James McDonald
“Deleted” Group Policy Deployed Printer Will Not Delete on the Client
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...
[SOLVED] MacOS Sierra Scanning Fail
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...
Updating a Paradox DB using PHP and the Paradox Extension
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...
A Favourite Quote That My Sister Introduced Me To
“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is...
VMWare Fusion conflicts with encfs on MacOS Sierra
I had a work-a-round for osxfuse not working https://toggen.com.au/it-tips/mac-osxfuseencfs-conflicts-with-vmware-fusion-7-1-2-so-try-safe-1-4 but http://www.getsafe.org no longer works since the update to MacOS Sierra EncFS Password: the OSXFUSE file system is not...
Home Sales and the Role of the Interior Designer
Just recently I've become mildly addicted to shows like Flip or Flop, Fixer Upper and Masters of Flip of these I think I like Masters of Flip the most. The interplay of the husband and wife as they try and renovate a home and on-sell it is very entertaining, and the...
Develop CakePHP in 3 Locations – HOME TEST LIVE
I have a CakePHP application that I develop on my MacBook and then push to a "TEST" install environment and then across to a LIVE environment when I'm happy. In the past I've done the following at each instance after I have git pull | fetched | merged: Edit...
How to SELECT from between double quotes in a MySQL column and update a column in the same table
Note the following data: MariaDB [pallets3]> select options, title from menus where options != ''; +-------------------------------------------------------------------+------------------------------------------------+ | options | title |...
X-Recruiting – Who would have thought
Was just checking a 301 redirect I've set up, and while looking at the the server output from the wget -S command I noticed that etsy.com has an X-Recruiting header. Etsy I hope your innovation brings all the coders to the yard.