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Fixing Net View on Windows 10

I had a really frustrating time fixing errors related to Windows “net view” command as well as seeing  other computers running SMB service in the “Windows Network” explorer. Issue Network explorer will not show any Computers “net view” command would result in “System Error 1231” Solution Ensure all the computers are set to the same WORKGROUP. In my case, it is “HOME”

MySQL upgrade done right

Ok, so out of a random urge to get a new version of mysql for my docker image which was showing  last updated 12 months ago, I changed the Dockerfile build to use the latest version of mysql. This means that I would go from 5.7 to 8.x. Well, of course I thought it would be as easy as using mysql:latest, restarting the container and all my databases would magically appear, guess not! So, if …

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