Why I hate no-reply / unmonitored inboxes: with example
if you want to do customer service, absolutely do not do this.
Ben Nevis, North Face via Tower Ridge
We (my Father and I) ascended Ben Nevis via Tower Ridge on 10th May 2019. We had a pretty hairy experience. I’ve been meaning to write this up since – but things have been busy so it… slipped. But news today that a climber died after being struck by lightning […]
Basic web scraping – Part 2: thoughts on debugging and Python3
A while ago, I posted a basic tutorial on how to do some simple web scraping in Python using requests and beautifulsoup. It obviously got found in Google because the hits were good. There were however, a couple of comments highlighting issues with it – Brett and Sean saying issues […]
Sharepoint – Open .eml files in Outlook
If you use email enabled document libraries or indeed any other method of storing email messages (commonly created in Exchange / Outlook) in Sharepoint document libraries then they are more than likely stored in .eml format (that first appeared in Outlook Express) as opposed to the more modern .msg format. […]
Basic web scraping with a Raspberry Pi, Python and Requests
Update: 2019-05-13 – this has been edited to fix a little bug in the code transcript. There is also a follow-up article on working with Python3 here. I’m a print subscriber of both The MagPi and HackSpace magazine. In a recent edition of HackSpace (p129 of issue #12) it referenced […]
Use DISKPART to bring a disk online
If you’ve recently migrated a VMWare Fusion virtual machine to VMWare ESXi, which itself had multiple disks, you may find that secondary disks don’t show up. You can change this using DISKPART. In my case, this didn’t happen in a Windows 10 VM with two disks, but did happen in […]
Migrate VMWare Fusion virtual machines to VMWare ESXi
Way back in 2012, I dabbled with ESXi. In fact, I faced then, moreorless the same problem I was facing a few days ago. That particular ESXi server didn’t last particularly long – no technical issues, it just didn’t turn out to be the thing I wanted. Fast forward 6 […]