My Little Pocket Universe
For posts about Windows in general; not necessarily specific to one version.
So, like all games these days, Diablo IV (and any other Blizzard game) requires the use of an unnecessary crappy launcher that is apparently truly unnecessary, as one of its settings is to close on game launch. This makes my brain twitch. Blizzard’s launcher is doubly annoying in that it cannot be running on more … Read more
Firstly; this is information on how to extract your legally bought copy of 3D movies so you can play them on devices that do not use optical media (e.g. a VR headset). I do not condone piracy. Whether you want to make a backup, or to convert it to a more usable format, 3D movies … Read more
Sometimes you might need your key for Windows, like when you want to to a bare metal rebuild. There isn’t (that I could find) a way to get it from the GUI, but there is a command you can run from the command prompt (don’t forget to run the command prompt as Administrator) that will … Read more
Sometimes you need a way to get in to a system that is not accessible publicly, and for whatever reason, you can’t use a full VPN. This is a good time for the connectivity Swiss-Army-Knife, and your best friend, ssh and, if available, its companion autossh. And for you Windows people, I mean ssh, not … Read more
Sometimes it’s nice to override the default icons for various folders and drives on your Mac. Fortunately, the Mac makes it trivial to do this, as you can just drag an image into the icon in the “Get Info” window of a file in the Finder. I used to just do that with empty folders … Read more
It’s particularly irritating when security people who have a limited grasp of security set password rules in your domain that force you to change your password way too frequently. It’s even worse when it remembers a history of passwords that you cannot reuse. I am not condoning never changing your password, but a very complex/long … Read more