Solution to failed firmware updates in a UniFi Cloud Key
I've had a few UniFi Cloud Key wifi controllers with this issue - they seem to be stuck on a particular version of the firmware and can't be updated. Both ma...
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Rogue Amoeba Blog - On The Sad State of Macintosh Hardware
I could not agree more with this sentiment. There's nothing wrong with speed bumps, small and more frequent updates to the hardware rather than going for yea...
Read post →June 2018 WWDC Keynote
Apple held their annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) overnight. This is where they generally announce all the new features in upcoming versions of...
Read post →Daring Fireball: 10 Strikes and You’re Out – the iOS Feature You’re Probably Not Using But Should
I was unaware that there was quite a safety net built into this feature. Like many other people, I haven't enabled the option to erase all data on my phone a...
Read post →TipBITS: Reveal Invisible Files on the Mac with a Keystroke - TidBITS
Here's a great tip over on TipBITS that I didn't know, but could come in handy some day. I usually have no need at all for seeing invisible files in the Find...
Read post →Connect via ssh to an old, insecure device
I recently needed to use ssh to connect to an old Cisco ASA5505 firewall. As it turns out, the Java interface doesn't work in any current version of Java and...
Read post →How Apple Dethroned Intel As the World's Most Innovative Chipmaker
There's a very interesting article over on The Motley Fool today comparing Apple and Intel in an area where people wouldn't usually think they compete - that...
Read post →iOS 11.4 brings stereo pairs and multi-room audio with AirPlay 2 - Apple
Apple have released the iOS 11.4 update for iPhones and iPads. The main improvement is the addition of AirPlay 2 which allows HomePod speakers to play multi-...
Read post →Download a file with PowerShell for Windows Server Core
Download files on Windows Server Core without the Desktop Experience using the PowerShell Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet, with the iwr shorthand and examples.
Read post →Archicad + Munki
It's long been a source of frustration for me that CAD software usually doesn't use the OS vendor's provided installers and instead they roll their own. Vect...
Read post →Windows Service with PID 4 listening on TCP Port 443
I had an issue where I couldn't start a web server on a Windows Server as something was already listening on TCP Port 443. netstat -a -b just showed me that...
Read post →Troubleshooting AD replication error -2146893022: "The target principal name is incorrect"
I'm too tired to write up more background information on this, suffice to say I spent quite literally hours searching for this and I want to be able to easil...
Read post →Windows 10 - Remove Active Directory Users
Remove a cloud Active Directory user profile from a Windows 10 workstation via Advanced System Settings, User Profiles when Control Panel won't show it.
Read post →Force Exchange Online Archiving to start archiving email on Office 365
Trigger Exchange Online Archiving immediately instead of waiting a day by running Start-ManagedFolderAssistant in PowerShell.
Read post →How did manufacturers manage to make space storage (SSD, HDD) so dense? - Quora
By continually refining methods and technology, by constantly evolving and pushing and exploring new areas of technology. One of the earlier breakthroughs wa...
Read post →Really good advice on passwords from Microsoft
Microsoft have published a white paper - Microsoft Password Guidance that contains some very good advice on what passwords need to be to be secure against mo...
Read post →Can't image a new Windows 10 machine with Clonezilla, NTFS partition shows as RAW
I had an issue today with trying to create an image of a brand-new Windows 10 laptop (HP EliteBook x360 in case you were wondering). When running Clonezilla,...
Read post →Can't invite people to events in macOS Calendar app via Kerio Connect
I've got a client with Kerio Connect as their mail/contacts/calendars server. They were seeing an issue on some workstations where when the user created a ca...
Read post →Get PowerShell remoting working on macOS without installing Homebrew
Run PowerShell remote sessions to Office 365 on macOS without Homebrew by installing OpenSSL via MacPorts and symlinking it where PowerShell expects it.
Read post →Stop Apache web services on macOS with Server.app
In recent versions of macOS with the Server.app, the Server software has been more and more persistent about having Apache running. Even if you're not using...
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