( It would mean the world if you would consider following @colhountech on twitter. It won’t cost you anything but it gives me great encouragement to continue writing these posts) If you run your own AD / DNS servers for internal network resolution, an annoyance with WSL2 / Ubuntu is that you can’t ping or …
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( It would mean the world if you would consider following @colhountech on twitter. It won’t cost you anything but it gives me great encouragement to continue writing these posts) This had me for a couple of minutes and a google search did not give me the answer, so I’m dropping it here. I can …
( It would mean the world if you would consider following @colhountech on twitter. It won’t cost you anything but it gives me great encouragement to continue writing these posts) CNAME Flattening is a way for cloudflare.com to allow you to add a CNAME entry for the root level of a domain. For example, using …
Finally, I’ve turned off Password authentication for all my servers. I’m getting approx. 3-5 failed login attempts from China every sec currently, so decided it’s time to reduce the attack vector space.
Some lessons about running a X11 Desktop Environment on WSL. What I’m using today: Windows 10 Professional WSL 1.0 – about to switch to fast ring to get WSL-2 Pengwin Linux Distro – From Microsoft App Store X410 X11 Display Server running on Windows 10 Once Pengwin and X410 were installed, I needed to install …
The audible bell in bash can be really annoying espcially if you are like me and use filename completion ( Tab-Tab) a lot. Here is how you turn it off. Edit the /etc/inputrc global resource file for bash, and disable audible bell. You just need to delete a single comment character on line 21 of the rc file. You …
Spining up a new WordPress site, I had a few glitches until I came across this post: https://docs.bitnami.com/aws/how-to/get-started-wordpress-aws-marketplace-intermediate/ Update WordPress To Use The Domain Name Update this section and replace the variablesdefine(‘WPSITEURL’, ‘http://’ . $SERVER[‘HTTPHOST’] . ‘/’);define(‘WPHOME’, ‘http://’ . $SERVER[‘HTTPHOST’] . ‘/’); Remove The Bitnami Badge Let’s Encrypt free Certificate Authority (CA) https://docs.bitnami.com/general/faq/configuration/configure-custom-domain/ 1/100DaysOfCode
You can create up to 2 private apps to connect to your Xero Organisations Account.There is a rate limit, of 60 calls per minute, which should be more than enough for most First generate an x509 cert We will upload the private key to xero , and get a consumer key back to use as …
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I’ve done a lot of work with enterprise systems over the years. The Secret to resilience in the Enterprise is very simple. Make sure you have two of everything. A typical Enterprise server usually has 2 power supplies, at least 2 network cards, two physical CPUs, two system drives (C: and D:) and each of …
When I setup my Linux VM, I choose username rather than public key ssh key, as I had problems moving the ssh keys betwen clients. Anyways long story, I login using ssh -l username remotehost from my MacBook every time I login, and never bother to setup the public keys to login without a password. The solution …
