What I Broke – Programming and Web Development

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  • rocksmith 2014.exe has stopped working windows 10 Faulting module name: igdumd32.dll

    Hi everyone, Bit of a different topic but I was using Rocksmith 2014 and ran into the following error: rocksmith 2014.exe has stopped working windows 10 Faulting module name: igdumd32.dll The fix is pretty easy, but somewhat annoying, unplug any external monitors (second, third monitor).

  • AWS Installing AWS Inspector Agent on Windows EC2 Instance

    Hi everyone, Just a quick post on installing the AWS Inspector Agent on a Windows EC2 instance. Open PowerShell and run the following command: (new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile(‘https://inspector-agent.amazonaws.com/windows/installer/latest/AWSAgentInstall.exe’,’C:UsersAdministratorDesktopAWSAgentInstall.exe’) On your desktop, right click on AWSAgentInstall.exe and select run as administrator. Follow the prompts. Go to run, and execute services.msc. You should now see the Amazon SSM Agent:…

  • Dynamic Robots.txt with Web Api 2

    Hi everyone, For a project I’m currently working on I needed a dynamic robots.txt. Because our test environment is public facing we want to keep it from being indexed by Google etc. It took a bit of Googling to find a solution that worked, but in the end it was actually pretty simple. Here’s the…

  • Adding a Link to a Drawer – Material UI and ReactJS

    Hi everyone, I ran into a bit of an issue turning a menuitem into a link with Material UI and React-Router. The main problems being that underlines appeared and threw the spacing out. To summarize, use the component attribute on the ListItem: The official docs cover it here: https://material-ui.com/api/list-item/ See the following stackoverflow post for…

  • Remote Desktop: An authentication error has occurred. – This could be due to CredSSP encryption oracle remediation.

    Hi everyone, I ran into an auth issue with remote desktop today: An authentication error has occurred. The function requested is not supported. Remote computer: XXXX This could be due to CredSSP encryption oracle remediation. For more information, see hhtps://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=866660 The solution is to add the May 2018 Windows Security Update on both the remote…

  • Using INA219 (GY-219) with the Raspberry Pi

    Hi everyone, I’ve just setup an INA219B Voltage/Current sensor on my RaspberryPi. Just thought I’d link the tutorials and libraries I used – there’s a lot of really useful info out there. Install the following library via git: https://github.com/chrisb2/pi_ina219 sudo pip3 install pi-ina219 Follow this tutorial: https://www.rototron.info/raspberry-pi-ina219-tutorial/ Misc Notes Common ground is required Vin –…

  • wget or curl on Windows

    Hey everyone, Just a quick post on a Window’s equivalent to wget/curl. To start, you’ll need to open PowerShell (run > powershell.exe). To retrieve the page, you’ll just need to enter the following one liner: (new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile(‘http://www.whatibroke.com’,’C:my_output_file.txt’) The page contents will be stored in the output file provided as the second parameter to DownloadFile. To…

  • Australian Tax File Number Generator (TFN)

    Updated Tool Available There’s now an easier to access version of this tool available at the following link: Australian Tax File Number (TFN) Generator Along with a few other widgets that have been added more recently: Australian Tax File Number (TFN) Validator Australian Company Number (ACN) Generator Australian Company Number (ACN) Validator New Zealand IRD…

  • Coinroll.it Betting Bot – Martingale System

    Hey everyone, I received an odd request for a script the other day – a bot for an bitcoin gambling website. The request was for a simple JavaScript bookmarklet that would execute the martingale betting system autonomously. The code I ended up with as follows: javascript: /* MANUAL CONFIGURATION – Initialisation Only */ var reset_to…

  • Installing SQL Developer on Ubuntu – make-sqldeveloper-package chmod: missing operand after `755′

    Hey everyone, I was following a guide while trying to install SQL Developer on Ubuntu, however I ran into the following error: make-sqldeveloper-package chmod: missing operand after `755′   To fix it, simply change line number #381 in ‘/usr/bin /make-sqldeveloper-package’ as follows: Original ${FIND} “${OPTDIR}” ! ( -type d -o -name “*.jar” ) |${XARGS} ${XARGS_OPTS}…

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