Sunday, November 24, 2024

Scanning with the Plustek OpticFilm 135i and QuickScan Plus

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Because I haven't found a manual for the QuickScan Plus software: ECG/Low Exposure mode : What this actually means is disable auto-cropp...
Tuesday, September 08, 2020

Delay Delay Delay Repay

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It's often literally not worth my time claiming the pittance you get for late trains with delay repay, but it's the only way you can...
Tuesday, August 25, 2020

Nikon Z6 Mini Review

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Good - Image quality Jpegs out of the Z6 are generally incredible IMHO. I know it's a cliche but there's something quite filmic abou...
Friday, August 21, 2020

Google and Amazon Photos Uploaders

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This is kind of a mini review of my frustrations with the Amazon and Google photo uploaders for PC. I have a large (~3TB) library of photos....
Tuesday, August 04, 2020

Changing the Oil Filter on a 2017 Ford Grand C-Max TDCi 1.5

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Changing the oil on our Ford Grand C-Max TDCi 1.5 was straightforward enough. Remove the bottom cover with a torx driver and then undo the s...
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Monday, February 10, 2020

VMMEM.EXE High CPU Useage with Hyper-V

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If you're using Hyper-V and finding that VMMEM is using a lot of CPU on your host you might want to swich scheduler type from root to...
Thursday, August 08, 2019

How to get AirBnB to (really) delete your account (really).

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Email their data controller at dpo@airbnb.com asking them to delete your account attaching a scanned copy of some ID (I know, right!). If...
Sunday, May 26, 2019

systemd unit to start a browser/user process on network up

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It took me far too long to get this script right. The gottchas: User units cannot reference or interact with system units. On my system...
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Monday, December 10, 2018

Fitting a 15mm High Drive into a Gigabyte BRIX GB-BXBT-1900

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You can just about squeeze a 15mm high hard drive into a Gigabyte BRIX BXBT case. I did it with the GB-BXBT-1900, but all the BXBT cases lo...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

That time a BT rep. recommended I use "something like Password123"

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There are loads and loads of sites out there with ridiculous password rules, but BT gets a special shout-out for their special, multiple,...
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