Use the following steps to clean Windows crap Open the run dialog with Win + R Prefetch Folder Type in Run box: prefetch Select all the files and delete, Windows won’t allow you to delete protected currently used files so skip those. User Temp Folder In the Run type box: %temp% Same procedure as above. System Temp Folder In the Run type box: %windir%\temp And once more. DNS Cache Flush Open CMD as Administrator Ctrl Click +, then type: ...
After trying various tips and tricks, I found a solution. There were a lot of older posts claiming you could turn off the RSS in sections frontmater and on in some other. This I found out to be a fallacy, all I managed was to turn it off totally or on totally. The solution does not lay in the frontmater, at least not for me, it lies in the rss.xml file in the themes directory. ...
I was thinking recently about computers, computing and programming. I realised that this year marks forty four years since I bought my first computer, a Dragon 32. I had wanted to get a ZX Spectrum previously, but they were in short supply and so I waited until the Dragon 32 appeared on the market. In 1981 a shipmate of mine who had a ZX80 and had just bought the new ZX81. These were the first personal computers I had seen, tiny plastic boxes with the worst keyboards ever invented. They weren’t that cheap but the build quality certainly felt like it. Plug them into the TV and hook a cassette player load a bit of code and a whole new world opened up before our eyes. ...
This is for my reference I recently needed to revert the Kernel on my iMac/Linux machine. I had updated to the latest version, which caused a problem with the Brightness not working anymore. On an iMac that meant I had no way to adjust the screen, as it doesn’t have any physical buttons. I attempted to edit the grub file from the boot loader, but that didn’t work as there doesn’t seem to be an editor in the boot shell. So after booting up a very bright UI I edited from the main UI. ...
I am currently in the process of resetting an old 2012 iMac after deciding trying to set up the Fusion Drive in there was too much hassle. I think it can be done but as it is a proprietary RAID setup I decided to reinstall MacOS and then use an external drive as a dual boot Linux/Mac setup. I had this before and it worked well enough, the only requirement was to hit the boot drive selector shortcut. ...