Curiosity is a good habit
One of the best but most frustrating things in the world is being an amateur and knowing your limitations. You really want to build something because you’ve read all about it and have that burning urge to create something, but just know that some things are best left to professionals because they’re, well, professionals. Even… Continue reading How to not build deck stairs
I have been shooting some video lately and since I do things on a small scale I needed a way to not only mount my compact camera, but also quickly and easily move and orient it so I can get the right shot. After many hours watching Adam Booth AKA Abom79 I realized that, like… Continue reading Articulating Compact Camera Holder Arm
View all ports in use Get-NetTCPConnection | ? {$_.State -eq “Listen”} | sort LocalPort -Descending
Use this query in SQL Management Studio to directly search the Full Text Search index. select * from sys.dm_fts_parser(‘”search term”‘, 1033, NULL, 0) Note that there are upcoming changes to FTI, including many deprecated functions, so if you’re using it extensively you probably have some work to do.
After connecting to your Osmo Pocket using the Wireless Module with DJI Mimo, click the three little dots in the lower left side. The icon you want is the one with the four squares with one empty. You can update the SSID and the password, as well as change the connection type, etc. You may… Continue reading How to change the DJI Osmo Pocket Wireless Module WiFi Password
Let’s keep this short. The problem: You go through the setup instructions of your Osmo Pocket and your Wireless Module with DJI Mimo. It can see the camera, but never makes a connection no matter what you try. Here’s how to make it work: Open WiFi connections in your phone and “forget” the “Osmo Pocket”… Continue reading How to connect a Pixel 3 to the DJI Osmo Pocket Wireless Module
You log into your Microsoft Windows machine one day and open Chrome and all you get is: ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE So you get that little bit of panic going since you need to be on a call in 5 minutes and you can’t access the Internet (or so you think). You open IE, then Edge, then Firefox… Continue reading Telerik Fiddler and ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE
Don’t want someone looking at your screen that you are remoted into using Chrome Remote Desktop? Here’s the link to Google’s support page for it. Here are the shortcuts to Mac only. Why not Windows 10? Because you have to set RDP to allow connections from any security level. You should only have it set… Continue reading Chrome Remote Desktop Lock Screen
ProcessIO is now running SSL for free thanks to LetsEncrypt. It took about 5 minutes to get set up, so if you haven’t done it, do it. Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS I used Certbot, so I went to the site and selected my web server and OS, then followed the instructions. Important! Amazon Lightsail has a firewall… Continue reading LetsEncrypt SSL on Amazon Lightsail Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS
I just did a fresh install of CentOS 6.10 today and needed to install PHP. It had been a while, so I needed a refresher. Note: PHP 5.6 is pretty much End Of Life, so you should be installing PHP 7.2, or higher at this point in time. That said, sometimes you have to support… Continue reading How to install PHP 5.6 on CentOS 6.10