James McDonald

When running WSL you are normally dropped into the current directory of the terminal you start wsl from. e.g. However to drop yourself into the WSL linux home run wsl.exe with a tilde character wsl ~

Yesterday I received about 9 suspicious SPAM/phish emails into my Microsoft 365 inbox It looked like a provider had been compromised and then a flood of email had been sent out. The email alias they sent to was the one I publish on the contact page of this website I...

Goto https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases and select the latest version (not preview) e.g. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases/tag/v1.22.10731.0 Under the version download the msixbundle...

Just some notes on bandwidth used while displaying cams with iVMS 4200 and a remote Hikvision DVR which has a mix of 20 different resolution cams as follows: 5ea 3840x2144 cams connected via ONVIF 15ea 1920x1080p cams connected via HIKVISION protocol Main-Stream 20...

The environment Reboot sequence - top to bottom First reboot the holder of the FSMO roles TGN-DC01.TOGGEN.INTERNAL (wait till all auto services are running again)     Remote Desktop Licensing TGN-DC03.TOGGEN.INTERNAL (wait till all auto services are running...

Draw.io is good https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases On Linux I used dia http://dia-installer.de/ but it seems to not have had a new release and Draw.io has a Linux version.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/troubleshooting/restoring-visitor-ips/restoring-original-visitor-ips A snippet to auto-download and reload nginx Checks for a valid conf and echo's success or failure #!/usr/bin/bash # get-cf-proxy-ips.sh ipv4=`curl -s...

Example of a message pattern for the Divi email contact form Name: %%First%% %%Last%% Email Address: %%Email%% Phone: %%Phone%% Message: %%Message%% Get the token names from the Contact Form Settings dialog

Warning: Updating the firmware on these cams to V14.45.5.0_220713 causes the on screen text to disappear and not be viewable when the cam is connected to a third-party DVR or when directly connected to via the Swann PC app. If you want to maintain OSD of name and...

Update: It's easier to just use the Swann Security Windows App instead of installing an insecure years old version of Firefox or other browser. Go here => https://au.swann.com/download-apps/ Problem: Trying to connect to a Swann NHD-887F IP Camera with the latest...