James McDonald

If you have implemented ACL in CakePHP and then you add an action to your controller or create a new controller and actions you will get locked out when you try to access it (unless you have granted access further up the tree) Firstly perform aco_sync using the...

I had an issue where clicking on the plex shortcut would take me to an old IP address. The cause was that I had configured the LAN1 connection with 10.0.0.68 (eth0) and then moved home and plugged the DS415+ in using the LAN2 (eth1) interface. The Plex cgi that...

Just trying to get access to my Plex Media Server running on a Synology DS415+ while not having internet. Finding that I get a can't connect because of firewall etc error. You might see this: A work around you can do from Windows / Mac / Linux. Make sure you have SSH...

I have a 3TB Western Digital USB Drive (details below) it was almost full. If you are planning to quickly transfer data off a USB Drive to your Synology you had better budget upwards of 4 days to make the transfer. The transfer speeds are so slow.... I searched the...

8 or 9 years ago I naively installed my SBS2003 (at the time) domain as nbname.local and now I'm using a Macbook I'm finding that the .local suffix is used for an entirely different purpose. The answer as suggested on the Apple forums...

Tomorrow the removalists come to take our stuff and move us to Melbourne. Our house in Telarah is now up for rent and I'm looking forward to living in the (more) Southern Climes of Melbourne. I have sold and thrown away three generations of tools and equipment from my...

Moving and downsizing I wanted to get rid of my Lian-Li cube style desktop computer and get a laptop. Having been bitten recently with a HP touch screen that is so resource starved that it can take 4-5 minutes to become useable after booting I wanted to go with...

So I purchased a Synology DS415+ recently and was profoundly impressed at the depth of functionality, and how it just works. Now for a contrast I recently worked on a Netgear ReadyNAS running version 6.2.4 of it's firmware. To give it a three word overview: Really...

Important Note: Completely ignore this post. See my post at https://toggen.com.au/it-tips/docker-synology-postbooks-postgres So I just got myself a Synology DS415+ diskstation NAS so I could get rid of my desktop PC. It has what appears to be a very modern Linux...

If you do ssh -L 5432:localhost:5432 yourpc.example.com -l username And you want to see the active tunnels following this comment from superuser.com From within an ssh session: press enter type ~ and then # shows you a list of all open connections over your tunnels...

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/quicktime-plugin-play-audio-and-video sudo yum install gnome-mplayer gecko-mediaplayer So there you have it.    

Update:  Also this option from No Machine: How to use NoMachine 4 on a headless Linux server On a Digital Ocean CentOS 6.x VPS I did the following to get an X environment running yum groupinstall Xfce yum groupinstall "X Window System" set the id:3:initdefault: line ...

If you have a product key you can download a copy of Windows from here ==> http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-recovery  

Just trying to make some Garage Sale signs. Scribus to the rescue. Scribus while a little pernickity to use on occasion gives you great power in the flexibility and layout of a document. So if you want to max out your letter sizing and have a lot of placement control...

I have a friend that sells bridal hair pieces I was hosting email for her and then using postfix to authenticate with smtp.mailgun.org and then mailgun forwarded the email for her shop and info aliases to her hotmail.com account Just recently I found that the emails...