If you’re using an Apple Mac computer, you may have observed that the fantastic backup system Time Machine, may run slowly. This is especially noticeable when you are doing the very first backup (when it has to backup the entire system).
At work we use Zoom extensively for meetings. We also use Ubuntu Linux on our laptops. Unfortunately, Zoom doesn’t have a very good update mechanism […]
Another one for the Things To Remember category … after creating a new Amazon Linux 2 instance, it’s important to update firewalld to allow http […]
This is another one in the ‘Things to remember’ category. For some reason, by default, Thunderbird does not use the ‘Reply-to’ header in emails. This […]
This is more of a ‘for future reference’ post than anything else. Recently my mailing lists have been getting hit with stupid spam (what spam […]
One of the things that RPG isn’t particularly good at is string scanning & manipulation. Many other programming languages support using Regular Expressions (or regex, […]
As a Mac user, I sometimes find my self needing to use Windows 10. To do this, I run it using the Parallels virtual machine […]
I’ve started a personal open source project. Something I’ve been meaning to do for quite a while. The project is PCMLTOOLS — utilities designed to […]
This is a general warning for anyone who owns or manages multiple internet domains. If you have ever used a domain name, and switched to […]
Illinois, and the majority of other states, are under mandatory “Stay at Home” or “Shelter in Place” orders. Here in Illinois the order is (currently) […]