UDF on MacOS and Linux
Recently I wanted to have the ability to use SSH to log in to my Amazon Lightsail instances from my work laptop. For privacy reasons, […]
The Box
This story comes by way of my brother Mitch… My brother specializes in database analysis for non-profits. As such, he’s usually very involved in the […]
Cardboard Analyst
Have you ever had a problem that has you absolutely stumped … and you ask a co-worker for assistance or post a message to an […]
Job Search Observations
As some of you may know, last year I started searching for a new job. Due to the pandemic, it wasn’t the best time to […]
Speed Up Time Machine
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).
Check for Zoom update in Ubuntu
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 […]
Amazon Linux 2 & Firewalld
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 […]
Thunderbird and ‘reply-to’
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 […]
Catching spam with repeated phrases
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 […]
Regular Expressions in RPG
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, […]