So a while ago I posted a link to an infographic about how to choose a suit that fits well. Here is another one http://www.montagio.com.au/cms/how-should-a-mens-suit-fit
James McDonald
Extracting Icons to make Custom Launcher Icon on mac
I use Homebrew to install wine to run Microsoft compatible apps Install Homebrew by following the instructions from http://brew.sh/ brew update brew install wine Install your Microsoft Windows App ... mount DVD or ISO image, or copy the contents of the DVD to a USB...
For the Seriously Lazy – wakeonlan
Note: The caveat to using Wake-on-LAN to wake your Synology box is that if you switch off the switch that connects your Synology to your network it will loose it's MAC address table map (the one that tells the switch which Ethernet port the Synology is plugged into)....
Multi-Device Mobile Access to Files at Home On A Budget
How to create a home office with remote access to all your files... First things first get yourself a good NAS device. Install it on your home network. I have found Synology** works well and has all the features you will need. Get a NAS with at least 2 disks and make...
LibreOffice: Creating a Table of Contents that doesn’t Include Heading 1
I frequently create documents in LibreOffice that have a Title in Heading 1 style on page one, the next page contains a Table of Contents which I want to have use the Heading 2 through to Heading X styles but not Heading 1 Here is an example of a Table of Contents...
Real SEO
I've been looking at SEO and finding that there is more to it than just links and keywords. One of the more important things is that the website has good content. Meaning something that a real human will find compelling and worth reading. Googles algorithm appears to...
Lucid Chart – Online Visio Replacement
Just discovered Lucid Charts. It is a diagramming program you can run in your browser. First look: Feature Rich - Provides generic Network and Network Infrastructure Shapes. It provides Cisco, Azure and AWS shapes and a heap of 'clip-art' network and equipment shapes...
Am I my Et Cetera’s Keeper?
Just discovered etckeeper yum install etckeeper etckeeper init -d /etc etckeeper commit "Inital Commit" Once you have done the above, your /etc will be under git version control. You can then make changes to configuration files in /etc/* and etckeeper will...
Attitude Diseases
Indifference (drift) (Hot or cold not lukewarm) What if it’s the wrong direction? Even if you go in the wrong direction but with feeling you’ll find out quicker and can adjust. Inspiration or desperation Strong Feeling people do better than people you need to...
DNS Propagation Test Site
This is a handy site if you are wondering why some parts of the global internet are still resolving an old IP address after a DNS record update. https://www.whatsmydns.net Go to the above site, enter your domain name and wulah!
Docker LOL
Just bought copy of www.dockerbook.com and am running through the code samples as I read. Just did a docker ps -a and noticed one of the auto-named containers was "condescending_torvalds". Wondering now what other names Linus will be called as I keep doing the...
Reclaiming Disk Space by Deleting old inetpub logfiles
cd /d c:\ du -l 1 . ... output of du showing big directories ... cd /d C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles REM for test C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles>forfiles /M *.log /S /D -09/11/2015 /C "cmd /c echo @path" REM fo real C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles>forfiles /M *.log /S /D...
Switching Wine versions using Homebrew on a Mac
After a recent brew upgrade I tried to launch one of my Wine applications and it exited with a "Program Error" screen Apparently when a brew upgrade runs it links to the version of the program that it has just installed. In my case it made wine version 1.6.2_1 the...
C struct written to file loses settings
I am having an issue with a Siemens WinCC control system that writes C struct data to files on disk under windows. The C function in the control system (see below) reads the Tag values from the user interface into a struct and then writes it to disk with a call to...
Installing Postgres 9.x for Postbooks on Synology Diskstation with Docker
I wrote a post about hacking another instance of Postgres onto the Synology Diskstation. But now that Synology has docker you can do it nicely. Don't know if I have included everything needed below but let me know in the comments if you have questions. You need to...
Run a command from your bash history
For years I have been typing history and then copying and pasting the result to the command prompt to rerun a command. But you can simply type history, make a note of the number and then type !xxxx where xxx is the number of the command. e.g.: history !1210
Who’s down with RPC? Apparently not me
Just got this error from an Outlook 2010 client: Cannot open your default e-mail folders. You must connect to Microsoft Exchange with the current profile before you can synchronize your folders with your Outlook data file (.ost). P1: 300032 P2: 14.0.7015.1000 P3: heqz...
Creating Passwords that don’t Require a Keyboard Epiphany using pwgen
Just rediscovered pwgen which I had forgotten all about. I'm still a fan of Secure Memorable Passwords for personal use though. But pwgen is great if you are wanting to automate installations and require random mysql table prefixes: # mysql table prefixes pwgen -A 3 2...