Useful Powershell Commands
View all ports in use Get-NetTCPConnection | ? {$_.State -eq “Listen”} | sort LocalPort -Descending
How to search the Microsoft SQL Full Text Search index
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.
How to change the DJI Osmo Pocket Wireless Module WiFi Password
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
How to connect a Pixel 3 to the DJI Osmo Pocket Wireless Module
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
Telerik Fiddler and ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE
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
Chrome Remote Desktop Lock Screen
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
LetsEncrypt SSL on Amazon Lightsail Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS
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
How to install PHP 5.6 on CentOS 6.10
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
How to use Tail in Windows Powershell
Windows is slowly, but surely, catching up to the hundreds of useful utilities for reading file content that *nix have had for forever. As you know, opening a 1 gig log file in notepad is impossible. Even using Notepad++, which can open some pretty large files, will not open a 1 gig file. Thank you,… Continue reading How to use Tail in Windows Powershell
Vagrant status is “running” but VirtualBox shows “Powered Off” Windows 10
You’ve installed Vagrant and run vagrant up and then vagrant ssh successfully. You then start VirtualBox Manager and it shows that it is powered off: In order to see the actual status, press SHIFT then right-click on the icon for Virtual Box, then click Run as Administrator You will see that it reports the VM… Continue reading Vagrant status is “running” but VirtualBox shows “Powered Off” Windows 10