In my old school ways, getting the IP address of the local Windows machine was easy: 1 ipconfig Now we have a more modern shell we can use that to see what addresses are currently assigned to a Windows machine. We can query the network adapter information directly from PowerShell. 1 Get-NetIPAddress This gives you the …

I have two pairs of EarFun Air earbuds, each set paired to different devices. The pair I use with my Android phone were working fine for playing music, but nobody could hear me on phone, WhatsApp, or Teams calls. I tried the suggested fixes e.g. reset them and Bluetooth re-pair them, and to clean them. All to no …

I have been working on an Azure solution in which I want a Azure Function to use a System Managed Identity to access an Azure SQL DB, all managed using Terraform. For this to work the managed identity needs to be granted SQl db_datareader & db_datawriter permissions. These SQL permissions are in addition to any Azure …

The Problem About 18 months ago I built up a road bike ago using an L-Twoo GRX wireless electronic groupset, and I have been very pleased with it. I planned to ride it this weekend, after not using it for about three weeks, so I charged the battery that drives both the front and rear derailleurs, but stupidly did not …

The Problem As a consultant I am issued a variety of laptops by clients in addition to my own Lenovo X1 Carbon. I am currently using is a Dell Latitude 7450, and it’s WIFI has been causing me problems. It is very slow, maybe 2Mb/s when other devices on the same WIFI network are seeing 200 to 250 Mb/s. I had been …

I am currently doing some Azure deployment work using Azure DevOps. The target Azure configuration has a mixture of publicly accessible resources and private ones only available via a vNet and private endpoints. Whilst getting this deployment setup I made a mistake and configured an ADO pipeline job to use an ADO self …