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Jul/16

Left Speaker Bias Asus Maximus VI Hero

Filed Under Windows at 4th July 2016 0:01 by

After checking I wasn’t going deaf I figured out the left speaker was louder than the right speaker from my PC. I only noticed this on Windows 10 and I have been dealing with the issue by moving the speaker … Continue reading →

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Mar/16

Windows 10 Waking From Sleep

Filed Under Windows at 7th March 2016 0:01 by

Overview Since switching to Windows 10 I have been seeing the computer being woken up from sleep from random events here are some of the things I looked at to solve the wake up issue. Setup Set the computer to … Continue reading →

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Nov/15

MySQL Workbench Error Code 7

Filed Under Database at 23rd November 2015 0:01 by

Overview On Windows, I was getting the following error trying to take a database dump to file: mysqldump: [ERROR] unknown variable ‘delayed-insert=FALSE’ Operation failed with exitcode 7 At the time I was using Workbench 6.3.5. Temporary Fix Edit the file … Continue reading →

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Aug/15

Make Windows Update Time More Often

Filed Under Windows at 31st August 2015 0:01 by

Overview Microsoft Windows doesn’t update the clock enough times in the day and when you have a motherboard with a dodgy clock it doesn’t help when the time drifts. Thankfully the time synchronization can be controlled using the Task Scheduler … Continue reading →

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Jul/15

Windows 8 Sticky Edges

Filed Under Windows at 27th July 2015 0:01 by

Similar to Ubuntu Microsoft has decided to add a bit of resistance on the edges of a multi-monitor display setup. This allows the system to popup a menu (like the charm bar) before allowing your cursor to move to the … Continue reading →

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Mar/15

Virtualbox Stopped Working After Installing Hypervisor

Filed Under Windows at 2nd March 2015 0:01 by

I got the message when I tried to run one of my VMs and got this or similar message about 64bit support: VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration is not available on your system. Your 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit … Continue reading →

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Jul/14

Creating ls command in Windows

Filed Under Windows at 28th July 2014 0:01 by

Create a ls.bat file with the contents: dir %1 the %1 is the parameters passed into the command so that you can do ls My Documents or just ls. There are different places to put the ls.bat file but as … Continue reading →

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May/14

Organising Photos

Filed Under Windows at 5th May 2014 0:01 by

Overview Dave Bradford has been on it again but this time on file or more specifically photo management. My existing library contains camera shots from film days scanned in to digital shots from things like phones totally 44GB. Organisation of … Continue reading →