I finally got around to fixing the wallpaper script that was the subject of my last two posts: Bing wallpaper on a Mac and Bing wallpaper on a Mac 2.0 The script was rewritten in Python and it is now scraping the image url directly from the Bing website instead of third party aggregators. The code […]
In my previous post, I shared my script to download Bing wallpapers for use on a Mac: Bing wallpaper on a Mac Something seems to have gone wrong with the iStartedSomething feed on 2016-12-24 [the feed seems to have been fixed on 2016-12-27], so I decided to use a different source and since I’ve been […]
While this version of the script should still work, I’ve uploaded a new version of the script based on Python, using a different image source here: Bing wallpaper on a Mac 2.0 I use Bing Desktop on my Windows machine at the office exclusively for the wallpaper images. At home I have a Mac and […]
I recently had to migrate a Windows 7 installation from a Precision T3500 to the newer T3600. Normally this would not be a problem, however at the time of the migration I did not realize the storage controller on the T3600 was different than its predecessor and Windows doesn’t have a built-in driver for it. […]
One routinely needs to look up the name or IP of a machine or other device on the network. A popular way of finding out an IP address from a hostname is with the ping command, however, this only works if you need the IP address, not if you need the host name. There are […]
Google recently announced that they are discontinuing EAS for new non Apps accounts (ie, Gmail). Google’s reasons? Who knows, it’s likely a combination of sticking it to the man or simply wanting to pursue open standards where applicable. Affected platforms and workarounds (that I know about) Android owners: not affected, Google sync works on Android devices out of the […]
How can we get our logo on here? Is what my boss’s boss asked me right after I installed Windows 7 on his machine. Being one of the first 5 people in the office with a Windows 7 workstation and a pioneer in my rollout, I quickly told him: of course! … then I […]
The problem I have a few Windows 7 Home Premium machines at home which I network together. I don’t use HomeGroups yet, and may not in the near future but I do keep some resources on the network that each machine has to access. Windows 7 Home Premium (and lower) does not remember credentials for […]
Today I encountered a weird issue with a new machine I was setting up. The NIC on the machine worked to PXE boot and install Windows XP off the WDS server at work, however once I installed the drivers for the NIC on Windows XP and obtained an IP address from DHCP I couldn’t reach […]
I just recently migrated my data to another machine (to use as a file server) since it has a Sans Digital NAS attached to it. Normally working with files across the network (I now map a shared drive to the share on the server) is perfectly acceptable – however, there are some operations better […]