Archive for June 2025

In addition to the wake-word “Hey Google”/Alexa or whatever I propose a reverse Wake-word so every time someone yells “F@ck Off you stupid machine” Google/Alexa wakes up and starts a…

document the IP addresses BEFORE moving as they will change. Uninstall the VmWare Tools BEFORE migrating. Uninstall only succeeds if currently hosted on VmWare. You can’t ever cleanly remove the…

https://github.com/ios12checker/Windows-Maintenance-Tool/releases/tag/Latest

Symptoms: when deleting a DHCP address, the address disappears when deleted, but comes back when refresh is clicked. My environment had 2 replicating DHCP servers but unsure if that’s important….

Wallplugs with current sensing can be used to determine when an appliance has finished its cycle, ie wash machine.   The dryer commonly takes 220v so may have to use a…

nslookup myip.opendns.com resolver1.opendns.com

Symptoms: Error: Data source ‘MS SQL (VSS)’ is not ready for backup: VSS writer “SqlServerWriter” is missing. Please ensure that “SQL Server VSS Writer” service has enough rights. Change the…