# BT Basic
#
- Requires BT Line Services
- BT advisers have a habit of:

i:   either being unaware of, or failing to mention, this
ii:  failing to check whether the line is already provisioned with these services
iii: failing to mention the requirement
iv:  placing the order for BT Basic and only then telling the customer (usually weeks
     later) that the reason why the engineer never turned-up and why they still do
     have BT Basic is because they do not have BT Line Services

- BT Line Services incurs additional cost and requires that the line first be changed over
- to BT, if not already a BT line.


# LibreOffice - Suppress Recent Document List
#
- Tools → Options → Advanced → Expert Configuration.
- Use search box to locate "picklist", and look for 2nd menu item. Change the value to 0.


# How to Use Filezilla to Access Browser FTP Links:
#
- First of all read this article on how to pass FTP handling to an external program (in
- this case Filezilla), or use the simple 123 shown below (in the case of Firefox
- browser).

- https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?t=13297

= 1. about:config into the address bar and press Enter
= 2. enter network.protocol-handler.expose-all -> Boolean -> click + button -> true
= 3. enter network.protocol-handler.external.ftp -> Boolean -> click + button -> true

- Next, enter the required FTP link into the browser using one of the formats given below, which
- should open a dialogue allowing Filezilla to be selected as the default program for FTP.

- The link should then cause Filezilla to open and will generate errors in the log readout;
- however, it should, none-the-less, be possible to access the FTP resource and to download
- the files contained therein.

= ftp://ftp_anonymous%20@some.site
= ftp://ftp.anonymous%20@some.site
= ftp://anonymous%20@some.site


# How to Change the Underlined Keyboard Shortcut Access Keys in Windows 7
#
Add the following to a text file and modify accordingly (this entry is to change the default value
of MediaInfo to use "i" as the shortcut key instead of "m" (which is stupid choice / default
selection because "m" is the default for renaming files) when viewing or working with .mp4
files, then change the file extension of the text file to that of .reg instead of .txt and
click on it to add the entries to the registry.

...
...

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\SystemFileAssociations\.mp4\shell\MediaInfo]
@="Media&Info"
"MuiVerb"="Media&Info"

...
...


# Glazed Units for uPVC Doors and Windows
#
10mm From Horizontal and Vertical Measurements


# (Finally!) Invisible Taskbar in Windows 7
#
= Sign-up to deviantart.com also required in order to download some of the files - good site,
= so no reason not to:

https://www.deviantart.com/dave2399/art/Windows-7-invisible-transparent-taskbar-theme-470917203


Move the Windows 7 Sunrise folder and the two .theme files into the "themes" sub-directory of
%ResourceDir% (Run > shell:resourcedir) (ie: "Windows/Resources").

Use Universal Theme Patcher or UxStyle (UxStyle adds an over-ride service, and does not involve
modifying any existing files) to ensure that the new themes (and any other custom themes you
may wish to add) work.

Right-click on the desktop and go to Personalize, then click on "Windows 7 Sunrise (invisible
taskbar).theme" or "Windows 7 Sunrise (with Yosemite taskbar).theme" to apply the theme.

It may be necessary to restart the operating system in order for the above step(s) to work.

Use TaskbarBlurToggle (from the above link) to make the taskbar blur-free and invisible. Note:
this only seems to work with the sunrise themes. This also affects all the taskbars and gives
the windows a Windows 10 type appearance.

The required files are all available via this website, and links may be provided should they
become unavailable as downloads from the respective websites.


# VPN
#
DMCA Ignored (for avoidance of take-down orders)


# Firewall Testing
#
av-test.org


# Virtualization
#
It should not be necessary to have to install DE components in a Linux environment in order to invoke
virtualized workspaces, provided that the display adaptor drivers have been installed correctly and
are working. Discrete adaptors, ie: iGPU, are utilised, but do not seem to be recognized, as
display adaptors, in Debian.

> lspci
> update-glx
> intel-microcode
> ATi: more open source support over nVidia

A pseudo-DE can be created throught the use of xinit, Xorg (or other Xserver), and startx (which
provides good, simple, autostart options)

= VMWare
=
VMTools can only be installed within a DE (Desktop Environment), both in Linux distros and Windows.

= ProxMox
=
ProxMox can only be installed via a Debian DE, and is affected by major issues with USB and connected
peripherals, especially USB optical drives.

The common problem of expandable partitions failing to expand (all virtualization software) is trivial
and easily remedied: just ensure that guest OS is not installed in "Easy Mode" (or equivalent) and
add the partitions manually, or via automatic custom mode (Fedora) and ensure that the maximum
partition size is utilized right from initial install. This may not be perfect for some, but
is preferable to installing the OS only to discover that the partition is 5Gb in size and
that there is absolutely no-way that the "active" (as opposed to the "potential")
partition can be re-sized (the CMD line options, even if they actually work,
cannot be used to adjust the size of the active disk size).