The ramblings of a computer geek
I had an issue where my Google Chrome kept on signing me out of my profile every time I closed the browser. Now, there may be a few reasons for this, and you may even want this as a desired approach, but in my case I didn’t want it logging me out of the profile […]
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Although its becoming increasingly rare nowadays to be using un-encrypted connections, let’s see what it really means at the network level. Un-encrypted connections on their own are not necessarily a problem, its all about what value what you are sending has and therefore what could be exposed to a nefarious actor. If you are viewing […]
More...When working with Git repositories on the Linux command line, it can often be helpful to see the branch on which you are using at the command prompt, rather than having to identify the branch via a command like “git branch”. To install it just run: Then logout and back in again to reload your […]
More...If you start a Gatsby development server using “gatsby develop” it will by default only listen on the localhost (127.0.0.1), but what if your development server is remote. In that case all you need to do is start the development server as follows: Now when started you’ll see something like:
More...Here’s a quick one, if you need to show a logon message to all users as they logon to a Terminal Server, for example to alert them to maintenance upcoming, there are a number of ways to do this, but this approach is a simple one. You would just add the a “Logon” script by […]
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The Guess-o-meter (GOM) provides you with an estimate of the range available to you. The GOM updates its estimate (or guess) based on the energy consumption of the current and previous trips. Driving fast and accelerating hard and your GOM will show a lower figure, cold weather so using the heater will also affect this. […]
More...We needed to install Ruby 2.7 instead of what normally comes with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, if we installed a later than 2.7 Ruby version, the particular application (i.e. Staytus in this case) would barf. The nice people at BrightBox have created some packaged installs of Ruby at various versions.https://www.brightbox.com/docs/ruby/ubuntu/#adding-the-repositoryhttps://launchpad.net/~brightbox/+archive/ruby-ng (Latest version supported 20.04) We first […]
More...You can retrieve the HPE ilO Licence key from your existing iLO, perhaps you’ve had a failure of the motherboard and need to get the key out because you’ll be replacing the motherboard due to a fault with a new one and need the key out so you can re-enter it. Firstly login to the […]
More...Sometimes it is helpful just to get a script running on a machine to generate some disk IO load. I use this for two main reasons, one is during the testing or proving of a storage platform in terms of its availability during a fail-over or maintenance situation (e.g. it’s storage processors), the other is […]
More...I’ve recently had a problem on some new servers where a BIOS Admin Password had been set by accident, HPE provide this as a solution on their forums: https://community.hpe.com/t5/proliant-servers-ml-dl-sl/how-do-i-disable-the-bios-admin-password-on-a-gen10-dl360/m-p/7166755#M178013 However the Gen10Plus (+) servers appear to be a bit different, upon entering the forward slash “/” on the end of the password to remove it, […]
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