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This is from an old collections of posts I store in my faq archive Reply All to reply to all press g with the relavent email selected or open it and press g Sorting to sort the list of emails press o and then select a letter from the the list To change to another...

If you have implemented ACL in CakePHP and then you add an action to your controller or create a new controller and actions you will get locked out when you try to access it (unless you have granted access further up the tree) Firstly perform aco_sync using the...

I had an issue where clicking on the plex shortcut would take me to an old IP address. The cause was that I had configured the LAN1 connection with 10.0.0.68 (eth0) and then moved home and plugged the DS415+ in using the LAN2 (eth1) interface. The Plex cgi that...

Just trying to get access to my Plex Media Server running on a Synology DS415+ while not having internet. Finding that I get a can't connect because of firewall etc error. You might see this: A work around you can do from Windows / Mac / Linux. Make sure you have SSH...

I have a 3TB Western Digital USB Drive (details below) it was almost full. If you are planning to quickly transfer data off a USB Drive to your Synology you had better budget upwards of 4 days to make the transfer. The transfer speeds are so slow.... I searched the...

8 or 9 years ago I naively installed my SBS2003 (at the time) domain as nbname.local and now I'm using a Macbook I'm finding that the .local suffix is used for an entirely different purpose. The answer as suggested on the Apple forums...

Tomorrow the removalists come to take our stuff and move us to Melbourne. Our house in Telarah is now up for rent and I'm looking forward to living in the (more) Southern Climes of Melbourne. I have sold and thrown away three generations of tools and equipment from my...

Moving and downsizing I wanted to get rid of my Lian-Li cube style desktop computer and get a laptop. Having been bitten recently with a HP touch screen that is so resource starved that it can take 4-5 minutes to become useable after booting I wanted to go with...