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IT related tech tips since 2006Warning!: MacOS Catalina will not run i386 32bit code
Just a reminder to myself to be very careful with the new update of MacOS Catalina It sounds like a number of things are going to break... I just hope I don't forget this and blindly click update when it comes out. (As of 8 Oct 2019 MacOS Catalina is released) I think...
MAC Address Changer for MacOS
If you have the need to change your MAC Address on you MacBook Pro. You can use macchanger which is a command line utility installed using home brew. brew install macchanger Then to show your current MAC address macchanger -s en0 Then to change it to something random...
SIM Corner FTW
Before we travelled this time around I bought a UK SIM with 12GB of data from https://www.simcorner.com/ which I used in Greece including the Ionian Islands, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France and the UK It worked well and having data made travel so much...
AZ-300 ACloudGuru Notes
Function App Settings Default URL Format https://toggen-fa.azurewebsites.net/api/HttpTrigger1?code=<FUNCTION_KEY> Default URL for HTTP Triggered function app has /api/HttpTrigger1 which is configured by two settings /api/HttpTrigger1 {routePrefix}{Route Template}...
CakePHP 2 Displaying Validation Errors
# app/Controller/ShipmentsController.php public function toggleShipped($id = null) { if (!$this->Shipment->exists($id)) { throw new NotFoundException(__('Invalid shipment')); } if ($this->request->is(['post', 'put'])) { $shipment = $this->Shipment->find( 'first', [...
Toggen is IPv6 Live
So I haven't done much with IPv6 to date but have just discovered that my new NBN connection has IPv6 enabled... So I have configured my Amazon VPC with a IPv6 address range and added or associated a IPv6 address to this websites EC2 eth0 interface Also needed was...
Proxying an application from an Nginx subdirectory back to the root of the backend server
This is what needs to be done to get a reverse proxy working with client requesting data from Nginx at a 'sub-directory' location and an Apache backend serving the application from the root-directory In hindsight this was probably what I would need to do in order to...
MacOS Scanning – Now working with IPv6
I had problems printing and scanning from my MacOS laptop to a HP Officejet Pro 8620. I ended up fixing it by turning off IPv6 on the printer and the MacBook. But it appears that you can have IPv6 turned on and it still work. Please see below...
OPTIONS pre-flight Check CakePHP 2
Before fetch sends a POST request to another domain it will do a CORS pre-flight check. The following website has the HTTP OPTIONS middleware code you can use for CakePHP 3. It mentions for a CakePHP 2 version you need to go to another website which is unavailable now...