Outlook (for macOS) Notifications Stopped Working
KB ID 0001684 Problem Like most of us I spend my working day based around Outlook calendar meetings and entries, I’ve even got birthdays and anniversaries in there. So recently when the notification pop-ups stopped working, it was a potential problem. Occasionally I could hear the notification ‘sound’, but I had to open outlook and change to the notification window to see them. When you are as absent minded as me,...
VMware Fusion: Guest VM ‘Lost’ Network Connectivity
KB ID 0001450 Problem I keep a Windows 10 VM on my laptop, and last week it lost network connectivity, (it’s set to get its IP from my mac and get network connectivity via NAT). The guest was getting a 169.254.x.x APIPA address so either NAT was down, or there was no network? Solution You need to ‘Restart’ the services on the Mac host machine. Execute the following two commands;...
Windows Key Has Stopped Working (Logitech G15)
KB ID 0000749 Problem I jumped on my main PC at home to do something the other day, being Windows 8 I tend to use the Windows key a LOT (Windows Key+R and +E, and +X for example). Windows 8 Shortcut Keys But the windows key did nothing? I tried CTRL+Esc, and that worked? I was starting to think that I had a faulty keyboard. Solution Turns out there’s nothing wrong with my keyboard at all, as its primarily designed for the gaming...
Cisco ASA – ‘access-group’ Warning
KB ID 0001035 Problem I’ve been writing Cisco ASA walkthroughs for years, and littered all over PeteNetLive you will see me warning readers every time I use access-group commands. So I’ve finally got round to putting this article up so I can reference it in future. What is an Access-Group command? You use an access-group command to apply an access-list to an interface, in a particular direction (in or out). Although I...