Remove password protection from Office 2010 Documents
I was given a word 2010 docx document the other day to edit, only the issue was that it had protection added to stop people from editing it which I needed to remove. I spent an hour searching for a...
View ArticleScoutstrap
I’m currently working on a website for my local Scout group and I decided to use the excellent Bootstrap framework. My issue was that bootstrap didn’t conform to the Scout branding guidelines. So I...
View ArticleThe Sun+
Another UK national newspaper TheSun has decided to put up a paywall to read their online content which was kind of expected really. I’m not a Sun reader but the idea of using a paywall to block people...
View ArticleA Scoutstrap Update
I’ve updated the documentation for Scoutstrap; it’s got a main page as well as a better design for the docs along with links to the source and download. The post A Scoutstrap Update appeared first on...
View ArticleUpdated: PHP Uptime Function
I wrote a PHP Uptime script a while back and I’ve recently gone to use it but found that it wasn’t actually working and never returned the correct uptime, so I’ve got round to fixing it up. The PHP...
View ArticleThis website is not about Cher!
But seeing as you’re here, I’ll give you some basic facts and figures about Cher. Cher is a singer/actress born in California USA, who has rose to fame over the last 40 years. Name: Cher Real Name:...
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Meraki MR12 Cloud Wireless Access Point
I received a demo/trial Meraki MR12 wireless access point today; here’s some photos of the unboxing and of the main PCB. The post Meraki MR12 Cloud Wireless Access Point appeared first on <...
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Windows XP Uniscribe Printing Problem
So a couple of weeks back, I started my new job and one of the first issues that I was tasked with was to fix some printing issues. The main issue was when somebody printed, was, it was missing out...
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Linux Mint Debian (LMDE) , PulseAudio and Bluetooth Speakers
So it’s been a while since I last blogged about anything and today I’ve had a hell of a time with PulseAudio and Bluetooth and trying to find an actual solution to my woes (Jump to the guide). I...
View ArticleWindows Server 2012 R2 Core & File Server Resource Manager
After fidling around for a while trying to make FSRM work to connect to a 2012 R2 Core server as it kept complaining that the RPC server was unavailable even though other MMC snap-ins were working...
View ArticleLinux Servers & LLDP
If you’ve ever tried to locate a server’s uplink port on a switch then you’ve probably wondered why there isnt CDP/LLDP being utilised within the server networking world, well there are a few...
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Windows & LLDP
After spending countless hours tracing network cables around my workplace to figure out what switch port they go into, I finaly gave in and looked for a little LLDP tool, I was wanting something small...
View ArticleSimple Disk Pool Manager (DPM) Nagios Test
There are several DPM testing tools and a suite of DPM nagios plugins (see the monitoring docs) but these utilise NRPE and are relatively complex compared the the quick and useful DPM-Tester.py This is...
View ArticleARGUS Pool User to Certificate
This is a nasty short bash script to get the certificate DN for a given grid pool user from ARGUS grid map directory. Get the script from github. To use it just do the following: argus_user_cert.sh...
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ARGUS Pool User to Certificate WebUI
As previously mentioned, I have written a nasty bash script to get the user certificate DN for a given username in ARGUS. This is a step further, it is a WebUI that is seeded by data updated via a...
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Linux ZFS Quotas and my hacked solution
ZFS in linux doesn’t support quotas, this is a pain in the arse. After deploying ZFS on our various NFS servers, we were hitting issues where users can’t check their ZFS quotas and specifically on...
View ArticlePuppet Duplicate Resources with PuppetDB
If you’re using puppet and exported resources and get an error while running the puppet agent showing Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: A duplicate resource was...
View ArticleHow to Re-Address a Docker Swarm Master
Docker Swarm; the simple and quick way to build a docker cluster. That is until you need to re-address the cluster especially the master. According to the Docker website, it is not really possible...
View ArticleFedora Linux LUKS Encryption with TPM Unlock
Windows has BitLocker, Linux has LUKS as Full Disk Encryption, but by default LUKS doesn’t unlock via the TPM and requires a password. There are many guides out there that show a very complex setup...
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