IT Tips

How to Delete a Hyper-V VM and ITS Hard Drives

If its a replica Remove Replication Get the paths to the Hard Drives Get-VM TGN-RWD-BK01 |Select-Object -ExpandProperty HardDrives Make a note of the location of the hard drives from the output VMName ControllerType ControllerNumber ControllerLocation DiskNumber Path...

Side by side php8.3-FPM

CakePHP 5 uses zend.assertions = 1 for development so if you have production and test environments on your server you need separate instance of php-fpm so you can run one with zend.assertions = 1 for development and the other zend.assertions = -1 for production The...

Delete all files older than x days linux

This command deletes all files modified more than 30 days ago in the current directory # have a look at what it will delete find ./ -type f -mtime +30 | more # then get an idea of how many files it will delete find ./ -type f -mtime +30 | wc # after you are happy run...

Generate custom fixture names in Cakephp 5

bin/cake bake fixture --conditions "id IN (10,81)" -r -n 10000 --table trading_partners CustomTradingPartners Use the above to export selected records to a fixture Important: The fixture name (The CustomTradingPartners parameter in the above example) is limited to 28...

CakePHP 5 persoderlind.vscode-phpcbf

Still haven't gotten this working well... sigh. The persoderlind.vscode-phpcbf extension didn't work for me when running my PHP devel container (php:8.2-fpm) on Windows 11 in Docker Desktop using the WSL2 Engine until I let it know about the CakePHP coding standard #...

Network speed test host to host

On Ubuntu / Debian apt-get install iperf3 On Windows download it from https://iperf.fr/iperf-download.php#windows Make sure you create firewall rules to allow them to talk to each other e.g. allow inbound 5201 for the server I'm paranoid so I go to virustotal.com and...

Ubuntu on Hyper-v

It boils town to installing linux-azure # as root or sudo apt-get update apt-get install linux-azure https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/supported-ubuntu-virtual-machines-on-hyper-v A more manual approach is:...

Google Chrome Kiosk vs Full Screen

# F11 can minimize "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --start-fullscreen "https://toggen.com.au" # Cannot use F11 to minimize but use CTRL + ESC or CTRL + ALT + DEL to get the menu / task manager available "C:\Program...

Squarespace Image Export

To gain continued access to your Squarespace website images after cancelling your subscription you have several options Wordpress.com Squarespace gives you the ability to export the site in Wordpress format XML. The resulting XML file doesn't contain any of the images...