This year we went to Bali. My observations: The Instagram brand building culture makes people pose for photos in increasingly awkward positions. It's entertaining to watch as beautiful people contort and genuflect to get the next morsel for their social media...
When testing your login using AUTH PLAIN if your passwords starts with a number you need to use a \000 instead of \0 other wise you will always get an error as the base64 encoded string will be wrong printf 'username\0username\0001234567pwd' | mmencode perl...
Recently I renamed my IT Business to "Toggen" after trading as "James McDonald IT Services" or JMITS for short. It took a long time to find a name that wasn't being used, and also had some resonance for me personally. So why Toggen? After wracking my brain for a...
So if you have been using Google Authenticator to provide your 2 factor login codes. Another, and I believe better option is Authy.com This allows you to install on your phone, and for me my macbook and it backs up to the cloud, allowing restoring and transfer between...
This script is run from windows task scheduler every X minutes (whatever you want to set it to). It looks for a running process, in this case Yokogawa FastTools rdcy.exe and if found checks for and deletes a file on disk named "skip". If it doesn't find rdcy.exe...
This site https://haveibeenpwned.com/ checks your email address against known data leaks. Just checking some of my older email addresses and both [email protected] and [email protected] are the subjects of pwnage due to me using them to register on a number of...
Just started looking at http://www.trumethods.com/ One thing I've noticed regarding the business of Information Technology is that you can be excellent technically but you will not have an opportunity to use the skills you have unless the organisation you work for can...
So just spending a couple of days in Kangaroo Valley and surrounds. I grew up just up the road in Fitzroy Falls. The entire area has great places to visit so I'm going to try and catch a few of the sites. Today it's off to Bowral to see how much my birth place has...
Back to Exetel after a couple of years with Tel$tra Unlimited and approx 30$ a month cheaper with a fixed IP
I am moving my blog under my business domain toggen.com.au. For years I have blogged at jamesmcdonald.id.au but want to move everything under the one umbrella so to speak. I've had a couple of names for this blog The Telarah Times, The Shouthern IT Observer but now...