Microsoft Publishes the contents of each Windows 10 update to allow for you to review and understand what is contained there-in. With the forced updates and limited ability to delay updates it's more of a retrospective "What we did to your computer" page. It also...
James McDonald
Creating a G-Suite non-billed Admin Account
I have been looking for a way to support G-Suite clients without them having to pay an extra license for me to admin their G-Suite Accounts The question on whether this can be achived has been asked and answered in the Google forums with two answers: NoYes The second...
The OneDrive Recycle Bin gives you 93 Days to Change Your Mind
If you have a Microsoft 365 subscription (Formerly Office 365) you get a recycle bin that stores deleted files for 93 days. This can be a handy if you have a I shouldn't have deleted that moment
VMWare Workstation 15.5.6 build-16341506 on Fedora 32 kernel-core-5.7.16-200.fc32.x86_64
Last Default Fedora 32 Kernel that VMWare Workstation just works with no mods If you like you can use an older kernel and just pin it to be the default kernel 5.6.19-300.fc32.x86_64The last Fedora 32 kernel that works with VMWare Workstation that I know of. Compiling...
Embedding a create-react-app project into a CakePHP 4 View
Updated: 17 May 2022 Step 1 - Create the React App I find it good to create the React project inside my CakePHP APP directory so I can keep it under the same git repository. To create the react project use create-react-app: cd /var/www/wms/src mkdir React npx...
Cups Allow all from localhost and Basic Auth from remote
<Location /> # tgn Use auth and disable remote printing Order allow,deny Allow from 127.0.0.1 AuthType Default Require user @SYSTEM Satisfy any </Location> <Location /admin> # tgn Allow remote administration with Auth AuthType Default Require user @SYSTEM...
Microsoft Redeemable Licenses
Electronic Licenses If you specify download only product for Windows 10 Pro then that license is digitally linked to your Microsoft Account and can't be redeemed to another Microsoft Account. To my knowledge you can't then transfer them to another entity What you need...
Network Utilities
Windows based scanner https://www.advanced-ip-scanner.com/
Do I Need to Publish a Privacy Policy Page on my Small Business Website?
The following link has both a summary of what type of business requires a privacy policy and a step by step questionaire to help you decide if you need a privacy policy. Handy if you have ever wondered if you need one on your website....
Outlook 2019 – “The operation cannot be performed because the message has been changed.”
Update 16 Sept 2022: From the comments this post doesn't appear to be a solution to the problem.If you find a solution please comment belowToggen Outlook 2019 account is IMAP User keeps getting "The operation cannot be performed because the message has been changed."...
Getting WordPress 5.5 Sitemaps Working with Nginx
Using the nginx recommended config from https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/recipes/wordpress/ The following config works. Please note the following considerations You need to tell Nginx to send all requests for /robots.txt and /wp-sitemap*.xml to...
Stop New Kernels Becoming the Default – Fedora 32
I have 2 things that require I stay on the current version of my Fedora 32 kernel NVidia proprietary driver that doesn't seem to auto install despite being dkms enabledVMware® Workstation 15 Pro version 15.5.6 build-16341506 which won't run on kernels later than...
From Clonezilla Image to VMWare Workstation – A Journey
When I have to work on ancient Windows NT4, XP, 7 out of Microsoft Support systems I sometimes take a disk image using CloneZilla or Disk2VHD just in case I want to access the data if things go skew whiff or there is a need to refer back to it later...
How to find the Windows Subsystem for Linux Home Directory for the Current User
I'm currently use a Windows 10 Pro VMWare Virtual Machine on my Fedora 32 installed workstation but getting it's getting recursive as I've installed Ubuntu in the VM. This is how to locate the home directory of the linux user cd %LOCALAPPDATA% ::...
Removing C:\Windows.old
Windows 10 ProVersion 2004 (OS Build 19041.388) In an elevated command prompt Trying to delete C:\Windows.old getting access denied Also got "The data area passed to a system call is too small." while running cacls Commands to run to delete C:\Windows.old takeown /f...
Docker on Fedora 32
Commands to run to get moby-engine running on Fedora 32 # as root or sudo'd dnf install grubby grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="systemd.unified_cgroup_hierachy=0" # check the output of the above grubby --info=ALL sudo mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd sudo mount -t...
PDF Poster
Start with a wide long image. This is just a screen shot of my desktop. widescreen.png Convert it to postscript using convert from ImageMagick # install ImageMagick sudo dnf install ImageMagick convert widescreen.png widescreen.ps Use poster to chop and format the...
July 2020 VMWare Player and Workstation won’t compile their modules on kernel 5.7.6-201.fc32.x86_64 Fedora 32
So just had to downgrade my running Kernel to use an earlier one using: grubby --set-default /boot/vmlinuz-5.6.19-300.fc32.x86_64 I couldn't get the the vmware modules to compile on 5.7.6-201.fc32.x86_64. These things change rapidly and they will probably make an...