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Remotely Bringing Hikvision Cameras Online with 3rd Party PoE Switches
Just had a phone call from a remote site to get ~5 new HiLook cameras that have been installed and plugged into a PoE VLAN capable switch connected to an NVR Steps to get them running Install a Ubuntu VM on the same VLAN as the Cameras. You don't need to do this if...
Dynamics NAV
Trying to send an invoice using Microsoft Outlook from a very old version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV and getting an error dialog containing: “A call to Microsoft.Dynamics.Nav.lntegration.Office.Outlook.IOutlookMessage.Recipients failed with this message: Specified...
Tail all your Web Server Access Logs
Say for example you have split your web server access logs per domain or account e.g. /var/log/apache/www.example.com_access.log /var/log/apache/www.toggen.com.au_access.log /var/log/apache/www.exampe.com.au_access.log ... If you want to view each request in the...
Work-a-round for dig WARNING: .local is reserved for Multicast DNS
dig doesn't like querying dot local domains because they are reserved for mDNS dig @192.168.73.10 tgn-home-dc01.toggen.local # output ; <<>> DiG 9.18.30-0ubuntu0.24.04.2-Ubuntu <<>> @192.168.73.10 tgn-home-dc01.toggen.local ; (1 server found) ;; global...
Recommended Home Office Setup
Ubiquiti UniFi WiFi 6 Dream Router HP LaserJet Pro 4101fdn A4 Mono Multifunction Laser Printer with Automatic Duplex - Print, Scan, Copy & Fax For a little over AU $1000 you can have a home office setup that includes remote VPN access, the ability to provide...
Start WSL in Linux Home Directory
When running WSL you are normally dropped into the current directory of the terminal you start wsl from. e.g. However to drop yourself into the WSL linux home run wsl.exe with a tilde character wsl ~