So just doing a Joomla 3.7.1 to PHP7.1.5 upgrade. I have Chronoforms v5 installed (https://www.chronoengine.com/downloads/chronoforms) which works brilliantly btw. However on upgrade to PHP 7.1.5 and trying to save a form I got "0 Cannot use string offset as an array"...
James McDonald
Why S3-WriteObject Kept the Upload Going When I Control-C’d it
I would recommend just using the AWS Cli for windows instead of powershell Uploading 650MB chunks using S3-WriteObject. Didn't want to choke link during day so CTRL-C'd to exit the powershell script and found in the morning that the upload had happened any way. The...
Notes from a Single 28GB PST Migration from on Premise Exchange to Office 365
OK this is an unstructured post but I'm just going to leave it here for when I forget what I did. I have a site with a Okla Speed up/down rating of around 2Mbps. On that site is an SBS 2011 Box which includes a Exchange 2010 Server with about 11 years of email on it....
Windows 7-Zip Chunks, Linux Un-chunk My Heart
Chunking Files with 7-Zip on Windows From windows you can do the whole shebang directions here ==> http://www.techulator.com/resources/6601-How-split-join-files-using-7-zip-free-tool.aspx This is my directions for chunking something on windows and then...
Windows 10 Pro Remote Desktop Client Login Fails
Problem: When attempting to login to a remote RDS Server you see an error message". "Your computer can’t connect to the remote computer because a security package error occurred in the transport layer" Systems Affected: Currently this has only been observed on Windows...
Notes from PHP 5.x to PHP 7.1 Upgrade
PHP Install on Mac I use CakePHP 2 and 3 so they need intl and mcrypt brew install php71 --with-httpd24 brew install php71-imagick brew install php71-intl brew install php71-mcrypt Also I found that calling a function as follows fails # this PHP 5.x code calls a...
LetEncrypt query timed out looking up CAA. Work-a-round
Annoying problem with LetsEncrypt when running ./certbot-auto renew IMPORTANT NOTES: - The following errors were reported by the server: Domain: test.example.com.au Type: connection Detail: DNS problem: query timed out looking up CAA for test.example.com.au To fix...
Installing Mod Perl on the macOS Sierra Homebrew Version of Apache 2.4.xx
Do this svn checkout https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/perl/modperl/trunk/ mod_perl-2.0 cd mod_perl-2.0 perl Makefile.PL MP_APXS=/usr/local/Cellar/httpd24/2.4.25/bin/apxs # this doesn't do anything but it tells you where # apxs will put mod_perl.so...
Flight Delayed by 37 minutes. When is that?
Question: How do you calculate the time in the future when you know the time you start from but want to know the time in a few minutes but can't do math in your head? Answer: Use GNU Date # if you know the time you want to go from put that in gdate --date="16:47 37...
A man walks into a sound bar and wonders why the subwoofer isn’t working
Constantly searching for the instructions on how to reset my sound bar. So here is the manual for my sound bar


