A blog about curiosity being a good habit
How to easily export browsing history in Chrome You need get your entire history in Google Chrome in order to find that one page you visited a month ago and just can’t seem to remember what it was or find it in the Chrome interface. Here’s an easy way. Get ChromeHistoryView. Not only will… Continue reading How to easily export browsing history in Chrome
Use PowerShell to output a list of installed features This requires a couple steps. I ran this in Microsoft Windows 2012 R2. YMMV. I was in a rush and didn’t feel like figuring out why you have to do step 1. Create a folder called log and text file called iis.log somewhere. I used C… Continue reading Output Microsoft Windows installed features to a file
Basics about HTTP Redirect IIS has lots of built in utilities and GUI tools for managing websites. If you need to do a redirect from one URL to another, it couldn’t be easier, especially if you need to include the querystring or URL vars (variables). By the way, if you just need a simple way to… Continue reading IIS Redirect With a Querystring/URL Vars
MySQL server has gone away. But where did it go? PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL server has gone away: This can be a tear your hair out kind of error, especially in Drupal. The solution, however, is often pretty simple: MySQL is out of connections. Or, more appropriately, max_allowed_packet is probably set too low… Continue reading PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2006 MySQL
You need a simple way to redirect your website from domain.com to www.domain.com. This can be used to redirect from HTTP to HTTPS, as well. Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) comes with URL Rewrite. It may or may not be installed. The below guide will help you to install and configre URL Rewrite. Open IIS… Continue reading IIS redirect to www
Add some Propeller Connectors to your Flight Box Bad day flying through the trees. Gotta give to DJI for building the prop connectors to fail before the motors take too much of a hit. Here’s the DJI link: Phantom 4 – 9450S Propeller Installation Kits Here’s a link to my Amazon Associates:Phantom 4 – 9450S… Continue reading DJI Phantom 4 Prop Connector
Like many people, you’re still running Windows 2008 R2. You removed SSL and TLS 1.0 and other various security related connection configurations and protocols and you want to now install Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2! Note: if you have not disabled these open wounds of Internet communication you should do so now! Note: there are… Continue reading TLS 1.2 Support for MSSQL
You have Admin rights to the machine, but you set up Microsoft SQL Server as SQL only login with SA, but you’ve forgotten your password. Here’s the dead easy way to reset this, including adding the Admin account and setting it for dual authentication. Note: due to lots of machine names, etc, I’m going to use… Continue reading Reset MSSQL Login
Apple Pay will give you a file to post on your site in order to verify your domain, similar to how SSL certificate and Google Analytics does it. In my case, however, the path Apple gave included no extension on the filename. IIS will not deliver files without an extension by default. You have to… Continue reading Apple Pay Domain Verification with IIS
Welcome to my personal copy/paste crib sheet for everything I use on Linux. I am far from a guru and it is not my full time job, so sometimes I can’t remember the command and its switches exactly. This is primarily CentOS 6.x. Your mileage may vary. See anything I should add? Comment below! Add… Continue reading Linux cheat sheet for command line tools