We have just brought some secondhand warehouse racking. I wanted to inspect it for faults. This company provide a free racking inspection checklist. They make you jump through lots of hoops to get access to it. Here are the direct links to the download: Downloadable Racking Inspection Checklist – 1 Downloadable Racking Inspection Checklist – … Read more
We recently had to extract barcode data from a large directory of .lbx files, which is the file format used by Brother P-Touch Label Printer software. We could have found the software, opened each file in turn and cut and pasted the data into a spreadsheet, but this didn’t seem very efficient. Opening the files … Read more
We have brought a Zortrax M300 3D Printer. It was recommended to me by several people. They told me that it was really reliable and made good quality prints. I have spent just over 92 days using this printer and printed a wide variety of things. When the printer works, it is a dream and … Read more
If you are trying get sar working you might get this error message: “Cannot open /var/log/sysstat/sa08: No such file or directory”. Essentially, you need to enable data collection. You do this by editing /etc/default/sysstat nano /etc/default/sysstat Then change: ENABLED=”false” to ENABLED=”true” Hope this helps someone.
I use Firefox with Google Sheets. When filling in the cell and pressing enter Google sheets automatically adds a new line. It only seems to happen then you press enter. It doesn’t happen when you press tab or click out of the call. It also only happens in Firefox and not Google Chrome. Being cynical, … Read more
It is quite hard to find your Amazon prime invoice. You need to login to your Amazon account, click “Manage Prime Membership” and then click “View Printable Invoice” I hope this is helpful to someone.
I was needed to buy some new tyres for my Bakfiets.nl cargo bike. I couldn’t see the tire sizes on the tire and no-one seems to put the specs on the internet. After some measuring, I can confirm that the tires are: Front Tires – 20″ x 1.75 Rear Tire – 26″ x 1.75 I hope … Read more
I have an Audio Pro T10 bluetooth speaker. I use it to play music from my iphone. For some reason this morning, when I tried to use, I could not hear any music coming out. The iphone was connected and playing music. I tried my wife’s phone and this played perfectly. I finally realised that … Read more
I’m just going through PCI Compliance for a company that I work for. The security scan picked an apparent vulnerability in the open-ssh server. The vulnerability had been patched in Ubuntu 14.04 and so this is a false positive. I thought that I post put about it because I found lots of posts where people … Read more
A couple of the spokes where gone on my Bakfiets cargo bike. I tried all the usual bike shops in Oxford but none of them stocked the right size. Bakfiets bikes use especially thick spokes (2.5mm). The previous owner had replaced the broken spokes standard bike spokes which were very thin and essentially useless because they … Read more