James McDonald

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...

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...

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...

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...

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"....

This is an example of my learning from trying to use Animate.css with the React-Transition-Group CSSTransition component https://daneden.github.io/animate.css/

I have been using CSSTransiton from react-transtion-group to animate the show and hiding of various elements on a page. I successfully added a few items and then tried to add a bootstrap alert and then the enter animation failed to fire. Here is an example of the...

Just started a Microsoft AD environment on Amazon Web Services to test some ITGlue Auto Documentation PowerShell scripts. Found that you need to pay attention to auto scaling settings. After my last session I shut down all the EC2 instances to avoid charges when I...

Note: Before doing the below also check to make sure you are not deleting the proper scripts. Only delete the dpk-old or .old.X files cd /etc/vmware-tools/ cd scripts/vmware # there was a heap of old scripts that # had been renamed but still being executed vim...