The ramblings of a computer geek
Although I’ve covered this before if you want to add some headers into a test email, this can be done by just adding the required header into the “DATA” section. In the example below I’m adding in a header called “List-Id”. You would telnet into your mail server then type in the following:
More...Attempting to purchase an in-app purchase (to buy coins) in Minecraft on an Amazon Fire Tablet I was constantly being told that my Amazon password was incorrect. The issue turned out to be down to OTP being enabled on my Amazon account, using Google Authenticator. To resolve the issue, it involved entering the password, with […]
More...If you need to perform a Ping scan of a subnet, you can use the following command, its quick and dirty approach, although its not really that quick when it comes to actually running. The below will scan the subnet 192.168.1.0/24, from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254. If you want to speed things up a bit, you […]
More...The lowly Format command provides some simple, yet fairly effective data destruction for hard disks that you have on your machine. Although this technique may not be suitably effective for all data destruction requirements, it is fairly thorough in the destruction of data on a disk; such as one you wish to reuse for another […]
More...Time spent in meetings is time spent not working on tasks. Meetings however are essential, but also must be structured and conducted in a way to ensure they are not wasting valuable time. A way of ensuring this is a robust “meeting etiquette”, i.e. rules of engagement to ensure that your time is not unduly […]
More...A simple function that takes a DateTime in the format: 2023-11-29T06:41:20-08:00 and outputs it in a much more pretty: 29/11/2023 06:41:20 -0800. As you can see its switching to the DDMMYY date format, followed by the time and finally the timezone.
More...Read in JSON from a file and convert into a Dictionary For example I was testing getting data from the Slack service status API, so wanted to simulate broken-ness to test my script was working correctly. I did this by creating a file with a sample set of JSON that showed a problem, as I […]
More...DISCLAIMER: Ensure you consult with a certified electrician, the below is for information only and is not to be taken as guidance on what you should or should not do, it is merely a detail of what I found. Our Ei Electronics Ei166RC smoke detector started to go off at random intervals, we have 3 […]
More...Creating a user account with a home directory and setting the default shell as BASH, can be done as follows, add “sudo” to the front as required. If you need your account to have sudo rights, you can specify the “sudo” group upon creation, as follows:
More...I’m not sure if this is best necessarily best practice (so please comment below). I had the need to be using SSH key based authentication a lot. So rather than manually running the SSH Agent and then adding my private key (which then meant entering the passphrase on each use), I added this to my […]
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