The ramblings of a computer geek
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 … Read more
Here’s a simple run through, let’s say you have a Git Repository (repo) that you want to clone to a development machine, in this case the machine is running Ubuntu Linux 22.0.4.2 LTS. A good way to authenticate with Git is with an SSH key, which is a public private key pair that can be … Read 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:
You’ll use DNS all day everyday, but did you know there are two different forms of DNS query, recursive and iterative. Understanding how these work ensures that you understand how clients will be using your DNS server(s) and what access they might need to external DNS servers and therefore how that would affect things like … Read more
A standard AWS CloudFront distribution is set to automatically serve the index.html file of a website when a client requests the root of the site, e.g. https://www.geekmungus.co.uk and does not specify any specific file or file within a sub-directory. However in certain instances your clients may request a page as follows e.g: https://www.geekmungus.co.uk/studies within which an index.html … Read 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 … 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
Electric Vehicles utilise different types of charging cable depending on the age, performance and type of EV that you are looking to charge; the article is written from the point of view of charge cables commonly used within the UK, you may find others, but the below is to give you an overview of what … Read more
We’ve recently started to move to an Extreme Networks VOSS Fabric based network, however due to the scale, we can’t change everything attached to it to work more seamlessly with the VOSS fabric based network operation. We have a large number of hosts for example that use Active-Backup bonding on their NICs when connecting to … Read more
Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network operated by Amazon Web Services. Content delivery networks provide a globally-distributed network of proxy servers to cache content, such as web videos or other bulky media, more locally to consumers, to improve access speed for downloading the content (citation). Although AWS CloudFront can be used as a CDN (caching … Read more