Microsoft Word borderless printing a pdf document
If you have this… and you want this… But you get this… Then try this… The secret is to go to File > Page Setup and then choose the paper size to be Borderless > Borderless. Then you can… Read More »
Need to check if your ports are open?
http://canyouseeme.org/ is a good responsive site that will do a port scan. It also helps to reboot your router if some of the rules are not doing what you expect them to do.
Port Forwarding Problems
Setting up port forwarding on a router is actually quite standard so if you cannot crack it in 30 mins or 1 hour stop and don’t waste any more time. I found this the hard way spending weeks figuring out why port forwarding wouldn’t work on my router. I then found out that it wasn’t… Read More »
Apple Mac Character Code Shortcuts
Here is a neat cheat sheet of character codes for the likes of proportional, infinity, the Greek alphabet and more. Ref: http://www.geoff-hart.com/resources/accents-mac.pdf
Generating keys for Bitbucket
If you are getting this error from Bitbucket: Permission denied (publickey). fatal: Could not read from remote repository. It means that bitbucket doesn’t have your public key. You need to generate one if you don’t have it or upload it. To generate one follow these instructions here. Next, you want to add this to your… Read More »
What you’ll wish you’d known
A good read. http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html
Happiness, Systems for Decision Making, Habits, Honesty
Shane Parrish interviews Naval Ravikant on a variety of topics. Very enlightening and shows a higher level of thinking. Highly recommend. Naval Ravikant on Reading, Happiness, Systems for Decision Making, Habits, Honesty and More Transcript here: https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Naval-Ravikant-TKP.pdf
Cannot copy files to C drive on Windows 7
If you are using Windows 7, or even 8 and get a message that you cannot save a file to c drive then try doing this: 1. Run->secpol.msc 2. Local Policies->Security Options. 3. Set “User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode” to Disable. 4. Restart the computer. This should do the trick.… Read More »
Little grey dots on JIRA Kanban board
If you are running a JIRA Kanban board and you see these small grey dots at the bottom of the card and wondered what they are for, they indicate how long the issue has been in that particular column. Did you know that each dot represents 1 day and there is a max of 30… Read More »
JIRA Default Acccess in User Default Settings
I thought I was seeing double when I saw access spelt with 3 c’s. This was found in v7.3.5#73016-sha1:3e40501 of JIRA in Systems > User Default Settings > Edit default values. Did you spot it as well?