The ramblings of a computer geek
I wanted to make a page that could be easily exported to PDF without any cruft around the edges, such as the title or footers etc. You can do this at the whole Confluence level or at the Space level, sadly not at the page level it would seem. In my case I did it […]
More...It is possible to create a lookup from one workbook to another. Let’s say you have a list on one workbook and you want this to appear as a list on a second workbook, here’s how you can do it. Get the List from the Source Workbook Firstly get the ID section of the URL […]
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So, finally BT Openreach had got round to installing fibre optic cabling to the local area to provide fibre optic based Internet. If you’re interested to know if you can get (or if not register your interest) by using the https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband site. You might ask, what do you mean fibre Internet? I already have fibre […]
More...Nissan don’t make it that obvious but the Nissan LEAF 2022 should use the “Nissan Connect” app and not the “Nissan Connect EV” app. It turns out that the “Nissan Connect EV” app only works with pre-2019 Nissan LEAF and Nissan NV200 Vans, if you have a later version of these vehicles you’ll need to […]
More...Notepad++ can be quite a handy tool to use, I often use it when building up bulk CLI commands to enter into switches or firewalls. Say you had a list of hosts and wanted to add some text to the beginning, that’s fairly easy, you just click, hold ALT and then select all the lines, […]
More...IMPORTANT! The below scripts are not supported by Dell nor is there use on a Dell ECS node, you therefore utilise these steps at your own risk. We have these scripts running on Dell ECS nodes in production to collect hardware information and report it back periodically and no issues have been identified yet. The […]
More...I’ve used Clonezilla a few times in the past, its a quick and convenient way to replace a hard disk (e.g. upgrading from a spinning rust disk to an SSD) in your machine without needing to rebuild the OS from scratch. But Clonezilla can also be used to clone the disk to an image, as […]
More...A quick and effective way to get additional desktop space is to use a USB Graphics Adapter, in my case I used the Star Tech USB32VGAPRO. It supports a good range of resolutions but in my case I wanted to use 1680×1050 which is the same as my in-built graphics resolution outputs at. However when […]
More...We recently deployed some hardware Kemp ECS Connection Managers (which are designed to front the Dell ECS storage platform), however we were a bit dismayed to see there was no way to monitor the hardware status via GUI, SNMP or the Rest API. We had this issue raised after we had a PSU failure occur […]
More...Sometimes its easy to get wrapped up in the more complicated things and forget about the basics. Something as simple as power to your equipment being fully resilient can be forgotten but if it fails you can find yourself dealing with an outage that you don’t really want to have had to deal with. Balancing […]
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