I bought a MK726 Dell Pro Keyboard and Mouse Updated the firmware using the Dell Peripheral Manager Using the USB-A dongle it's been grabby and a challenge to use without annoyance So now I'm trying the Bluetooth connection I've paired the Keyboard using fn+F11 which...
James McDonald
Elementor Sites – Your site has a critical error page
Fix # always backup your site db and files beforehand tar -czvf /path/to/backup-example-com.tar.gz /path/to/web/root # move the elementor plugin directory away mv /var/sites/example.com/web/wp-content/plugins/elementor ~/elementor-backup # login to...
WakeOnLAN from Linux / Bash command line
The following sends a magic packet to the subnet broadcast address and wakes up the computer with MAC= MAC Address This can also be used to log into a Unifi Router and issue a WOL packet to a device on any of the connected VLAN's MAC=80:bc:de:f0:0a:b9 echo -e $(echo...
Stop Dell Display and Peripheral Manager Autostarting
On my generic self-built PC I have some Dell peripherals 2 x 27" monitors and Dell Pro 7 Slim Keyboard and Mouse - KM726 So I installed the Dell Display and Peripheral Manager (DDPM-Setup_2.3.0.9.exe) But the problem is that it keeps auto-starting every login and I...
Elementor Sites – Cannot login to Admin area after recent update
One of my Elementor Pro sites sent an email saying the below. When I tried logging into /wp-admin there was a warning about a critical error, and no login form presented Remove Elementor Plugins I ended up removing the elementor plugins tar -czvf backup.tar.gz...
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vim goes into visual mode when trying to paste into SSH VIM session
VIM disable mouse I want to be able to paste text into VIM inside an SSH session, but on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS it goes into visual mode and I can't complete the paste. So to disable this behavior (and completely disable mouse in vim) do: # create ~/.vimrc and add the...
OPNsense OpenVPN – Have OpenVPN as the default gateway and exclude some subnets from the tunnel
Newer versions of OPNsense OpenVPN don't have a field for pushing custom routes to the OpenVPN client using CSO's (Client Specific Overrides). So if you have a configuration that redirects all traffic over the OpenVPN tunnel and also want to add some custom routes to...
AllowIPs Calculator for Wireguard
Enables one to exclude IP ranges from going across the Wireguard tunnel as needed. https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2021/03/wireguard-allowedips-calculator Do it with python >>> import ipaddress >>> n1 = ipaddress.ip_network('0.0.0.0/0')...
How many Windows 11 pings was my Synology DS415+ NAS down for after I issued a reboot command from the SSH cli?
Answer: 31 pings
OPNsense automatic Outbound NAT rules not created or created on wrong interface
OPNsense in Azure with DHCP assigned IPv6 and IPv4 interfaces Automatic outbound NAT rules created on the LAN interface Disable the auto-created LAN gateways (Look under System => Gateways => Configuration) (Disable the LAN_DHCP and LAN_DHCP6 Gateways) No...
