Enable full keyboard layout for Windows 8 touch screen
For some strange reason the regular full keyboard layout for a touchscreen is disabled in Windows 8 by default. It can be enabled by going into: PC Settings General Set “Make the standard keyboard layout available” to ON. http://pritishwrites.blogspot.ca/2012/08/windows-8-full-keyboard-layout.html
Favorite Sous Vide Roast
NOTE: Updated 4/1/2014 with longer cooking times for better results. I have experimented with a variety of different cuts of beef in my sous vide water oven. My family’s favorite “cheap cut” of beef is an inner round roast that is finished in the oven, which comes out with a very similar consistency to tenderloin. […]
Increase the SSL Key size for IIS 6
Instructions on how to increase the key size for an SSL certificate in IIS 6 http://www.geocerts.com/support/iis_upgrade_key_size
Server 2012 enable multiple RDP login connections
For some reason the place to enable multiple remote desktop connections in server 2012 has been made more difficult to find: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverTS/thread/87bc6d8c-9b0f-4be2-a669-8a6e6847e505/
Remove type 1 mastic adhesive from glass block tiles
I recently was doing some tiling using blocks of glass tiles and found that using Windex and a non-metallic scrub pad worked very well to remove any excess type 1 mastic adhesive that dried onto the tiles.
Windows 8 Error: The IO operation at logical block address for Disk was retried
I started getting a huge amount of errors in the event log (around 2 per second) of The IO operation at logical block address <####> for Disk <#> was retried I have 2 SSD drives running in a mirror for my system partition, which were the disks generating the error. I was eventually able to eliminate […]
About my blog
Welcome to my blog. I consume a great deal of information from the Internet each day but tend to contribute little unique content. I started a blog in the hope that some of what I post may be useful content for others and contribute to the information on the Internet, while also providing myself with a searchable place to look-up up my […]
Brother MFC-9840CDW Scanning not working after Windows 8.1 upgrade
When I recently upgraded to Windows 8.1 from Windows 8 (which broke far more drivers than I had expected) the scanning and other control Center 3 functions on my Brother MFC-9840CDW stopped working. The driver below resolved the problem: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/us/us/en/dlf/download_index.html?reg=us&c=us&lang=en&prod=mfc9840cdw_all&dlid=&flang=English&os=120&type2=-1 I did find it odd that my earlier driver was working perfectly with Windows 8, […]