Hyper-V Gotchas
June 16, 2022
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I’m looking to decommission an older Windows 10 desktop I keep around for testing software. It finally occurred to me I could use my spanking
Category: Microsoft
To Really Melt Your Brain…
May 11, 2022
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Take on any programming task which involves working with multiple different coordinate systems! You know, the things that define where stuff appears on a screen.
Blink and It’s Done
November 11, 2021
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I was saddened to learn my five or six year old computer couldn’t upgrade to Windows 11. So I bit the bullet and built a
They’re Called “Personal” for a Reason
June 17, 2021
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The other day my wife worked her way through a recent Microsoft Windows 10 update (I’d downloaded and done the update and rebooted the machine
Fixing Microsoft’s 20H2 Login Mess
November 12, 2020
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I recently upgraded to the 20H2 (October update) version of Windows 10. It has a number of nice tweaks…and one seriously annoying one. In a
Doing a Little Samba
October 29, 2020
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I ran into some interesting problems getting Samba to work on my Raspberry Pi and be discoverable under Windows 10. This article summarizes how I
My VPN Saga, Take Two
October 21, 2020
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Some while back I finally got a VPN set up which allowed remote access to my home LAN from both my iOS devices and my
Buddy Can You Spare a Few Bytes?
May 7, 2019
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Another day in the Maelstrom of Badly Designed Software, this time involving not just an operating system function but also boot firmware. Geez, if you
Azure WebJobs, Hidden UTF-8 Parameters and Azure
September 23, 2016
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So as to keep others from beating their heads bloody working through “problems which shouldn’t be problems”, here’s an important, but little known, fact about
Thanx, Greenbow! But Not You, Cisco and Microsoft…
June 24, 2016
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I’ve owned a Cisco Small Business router, model RV-325, for several years, and it’s worked very well as a firewall/router. So well, in fact, that