I was wondering what it would feel like for a weekend without social media. No Facebook, Twitter or Reddit. Instead of spending time flicking through pages and pages of twits, posts, pictures of dogs and cats, how about actually doing…
Managing Group Policy is never easier
In Windows 2012 R2, t o add in new Group Policy templates, just down the admx/adml files. Copy them to the %systemroot%\PolicyDefinitions folder. Admx files goes into the main, adml goes into the sub folder “en-us”. If you have GPedit.msc opened,…
Uncle Sultan
I cannot stop laughing when I saw this on Reddit. Words in bold are mine. We haven’t been abandoned, but we’re clearly the oldest kid in the family from an earlier marriage. Our mom still loves us, but she has…
Windows Drivers
Recently my computer got nuked because of harddisk encryption. The upside to this is a ‘new’ computer. So new that I have to reinstall my Android drivers. When I connected my phone, I accidentally chose the wrong Windows driver.…
Managing security compliance
I needed to harden a couple of standalone servers in a jiffy. I remembered there some tools for this and the Security Compliance Manager to the rescue! Make a copy of the baseline Tweak Save as a GPO. Push…
Friday Night baking
I wanted to restart baking, but week nights are always a rush and weekends are equally hectic, if not more! A few weeks ago, I decided to make use the time between the end of the work week and the…
Taking Google for your holiday
Going for a holiday? Good chance you will be bring your smartphone along. For Facebook, WhatsApp etc.Use it to document your trip and not just for photos.
Tips for running your own home.
So now you have moved to your very own home. Here is a list of some stuff I have found useful for peace of mind when we started our own place. Don’t turn on the gas stove in the morning.…
National Geographic Photo Contest 2015
Count the number of bears. This photo and many more finalists in the National Geographic 2015 Photo contest. The grand prize winner
Hash and large files
You need to send off several large files. These may be the parts of a very a large zip file or multiple individual files. The receiver tried to open or merge the files together and get a bad data error message. How…