Just a warning to myself and others. If you want to run a Windows x86 Virtual Machine on a Macbook using VMWare Fusion or similar virtualization products. Buy a Macbook with an x86 Processor. The Apple M1 is an ARM archictectured processor and while there will...
James McDonald
Melbourne – 8th most liveable lockdown / power outage in the world
So a few days ago we started having wild weather - high winds and rain. That day (Wednesday) I lost my NBN connection. On Thursday the winds picked up and the rain bucketed down and it snapped limbs and blew down trees throughout the region where we live. It wasn’t...
How to trouble shoot your Unifi UDM Internet Connection
I have a HFC NBN service with TPG I use a Ubiquiti UniFi Dream Machine Wireless Router to connect to a TPG NBN business plan The first indication of a problem Got up this morning and my Android phone had the "no internet" exclamation mark on the WiFi Icon Checking UDM...
Synology – Power Restore Settings
If you want your Synology to restart after a power failure remember to set the recovery options: "Restart automatically when power supply issue is fixed"
CakePHP/Queue WorkerListener Example Class
This is an example of implementing a WorkerListener class for the new CakePHP/Queue plugin as mentioned here => https://book.cakephp.org/queue/1/en/index.html#worker-events Config array // ... 'Queue' => [ 'default' => [ // A DSN for your configured backend. default:...
Remove the Mail App – Intune PowerShell Script
Create this script and run it in user context I called my script RemoveMailApp.ps1 # Important: set to run this in user context Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps | Remove-AppxPackage
Encrypt / Decrypt the columns of your CakePHP 4 DB
https://stackoverflow.com/a/32261210/9230077 The above is a good solution, but it needed updating to work with CakePHP 4 I have updated the above as below to encrypt a database field with a base64 encoded encrypted string The base64 encoding is so it can save in a...
Run Shell Commands from the MySQL Client
Saw a post that says you need to put a ! to run a shell command in the MySQL but found in my mysql client that it was \! <shell-command-here> https://electrictoolbox.com/shell-commands-mysql-command-line-client/ To drop to a shell. use \! bash To return to the the...
VSCode – XDebug 3 – MacOS – Docker Desktop
My setup MacOS Big Sur version 11.2.3 (20D91)VSCode version: 1.56.0 with felixfbecker.php-debug (v1.15.1) extension installedDocker Desktop 3.3.1 (63152)Docker container running Ubuntu 20.04 Apache, PHP 7.4.3 and Xdebug v3.0.4 Because I was running php-fpm on my...
CakePHP 4 Time Zones
Display time part only using IntlDateFormatter constants
Despite Google I couldn't find this. How to display the time part only using CakePHP 4 <?php include_once('../../vendor/autoload.php'); use Cake\I18n\FrozenTime; $now = new FrozenTime(); echo "Time only\n"; echo $now->i18nFormat(...
CakePHP 4 incorrect test table names created from Fixtures
Leaving this here as I just spent an annoying hour trying to figure out why my tests were failing. CakePHP Version: 4.2.5 Platform and Target: Ubuntu 20.04, Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu), Mysql 8.0.23-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, PHPUnit 8.5.15 What I was doing I was running CakePHP 4...
Glabels 3.4.1 Build Script for Ubuntu 20.04
Why not use the default Ubuntu package? Ubuntu was missing some of the Barcode libraries I use. Not sure if this is still true for Ubuntu 20.04 but I still build it from scratch because I use it in docker image for development This will build Glabels 3.4.1 from what I...
Toggen deploys a new website
So I have built and hosted a new website for Roger Clark Pest Management they are a family owned and operated Pest Control and Management business in Maitland NSW Australia It uses Wordpress and the Divi theme with one of the many layouts that are provided by the...
WizTree
Just downloaded WizTree (not a sponsor) from https://wiztreefree.com/ It seems to do what it says on the tin which is the ability to quickly view the size of all files and folders visually. I've given a donation which turns off the donation messages seen in exports...
Scam call from “Telstra”
Just had a call from a man with a sub-continental accent from caller ID 0734946596 Told me there was problem with my internet traffic and alluded that I had been the victim of hackers The call didn't last long because the amusement in my voice made him hang up and I...
Business NBN100 TPG with Fixed IP
So yesterday (22/1/2021) I decided to go with a new service I went from a consumer NBN50 to a "Business" NBN100 product. The difference in price is $69.99 to $109.99 per month a jump of $40 dollars or $10 a week. A couple of speed tests a few minutes apart shows the...
PC Build
I recently built myself a PC using the SilverStone SG13 Case. I am planning to use it as a Hot Spare. So any client that has a failure can keep running. Using an older 240GB SSD I had lying around and the parts listed in the table I found the CPU cooling wasn't...