Posts in category “Geek”

Raspberry Pi Webcam Sleep Mode

Octopi is awesome. It allows me to manage both of my 3D printers without having a dedicated PC. The problam that I was having is that the WiFi adapter kept on falling asleep - as Power Management was On.

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Linkstation NAS – Emergency Mode

A number of my hard drives failed and I had to replace them all.

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Windows Persistent Drive Mapping

What a royal pain in the arse! You create a mapped drive, you tell it to reconnect on logon, and it doesn't.

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ZSoft Uninstaller 2.5

An oldie but a goodie!

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InstallWatch Pro

Here is a useful little utility that I didn't want to loose track of.

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SparkGateway to the rescue!

I had a dilemma. Our f%^%ing provider blocked RDP going out.

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Windows 8.x desktop font shadow

What sucks? The shadow behind the text on your desktop. Looks crap and is a bitch to get rid of.

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My 3D Modelling

I have always wanted to create a 3D model. I get 50% there and then I get side tracked and move onto something else.

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PHP - Managing CRON jobs with PHP

I don't want to loose this link...

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PHP - Expire a PHP session after 30 mins

Another article that I will read .. one day. I'm interested..

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PHP: AD ObjectGUID

As always you seem to spend a lot of time trying to find a function that does something.

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PHP, OpenLDAP and SSL

I spent hours and hours trying to get an LDAPS connection happening with my local AD LDS instance.

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Signing an IIS Certificate using OpenSSL

I had a requirement to install OpenSSL (on Windows) and sign some certificates generated from IIS.

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Create your CA Private Key for OpenSSL

I needed to create a private key using OpenSSL.

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Change AD LDS user password

I needed a way to change my LDS user password without knowing the password.

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Button formaction attribute

Sometimes there is something that bothers you and you cannot let it go.

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HREF URL Printing in Firefox

When I printeda table with links in it, the URLs would also be printed - annoying.

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Hide table columns when printing

Tonight I needed to work out how I could remove columns when printing.

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Outlook Send Only

I have a few accounts that are used for forwarding and would like to be able to send email using their address.

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LDAP Query: ManagedBy

From time to time I need to find all objects managed by a particular user.

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