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Raspberry Pi 5 Family Info Sign

Does your toddler* ask ‘what are we doing?’ all day? Is your partner constantly at meetings, soccer, baseball, pub or work and you want to know where they are without being a stalker? Are your kids vague about events, then engage panic stations when you forget?**Maybe your family could use a sign that has all this info and more!*Yes, you’ll need to

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Network Upgrades

Recently a client moved, giving us the opportunity to plan and implement a new network for them.You can see the results below, and to say we are happy with the results would be a massive understatement. In any endeavour, your ideal client is someone who takes your advice, challenges you to do better (and pays on time!). In this case

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Business

Enhancing Employee Performance with a Mobile-Optimized Workspace

In the whirlwind of today’s business landscape, adaptability reigns supreme. Today’s workspaces transcend physical boundaries. Employees work and collaborate seamlessly from anywhere. Whether they’re sipping coffee at a local café or lounging on their living room couch. That’s the magic of a mobile-optimized workspace. It’s a game-changer for productivity and performance. 51% of employees use company-mandated apps when working via

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Microsoft

Windows 10: The Final Countdown – It’s Time to Upgrade Your PC

Windows 10 has served us well. But its time is running out. Microsoft plans to end support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. This means no more security updates, no more patches, and no more support. It’s time to upgrade to Windows 11. This is especially true for business users with many systems to check and upgrade. This change

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News

A Simple Guide to the Updated NIST 2.0 Cybersecurity Framework

Staying ahead of threats is a challenge for organizations of all sizes. Reported global security incidents grew between February and March of 2024. They increased by 69.8%. It’s important to use a structured approach to cybersecurity. This helps to protect your organization. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) created a Cybersecurity Framework (CSF). It provides an industry-agnostic approach

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cPanel error from cron daemon – ‘mPanel’

This is a quick one that baffled me for a while- Got an error message by email with the following content- Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/local/bin/mpanel-memory-graph”, line 92, in <module>   SendUpdate() File “/usr/local/bin/mpanel-memory-graph”, line 78, in SendUpdate   SendUsageToStatisticsHost(bytesUsed, GetDiskUsedMegabytes(), macAddress) File “/usr/local/bin/mpanel-memory-graph”, line 69, in SendUsageToStatisticsHost   sock.sendto(data.encode(), (GetStatisticsHost(), GetStatisticsPort()))socket.error: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted This is from a VM hosted at Binary Lane, and

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Which Mac to Buy?- Updated June 2023

If you’re buying a new Mac this year, what specs to recommend? I have updated each of the categories with new recommendations as needed. All prices lifted directly from Apple Australia MacBook Pro 13 inch models (New Model 6 June 2022) Entry- M2, 8 core CPU, 10 core GPU, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD $1999 Nice machine, but I’d still spend

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Zoho Desk and Zitadel SAML

This integration took 6 months of work, so I hope it helps someone else… Updated 25.9.2023 as some of these things have been fixed. I hope my edits make sense! Background- The Zoho Desk Knowledgebase is quite full featured but has some odd quirks, some that make it unusable for us.For example, you can set up users, groups categories etc.

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Fix 3CX Disk Space Issues

We had a VM behaving abnormally recently, and on investigation this was being caused by the disk being almost full. On comparison with another system on the same type of VM, this one was using 96% of disk space and the other 13% so what’s going on? I called out for help on Facebook, and Clinton Jackson, Benjamin Chennels-Webb and

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Troubleshooting Gravitl Netclient on a Mac

Because the Mac client for Netmaker (netclient) can’t be installed in /etc and doesn’t have some of the tools on other platforms, I needed to figure out how to diagnose and fix some issues that presented themselves. If you have anything to add please let me know. And to the Gravitl boys- steal away if you think it’s useful… *Warning-

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