I have recently had to install Windows 7 on a computer that was manufactured for secure boot and for Windows 8 and above. I used the the Windows7-USB-DVD-Download-Tool-Installer-en-US.exe from Microsoft to copy the Windows 7 x64 iso to a USB key and tried to boot the...
Was doing some work for an Interior Designer based in Newcastle NSW who is using Squarespace as a hosting platform. Squarespace has partnered with Let's Encrypt to provide SSL https connections for every one of their websites. I also have a friend who runs a Building...
This is for a restore to a remote host running postgresql on a custom port and using the pg_restore provided by pgAdmin on a mac. gzcat xtuple-2016-11-07_1412.dump.gz | \ /Applications/pgAdmin3.app/Contents/SharedSupport/pg_restore \ -v -p 5434 -h 10.20.20.20 -U...
So for a while I was using Simple Invoices to raise invoices for my Small IT Consultancy Business. However in a short space of time I found that it just didn't have the bells and whistles that I needed. Being an avid fan of Open Source software I looked around and...
This script uses perl to run pdftotext to grab the text from a PDF Invoice. It parses and extracts document meta data and then uses that to construct a meaningful filename and attach and send the PDF to the correct recipient. You could automate this by placing a watch...
http://php.net/manual/en/opcache.installation.php https://www.sitepoint.com/understanding-opcache/ Out with the old in with the new yum install php56u-opcache yum remove php-pecl-apcu service php-fpm restart Run this command in your...
Just had an issue where I tried to remove a printer connection on a Windows 7 Pro workstation after having deleted the printer on the Windows SBS 2011 Server (aka. Windows 2008 R2) and on the client a dialog pops up saying that access was denied for...
Fixed It! Update: So I just made a change to the printer configuration NOT the Mac Sierra software and the scanner is now working. Log into the OfficeJet Pro 8620 Printer using the web interface and do the following change to the General Network Protocol Settings...
A few years ago I blogged about reading a paradox DB. Recently I had need of updating some records and thought I would blog about it. See below. https://toggen.com.au/it-tips/reading-a-paradox-db-under-windows-using-xampp Firstly there doesn't seem to be a modern...