Just a warning to myself and others. If you want to run a Windows x86 Virtual Machine on a Macbook using VMWare Fusion or similar virtualization products. Buy a Macbook with an x86 Processor. The Apple M1 is an ARM archictectured processor and while there will...
Cloudready on VMWare Fusion on MacOS
Trying to get Cloudready going on VMWare Fusion on Mac I downloaded CloudReady-Home-v78-x64.ovf and discovered I had to rename it to CloudReady-Home-v78-x64.ova to get VMWare Fusion to import it. Enable in VM Virtualisation to Complete Linux (Beta) Terminal...
Switching PHP version on MacOS with brew
Writing a web application and using the some new bells and whistles in PHP such as $var = $var ?? $othervar; only supported in 7.4 php -v # php7.3 brew unlink [email protected] brew install [email protected]
Mounting a folder shared from VMWare Workstation of Fusion Host inside a Fedora 30 through 33 Guest
Inside the Fedora Guest Install open-vm-tools In the Virtual Machine Guest Settings Enable shared folders VMWare Workstation Pro on Fedora 33 - Shared Folders Settings VMWare Fusion on MacOS - Shared Folder Settings Reboot the guest after doing the above Commands to...
https connection to Cups NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED on MacOS Catalina
NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED <= This is an error I got when connecting to the Cups Admin page see the heading below "How to fix NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED" Work-a-round: You can just use Safari and add the cert to the local trust list or see the heading below "How to fix...
Bash alias to copy ssh public key
If you need to copy and paste your public key into dozens of different VM's in Azure or AWS this can be handy. It copies your public ssh key to the clip board and displays it on screen # put this into ~/.bash_profile alias getkey="cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | tee...
Setting AZCOPY_CONCURRENCY_VALUE on Storage Explorer MacOS Client
The problem this is solving is failed azcopy uploads on slow internet connections. Firstly locate the AzCopyClient.js file and open it in editor vim "/Applications/Microsoft Azure Storage...
MacOS Azure Storage Explorer using azcopy indicates 100% then continues trying failed PUT’s and never completes the copy
Slow Australian NBN can't handle the expectation azcopy has about your bandwidth I have been trying to copy a 1.7GB file to Azure blob storage container and it's been failing. I've changed from Azure account login to a SAS URL and have started to investigate what is...
Warning!: MacOS Catalina will not run i386 32bit code
Just a reminder to myself to be very careful with the new update of MacOS Catalina It sounds like a number of things are going to break... I just hope I don't forget this and blindly click update when it comes out. (As of 8 Oct 2019 MacOS Catalina is released) I think...
MAC Address Changer for MacOS
If you have the need to change your MAC Address on you MacBook Pro. You can use macchanger which is a command line utility installed using home brew. brew install macchanger Then to show your current MAC address macchanger -s en0 Then to change it to something random...