Repost – The Tombstone Imperative
Update – 50 years ago today, the West Gate Bridge collapsed. Re-posting this from 10 years ago. There is a term in aviation safety, called Read More …
Windows Compressed (zipped) Folder – Not programmatically drivable
“One of the terms of the license is that the compression and decompression code for Zip folders should be tied to UI actions and not Read More …
Saturday Link Roundup – just assorted things
Windows Performance Analyzer “WPA” Intro Windows 10 Compact OS, single-instancing, and image optimization Excel XLOOKUP function Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport – The World’s Smallest Airport Read More …
“… there are many ‘No’ people in the world.”
Here’s something you’ve already learned in life, there are many ‘No’ people in the world.Who want to explain to you why you can’t do something. Read More …
Dynamic DNS failing on TrueNAS Core
Update: And the answer is that INADYN in RC1 of TrueNAS Core, is version 2.2. Updating INADYN to v2.7 fixed the issue. The Dynamic DNS Read More …
The Windows Compressed (zipped) Folder Feature
was first introduced in Windows XP. Limitations of the feature No AES Encryption(1) No password support(1) No API support(1) Does not work well with Offline Read More …
WFH Challenge – Cylance anti-virus vs. Oracle VirtualBox
“Your anti-virus product is stopping me from working.”A familiar situation where the customer was running an out of date application, relied on old of date Read More …
AGPM goes Bang!
And locks users out of Windows Occasionally when you deploy a Group Policy change via AGPM, it will corrupt that Group Policy. My experiences over Read More …
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 Read More …
Quick Assist!
The best free Windows Remote Assistance tool you’re (probably) never heard off. Debuting in Windows 10 v1607 (August 2016), it’s not well known. I tripped Read More …