Computers & Tech posts page 6 - Blog

July 24th, 2021 at 00:26

in firefox problem WebD

The recent Firefox Developer Edition update (91.0b6) seems to have broken CSS rendering or something.

Purchase: New laptop, Lenovo Yoga 7i

July 13th, 2021 at 23:28

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Last month, I finally bought a new laptop with plans to replace my aging 2009 Macbook as my primary computer. It is a Lenovo Yoga 7i, purchased from MicroCenter. It is a switch from Mac, which has been my primary OS for pretty much since I’ve been using computers, but it has touch screen and I hope to switch to the open world of Linux.

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Broken Bitlocker recovery link

June 5th, 2021 at 23:24

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Apparently, Microsoft gives the wrong link for their Bitlocker recovery key page on both the Bitlocker recovery screen on the device and on the Microsoft account web page.

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February 27th, 2021 at 02:22

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The installation of a new version of nodejs via MacPorts took nearly two hours.

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February 24th, 2021 at 00:13

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I successfully switched my regular Firefox profiles back from Developer Edition to regular edition by waiting for the version to update.

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Easily typed passwords

February 20th, 2021 at 01:50

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I came across an interesting Stackexchange question about easy to type passwords. It seems a useful consideration for passwords we have to type frequently. Reading through the answers got me to thinking about a solution that fits the criteria of easy / fast to type along with the general password criteria of easy to remember and some reasonable level of secure.

My solution considers typing style for determining ease and uses words and rules for making them memorable. It keeps to the rules from the question of at least one upper case letter, one number, and one symbol.

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Ideas: compute furnace

February 18th, 2021 at 04:22

in Computing furnace home ideas

Furnace with a powerful computer system providing the heat. Will use compute cycles for scientific research or other social or personal purposes, running things like BOINC, Folding at Home, crypto mining, or rented “cloud” usage. Fans or liquid cooling systems will carry heat to a traditional forced air or water boiler system to distribute the heat throughout the home / building. System will increase or decrease CPU usage based on thermostatic control.

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