TLDR; Try swapping to another video card. I built a small form factor PC https://toggen.com.au/it-tips/pc-build/ with a Gigabyte GeForce GT 710 Passive 2GB graphics card and have been using it with 2 displays. I am running it with Windows 11 Several times a day the...
James McDonald
CakePHP 4 – Logging to Syslog
The documentation at https://book.cakephp.org/4/en/core-libraries/logging.html#logging-to-syslog recommends logging to Syslog in production by adding the following snippet to config/bootstrap.php Log::setConfig('default', [ 'engine' => 'Syslog' ]); If you add a prefix...
Malware Removal
https://www.hitmanpro.com/en-us/hmp Malware removal product. Leaving this here so I can find it again in future if needed
blobfuse2 Setup
BlobFuse2 is a Microsoft maintained utility to mount a remote Azure Storage Account Blob Container or folder into the Linux file system and then interact with it as if it was local. You need some directories to serve as a cache and mount point. You could put them...
Ubuntu 22.04 Stuck on curtin command in-target
Just doing an install on VMWare 5.5 of Ubuntu 22.04 and have been seeing curtin command in-target for over an hour. I selected to update the installer before beginning the install and selected the standard server install (not the "minimal") When I select View full...
Better Priced Object Storage
https://wasabi.com/cloud-storage-pricing
UDM – IPS
I was trialing a site-to-site IPSec VPN between an Azure two NIC PFSense intance and my UDM (See image) I found that when I was trying to reach www.postfix.org with browser or ping I couldn't. I thought it was something to do with have a PFSense / UDM s2s VPN I tried...
Azure pfsense
Things I learn't while installing the pfsense The VHD for import into Azure has to be specially configured. A good blog article with screen shots is https://www.christofvg.be/2019/01/12/pfSense-on-Azure-Part-1-Create-pfSense-Virtual-Machine/ VHD format, Fixed Size...
Digital Ocean
The good news is Digital Ocean has a Sydney data centre. The bad news is they only support Linux workloads (unless you bring a custom image) They're a great option if you don't want to pay a premium to Azure or AWS
Add VSCode to Context Menu after Installation
Copy and paste the following into a .reg file and change the path to match your system Double click on the .reg file to insert it into the registry Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;"C:\\Users\\JamesMcDonald\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Microsoft VS Code\\Code.exe"...