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Some text may be hard to read. Review accessibility issues
Using dark mode in the Outlook Desktop App. As I type in the Message window an alert appears at the top of the screen: “Some text may be hard to read. Review accessibility issues” This appears and disappears with every few keypresses causing the text I’m typing to jump up and down with each word […]
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Predictions for 2024
In celebration of the coming of the New Year, lets prognosticate. Here are my top three predictions for 2024. First, I predict a space crisis of some sort. It might be two satellites colliding, astronauts stuck in orbit or one nation taking out another’s satellite, but spacecraft will be in the news and not in […]
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Why I use Gibibyte instead of Gigabyte
I grew up with computers using powers of two to measure data 1024 bytes was called a kilobyte. Here kilo meant 1024 or 210 The rest of science and technology followed the Système International (SI) set of units and prefixes. Under SI prefixes, kilo means a thousand or 103 You can pretty easily tell which […]
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Microsoft back down on plans to enforce Microsoft Authenticator number matching
Microsoft lack of spine networking So, I’ve been talking to my security guy about Microsoft’s latest security backpedal. Let me tell you, he’s an unhappy bunny. Microsoft set a deadline of February 27th for enforcing Microsoft Authenticator number matching. Then they “listened to customers” and pushed it back to May 8th. Not only that, what […]
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Sophisticated cyber attack – a breakdown.
It’s a familiar enough trope. Your mate turns up with a black eye. He will tell you that a group of heavies attacked him rather than admit a 9 stone teenager laid him out . The theme is that you must exaggerate the your adversary’s capabilities of if they’ve clearly defeated you. The alternative is […]
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Using InterPlanetary file system in the Brave Browser
Not too long ago I listened to a podcast that mentioned the “Interplanetary file system” in the context of the self sovereign internet That was the first time I’d heard of IPFS but I didn’t really learn anything much about it. It was an aside in a fascinating and wide ranging discussion. However it did […]
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Two Visual Basic Printing Problems With Redirected Printers
Background Applications written in Visual Basic 6, print using a standard printer object included with Visual Basic. This object includes methods to access a list of available printers or the default printer. The information that these Visual Basic methods access, ultimately comes from registry keys in the users’ registry hives. It is the duty of […]
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Mitigating Eternal Darkness
A new security vulnerability has been disclosed before a patch has been made available. It’s a “remote code execution” bug which means that an attacker can use it to effectively take over vulnerable computers. It exploits the compression features of the the common windows file sharing protocol SMB Many enterprises will rely on file sharing […]
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Brave New Web Browser – A Review of the Brave Browser
Initial thoughts on Brave. The new privacy respecting and ad blocking web browser Brave is a new web browser with a built in ad blocker. It’s based on Chrome’s open source core, Chromium, so for long term Chrome users like me it’s a gentle switchover. I tried Mozilla for a month and although the differences […]
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Happy New Year
Welcome to 2020. Wishing everyone a happy and prosperous New Year