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8 or 9 years ago I naively installed my SBS2003 (at the time) domain as nbname.local and now I'm using a Macbook I'm finding that the .local suffix is used for an entirely different purpose. The answer as suggested on the Apple forums...

Tomorrow the removalists come to take our stuff and move us to Melbourne. Our house in Telarah is now up for rent and I'm looking forward to living in the (more) Southern Climes of Melbourne. I have sold and thrown away three generations of tools and equipment from my...

Moving and downsizing I wanted to get rid of my Lian-Li cube style desktop computer and get a laptop. Having been bitten recently with a HP touch screen that is so resource starved that it can take 4-5 minutes to become useable after booting I wanted to go with...

So I purchased a Synology DS415+ recently and was profoundly impressed at the depth of functionality, and how it just works. Now for a contrast I recently worked on a Netgear ReadyNAS running version 6.2.4 of it's firmware. To give it a three word overview: Really...

Important Note: Completely ignore this post. See my post at https://toggen.com.au/it-tips/docker-synology-postbooks-postgres So I just got myself a Synology DS415+ diskstation NAS so I could get rid of my desktop PC. It has what appears to be a very modern Linux...

If you do ssh -L 5432:localhost:5432 yourpc.example.com -l username And you want to see the active tunnels following this comment from superuser.com From within an ssh session: press enter type ~ and then # shows you a list of all open connections over your tunnels...