So when I moved into a new place, and was told the key couldn’t be duplicated …
DaleDid you know you can duplicate keys from a photo like this??? This is why this is not a photo of my house keys. Due to the original key being…
Saturday Link Roundup: Balloon Tips Edition
Balloon Tips from the System Tray (SysTray) (note to self, must add a NotifyIcon to get this to work) NotifyIcon.ShowBalloonTip Method Minimizing to the SysTray Minimizing and Restoring from the…
You can use a USB Micro-B cable with a USB3 device.
You’ll get USB2 speeds, but it does work. Handy if you’ve left your only USB3 cable at home and brought your Seagate USB3 Portable Drive along with you.
Saturday Link Roundup
Strategies to Mitigate Targeted Cyber Intrusions At least 85% of the targeted cyber intrusions that Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) responds to could be prevented by following the first four mitigation…
EndNote does not work with an authenticating proxy server.
And it’s a bug/feature which is at least 10 years old, and Thomson Reuters have not fixed that issue in those 10 years. It wouldn’t be that difficult to fix…
A strange issue with a MSI 1603 and a Lotus Notes Hotfix.
We’re currently deploying Fix Pack 3 for Lotus Notes 8.5.3. But before we do that, we need to do an uninstall of s Post Fix Pack 2 RSS hotfix. The…
Performance wise, it improved Windows 7 logon time by 15%
It, being a Microsoft enterprise hotfix rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. And the 15% logon time improvement was just when I applied it to…
Saturday link roundup.
Any Video Convertor - Free Edition This is what I use for converting .AVI to DVD playable discs. CIFS and SMB Timeouts in Windows This blog post gives a consolidated…
How to tell a PC’s network link speed remotely
By using PowerShell like this: Get-WmiObject -class Win32_PerfRawData_Tcpip_NetworkInterface -ComputerName Localhost | Format-Table Name,@{label="LinkSpeed(MB)";Expression={$_.CurrentBandwidth/1000000 -as }} which will return this: I first learnt how to do this by reading this blog…
Moving WordPress to a new domain.
I researched this a couple of months ago, in case I need to move off the wisefaq.com domain. These are my rough notes. Six weeks out: Backup your WordPress site,…