I wanted to create a small, cheap device that I could put on my parents’ and in-laws’ networks so that they could have a small local backup and so that I could have a secure entry point into their home network for support issues. I already have an online backup from their devices set to […]

Recently I used my new Sony mirrorless camera under LED lighting in silent shooting mode (electronic shutter) and the photos had horrible banding – dark stripes across every image. There’s lots of info on this online (it turns out) but to prevent it you need to shoot slow enough for the frequency of the lighting. […]

Carrying on from part 2 (night mode), if you copy the stylesheet style.css from C:\Program Files\Open Source\MeshCentral\node_modules\meshcentral\public\styles (in my installation) to our custom directory (- in this case C:\Program Files\Open Source\MeshCentral\meshcentral-web\public\styles) and make a few adjustments, it’s a little prettier. These are the sections to change: .DevSt {padding: 15px !important;background: #333;border-radius: 10px 10px 0px 0px;margin-top: […]

Following on from part 1 I have updated the icons for night mode, if you edit config.json (in C:\Program Files\Open Source\MeshCentral\meshcentral-data in my installation) and update the domains section to use night mode and hide the header and footer (see code below) and then use the icons linked to here then it works well in […]

MeshCentral is great, but the icons are a little Windows 7. Luckily, the author Ylian Saint-Hilaire has added a simple way to change them. Go to your MeshCentral installation folder and navigate to \meshcentral-web\public\images – this might look something like this: C:\Program Files\Open Source\MeshCentral\meshcentral-web\public\images Then place the icons in the images folder. I have zipped […]

I’ve seen a variety of discussions about this and none of them quite worked for me, so here is my version – working on the current (0.8.9) version. $(“#summernote”).summernote({ //your options }).on(“summernote.enter”, function(we, e) { $(this).summernote(“pasteHTML”, “<br><br>”); e.preventDefault(); }); We intercept the enter key, insert 2 breaks (required for new line) and prevent it from […]

PHPmailer does not work with NTLM authentication and insists on using mhash() which is deprecated – so you need to edit the file in /extras called ntlm_sasl_client.php Find the code that checks if mhash() is installed and replace the 3 mhashes with hash instead: || !function_exists($function = “mhash”) ) { $extensions = array( “mcrypt_encrypt” => […]

Just a quick one – I needed a script to convert a table to a csv, so this is what I came up with. See the annotations for notes: //html table is in variable $report $report = str_replace(array(“\n”, “\r”), “”, $report); //remove existing line breaks $report = str_replace(‘”‘, ‘\”‘, $report); //escape existing quote marks $csv_lines […]

After the recent global distributed botnet attack on WordPress installations that took down servers and broke into admin accounts, I thought I’d write a plugin to prevent it happening again. Distributed botnet attacks can come from multiple IP addresses and locations at the same time, so conventional IP-based lockouts are not effective (e.g. those found […]

I just thought I’d share a formula I worked out a few years ago when a client asked me to make sure his Paypal website payments were covering the Paypal fees – so that he got the full amount he was asking for. In the UK, Paypal standard fees are 3.4% plus 20p. So if […]