Month: December 2021
Apple devices Private Address
Private Address is an Apple setting that attempts to keep the user’s identity private by cycling the MAC/hardware address frequently, making the Layer2 connection hard to track. This setting is ON by default. This causes problems when the DHCP lease time is set at a long duration, ie 8 days. Now imagine if you had …
Ubiquiti Unifi on Docker + Portainer
the Unifi software can find new devices but they can’t adopt successfully Solution: the Unifi controller doesn’t know the IP address outside of docker. use the following command to lookup the IP address of your linux host ip addr then in the NEW Unify UI goto Settings, System, Application Configuration, Override Inform Host=ON, and enter …
Windows Licensing Notes
OEM, Retail, Volume, (RetailUpgrade doesn’t exist anymore ?) An eval install must be upgraded/licensed using a RETAIL version standard (max 2 HyperV)/datacenter(Unlimited HyperV) Openpurchase the license, own it forever, options like Software support can be addedsub options for Business, Charity, Education, Government, Health Open Valuespread out over three annual payments and you own the license …