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, […]

Full Screen Windows 10 in MacOS Parallels

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 […]

PCMLTOOLS

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 […]

Don’t abandon unused domains

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 […]

Back to Normal?

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) […]

Beware CHGCMDDFT

This is a general warning about using the CHGCMDDFT command to change the default value of command parameters for commands in QSYS. Why Not? There […]