Windows
Relating to Microsoft Windows 1.x (1985) to current
Making Powershell more Bash-like
I realize powershell is its own thing and I’m not trying to turn it into Bash. But I work on windows, mac and linux machines throughout my day and often end up typing in bash commands into powershell to get the dreaded error message: Then have to translate it into something that works for powershell. To be fair, I am [...]
Windows 11 + Adobe CS4
Can you install Adobe CS4 on Windows 11? It will install but it will break explorer from running with an error in BIB.dll Faulting application name: explorer.exe, version: 10.0.22000.832, time stamp: 0x8947d46cFaulting module name: BIB.dll_unloaded, version: 1.2.1.1551, time stamp: 0x4845e497Exception code: 0xc0000005Fault offset: [...]
Fixing To Be Filled In By OEM on Custom Built Machines
Something that has always bugged me after building my own machine is Windows doesn’t know what brand and model your machine is. It’s not a big deal, but it shows up in some weird places and I just wish I could set it. I always thought this was set in the driver firmware but turns out it’s just in the Windows Registry To [...]
Improving 10G Performance
When you first make the jump from 1G Ethernet to 10G you will be both impressed with the speed jump and also a bit disappointed that you can’t actually send a full DVD (8GB) in a second. Bottlenecks To get better 10G speed will require resolving many input/output bottlenecks on your network ranging from your disk drives being able [...]
Goland Tests Running Slow on Windows
If you are using JetBrain’s Goland IDE on Windows, you might find that running your go application takes forever to build or run tests on. On my machine, when you went running any test, it would take 45 seconds in the state of Instantiating tests… then finally run the test in a fraction of a second. Solution Your anti-virus [...]
Actually Free Blackjack Game
Notice : These are not signed applications -- you will have to approve them to run on Windows and Mac. Eventually I will pay to get a developer license with Apple and Microsoft to get these signed. An older, nontechnical friend asked me if there are any good Blackjack games without all the ads, microtransactions, and other modern [...]
Back/Forward on Microsoft Sculpt Comfort
To be honest, this mouse looks and feels great to use. The problem is some of its “features”. Back and Forward buttons This drove me crazy, out of the box, it has 4-way scrolling enabled. Meaning you can scroll left and right with the scroll wheel. I don’t know about you, but I rarely, if ever, have to scroll left [...]