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IT related tech tips since 2006Windows 7-Zip Chunks, Linux Un-chunk My Heart
Chunking Files with 7-Zip on Windows From windows you can do the whole shebang directions here ==> http://www.techulator.com/resources/6601-How-split-join-files-using-7-zip-free-tool.aspx This is my directions for chunking something on windows and then...
Windows 10 Pro Remote Desktop Client Login Fails
Problem: When attempting to login to a remote RDS Server you see an error message". "Your computer can’t connect to the remote computer because a security package error occurred in the transport layer" Systems Affected: Currently this has only been observed on Windows...
Notes from PHP 5.x to PHP 7.1 Upgrade
PHP Install on Mac I use CakePHP 2 and 3 so they need intl and mcrypt brew install php71 --with-httpd24 brew install php71-imagick brew install php71-intl brew install php71-mcrypt Also I found that calling a function as follows fails # this PHP 5.x code calls a...
LetEncrypt query timed out looking up CAA. Work-a-round
Annoying problem with LetsEncrypt when running ./certbot-auto renew IMPORTANT NOTES: - The following errors were reported by the server: Domain: test.example.com.au Type: connection Detail: DNS problem: query timed out looking up CAA for test.example.com.au To fix...
Installing Mod Perl on the macOS Sierra Homebrew Version of Apache 2.4.xx
Do this svn checkout https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/perl/modperl/trunk/ mod_perl-2.0 cd mod_perl-2.0 perl Makefile.PL MP_APXS=/usr/local/Cellar/httpd24/2.4.25/bin/apxs # this doesn't do anything but it tells you where # apxs will put mod_perl.so...
Flight Delayed by 37 minutes. When is that?
Question: How do you calculate the time in the future when you know the time you start from but want to know the time in a few minutes but can't do math in your head? Answer: Use GNU Date # if you know the time you want to go from put that in gdate --date="16:47 37...
A man walks into a sound bar and wonders why the subwoofer isn’t working
Constantly searching for the instructions on how to reset my sound bar. So here is the manual for my sound bar
React-Bootstrap Oh Cool
The create-react-app npm module that lets you get started quickly with React is getting better and better. Here is a list of all sorts of things you can then add on top of the create-react-app to make it betterer...
Get a Date X Days in the Past or Future using GNU Date
Recently was running a Pentaho Data Integration that had an input parameter of yesterdays date. I was getting the date inside mysql or inside a javascript step but wanted to be able to pass in an arbitrary date so I could run the report for any day. So on Linux with...