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3CX Door Control for Fanvil and Grandstream

We’ve recently installed a 3CX system where the phones are Fanvil and the door intercoms are Grandstream. Maybe this is just balancing the one from last year with Grandstream phones and a Fanvil PA2 to control the door… 3CX doesn’t have any native way to control these relays. so for the Fanvil phones you have to log into each phone

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Macs on Unifi Split-Tunnel VPN can’t browse internet- Solved

The Short Version TL;DR – add a DNS server that’s not on either network and is publicly accessible, and possibly also a static route. Also maybe set the VPN profile to a higher priority… **I’ve thought over this and of course the solution seems obvious. But the doc from Ubiquiti makes it sound difficult, so not really sure what is

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Synology- Where has all my drive space gone?

No, this isn’t a MySpace joke, we’re waaaay too old and sensible for that. I was browsing my Backup Synology and trying to figure out why it was showing no space available on a 30TB volume. I don’t have that many linux iso’s, do I? The answer turned out to be in this magical post – thanks Martin Chou! In

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State of The Mac 2021- Updated June 2021

We like Macs, but there are some er, less desirable models in the line up- so If you’re buying a new Mac this year, what specs to recommend? This post was originally written in March 2017, and since then Apple has updated everything- I have updated each of the categories with new recommendations as needed. All prices lifted directly from Apple

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MunkiReport/ MySQL export to Zoho Analytics

I really wanted a new way of displaying outdated computers in MunkiReport (fantastic tool by the way, thanks to the authors/ contributors!) but I was deeply confused by the terminology, and this post is an attempt to write down my needs and prepare for getting it exactly right in future… What is the goal? I need to be able to

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Can’t Delete Mac User Account

Just recently stumbled on this issue. Symptoms- despite having admin or root privileges, you can’t delete a user account in System Preferences/ Users & Groups. According to this- https://medium.com/@ambroselittle/cant-delete-original-admin-user-on-macos-high-sierra-1d79fb438246 and this https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/376113/catalina-ask-password-to-delete-user-but-password-is-always-wrong It’s a hangover from ‘ye olden days’ and requires quite a lot of complex manoeuvres to fix. Well, I got lazy and did this bit- System Preferences >

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macOS Big Sur MySQL Time Zones

I realise my post titles are looking more and more like cries for help, but what can you do? Issue- Needed to connect a MySQL database to Zoho Analytics to torture some data. Zoho provides a connector for this which is (argh) Java based and also requires the Oracle driver to be installed separately… but installing MariaDB requires installing Brew

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Synology 10Gigabit ethernet on the cheap!

All credit for this goes to the original Redditor– I’ve only tried to make it a bit easier by rewriting the instructions.   A friend needed a fast setup on a budget and I wanted to see what I could do with stuff I had lying around. There was a Synology DS1817+ that was about to go on eBay, a

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Connectwise Control- Set Fields from Client Variables

I’m very proud of this one because I was told multiple times that it couldn’t be done by Connectwise themselves… What are we trying to achieve? I wanted to be able to make a single installer for Connectwise Control (hereafter called CWC) and then put the clients in their appropriate groups programmatically afterwards. There’s several issues with this- CWC writes

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State of The Mac 2021- Updated Feb 2021

We like Macs, but there are some er, less desirable models in the line up- so If you’re buying a new Mac this year, what specs to recommend? This post was originally written in March 2017, and since then Apple has updated everything- I have updated each of the categories with new recommendations as needed. All prices lifted directly from Apple

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