James McDonald

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pfsense – Learnings

If your: RDP session over an Unifi UDM to pfsense IPSec VPN starts with a black screen and then drops out Terminal sessions hang when you try to load a file in VIM Then go into System => Advanced => Firewall & NAT and under VPN Packet Processing reduce the MSS. I...

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QCAD

Going back through my blog posts it looks like I first started using QCAD over 16 years ago (2009). It started with the Open Source version but then I started paying for QCAD Pro I have sometimes received DWG CAD drawings of Site Plans and used QCAD to tweak them to...

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Dynamics NAV

Trying to send an invoice using Microsoft Outlook from a very old version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV and getting an error dialog containing: “A call to Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.lntegration.Office.Outlook.IOutlookMessage.Recipients failed with this message: Specified...

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Tail all your Web Server Access Logs

Say for example you have split your web server access logs per domain or account e.g. /var/log/apache/www.example.com_access.log /var/log/apache/www.toggen.com.au_access.log /var/log/apache/www.exampe.com.au_access.log ... If you want to view each request in the...

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Recommended Home Office Setup

Ubiquiti UniFi WiFi 6 Dream Router HP LaserJet Pro 4101fdn A4 Mono Multifunction Laser Printer with Automatic Duplex - Print, Scan, Copy & Fax For a little over AU $1000 you can have a home office setup that includes remote VPN access, the ability to provide...

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