= No USB Charging Port? - No Problem: = Most household appliances or devices with a USB port can be used for charging other devices, even if those devices were never intended to be linked and never normally would be. Note: some USB ports are powered (mainly on computers), others not; so this may not always work. Also, some connections may, potentially, allow for unauthorised access to data (eg: pairing a mobile device to a router to charge it) and linking some devices may cause damage in the case of autoload features trying to install apps to unsuitable linked devices. = Bypass OS OpenData Blocks on Old API Key = Create a new account and substitute the key. As long as the referrer (the required web address for displaying the map) has not changed, the map should display. = Firefox - Drag and Drop Bookmarks = about:config > browser.launcherProcess.enabled > set to false. This will be reset to "true" every time Firefox updates, so it can be helpful to set updates to manual as opposed to automatic in order to allow this to be set back to false immediately following an update. = Firefox - Change Default Printer = about:config > print_printer > change entry to match that of the required device, as shown under Devices and Printers. = 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 not 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).