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Scanning a booklet without an ugly crease

When you try to scan a thick booklet or a book you can often get the above ugly crease around the staples when you try to lay the booklet flat. Less than desirable, the question is how to remove the crease mark. While you can remove the crease after scanning this may not work so… read more…
Getting your YouTube videos in full HD

Have you noticed that you can upload a full HD video to YouTube and it’s great quality but when you watch it on YouTube the quality is rubbish. The likely problem is that YouTube is not displaying it in the resolution you uploaded, sometimes quite a low resolution. Google: Low video quality after upload https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/71674?hl=en… read more…
Diwali 2018 at Spark NZ

Diwali is such great fun and the Indian community at Spark are so enthusiastic and welcoming. The energy and variety is fantastic, Well done fall of you, I know you put in the long hours practicing the dancing and it shows. Can’t wait for next year. Simon Moutter and Claire Barber had some good… read more…
Network browsing broken with Windows 10 build 1809

I have a relatively new install of Windows 10 and it is currently running build 1809 and do you think I can get it to browse to a network share. If I do the standard thing of typing in a host name into file explorer as “\\nas2” it should bring me back all the available… read more…
SonicWall VLAN to private physical interface

I had a Windows 10 VM, running inside VMware ESXi 6.0, which I needed to connect to the laptop as shown in the above diagram. In addition I needed both the laptop and VM to be on an isolated LAN which meant neither the VM nor laptop to should be able to access the internet… read more…
ESXi Embedded Host Client – Improving Stability

I use ESXi on a small number of VMs at home and recently moved to some newer hardware. Not really new, they are Lenovo M58 (7479CTO) small form factor. In regards to ESX the biggest factor is the CPU is: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz For ESX this CPU is supported up to… read more…
Cleaning the Epson 3170 scanner’s glass

You will notice as time goes by that the inside of the scanner glass gets dirty. The good news is that for this scanner at least, cleaning the glass is really easy. Firstly remove the scanner lid by unplugging the power cable for the light and then sliding the scanner lid off. Inside each of… read more…
Send JSON requests to a VSTS service hook using SoapUI

When I was creating a VSTS Git post-commit service hook it became clear fairly quickly that I needed to be able to simulate calls from VSTS using SoapUI. This is what I did. SoapUI: https://www.soapui.org/downloads/soapui.html Python script to capture VSTS requests First thing needed is a basic Python script to log the incoming request so… read more…
Apache doesn’t write to /var/tmp

I had a really strange problem, I was writing a tiny Python script to learn about Python and it was writing to /var/tmp. Only problem was the file never turned up. This script was run from within Apache 2 on Fedora 18. The file I was trying to create was “webhook_current_json_request.json“. Turns out the problem… read more…
Enable python scripts in Apache

Want to run Python from Apache 2.4, this is what I did to get it working. For this exercise I am creating a web hook script and want to run them from the custom folder “/srv/www/webhooks/”. Apache config changes First backup and then open up “/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf” in your favorite editor.. Search for “#AddHandler cgi-script .cgi”… read more…