Making a neighbourhood street map from Google Maps
For a community-building project, I needed to create an A3 sized street map of my neighbourhood.So I screen captured several Google Map pages at the…
An improvised 12 volt shower
Needed to connect up a temporary shower in a workshop recently. I looked at doing the whole “plump in a complete shower”, and the quote…
Homemade cleaning fluid
Just leaving this here…Take an empty 500ml spray bottle and add2 tablespoons of:Tea Tree OilLavender OilEucalyptus Oilthen fill with filtered water.
Booting a UEFI enabled laptop
and it didn’t work with the NTFS formatted USB stick.Which is the clue to the issue there.Trying to install Windows 10 from a NTFS formatting…
Waze–map editing notes
Road types "Off-road / not maintained" is used for the sort of road that needs a serious 4WD. “Street / unpaved” can be used for…
Operating instructions for camping-boxes
Gebrauchsanweisung für KühlboxenMode d'emploi pour réfrigérateurs portatifsThe front cover mentions the following modelsB 501RC 110/ARC 150/AB 533KK BA 400The below manual was included with this…
Adobe PDF printer hangs on Windows 10
with Adobe version 9.5 --> 11. The fix is to grant all "Users", "Full Control" to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat PDFMaker Registry Key (on a 64-bit system,…
Disputed computer ownership is …
a thing in large corporations. And one way to find out who has the computer, is to flag it at next logon. I used this…
How I setup my external backup drive.
I use VeraCrypt to create a encrypted hard drive. That way, if I lose the drive, the lucky finder won’t be able to read the…
Using PowerShell to ZIP something.
I needed to ZIP-up some log files in a number of subdirectories. In the past, I have used the PKZIP utility.I couldn’t find my copy…