Trying to get Cloudready going on VMWare Fusion on Mac I downloaded CloudReady-Home-v78-x64.ovf and discovered I had to rename it to CloudReady-Home-v78-x64.ova to get VMWare Fusion to import it. Enable in VM Virtualisation to Complete Linux (Beta) Terminal...
How to Export Evernote Notebooks to Onenote
Just wrestled mightily with doing an export of Notebooks from Evernote with Onenote as the target Microsofts importer DOES NOT work and they have no interest in making it work. DO NOT USE IT. I observed that many of the titles and content were missing Apparently you...
Adding custom values to Contact Form 7
https://www.wpguru.com.au/generate-dynamic-tag-contact-form-7/ From the above URL is this code. Just putting it here so I can find it again <?php add_action('wpcf7_init', 'custom_code_generator'); function custom_code_generator(){ wpcf7_add_form_tag('coupon_code',...
gLabels Build Script for Ubuntu 18+
I think the default Ubuntu GLabels package doesn't contain one of the barcode libraries I use to create labels so this is the script I use to compile glabels #!/bin/sh sed -Ei 's/^# deb-src /deb-src /' /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get install cmake apt-get -y build-dep...
QNAP 4.3 QVPN Service on Android
I'm using the OpenVPN Connect client on Android and using the QNAP created VPN file with a few small changes: # added so the OpenVPN Connect client doesn't # complain about missing client cert client-cert-not-required # I uncheck the Use remote network as default...
How to get crowd consensus with Virus Scanning
Evaluating Software from the Internet Recently I've been evaluating software for personal and client use Today Operating Systems tend to have a severe level of distrust toward software downloaded from random locations and you have to explicitly bypass restrictions to...
The REST API encountered an error
The REST API is one way WordPress, and other applications, communicate with the server. One example is the block editor screen, which relies on this to display, and save, your posts and pages. The REST API request failed due to an error.Error: cURL error 28: Operation...
Moved from Telstra to TPG
So I've just moved from Telstra to TPG The same bandwidth and data for 69.99 down from $90 for the Telstra service. $20 a month difference The service is an NBN50. The bandwidth for both seems to be similar with the typical up and downs observed due to the contended...
OpenVPN Windows Connect Client and Sample .opvn files
If you are using OpenVPN and need a windows client then there is a nice client at https://openvpn.net/client-connect-vpn-for-windows/ However it is difficult to use the normal sample client.conf provided with OpenVPN and it's better to have a client.ovpn file with the...
Flat file copy options for Windows
GUI Options https://fastcopy.jp/en/ - Fast Copy This one seems to have a nice option to elevate to admin and a lot of options as to how to resolve what to copy or mirror. Command Line...
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