IT Tips

My tips from my mac Use fn+command+F11 to send the F11 key to get into the BIOS boot device selection screen when connecting from a mac to remote desktop to a java instance of the DRAC console.  

Just upgrading from 5.1 to 5.5 of the Vcenter Server Appliance and was wanting to set time synchronization Get a list of public NTP server from http://www.pool.ntp.org/zone/au Login to the upgraded VCSA as root and run ntpdate your.ntp.server.name.here will confirm...

const stringify = (obj) => { // use 2 spaces and pretty print it return JSON.stringify(obj, null, 2) } const token = "hijames" // starting array const config = { headers: { 'Authorization': `Bearer ${token}`, "Content-Type":...

Just discovered it's not just Credit Cards and Barcodes that have validity check digits and algorithms FIrstly an ABN (Australian Business Number) is formatted XX XXX XXX XXX e.g 84 008 812 322 The ABR website has the information on how to calculate the validity of an...

Information for React I found useful https://auth0.com/blog/secure-your-react-and-redux-app-with-jwt-authentication/ this had a sample project that showed how to setup redux and react and explains the redux ecosystem of store, actions, action creators, reducers etc....

You have a database with a heap of tables already running. You want to start from that base and then be able to migrate from that running database through the addition of new fields and then migrate those changes to your production database Here is how I believe you...

When testing your login using AUTH PLAIN if your passwords starts with a number you need to use a \000 instead of \0 other wise you will always get an error as the base64 encoded string will be wrong printf 'username\0username\0001234567pwd' | mmencode perl...

Recently I renamed my IT Business to "Toggen" after trading as "James McDonald IT Services" or JMITS for short. It took a long time to find a name that wasn't being used, and also had some resonance for me personally. So why Toggen? After wracking my brain for a...

This script is run from windows task scheduler every X minutes (whatever you want to set it to). It looks for a running process, in this case Yokogawa FastTools rdcy.exe and if found checks for and deletes a file on disk named "skip". If it doesn't find rdcy.exe...