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The COVID Configuration

I've been stuck at home for a few months now due to COVID-19 isolation. My wife comments regularly on how hunching over my Macbook Pro all day gives me much spine curvature. "Bad posture", "Terrible posture" etc. So I have  a solution which will bring my head up to a...

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Moving from Evernote to Onenote

Just a couple of observations regarding moving from Evernote to Onenote. This is further to my previous blog post https://toggen.com.au/it-tips/how-to-export-evernote-notebooks-to-onenote Allow sufficient time for Notebooks to Sync to OneDrive / Sharepoint When you...

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Cloudready on VMWare Fusion on MacOS

Trying to get Cloudready going on VMWare Fusion on Mac I downloaded CloudReady-Home-v78-x64.ovf and discovered I had to rename it to CloudReady-Home-v78-x64.ova to get VMWare Fusion to import it. Enable in VM Virtualisation to Complete Linux (Beta) Terminal...

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gLabels Build Script for Ubuntu 18+

I think the default Ubuntu GLabels package doesn't contain one of the barcode libraries I use to create labels so this is the script I use to compile glabels #!/bin/sh sed -Ei 's/^# deb-src /deb-src /' /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get install cmake apt-get -y...

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QNAP 4.3 QVPN Service on Android

I'm using the OpenVPN Connect client on Android and using the QNAP created VPN file with a few small changes: # added so the OpenVPN Connect client doesn't # complain about missing client cert client-cert-not-required # I uncheck the Use remote network as default...

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Moved from Telstra to TPG

So I've just moved from Telstra to TPG The same bandwidth and data for 69.99 down from $90 for the Telstra service. $20 a month difference The service is an NBN50. The bandwidth for both seems to be similar with the typical up and downs observed due to the contended...

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