Problem: Mobile Mode doesn't support L2TP or PPTP VPN connections Recently my ADSL filter between the phone line and the TELSTRA SMART MODEM GEN2 failed and caused my internet connection to fail over to "mobile mode" or "backup mode" which I believe is a SIM card in...
James McDonald
vncserver on Ubuntu 16.04
This link has the instructions to install VNC on Ubuntu 16.04 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-configure-vnc-on-ubuntu-16-04 Following are the fixes for things that didn't work for me Missing Icons in XFCE #follow the tutorial but...
Test of Social Media Share
This is a test of Jetpack free account sharing to my connected Social Media accounts: LinkedIn and Twitter
TinyMCE & React
Just had to change a Draft.js based editor for something that worked with Chrome for Android and found TinyMCE Here is my attempt to get it working with both desktop and mobile
Warning: _cake_core_ cache was unable to write ‘cake_dev_en-us’ to File
There are some answers on SOF but in my case this was caused by no more disk space. Checked permissions and they had the web server user www-data with write access to all app/tmp/*Checked the /var/log/apache2/error.log and found a "no space left on the device warning"...
setTimeout in a loop
Why does all the output of a for loop appear at once when using setTimeout? for(var i = 0; i < 5; i++){ (function(i){ setTimeout(function(){ console.log('value is ', i); }, 3000); })(i); } When you run the above code after 3 seconds the output of all iterations of...
Amazon Web Services Route 53 – Not Compliant
So apparently Route 53 is not fully up to speed with some DNS standards. Testing my domains at https://dnsflagday.net/#domain-holders and I'm getting "Minor problems detected" Apparently according to https://dnsflagday.net a large number of 'big' DNS providers will...
certbot on Amazon Linux
Just an FYI for those caught by module not found exceptions when running certbot-auto on an AMI (Amazon Machine Image). I kept getting problems with the upgrade of certbot-auto on AMI. They say it's alpha so not a suprise. Tried rm -rf /opt/eff.org and re-run...
Fake Your Scales in Windows XP VM
So today I had a task to find out if some legacy Weigh Bridge software would be capable of taking longer inputs for some field values Being proprietary software the answer is no... But in the process I had to fire up a Windows XP Virtual Machine and somehow convince...
What are the IP Address ranges assigned by Telstra to home broadband customers?
https://crowdsupport.telstra.com.au/t5/Home-Broadband/What-are-the-IP-Address-ranges-assigned-by-Telstra-to-home/td-p/764060 The above mentioned question was asked on the Telstra Crowd Support Forums. The reply was "you may find the static IP address route easier"....
