Progressive Alarm Clock
DaleI read “somewhere” that being jolted awake isn’t good for your health. I’ve noticed that it does make my heart rate spike, so there’s something to that. I’d heard of…
There is a cycle of love and death …
“There is a cycle of love and death that shapes the lives of those who choose to travel in the company of animals. It is a cycle unlike any other.…
Microsoft breaks own application
We had a bunch of newly built Windows 10, version 1607, PCs where App-V 4.6 failed to start. It was our own fault, App-V 4.6 is not supported on Windows…
.Net WiFi Programming
Some time ago I was asked to write some code todetect if a user had saved a connection to an Open/Public Wifi point, anddelete it if it exists.The code had…
Getting the user name for a given security identifier (SID)
Two lines of Powershell code: PS C:\> $osid=New-Object system.security.principal.securityidentifier("S-1-5-21-593069383-354653268-975305329-98179") PS C:\> Write-Host $osid.translate() Output is in the form of <DOMAIN>\<USERID> ie. NODDYLAND\admin-bike01 Reference: Microsoft: Well-known security identifiers in Windows operating…
Fixing the pull cord on an IXL Tastic
As far as I can tell, IXL do not make the IXL Tastic with a Pull Cord Switch any more. The Pull Cord uses a Ball and Socket arrangement. ie.…
Things you can do with Bi-Carb Soda
Around The House Remove dry ink strains by covering strain with a paste of Bicarb and water. Allow paste to dry and then rub off. Brighten dull silver by dipping…
Samba–like the walking dead.
The Microsoft SMB1 file protocol is old, has vulnerabilities and deserves to die. So we tried to remove it from our Windows 7 desktop fleet. Like any good removal, we…
Disposable shopping bags.
So the two major Australian food supermarkets, Coles and Woolworths, will no longer provide disposable shopping bags by 1st July 2018. Yay! What are you going to do for an…