The ramblings of a computer geek
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:
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 … Read more
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. … Read 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 … Read 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 … Read 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 … Read 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, … Read more
If you want to check the (MD5/SHA) hash of a file you can do this on Microsoft Windows with “Get-FileHash” within PowerShell. Here is a simple script to take a File, the Hash Algorithm Type and Expected Hash for the file to compare, it hashes the file and then compares it with the expected hash … Read more
If you need to perform a packet capture you can use the following below to get this exported to a PCAP file you can then open in WireShark. You can then TFTP off the file with the following: I normally use TFTP32/64 on the machine to which i’m TFTPing, but this has had problems recently. … Read more
If you are seeing this issue, you can resolve the problem by downloading and replacing the Windows driver with this one using Device Manager. In my case this was trying to use a USB to Serial (RS232) adapter which just wasn’t working. https://github.com/brucetsao/Drivers/raw/master/FAKE_PL2303/IO-Cable_PL-2303_Drivers-Generic_Windows_PL2303_Prolific.zip Connectix.nl provide a more detailed overview of the solution here.