Clean recovery of Surface RT and Windows Update (2022)
If you reset a Microsoft Surface RT from a recovery disk, there is a good chance that you will get an error from Windows Update: Error 8007000e Windows Updat...
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Running ssh-agent with WSL2 (so that VSCode can find it)
I often use Visual Studio Code together with WSL2 using the Remote - WSL extension. Recently, I have been using Docker running on a remote server accessed ov...
Change Windows PC name to lower case
It is straightforward to change the name of your Windows PC through the Settings app (go to System, About, and choose “Rename this PC”). One problem, though,...
Repeated SD Card Disconnects on Surface Pro 5
I have been using a 128GB Micro-SD card as additional storage on my Surface Pro (both Surface Pro 4 and Surface Pro 5) for some years and regularly run into ...
Quick shortcut to launching the Start Menu Startup folder in Explorer
Here is a quick way to get to the current user’s Startup folder in the Start Menu in Windows 10. Once there, you can right-click, Create Shortcut to add a pr...
Changing Computer Name from the command line on Windows 10
Here is a way to change your Windows computer’s name from the command line. [Source: Password Recovery Blog]
Changing PC Device Name for Bluetooth on Windows 10
I am lucky enough to own a pair of Bose QC35 II headphones, which can connect to multiple devices using Bluetooth. The headphones announce the name of each d...
Who can sue a company under the CCPA?
Yesterday, I read an article on JD Supra answering the question “Can a company be sued under the CCPA for failing to post a ‘do not sell my personal informat...
Particle Printable Buffer Library
Based on the code used internally by the Particle firmware for printing to String objects (see StringPrintableHelper in wiring/src/spark_wiring_string.cpp), ...
Fix Surface Type Cover after firmware update
This week there were Surface Pro 4 firmware updates as part of the Patch Tuesday updates. After the system updates completed on my SP4, the type cover stoppe...
Setting the inactivity timeout in Windows
Windows has a timeout that can return you to the lock screen after a period of inactivity. This is useful if you want to make sure the PC gets locked if you ...
Samsung Smart Switch - How to install on Windows 10
Samsung Smart Switch is a tool that will backup your phone and transfer the data to a new Samsung phone. You also use it to backup your phone to your PC in c...
NPM giving error EAI_AGAIN from Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
This morning I was experimenting with some demo code and when I tried to install some packages from npm I got the following network error:
Using Microsoft Flow to publish medium.com recommendations
Like a growing number of people, I read a lot of content on medium.com. I wanted to find a way to share the posts that I find most interesting.
Using Sublime Text as your git editor on Windows
Many git commands require using an editor including writing good commit messages. I use Sublime Text as my default text editor and I wanted to make sure git ...
MDI to TIFF converter
Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) was part of Office up to Office 2007. It allowed you to scan multipage documents into .MDI files. MODI was deprecate...
Using DVI monitors with the new Surface Dock
The new Surface Dock from Microsoft has two mini-DisplayPort outputs that can be used to connect a Surface Book, Surface Pro 3, or Surface Pro 4 to two exter...
Using Yeoman to start writing technical specifications with ReSpec
Yeoman is a tool that provides a scaffolding system to begin new projects. The genius thing about Yeoman is that, by itself, it doesn’t know how to do anythi...
It’s time to move on from IE8
Yesterday, my esteemed (new) colleague Aaron Gustafson wrote a piece about his reaction to the “Break Up with Internet Explorer 8” site currently doing the r...