I?m laughing because I just managed to flip my screen while writing the title of this post.
The keyboard shortcut for rotating your Windows 10 display is Ctrl +Alt + one of the arrow keys.
Sometimes I manage to trigger this by accident. I?m not holding down Ctrl + Alt, but if I press an arrow key to go back and edit a typo, I?m suddenly looking at things on my screen sideways or upside down:
I used a Fitbug Orb for a while. It did a good job of reporting steps & sleep back to an iPhone app but I got annoyed that it had a CR battery to replace (non-rechargeable) and the rubber wrist strap was annoying (it would come off in the night while sleeping). I was tempted to get a Fitbit purely to have a silent alarm, but I never went and bought one.
We had a customer�s Windows 7 computer running AVG 2015 Anti-virus, managed by AVG Cloudcare, that was refusing to update its virus definitions database.
Update failed.
The update control file is missing.
Note: This error has been reported on non-Cloudcare versions and earlier versions too.
Even getting tough and uninstalling the software with the AVG Removal Tool, rebooting and reinstalling .. left me with exactly the same problem. Other computers at the site were unaffected.
Sometimes it�s great to sit down for a presentation with no preconceived ideas. It makes it interesting to listen to a guy up the front in a company t-shirt, who you�re not viewing as the �Vice President of Marketing & Product Strategy�. The title doesn�t actually do justice to Neil Holmquist from Spirent Communications.
The internet would tell me that Neil has a 15 year career with Spirent, beginning as an engineer. It would also give me a ton of information about the telecommunications testing company itself, founded in 1936 and listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Blogging this one from a colleague in case anyone else hits the same symptoms.
User was logging�into Mail in Office 365 using Firefox.
The page was completely blank.
Instead of the browser tab label saying Mail � Username it just said CONTINUE.
Worked correctly in Internet Explorer.
Could access the same Office 365 account correctly from another computer on the network using Firefox.
Troubleshooting things that didn�t work:
The fix was to create a new Firefox user profile:
I have a whole new appreciation for Netflix.
It should be pretty simple, right? I turn on my smart TV. The Netflix app authenticates me & checks I’ve paid my subscription fee. It delivers content suggestions based on my profile & my previous viewing choices. And it does this on an enormous scale, globally. So you assume they have some pretty big, redundant networks and servers.
That’s the problem with consumer technology that’s this good – we assume it’s simple.
If you haven?t noticed, I?m a little bit of a social media addict. My twitter feed is mostly full of technical IT people, some journalists and a bit of emergency management (earthquakes etc). My Facebook is a lot more private and includes the in-laws and my sister?s family, both overseas.
I noticed that I didn?t belong to a?technical community on Facebook. My group memberships relate to my?neighbourhood, blogging etc, but nothing technical.
It’s the morning before I leave for 18.5hrs of travel. Stating the obvious, Australia is a long way from America (and I’m only going to the West Coast). But I’m beyond thrilled to have been given this opportunity.
To my non IT friends and family, I’m going to Silicon Valley for a conference.
That conference is Tech Field Day’s Virtualization Field Day 6 http://techfieldday.com/event/vfd6/ If you’re awake during San Jose’s day, you can even see live video streaming of the day on that page. If you have twitter, play along with the hashtag #VFD6
As a ‘partner’ in the ‘channel’ (just imagine the air quotes), I’m going to stand on my soapbox and have a little chat about the role that we play in making software & hardware companies successful. Yeah, that totally sounded conceited, but follow along with me here.
There are so many facets to this chat that this post won’t be published in its original form. It’s going to take time to organise these thoughts into a logical sequence that flows, because the partner relationship is not a simple conversation.
Having a rather complicated home network, I?ve struggled to find an Internet filtering product that lets me work like I need to AND doesn?t need to be ?installed? on the devices that my kids use. I was excited to hear about the KoalaSafe kickstarter campaign then, that promised a safe WiFi network of its own.