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[Tech Solutions]

Bulk Clearing Scheduled Downtime in Nagios

The problem with removing Nagios scheduled downtime When you schedule downtime for all services of a host, there’s a Nagios button for that.

[Lifehacks]

Three Mes - How Past Me Pays it Forward

Paying it forward to yourself One concept I try to carry with me is the concept of three selves.

[AWS How To Security]

SSH to an AWS Instance over SSM

The problem with SSHing to EC2 Instances A console by any other name While you can use an SSH proxy command to connect over SSM to your AWS EC2 instances, if you do, you lose the ability to log the session properly (should you need to) as you’re pushing SSH encryption over the SSM encryption and your AWS set up won’t be able to decrypt that.

[Blogging CICD How To Hugo Technology]

Posting on the go with Hugo

It’s been on my Todo list to give my site some attention for a while, and Google moving my DNS hosting to square space, who don’t support a cname on the naked domain (i.

[How To Lifehacks Modern Living lifehack technology]

AI Pay My Bills: A Quick and Easy Lifehack for Splitting Receipts

AI Pay My Bills - Or at Least Work Them Out Summary This post shares a quick lifehack for splitting bills using AI tools.

[Artificial Intelligence Everyday AI IT Lifehacks Machine Learning Modern Living Technology]

Everyday AI in IT

Summary As an IT engineer I’m often on the cutting edge of technology and constantly trying to stay ahead of new technology so that I can make informed strategic decisions.

[How To Tech Solutions]

Copying a Sharepoint Page To Another Site

After much trawling of the Internet I found an interesting take on the pain of moving a Sharepoint page from one site to another, using Power Automate.

[Tech Solutions]

Why I’m putting my pronouns in my signature/everywhere and you should too

A post on tiktok where a young lad responded to a commenter “Why do you put your pronouns when you’re cis gender” made way too much sense.

[Tech Solutions]

Using MFA for Sudo Only

Passwords are weak, we know this and so often methods such as key based authentication is used for connections like SSH.

[Linux Tech Solutions Ubuntu]

Finally Solved – Nextcloud SMB Not Working on Ubuntu 20.04

After banging my head against this problem from a different server, as WSL is not there yet for running as personal production services, I finally managed to hit the right keywords to google fu the answer.

[Ableton Music]

Fixed: Obelisk not working in Ableton Live

So when using the Frozen Plains Obelisk plugin in Ableton live 10 (I’m running10.

[Ableton Music]

Musical Instrument Frequency Range Chart

It looks like the original website is now unavailable and so I’m posting this here to share as the only other place it’s online it bloody Pinterest

[How To Tech Solutions]

Checking an Certificate Chain

Use the following one liner to check the a certificate chain in detail:

[How To Tech Solutions]

Adding Syntax Highlighting To Nano

Run the following shell command to add all installed syntax files to your .

[Tech Solutions]

BYOBU files being flagged by rkhunter

Add the following to your /etc/rkhunter.conf file #Config to add byobu files to your allow list ALLOWHIDDENDIR=/dev/shm/byobu-*-?

[Tech Solutions]

Finding out why an Ubuntu reboot is required

You could check for the existence of /var/run/reboot-required just to see if a reboot is needed but it’s more useful to check the existence and contents of /var/run/reboot-required.

[Tech Solutions]

Solved: RKHunter Useful information in emails

I was trying to get this working by configuring the MAIL_CMD like so: echo -e “Subject: [rkhunter] Warnings found for ${HOST_NAME}\n\n” $(egrep -x “^[.

[Tech Solutions]

Running Byobu by Default on Zsh

To make Byobu default on your local machine Byobu-enable only currently modifies your .

[Tech Solutions]

Favourite Linux CLI Tools

This will be a continually updated list of my favourite Linux CLI tools

[Tech Solutions]

XBOX Support Phone Number UK

UK Number: 020 7365 9792 or Freephone: 0800 587 1102

Posts

Bulk Clearing Scheduled Downtime in Nagios

Three Mes - How Past Me Pays it Forward

SSH to an AWS Instance over SSM

Posting on the go with Hugo

AI Pay My Bills: A Quick and Easy Lifehack for Splitting Receipts

Everyday AI in IT

Copying a Sharepoint Page To Another Site

Why I’m putting my pronouns in my signature/everywhere and you should too

Using MFA for Sudo Only

Finally Solved – Nextcloud SMB Not Working on Ubuntu 20.04

Fixed: Obelisk not working in Ableton Live

Musical Instrument Frequency Range Chart

Checking an Certificate Chain

Adding Syntax Highlighting To Nano

BYOBU files being flagged by rkhunter

Finding out why an Ubuntu reboot is required

Solved: RKHunter Useful information in emails

Running Byobu by Default on Zsh

Favourite Linux CLI Tools

XBOX Support Phone Number UK

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Bulk Clearing Scheduled Downtime in Nagios

Three Mes - How Past Me Pays it Forward

SSH to an AWS Instance over SSM

Posting on the go with Hugo

AI Pay My Bills: A Quick and Easy Lifehack for Splitting Receipts

Everyday AI in IT

Copying a Sharepoint Page To Another Site

Why I’m putting my pronouns in my signature/everywhere and you should too

Using MFA for Sudo Only

Finally Solved – Nextcloud SMB Not Working on Ubuntu 20.04

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