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Mac osxfuse/encFS conflicts with VMWare Fusion 7.1.2 so try Safe 1.4
I don't know when it happened but running osxfuse 2.8.0 and encfs version 1.8.1 on Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 and then trying to launch a VMWare Fusion 7.1.2 VM causes the following errors: "Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory" and "Failed to...
Map old website URLs to new case Insensitive
Instead of just using RedirectPermanent in htaccess try: RedirectMatch 301 (?i)/blog/my-really-cool-blog-post /about-us/blog/my-really-cool-blog-post So if your old web server had capitalised URLs e.g. http://www.example.com/blog/My-really-Cool-blog-post it will still...
Save a directory trees permissions and then restore them
One Web Site Admin problem that I have found to be annoying is when you want to secure your webserver by making only what is required writeable and leave the rest unwriteable by the web server process. As soon as you go to perform an update of a module then the...
MD5SUM via PowerShell (when you don’t have Get-FileHash)
SBS 2011 doesn't allow you to install Powershell v4 which has a one line Get-FileHash utility to generate an md5sum. So you need a few extra lines. I needed to transfer some PSTs which I had chunked down to 250MB 7z files. From SBS 2011 to Mac and wanted to check they...
PowerShell Export Multiple Mailboxes to PST
This script exports the email aliases in $export_names to a file with a yyyymmdd date stamp. The BadItemLimit is jacked really high because when a mailbox is 24+ GB and has a lot of weird Chinese and other character sets that make the export think it's corrupt. I'm...
Optus Android App Fail
Any example of inconsistent behaviour in an Android Mobile app. This is from Optus a Telco supplier. You have an amount to pay value and a click to pay button. The next screen should carry over the amount to pay value but instead has a value from a payment made...