Getting MORE! Free Airport / Hotel Free Wi-Fi
KB ID 0001278 Problem I was at the Airport the other day, and was pleased to find they had free Wi-Fi. So I opened my Email and started doing some work. The problem was, it was only free for 45 minutes and, (as is usually the case) I was going to be in the airport for a couple of hours. Not only that, you are expected to sign up for airport related spam and marketing materials? So 45 minutes later, I was dumped off the WiFi, and was...
macOS – Editing the Hosts File
KB ID 0001268 Another guest post from Daniel Newton Problem I’ve had windows for years; I knew the OS inside out. Recently, I switched to Mac. But I wondered how to edit the hosts file for my VPN connections and my servers. After some research, I found out how to do it and thought I will document it on PeteNetLive! 🙂 Solution Open a terminal session and type in the following command; Sudo nano /etc/hosts Note: I’m using nano for this...
Microsoft Office for Mac – Favorites Missing
KB ID 0001264 Problem Whenever Office needs updating on my Mac I just hit OK and let it do its own thing. I did that this morning, and went and got a coffee. It was a while later that I noticed that when I needed to add an attachment to an email I got this; Now that might look fine, but in the left hand pane ‘Favourites’ is missing, it should look like this; If I opened launcher it was fine, it was only from Microsoft...
MAC TFTP Software (OS X )
Mac TFTP KB ID 0001247 Problem Every time I go to a networking event theres a sea of MacBooks in the audience, If techs like MacBooks so much why is there such a lack of decent Mac TFTP software? Solution The thing is, I’m looking at the problem with my ‘Windows User’ head on. When I have a task to perform I’m geared towards looking for a program do do that for me. OS X is Linux (There I said it!) Linux in a...
Dreamweaver – ‘You Need To Install The Legacy Java SE 6 Runtime’
KB ID 0001213 Problem I used to use Dreamweaver all the time, it was used to design and build the site and handle all the uploads etc. Since I moved to WordPress I don’t use is as much. But it’s still a great code editor so I still fire it up on occasion. At least I did until this started happening; To open “dreamweaver” you need to install the legacy Java SE 6 runtime. Click “More info…” to...
Mac OSX – Testing Packet Fragmentation Over VPN
KB ID 0001204 Problem Many moons ago I wrote a post about a problem where I had no RDP over a VPN connection, and all the hoops I jumped though to troubleshoot and fix the problem. Today I had a similar problem, I was connected to a client via Cisco AnyConnect, and I had hair-pinned that traffic, from the client site, over an IPSEC VPN to their servers in the Data Center. Pings were successful, but not RDP. To be honest this affects...