22Mar 2020 by jowens No Comments

Fujitsu ScanSnap ix1500 not staying connected

Electronics, SysAdmin, Technical
Fujitsu ix1500 does not stay connected to Windows 10 Computers. So far the only thing that seems to work to get them to re-connect is a reboot, not exactly a great solution in most of my user's cases. Have tried all known troubleshooting, even some pretty far out there stuff. OK, so the issue was... drum roll please... Another Imaging device had been taking over the Scanner, my main suspect was an HP printer with scan function, once I had disabled the drivers for the other imaging units (that were not needed) it started working perfectly again. I appreciate the responses. So to be clear, the solution was Device Manager>imaging devices>disable all other devices https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2176006-scansnap-fujitsu-ix500-not-staying-connected
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07Mar 2020 by jowens 1 Comment

How to run xmrig-proxy as a service

Crypto, Linux, SysAdmin, Technical
Create a systemd service unit for it. See the examples on the man page. The simplest example shows how easy it can be to create a service unit: [Unit] Description=Xmrigproxy [Service] User=ubuntu Group=ubuntu ExecStart=/home/ubuntu/xmrig-proxy-5.5.1/xmrig-proxy-notls Restart=always [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Alias=xmrigproxy.service Store this unit under /etc/systemd/system/xmrigproxy.service, then reload systemd to read this unit file with: $ sudo systemctl daemon-reload Start the service with: $ sudo systemctl start xmrigproxy.service And enable it during startup with: $ sudo systemctl enable xmrigproxy.service You can check the status of the service with: $ systemctl status xmrigproxy.service View the output of the program by using: $ journalctl -u xmrigproxy.service -f
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