There are currently over 50,000 free books to choose from on Amazon’s Kindle Store. Just add a book to your library using the Buy now button (not Subscribe to Kindle Unlimited / Read for £0.00) and read with Amazon Cloud reader in a web browser or sync to your Kindle. The below link will open a filtered search on the Amazon UK website showing ALL the books that are currently FREE to add to your account without needing a Kindle unlimited subscription....

1. The Default Bridge This is the default network that new containers will connect to. It’s a software bridge between your docker instance and your host system, providing isolation between the bridge network and other networks, including the host network and other bridge networks on the host. Docker best practices discourage using this network for containers, recommending User-Defined bridges instead, which we will get to in #4. When to use it: Avoid using the Default Bridge, use another network type instead where possible...

Headnotes First, the project link, for those of you who just want to gander at code and commit history Second, this post uses some Mermaid JS graphs, which don’t look great on a dark background, so I recommend switching the site to light mode by clicking the little sun next to “Home” in the navbar. Introduction Last night was one of the worst night’s sleep I’ve had in the past few years....

Introduction I’m off to Me’ra Luna in a few days! This is my first time camping since the Covid pandemic and thankfully I uncovered a previous camping packing list. I figure I may as well share it here for easy finding in future and so others may find it useful. Bring on the festival! A place to rest Tent Tent Pegs Mallet Mattress Air Mattress pump Sleeping bag Pillow Folding chair Torch Look after yourself Clothes Wet weather clothes / spare shoes / boots / rain coat Toothbrush / Toothpaste / Floss Shower Gel Painkillers Sun Cream Sun Glasses Condoms Wet Wipes Cutlery / Plates / Mess Tins / Mug Food Water Bottle(s) Towel First Aid kit Toilet roll Thermals / Sleeping clothes Deodrant Tick removers Sanitary towels / tampons (even for guys, they come in handy often!...

Authentication Authentication is saying “I am me”. It validates who you are. When you go to a club and the bouncer stops you and you tell him you’re on the guest list, you then show him your ID and he says “Ahh! You’re that guy, come on in” - that’s Authentication Authorisation Authorisation validates what you claim to be. Going back to the club and the bouncer stops you. You show him your ID....

Submodules aren’t removed using git rm submodule-dir, they need to be removed in a far more thorough and annoying fashion. There are a number of unclear explanations at various sources so I decided to write my own findings. Delete the relevant parts from the .gitmodules file. EG: 1 2 3 [submodule "blog/themes/PaperMod"] path = blog/themes/PaperMod url = https://github.com/adityatelange/hugo-PaperMod.git Stage .gitmodules via git add .gitmodules Remove the relevant parts from .git/config...

Introduction I recently came to the conclusion that I wasn’t posting on my blog nearly as much as I’d like to. My blog runs on WordPress, and I’ve felt for a while that the process of logging in, creating a post, fixing formatting in a WSYWGI editor and eventually posting was too much resistance when I commonly just write notes in plain text. So, why not just write posts in plain text and have something else do the work of turning that in to a post or a blog?...

The Problem You’ve set up Azure AD Connect or Azure AD Connect Cloud Sync, but some users haven’t sync’d correctly. Trying to force a new sync / Soft Link based on SMTP or UPN matching doesn’t work. These sync’d users may have created new Azure AD accounts, or may have failed to create an Azure AD account altogether. Your internal users UPN matches a domain configured in Azure AD. The Cause The initial soft link matches on UPN or SMTP, but may fail if there are conflicting ProxyAddresses....

The Problem You’re unable to activate a copy of Windows Server 2019 or 2022 Evaluation edition with your VLSC MAK key The Cause Windows Server 2019 / 2022 Evaluation edition can only be activated with a retail key. This must happen before a Volume Licence Key can be used. The Fix We need to use DISM to change the product version/edition Open an elevated command prompt Get a list of available version upgrade paths by typing:...

The Problem Veeam is failing to back up one of your Hyper-V VM’s and is throwing the error: VHDx:CVhdxDisk.InitialValidation: Invalid bitmap block (all bitmap block of fixed and dynamic disks must be in SB_BLOCK_NOT_PRESENT state) Agent failed to process method {VHDx.GetDiskInformation} The Cause The error is telling us that Veeam’s VHDx InitialValidation function failed as the VHDx had blocks in an invalid state. According to Microsoft’s OpenSpecs Documentation for VHDx, the only valid Sector Bitmap Block state for fixed and dynamic disks is SB_BLOCK_NOT_PRESENT...