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Troublesome Dahua IP Camera access from OSX

If you're having trouble accessing your Dahua IP camera after recent Mac security updates to Safari, it might be worth trying a camera firmware update to resolve the issue? This worked for me on two different cameras. The cameras I updated were both IPC-HDB3200C that were running 2.210.0001.0.R, build : 2013-05-17. The firmware I used that fixed the blank screen issue on the iMAC's was General_IPC-HX3(2)XXX_Eng_P_V2.212.0000.0.R.20131206 which can be downloaded here .

Wrong date and time on Raspberry Pi running Domoticz

I recently booted up an old instance of Domoticz home automation software on one of my Raspberry Pi's with a PiFace interface. I noted that the time and date were out by three months and even though I had a valid network connection and pinging the NTP time servers was possible, the date and time would never update. I spent about 40 minutes on Mr Google trying various things and this is what worked. Login to your Pi using SSH Ensure your Pi can ping a time server ping 0.debian.pool.ntp.org Stop the NTP service sudo service ntp stop Force a time check sudo ntpd -gq Restart the NTP service sudo service ntp start Check the date and time ntptime Should now report back the correct date and time?  

Scrub your hard drives in your Synology NAS

I found an excellent post that I used on my DS209J when the volume crashed with no other log information. FYI, I've replaced with commands in that blog post with the correct ones for a 2-bay NAS where the volume is 'md2'. Login to your NAS with SSH (after enabling that feature under 'Terminal') and use root for the username and the admin password for the password. echo check > /sys/block/md2/md/sync_action

How To reset your Android Google account password

If you change your Google password online, there is no way to update it on your Android device as there is no settings menu you can go to to find the password (?). Simply click this link and choose ' Continue ' and it will provide you with a prompt on your device to update your password...easy. https://accounts.google.com/DisplayUnlockCaptcha

ASUS router webpage won't load with ESET NOD32

If you are having problems loading the configuration page on your ASUS router (RT-AC66 in my case), simply add the IP address of your router to ESET's Protocol filtering found under Advanced setup > Web and Email > Protocol filtering > Excluded ip addresses as shown below.