Author Archives: thecomputerperson

In this page I will teach you to do something you should never do. But .. sometimes needs must and the insane reason you are doing it should never be asked about. In the situation I needed to do this … Continue reading →

While a bad idea, there are some instances where disabling IPv6 is required.In my instance I installed a new OpenWRT router on a network as a replacement to their old ISP router.. I already have a DHCPv6 server on the … Continue reading →

Mainly for my own reference in the future but if you want sensible formatted dates and times for files in the ls command.. Source: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/112122426537045159 vs

Summary: It’s almost certainly a scam, do not pay and report it and the bank account they are requesting payments to, to ActionFraud. Today is a rare and interesting one. A customer forwarded a message: The message is from “Ezy … Continue reading →

This is mainly for my reference in the future but may help others. Consider: You have an Asterisk server using PJSIP, the server hosts accounts (extensions?) such as 203.You accidentally register two devices against 203. This means you see two … Continue reading →

A customer received the following spam today: From: IPR Protection info@ipr-protection.comSent: 13 March 2023 RE:DACTo: REDACTEDSubject: Trademark registration for REDACTED Dear Sir/Madam, Yesterday we received an application for the trademark registration of REDACTED. This application was not filed by you … Continue reading →

These sites are unusual. They are spread by unsolicited emails claiming to be updates to an account or someone who needs to recover an account. It gives a username and a password.2024-03: The most recent incident I’ve seen of this … Continue reading →

Took me ages to work this one out. HtmlToPdfConverter.GeneratePdf causes the error mentioned in the title. Looking at the iis trace in process monitor produced no mention of it attempting to access anything at all. A few years ago someone … Continue reading →

Just for my future reference as normal.. Using a standard setup from this script: https://github.com/angristan/openvpn-install Comment out the tls-crypt line add a log line: log /var/log/openvpn/log.log Turn off LZO on phone. Configure, then reboot phone.