Jay Versluis In a recent Windows 10 update, something rather unexpected has smuggled itself into my task bar: at the bottom right I see the local temperature, and when I click on it, there’s a whole menu of stuff I’d like to never see again. It’s called the News and Interests widget, a new addition to Windows … Read more
If WordPress is installed in a subdirectory, the URL to the main page is something like domain.com/subdir. That might not be what you want, and there’s a way to change this behaviour. To make it happen we need to change two options that are not immediately obvious: in the WordPress admin section, head over to … Read more
I’ve been enjoying NoMachine on my internal network of computers for over a year, and I haven’t looked back. I love how it works from any device without limitations and tons of options. Today I was researching how to use it for connections to remote machines that are not on the internal network, and it … Read more
One of my supporters has read my book LAMP Stack for Humans, in which I’m explaining how to run a web server on your home or office network. He installed WordPress on it and everything worked out great, but the default upload limit of 2MB was not enough for him. He followed the instructions in … Read more
I’ve been getting a tad tired of the sales notifications that show up whenever I start Steam on one of my systems. I had disabled this ages ago on my main computer but couldn’t remember where the setting was. Here it is: head over to Steam – Settings – Interface (that’s at the top left … Read more
I’m a Firefox user, have been for years. Updates are happening hard and fast, and as such sometimes – and I guess inevitably – things stop working they way they used to before an update. Did I mention I genuinely and passionately HATE updates? Well one such update recently meant that Firefox no longer opens … Read more
I’ve been playing with various configurations of my software RAID and thought I’d start again from scratch. The obvious question then was, how would I remove my previous efforts? This seems to be different depending on the distribution, so here’s what worked for me in Fedora 33. I’m assuming here that my RAID is /dev/md1. … Read more
I just had an annoying issue in which I’ve deleted a large number of files (about 1000 or so, across two folders), and OneDrive kept bringing them back a few seconds later. No matter where I’ve deleted the files (either of my PC’s, my Mac or the cloud), they kept re-appearing. I read a tip … Read more