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IT related tech tips since 2006Why you should put your compute as close as possible to your users
I'm in Melbourne notice the round trip time from my browser to Sydney Amazon Servers 30ms You can test this by finding a ping-able IP address in the cloud you are using to host your VM and compare with one from the another location...
Wine System Tray on Gnome Shell Fedora 32
I love gnome-shell I love the simplicity, the integration of the all the system settings in one place and the ability to extend it with extensions But it looks like in their quest to align with the Fisher-Price Desktop Standard they have trimmed some functionality...
Password Safe .desktop File
Been struggling to come to terms with Gnome Shell removing the Windows System Tray functionality Have installed some extensions to get tray icons showing sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-appindicator sudo dnf...
Fedora 32 on AMD Ryzen 5 PC with Nvidia Graphics
Component List This is the exact components for the system I am running Fedora 32 on. See below for some of the config changes or hacks that I did to get things running. Brateck BT-LDT02-C024 Dual LCD Monitor Flexi Arm Table Stand w/Arm & Desk Clamp VESA 75/100mm...
The COVID Configuration
I've been stuck at home for a few months now due to COVID-19 isolation. My wife comments regularly on how hunching over my Macbook Pro all day gives me much spine curvature. "Bad posture", "Terrible posture" etc. So I have a solution which will bring my head up to a...
Moving from Evernote to Onenote
Just a couple of observations regarding moving from Evernote to Onenote. This is further to my previous blog post https://toggen.com.au/it-tips/how-to-export-evernote-notebooks-to-onenote Allow sufficient time for Notebooks to Sync to OneDrive / Sharepoint When you...
Cloudready on VMWare Fusion on MacOS
Trying to get Cloudready going on VMWare Fusion on Mac I downloaded CloudReady-Home-v78-x64.ovf and discovered I had to rename it to CloudReady-Home-v78-x64.ova to get VMWare Fusion to import it. Enable in VM Virtualisation to Complete Linux (Beta) Terminal...
How to Export Evernote Notebooks to Onenote
Just wrestled mightily with doing an export of Notebooks from Evernote with Onenote as the target Microsofts importer DOES NOT work and they have no interest in making it work. DO NOT USE IT. I observed that many of the titles and content were missing Apparently you...
Adding custom values to Contact Form 7
https://www.wpguru.com.au/generate-dynamic-tag-contact-form-7/ From the above URL is this code. Just putting it here so I can find it again <?php add_action('wpcf7_init', 'custom_code_generator'); function custom_code_generator(){ wpcf7_add_form_tag('coupon_code',...