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Puppeteer Chrome Installation
I'm using Browsershot which uses Puppeteer & Chromium to generate PDF's When you install Puppeteer by default the chromium instance is installed to $HOME/.cache/puppeteer/chrome-headless-shell/linux-127.0.6533.88 and...
Tool that gives Insight into the Size of Docker Images
https://github.com/wagoodman/dive
Formatting a USB Key with diskpart
Just had to do a BIOS update with MSI's M-Flash BIOS utility and needed a fat32 formatted USB key. This is how to do it with diskpart Commands in an Administrative Terminal diskpart list disk select disk 2 rem (or whichever is your USB key) rem Important don't get the...
How to Selectively Introduce Environment Variables into a Docker Container
The situation: Two computers, two different processor architectures with Docker Desktop running a docker compose setup which I use to develop a CakePHP application on both machines. Windows 11 Pro Workstation which reports x86_64 when arch is run from WSL and Docker...
Windows 11 Pro Restart becomes a lot Slower than Normal
Just found my Windows 11 Pro Workstation with Hyper-V Role installed was taking approximately a 1 minute and 10 seconds to begin the restart, which felt like a lot longer than usual. Tested and found if I chose Shutdown it was still virtually immediate. What was the...
Migrate Data Out of the Microsoft 365 Cloud
Tools from Synology NAS to allow exporting data out of the Microsoft 365 cloud Synology CloudSync You will need the login details of the user to export their OneDrive and Sharepoint Sites, copy that Synced CloudSync data to an USB or external drive and hand to the...