Dell XPS laptops all have mixed function and media function keys. For the XPS 11, the special functions are turned on by default, with F-key functions requiring the Fn + F-key combination. This can be pretty annoying for those that…
If you are using Cloudflare and Wordfence, be sure to use the “CF-Connecting-IP” HTTP header setting. By not doing so, I blocked Cloudflare (and the world) from accessing my site. Big mistake! I was locked out of my own site,…
This year, I got a Raspberry Pi Model B+ as a gift and thought about purposing it to act as 1) a network drive, 2) a media server, and 3) an OpenVPN server. The day I got it, the Raspberry…
Sometimes iTunes will throw an error saying “iTunes cannot read the contents of the iPhone”. This can be an extremely frustrating error, especially since iTunes will want to restore a device, deleting all the new media and settings since the…
While Flash Player is a pretty vulnerable plugin, a lot of sites on the web require flash to function correctly. And for those of us with portable versions of FireFox, we might need it from time to time. But how…
Windows 10, like Windows 8 before it, comes with a bunch of useful apps, and it also comes with undesirable apps. Based on work from Thomas Vanhoutte, here is how to uninstall and reinstall them. First, open up PowerShell with…
As an owner of an Acer W500 touchscreen tablet PC, I was eager to upgrade to Windows 10. The upgrade seemed to run fine, although I had to restore the system using the Windows 10 system restore tool due to…
I ran across this interesting question (and answer) on SuperUser the other day. Do you know why? Answer The same code that allocates kernel handles is also used to allocate process and thread IDs. Since kernel handles are a…
I own an Acer W500, a tablet PC made a few years ago. It runs pretty well and I decided to upgrade it to Windows 10 just a few days ago. However, after upgrading, it ran into an issue where…
While doing regular maintenance and software updating on my system one day, I ran into a situation where I saw quite a few reboots and blue screens. What had happened? I could not be sure, but the Windows blue screen…