The ramblings of a computer geek
It used to be easy to flush the cache, but recent changes to the DNS Client on Microsoft Windows 10 (and 11) have made this more difficult, you used to be able to run an “ipconfig /flushdns” or failing that restart the “DNS Client” service, but these don’t appear to work any longer. However you […]
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The Nissan LEAF provides limited information via the normal information systems in the car as to what is going on with the drive train and more specifically the battery. However, there is an phone app that is available for Apple IOS and Android called “LEAFSpy Pro” that can provide you with detailed information; something that […]
More...Sometimes you have some kit that is just old and isn’t supporting the recent (and secure) key algorithms, if you need to connect (with some consideration of the security implications) you can use something like the below. The “-v” means verbose, you can see when connecting what the end point is offering, then you can […]
More...I had a need to be able to show up a row if a date in that row had fallen out of compliance, e.g. list of assets, with a “Last Patch” date on it. If the “Last Patch” date is more than X days (e.g. 90 days) before today, then show it up. At the […]
More...Had an issue where we had a client that couldn’t access a particular site, in this case we wanted to determine what encryption ciphers a particular website was offering on its HTTPS server, SSLScan which is a Linux tool available on Ubuntu and other distributions can help, for example:
More...Recently Broadcom have moved all VMware customers over to their support portal. Broadcom have a “Site ID” for each customer, so they created one for everyone migrated from VMware. The missing bit was how you get that Site ID, you need this so you can request access to your support and product entitlements. Step 1 […]
More...Although you shouldn’t be working around certificates which are very old or no longer meet modern standards e.g. TLS 1.3 etc. if like me you need to access something using TLS 1, you can use Firefox and change the configuration. Use the URL: about:config Then set: security.tls.version.min (from 2/3 to 1), then attempt to access […]
More...IPerf is a tool that can be used to measure the bandwidth and quality of a network link. Its a useful little tool, so I’ll introduce some of the basics of how you can use it to perform some tests. Bear in mind this is not an exhaustive guide, there are many tweaks that can […]
More...Very occasionally my Ohme Pro charger loses its connection to the Nissan LEAF API which it uses to determine the battery status, this doesn’t affect the charging of the car, but just means it reports incorrect information and grumbles to say the “car isn’t charging how we’d expect”, even though it is. Ohme customer car […]
More...Attempting to play a multicast stream from Windows VLC Player, was seeing the IGMP Snooping picking up something from my machine, but not the join to the specific group (channel/stream) I was trying to view. I was attempting to get to a stream: udp://@239.4.6.0:1234 Resolution To resolve the problem, it turned out to be VirtualBox, […]
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