Technical Posts

Note to self If trying to book a flight on jetstar.com using Brave as your browser remember to turn off Brave Shields or you wont be able to complete the payment section of the checkout Click the Brave Icon Toggle the Shield to DOWN, reload the page, re-enter Credit...

Just tried to check an OnCalendar snippet based on syntax mentioned on another website and it errored out systemd-analyze calendar 'Mon..Fri *-*-* *:*/2:00 Australia/Sydney' Failed to parse calendar specification 'Mon..Fri *-*-* *:*/2:00 Australia/Sydney': Invalid...

I have a server set to the UTC time zone. It is running near Sydney and reports are sent to east coast users every day at 4:30PM When I add a cron job I have to convert from Australia/Sydney time and specify the runtime in UTC time. When daylight savings takes effect...

My system time is UTC and I want to convert from localtime Australia/Sydney to UTC date -u -d 'TZ="Australia/Sydney" 4:30PM' # output Tue 14 Oct 2025 05:30:00 UTC Getting the system timezone timedatectl status Local time: Tue 2025-10-14 07:24:24 UTC Universal time:...

https://youtu.be/Bp_B79-WLlU?si=gEUiclgOElihCyGu Watch the above This image helps me visualise what is happening when VLANs are configured. Members map to the physical port numbers as follows. Switch Port numbers are listed under Interfaces / Switch / Ports 0 for the...

This post shows how to: View SATA drive information in Unifi Protect ENVR console or via command line (SSH console) map ataXX device to sdX device (e.g. ata15 to sdc) map sdX to device serial number (e.g. sdc = WD-SERIAL03) Use Unifi Protect Control Panel to map the...