So very recently my beloved 2013 era XPS 13 developer edition finally failed. The HID controller failed and that’s pretty much it for these things. As a result of this I ended up switching back to my spare laptop (well … Continue reading
Well I finally decided I wanted to upgrade KDE on my personal machine so I did. I’m very impressed.. Kubuntu 17.10 runs great on my system, I love some of the andriodesk features such as true gamma control, and a … Continue reading
So the last day or so I’ve been fighting with my Intel NUC and windows 10. Basically windows would update and then poof no video. After trying to determine the problem I decided it had to be video drivers. On … Continue reading
I’ve noticed with my Sony soundbar, the sub-woofer will randomly fail to connect when I power it on. When this happens nothing can be done to get it linked up again except for a factory reset. The procedure below explains … Continue reading
When attempting to boot most ASUS motherboards, (including most motherboards and laptop systems). the F8 key is almost always the key utilized. Reboot the system then hit F8 about once a second until you get into the boot menu. If … Continue reading
To fix issues with Windows 10 ignoring external manifest files (which control .exe window sizing, etc) with regedit, verify that the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\PreferExternalManifest AND HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SideBySide\PreferExternalManifest DWORD is set to true. If these DWORD entries don’t exist, then create them and … Continue reading
Windows 10 (at the time of this writing) apparently suffers from a host resolution bug inside of the “DNS Client” service. The bug results in host resolution failure. (DNS lookup failures) This can be addressed (sometimes) by flushing the DNS … Continue reading
Today I decided to pull out my old Hero3, after updating it to the latest firmware I was surprised to find that the GoPro app would not connect successfully. What I found was that for whatever reason, the DHCP request … Continue reading
So this morning I was kindly reminded again by my corporate IT overlords that my RSA soft token was going to be expiring in 9 days. Having had this token in place for a year now I had forgotten how … Continue reading
Well after a few days of usage I found some major problems which prevented me from adopting Kubuntu 15.10 with the lovely Plasma 5 setup. Auto mount of NFS shares is broken again Desktop backgrounds are locked to a single … Continue reading