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IT related tech tips since 2006Better Priced Object Storage
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UDM – IPS
I was trialing a site-to-site IPSec VPN between an Azure two NIC PFSense intance and my UDM (See image) I found that when I was trying to reach www.postfix.org with browser or ping I couldn't. I thought it was something to do with have a PFSense / UDM s2s VPN I tried...
Azure pfsense
Things I learn't while installing the pfsense The VHD for import into Azure has to be specially configured. A good blog article with screen shots is https://www.christofvg.be/2019/01/12/pfSense-on-Azure-Part-1-Create-pfSense-Virtual-Machine/ VHD format, Fixed Size...
Digital Ocean
The good news is Digital Ocean has a Sydney data centre. The bad news is they only support Linux workloads (unless you bring a custom image) They're a great option if you don't want to pay a premium to Azure or AWS
Add VSCode to Context Menu after Installation
Copy and paste the following into a .reg file and change the path to match your system Double click on the .reg file to insert it into the registry Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ;"C:\\Users\\JamesMcDonald\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Microsoft VS Code\\Code.exe"...
More Cost effective Cloud Alternative to Amazon & Azure
The only issue is it's in Europe and so the round trip times from there to here (in Australia) would be ~330ms https://www.hetzner.com/cloud https://youtu.be/5eo8nz_niiM
SCAM Targeting Parents of Adult Children
The other day my mother who has just turned 80 received a WhatsApp message from someone pretending to be one of her children. Mum lives with my Sister so she assumed this was me. What to look out for The Spiel: "I" had dropped my phone in the toilet, and that was why...
Remove the default OneDrive folder in explorer
Go from thisTo This Create a registry file (.reg) with the following and double click it Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}] "System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree"=dword:00000000 Or merge the above using reg...
VMware® Workstation 16 Pro 16.2.4 on a Ubuntu 22.04 Host
I am running VMWare Workstation 16.2.4 Pro on Ubuntu 22.04 Host Video Card: VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] (rev a1)Host CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core ProcessorVM's are hosted on a 1TB NVMe disk lspci -k | grep -EA3...