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Puppeteer Chrome Installation

I'm using Browsershot which uses Puppeteer & Chromium to generate PDF's When you install Puppeteer by default the chromium instance is installed to $HOME/.cache/puppeteer/chrome-headless-shell/linux-127.0.6533.88 and...

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Formatting a USB Key with diskpart

Just had to do a BIOS update with MSI's M-Flash BIOS utility and needed a fat32 formatted USB key. This is how to do it with diskpart Commands in an Administrative Terminal diskpart list disk select disk 2 rem (or whichever is your USB key) rem Important don't get the...

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Install node in /usr/local

Goto https://nodejs.org/en/download Select Linux and x64 if that is what you are running Right click and copy the Download link from the "Standalone Binary (.xz)" button e.g. https://nodejs.org/dist/v22.15.0/node-v22.15.0-linux-x64.tar.xz and download the file wget...

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Exetel Website Down – Sort Of

Update: 2025-04-04 I reverted my phone to default settings and it works again this morning. So this was a temporary problem Problem: Can't access Exetel.com.au through the App or Browser from my Phone at the moment. The error thrown is DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN I am...

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