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This Blog contains a collection of posts starting in the mid 2000's down to the present. Mostly it catalogs day to day experiences in IT
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Puppeteer Chrome Installation
I'm using Browsershot which uses Puppeteer & Chromium to generate PDF's When you install Puppeteer by default the chromium instance is installed to $HOME/.cache/puppeteer/chrome-headless-shell/linux-127.0.6533.88 and...
How to Selectively Introduce Environment Variables into a Docker Container
The situation: Two computers, two different processor architectures with Docker Desktop running a docker compose setup which I use to develop a CakePHP application on both machines. Windows 11 Pro Workstation which reports x86_64 when arch is run from WSL and Docker...
Tool that gives Insight into the Size of Docker Images
https://github.com/wagoodman/dive
Windows 11 Pro Restart becomes a lot Slower than Normal
Just found my Windows 11 Pro Workstation with Hyper-V Role installed was taking approximately a 1 minute and 10 seconds to begin the restart, which felt like a lot longer than usual. Tested and found if I chose Shutdown it was still virtually immediate. What was the...
Formatting a USB Key with diskpart
Just had to do a BIOS update with MSI's M-Flash BIOS utility and needed a fat32 formatted USB key. This is how to do it with diskpart Commands in an Administrative Terminal diskpart list disk select disk 2 rem (or whichever is your USB key) rem Important don't get the...
Migrate Data Out of the Microsoft 365 Cloud
Tools from Synology NAS to allow exporting data out of the Microsoft 365 cloud Synology CloudSync You will need the login details of the user to export their OneDrive and Sharepoint Sites, copy that Synced CloudSync data to an USB or external drive and hand to the...
Install node in /usr/local
Goto https://nodejs.org/en/download Select Linux and x64 if that is what you are running Copy the Download link https://nodejs.org/dist/v22.15.0/node-v22.15.0-linux-x64.tar.xz and download the file Have a look at what is in the archive tar -tvf...
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Alternative to an Excel Spreadsheet Containing Passwords – Free Password Manager Options
Here are some FREE password database options. Using these you can store a password database in OneDrive, Sharepoint or Dropbox protected by a long and complex password and they become shareable and a little more secure than an Excel spreadsheet. Password Safe...