The death of my Nexus 5X and the uselessness of Argos
I bought a Nexus 5X in March last year and honestly it’s been the worst mobile phone I’ve owned. Despite having fairly good specs, »
Windows 10: Locked in darkness
This one has been an ongoing problem for at least several months. I have been able to reproduce it on every Windows 10 PC I encountered, »
Migrating a VM from VirtualBox to iohyve/bhyve on FreeNAS 9.10
I have been running FreeNAS on an HP G7 N54L ProLiant MicroServer for a few years, including running an Ubuntu Server VM in VirtualBox running in »
Windows 10: Useless links everywhere
I had repeatedly encountered useless links in Microsoft programs, and I knew Windows 10 was no exception to this. Here I was in the Display Colour »
Intel Management Engine software now includes an NDIS filter driver
I just installed the latest version of the Intel Management Engine software from my motherboard manufacturer's website (version 11.6.0.1032). During installation, I got »
The free coffee that almost slipped through my fingers
Google are currently running an Android Pay promotion in the UK for the festive season. Every time you use Android Pay this month (December 2016), you »
The queue to nowhere
Recently, I received a report of a hang when using one of my foobar2000 components on Windows 10. I had a process dump file which showed »
The immortal application
Recently, I launched paint.net on my laptop and it wanted to update. ‘Why not?’, I naturally thought. But, it had slipped my mind that I »
Shortcut menu, or context menu?
When the Windows Vista UX guidelines were released, I distinctly remember it calling right-click menus shortcut menus. So, I’ve always stuck with that on the »
The bug that bites me
I briefly mentioned that, at the end of last year, I moved my website to Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). I picked Ubuntu as my OS, »