Posts by Paul Costan

How create a subdomain with Synology

Step 1. DNS First you need to visit your host provider and go to Manage your Domain Name System (DNS) settings. For example I use[…]

Synology NAS – How to speed up expanding drive

If you are like me bought a NAS drive and want to build up storage over time due to the high expense of hard drives.[…]

How to Mount Remote Folder from NAS to you Mac

First of all you need to enable NFS on your Mac, to do this type this command sudo nfsd enable next $ cd /etc/ Then[…]

How to install Ubuntu on Virtual Machine with a Synology NAS

– First login into your synology NAS server. – Go to Package Centre. – Click on ‘Settings’ button and select the ‘Beta’ tab. – Tick[…]

Simple rsync command

ssh into your destination folder when you want to backup your files, then type the following command. rsync -av [username]@[ip-address]:/Users/username/Pictures/ .

How to find JMeter CA Certificate on Mac

If you have installed jmeter with homebrew can run these commands in terminal brew install jmeter or brew install jmeter --with-plugins with plugins If you[…]

How to change WordPress URLs with database script

In ‘phpMyAdmin’ under sql tab copy and paste below script and hit go!. UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, 'http://old-url', 'http://new-url') WHERE option_name = 'home'[…]

How to Secure copy (SCP) with file timestamp

The other day I need to migrate files over to my new NAS, to do this I had to SSH in to the box and[…]

How to install the latest version of nodejs on Raspberry Pi Zero

First ssh in to pi and cd in to Downloads directory. $ cd ~/Downloads Next you need to download the nodejs tar. Checkout the version[…]

Best iPad apps to remote desktop to your iMac

Only recently I needed to access my iMac GUI whilst I was away aboard. I’ve always ssh to my iMac being a geek. But for[…]

How to start TeamViewer via ssh to Mac

I was on holiday and I had forgotten to switch on teamviewer on my Mac as I wanted to do something via GUI, even though[…]

Fixing Drush after updating php5.5.10 on MAMP 3.0.5

I had issue running Drush after upgrading MAMP 3.0.5 on PHP5.5.10 To fix this you need to edit .bash_profile. Run these commands in terminal sudo[…]