Archive for the ‘Power User’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/23
Somehow I missed this:
So I made a file and an image backup, then updated the firmware.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/21
Does anyone know how to disable Edge popping up with a failed link www.msftconnecttest.com/redirect on machines blocked by a router?
This happens on the PC running Windows 10 Pro N (winver shows 1709 build 16299.371) that is not allowed to do any internet access.
Related: [WayBack] How to Find Out Which Build and Version of Windows 10 You Have | ilicomm
Later:
This seems to be intended as per these links:
TL;DR:
This can happen on Windows 8 and up when Windows thinks there is a partial network connection and a logon to a proxy or captive portal might solve the solution.
Allowing these in the proxy for port 80 solves the issue:
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*.msftncsi.com
*.msftconnecttest.com
--jeroen
Posted in Captive Portal, Internet, Power User, Windows, Windows 10 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/20
A while ago I had an Intel Matrix RAID-1 pair of drives that got broken. One of them turned “red” and – since both drives were only a few serial numbers apart – the other was giving issues the moment I tried fiddling with it.
These actions failed:
- Windows image backup – would end up with a “blue” screen indicating Windows 10 had a problem and was trying to collect data
- Paragon HDM
- Migrating the OS to a brand new RAID-1 set
- P2V
- Disk2vhd would hang at the 100% completion mark
What had succeeded was a regular Windows backup (a non-image one).
This is what I finally did to get it working again:
- Kill disk2vhd after it hung a few hours at the 100% completion mark
- Verify with
- Mark the VHD file as online using diskpart (first atach the vdisk, select disk, then mark it online)
- Verify with chkdsk that the image was in fact without problems
- Detach the VHD file using diskpart
- Copy the VHD file to a HDD that Paragon HDM would recognise
- Use Paragon HDM to perform a V2P copy
- Paragon expects a .VD file, but if you ask it to use all file types, it does recognise that VHD files contain disk images
–jeroen
References:
Posted in NTFS, Power User, Windows, Windows 10 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/20
For a long time, this was hard: [Archive.is] How to switch off the sound on the desktop Hangout? – Google Product Forums.
A lot of people complained, often in a not so nice way.
The solution – that took years to appear – however now is very simple:
Click the options hamburger on the top left, then remove the checkmark for “Sounds for incoming messages”
Posted in Google, GoogleHangouts, Hangouts, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/16
This is upgrade/update week, so new disk space, and quite a bit of reorganisation going on.
Expect down-times in various portions of infrastatus.wiert.me
Secondaries should catch most, but some of the web-sites will be down for a while.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/16
Learn one way to change Excel’s Control-U shortcut to the easier-to-use F2 (which also matches the Windows’ shortcut).
Ah, so Ctrl-U is the shortcut to edit a cell on Mac OS X with Microsoft Office Excel (:
Source: [WayBack] Change Excel’s ‘edit in cell’ keyboard shortcut | Macworld
–jeroen
Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/13
When you have many /tmp/wifi-{date}__{time}.log files, then this is how to get rid of them (it happened to me on a fresh Sierra machine):
At least on macOS Sierra (10.12):
- You can see what WIFI related components have debug logging enabled with:
shell# /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport debug
- You can disable all debug logging with:
shell# /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport debug -AllUserland -AllDriver -AllVendor
For whatever reason, the debug logging flag was enabled for ‘DriverWPA’ on my machine and that resulted in /tmp/wifi-{date}__{time}.log files getting generated when joining new WPA2 protected WIFI networks.
Source: [WayBack] macos – When /tmp/wifi-*.log will show up and how can I stop it? – Super User; thanks [WayBack] MattLord for answering that!
–jeroen
Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Pro, macOS 10.12 Sierra, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/13
One of the cool Github features is that it renders reStructuredText (and other markup documents like markdown).
Often however, your .rst file on GitHub looks very differently on GitHub as your local render. Heck: sometimes Github will not even render it at all.
–jeroen
Posted in Development, Lightweight markup language, MarkDown, Power User, reStructuredText, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
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