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[Personal]

Raidmart NEVER delivered

Please be extremely wary of the company https://www.raidmart.com/

[Personal]

Skype for Business Launch At Start Up Minimized Group Policy GPO

You think that having Skype launch minimized at start up would be an easy and well known Group Policy ADMX file or such… but no no no.

[Personal Windows]

Dism.exe Cleaning Up Invalid Images

After finishing editing and wim image using dism I was being left with Windows still thinking the image was still mounted somehow and not able to remount the image file.

[Personal]

Using Powershell To Get Windows Edition

Powershell: (Get-WmiObject -class Win32_OperatingSystem).Caption Results in output like: Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Datacenter

[Lifehacks Personal Tips]

5 Simple Daily Tasks That Will Improve Your Productivity

Simply and concisely put: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/304502 After watching Jeff Bezos here: https://www.

[Personal]

Linux CP Making a Backup of a file with a user defined suffix

I use this handy command so often that I’d forgotten to make a note of it here for everyone.

[Personal]

How to manually unroot an Android

Either through a file manager or through TWRP (or your bootloader of choice) delete the following files if they exist

[Personal Tech Solutions]

Testing Anti-Virus Application Interoperability with DFS Replication – Best practices to follow for antivirus on DFS replicas

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2006/05/01/testing-anti-virus-application-interoperability-with-dfs-replication/

[Personal Tech Solutions]

Microsoft Disable IPv6 or Modify it’s behaviours

Handy little collection of patch files and advice on tweaking ipv6 configuration

[internet Personal Technology]

Google+ For the Win!

Last month Google+ introduced Collections https://plus.google.com/collections/welcome A devilishly simple way to group your posts by topic.

[Cisco How To Personal Tech Solutions Technology Technology]

Cisco How To Find A MAC Address By IP

From a switch that the device is plugged directly into (otherwise you’ll get the MAC of the next hop) first ping the IP address to ensure it’s in your ARP cache, then view the ARP cache, like so

[Personal]

Dan McKinley :: Choose Boring Technology

http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

[eBooks Personal Photography]

International Pillow Fight Day 2014 Photography eBook

So, technically I’m now a published author, albeit self published.

[Personal]

The difference answering a question that needs answering can make

At the end of November I posted a solution to an error with logging in to Spotify clearly it was an answer a lot of people needed answered as my hits for this site have leaped massively.

[Personal]

Apologies for site outage

Mikedixson.com was migrated to a new server by my web host, who normally I’d sing the praises off.

[Personal Photography]

Recent Photo Work

I’ve been taking my camera out with me a lot more lately and it’s given me a wealth of opportunities for some amazing photos.

[Personal]

Using a Tag Cloud to Evaluate Your CV

After seeing this LifeHacker article I popped the text from my CV into http://tagcrowd.

[Personal Tech Solutions]

How to fix Mac bluetooth audio quality

Anyone who’s tried to use a decent pair of bluetooth headphones with a Mac knows that it sucks the big one.

[Personal Weight Loss]

Losing Weight, It takes effort So after my previous efforts to lose weight after the 14 Stone Wobble eventually fell by the wayside I’ve recently gone back up to 14 stone again and so I’m trying to lose weight.

[Personal Tech Solutions Technology Web Web Design]

Windows 8 Metro UI Pushable Button in CSS

I recently had a request to make a big green button, I decided to steer clear of skeuomorphism and to go with a flat clear design.

Personal

Raidmart NEVER delivered

Skype for Business Launch At Start Up Minimized Group Policy GPO

Dism.exe Cleaning Up Invalid Images

Using Powershell To Get Windows Edition

5 Simple Daily Tasks That Will Improve Your Productivity

Linux CP Making a Backup of a file with a user defined suffix

How to manually unroot an Android

Testing Anti-Virus Application Interoperability with DFS Replication – Best practices to follow for antivirus on DFS replicas

Microsoft Disable IPv6 or Modify it’s behaviours

Google+ For the Win!

Cisco How To Find A MAC Address By IP

Dan McKinley :: Choose Boring Technology

International Pillow Fight Day 2014 Photography eBook

The difference answering a question that needs answering can make

Apologies for site outage

Recent Photo Work

Using a Tag Cloud to Evaluate Your CV

How to fix Mac bluetooth audio quality

Losing Weight Again

Windows 8 Metro UI Pushable Button in CSS

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