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For those of you who know me, you’ll know that I can push my hardware to the limits and often passed those limits. The brand new dual sim iPhone 11 Pro I just bought is no different. Not 24 hours after purchasing it did I already start to have issues with it. Dual Sim iPhone? […]
If you’re hosting your email with Microsoft’s Office 365 service, you may be using shared mailboxes. You should if you aren’t, they’re a great way to create email addresses that don’t consume a license. Shared mailboxes can also be shared. The Problem I have a quite a few domains added to my Office 365 account […]
I’ve been trialing Ubuntu 19.04 on my Dell XPS15 for the last couple of weeks and I was wanting to use an external mouse with the machine. I dug around in my drawers and found an unused Magic Mouse 2 not being used. I turned on Bluetooth and was able to quickly connect the device. […]
I came across an issue with one of my mobile users that was unable to get admin access off network. As soon as they connected to the corporate network their admin rights would return. I did a bit of searching and found this post on the Centrify forums about the issue. Turns out that it has something […]
I recently wrote up my new raspberry pi workstation with a nice new ViewSonic VA2246M but by default the Pi would only output 1600×1200. The configuration for the HDMI lives in the config.txt file in /boot. I had to work through a few different hdmi_group and hdmi_mode settings to find the right combination. I found […]
I’ve been working on my timelapse camera setup with my raspberry pi and when trying to run my python script I got the following error. This is a permissions error because I had created a new user that wasn’t in the video group. All you have to do is make sure that your new user […]
After a few weeks of using my 50″ television as a display while working on my time-lapse project it quickly became hard to work with. I decided to downsize to a desktop workstation solution. I don’t have much space in my apartment so I needed a compact solution that I could pack up when I’m […]
I had a site that needed private messaging so I decided to use BuddyPress as it already has a great messaging system. It appeared to work well with all the existing plugins until I tried to use the site search. I use Facetious Search which is a really nice search plugin for WordPress. I have custom post types and a […]
In my previous article I outlined how to get Ruby installed via RedHat Software Collections (SCL) and this works for basic ruby commands until I tried to install my backup gem. I got an install error when trying to build the native extensions. This guide will show you how to install gems when using ruby […]
I wanted to cut the amount of repositories that my systems were running and I recently came across Red Hats Software Collections (SCL). Software collections is a relatively new system that allows you to run some newer versions of popular packages including ruby, php, postgreSQL and more. I needed a newer version of Ruby (1.9.3) for […]
