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Working around WSL Installation Error Windows 11
Just tried to install WSL on a fresh install of windows 11 with the recommended command run as administrator wsl --install Kept getting downloading: ubuntu an error occurred during installation. distribution name: 'ubuntu' error code: 0x80072ee7 Tried rebooting What...
QCAD
Going back through my blog posts it looks like I first started using QCAD over 16 years ago (2009). It started with the Open Source version but then I started paying for QCAD Pro I have sometimes received DWG CAD drawings of Site Plans and used QCAD to tweak them to...
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...
