James McDonald

Copy and paste the following into a .reg file and change the path to match your system Double click on the .reg file to insert it into the registry Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;"C:\\Users\\JamesMcDonald\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Microsoft VS Code\\Code.exe"...

The only issue is it's in Europe and so the round trip times from there to here (in Australia) would be ~330ms https://www.hetzner.com/cloud https://youtu.be/5eo8nz_niiM

The other day my mother who has just turned 80 received a WhatsApp message from someone pretending to be one of her children. Mum lives with my Sister so she assumed this was me. What to look out for The Spiel: "I" had dropped my phone in the toilet, and that was why...

Go from thisTo This Create a registry file (.reg) with the following and double click it Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}] "System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree"=dword:00000000 Or merge the above using reg...

I am running VMWare Workstation 16.2.4 Pro on Ubuntu 22.04 Host Video Card: VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] (rev a1)Host CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core ProcessorVM's are hosted on a 1TB NVMe disk lspci -k | grep -EA3...

Since modern browsers stopped allowing Java applets if you try and connect to a CAB.de printer with a browser all you will see is But how do you get the same functionality provided by the old browser embedded Java applet? Goto CAB.de goto Support & Downloads =>...

https://rufus.ie/en/ Warning: I tried to burn an ISO to a USB with dd on Linux and it simply wouldn't install on my computer telling me it was missing media drivers. The above program on Windows 10 Pro burnt the ISO to the USB key correctly and I was able to start the...

This is on a Ubuntu Linux Host Running 22.04 and VMWare Workstation Pro 16.2.4 Prior to starting the VM guest remotely enable VNC make each vm listen on a different port (i.e. 5900, 5901 etc) VPN or get access to the remote VMWare Host and SSH to it and then run cli...

PackagePurpose7z2201-x64.exe7 Zip file archiver and unpackerAuthy Desktop Setup 2.2.1.exeMulti-device authenticator appChromeSetup.exeGoogle Chrome - Developer toolsFileZilla_3.61.0_win64-setup.exeSFTP Clientmysql-workbench-community-8.0.30-winx64.msiMySQL Database...

Datetimes in mysql are stored as below with a Timezone. These dates as diplayed are stored in Australia/Sydney timezone # bb_date production_date id 2024-03-16 2022-09-15 14:26:36 248078 2024-03-16 2022-09-15 14:29:51 248079 2024-03-16 2022-09-15 14:34:30 248080 When...

If you see your site logo repeated as in the example screen shots below it could be a stale W3-Total-Cache assets cache after an update From the Wordpress Admin Portal Or using wp-cli wp --path=$WP_DIR plugin is-installed w3-total-cache if [ "$?" = "0" ]; then echo...

So I have been using CakePHP since 2015 and have now started to try and solidify my learning by making Youtube Videos. Similar to Blogging once I create a Video I can refer back to it later. Videos Using Dependency Injection to move Controller Action code to Service...

Updated animate.css using latest React and react-transition-group

I got this deprecation warning after upgrading to CakePHP 4.4 "PaginatorComponent is deprecated, use a Cake\Datasource\Pagination\NumericPaginator instance directly" I thought that meant I had to run the CakePHP 4 upgrade tool and it would fix it but no. Simple Fix...

So I have been using timer apps from the App Store on my Mac to time parts that I run on Zoom. I was using Tempus but the form factor meant that I was clicking start and then having to relocate the window and hiding the control buttons. I also found that sometimes I...

Making a timer with javascript and want run it with no menus in chrome and a specific canvas / viewport size. But was always opening large. The secret to it not being the same size as an already running window is making --user-data-dir a new random location Windows...

Sometimes you want to provide a multi-value search form This form POST's to http://10.197.3.73:6002/wms/pallets/lookupSearch Thenthe lookupSearch action filters the POST data and redirects to the lookup action with the search terms in the query string The lookup...

I am currently working on integrating a client internal system with MessageXchange via an SFTP gateway for EDI with Coles, Woolworth and Metcash (when MessageXchange / Colladium - completes their accreditation) So for testing I wanted to emulate their SFTP endpoint....