Every Day Is A School Day - Changing metadata on movie files ...
As per my earlier post: -Sharing media libraries between Apple Macs - d'oh, I'm holding it wrongI'm continuing to tinker with my media library, sharing between macOS, iOS, iPadOS and tvOS ...One thing...
View ArticleDigging into certificate expiration using OpenSSL
This popped up on my Twitter feed earlier: -Check the expiration date of an SSL or TLS certificateand I thought it worth book marking ...Checking the expiration of various certificates on my network...
View ArticleIBM UrbanCode Deploy - it's been a while ...
For my day job, I'm using IBM (HCL) UrbanCode Deploy (UCD) to manage the lifecycle of some containers on an IBM Z box.It's been a while since last I tinkered with UCD, as per my previous posts ....So...
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UrbanCode Deploy - Using the query symbol to reference properties
I was looking at an existing UrbanCode Deploy (UCD) element, known as a Component, and noticed that it made reference to an existing Property, but also included a query symbol ( ? ) within the...
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Cloudy databases - Back with Cloudant on IBM Cloud
A few years back, I was using Cloudant to store JSON data for a POC upon which my team and I were working, and wrote a few posts: -IBM Integration Bus and Cloudant - Baby steps ...Cloudant -...
View ArticleMore on Cloudant - things to read
Custom Indexers for CloudantGlynn Bird - CouchImportIBM Cloud Docs - Cloudant - Creating an IBM Cloudant QueryIBM Cloud Docs - Cloudant - AuthenticationExport & Import a Database with CouchDBHow to...
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Backslash broke my Cloudant
Well, the headline somewhat overhypes things BUT following on from my earlier post: -Cloudy databases - Back with Cloudant on IBM CloudI noted that one can get the URL of a Cloudant instance from the...
View ArticleWant to know a little more about Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform ?
Red Hat have created a nice little set of self-paced tutorials / exercises for OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), which provide one with a set of exercises ( GUI and CLI steps ) to run against a (...
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macOS Software Versioning and Updating from the command-line
Over and above the usual way to determine the Mac's software levels : - > About This Macand Software Update : -we also have the command line: -sw_vers ProductName:Mac OS...
View ArticleMore with Cloudant - Serverless web application and API
This popped into my inbox t'other day: -In this tutorial, you will create a serverless web application using a bucket in Object Storage and implementing the application backend using IBM Cloud™...
View ArticleRandom weirdness with OpenSSL on Ubuntu 18.04.5
I hit an interesting problem today, whilst trying to create a public/private key pair: -openssl req -subj '/C=GB/O=IBM/CN=david_hay.uk.ibm.com' -new -newkey rsa:4096 -x509 -sha256 -days 365 -nodes...
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Yet more fun and goodness with Cloudant and couchimport
One of my friends was wondering why couchimport was apparently working BUT not actually working ....Running a test such as: -cat cartoon.csv | couchimport --url...
View ArticleInspecting Kubernetes Worker nodes - a Work-in-Progress
I have a need to query a list of Kubernetes Worker Nodes, and ignore the Master Node.This is definitely a W-I-P, but here's what I've got thus farSo we have a list of nodes: -kubectl get nodesNAME...
View ArticlemacOS 11 Big Sur and Kernel Extensions - down the rabbit hole I go ....
I've been having a few discussions with colleagues as we get to grips with the new macOS 11 Big Sur release, especially with regard to the slow evolution away from Kernel Extensions ( aka KExts ).One...
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Synology NAS via Ethernet - more fun n' games
Following on from an earlier ( wow, two years ago ) post: -Synology DS414 - From Megabits to GigabitsI was talking with a colleague about the speed of the Ethernet between my Mac ( now a more modern...
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Tinkering with Spotlight disk indexing in macOS 11 Big Sur
Having upgraded to Big Sur last week, I'd noticed that Spotlight still hadn't completed disk indexing after ~7 days.I was digging in further using Terminal: -sudo mdutil -E //:Error: Index is already...
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Back in the day - PuTTY and Windows and RDP
I had an interesting tinker this PM, harking back to a client engagement where we were using PuTTY on Windows to access a bunch of AIX boxen.In this case, a colleague was running PuTTY on a Windows...
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TIL - how to print from Notes in iOS and iPadOS 14.2
This has baffled me since I upgraded to iOS 14 a while back ...As an avid user of the Notes app across my various Apple devices - iPhone, iPad, Watch and Mac, I was struggling to work out how to...
View ArticleWant to learn IBM Cloudant ? Check out YouTube ....
Further tinkering with Cloudant and couchimport etc. today, and found this: -Cloudant CourseThis is an eighteen part training course design to introduce new users to the IBM Cloudant Database as a...
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Connecting to IBM Db2 from SQuirreLSQL on macOS
This came up in a thread from an IBM colleague, and led me to have a tinker with a new-to-me tool, SQuirreLSQL Having downloaded and installed the app, making sure to select the IBM Db2 driver: -and...
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