So, the machine auto-activates Windows 10 Home Edition at install time. No prompts, no nothing. You insert the generic upgrade key, and it throws an unhelpful error message back at you: Error code 0x83FA067 means exactly the same thing, as does 0xC004F069. This probably surprises nobody, but trying again, as the above message suggests, will […]
Cheap Windows 10 capable devices often come with very limited internal storage space. To make use of this, it is of course crucial that Windows itself takes up as little space as possible. To combat the bloat, there’s a little known feature in compact.exe, the built-in disk compression tool, that compresses the operating system itself, […]
I recently reinstalled one of these cheap-ass, but surprisingly well built for the price, “ultraportable” laptops. Here’s the WiFi driver to get you started, and the remaining drivers that were not available from Windows Update. Enjoy.
Tasked with cleaning up an installation script, I noticed it was calling dpkg dozens of times to verify that the required packages were in place. On a Raspberry Pi, or similar low powered device, this takes ages. I replaced it with the following: c=0 while read -r pkg; do printf ‘Missing package: %s\n’ “$pkg” >&2 […]
Awesome laptop. Some tools I use, archived for personal reference. AutoHotkey LidWatcher
Working with multiple screens, I often use several windows in Visual Studio. For a while now, I’ve been annoyed by all the miscellaneous windows forcing themselves on top so I couldn’t open a browser on one screen and switch to the code on another screen without the window on the browser’s screen popping up to […]
No subprocess, no sleep command, no coproc, no nothing? Yes. Sleeping in bash script is traditionally done with the sleep (1) command, which is external to bash, the command /bin/sleep. However, if you have a bunch of scripts running that all sleep this way, the output of ps looks like a mess, pstree looks like […]
Some hypervisors for virtual machines do not properly support sending a fake system time to the guest operating system, thus making Windows guests display the wrong time if their timezone is set to anything except UTC. This happens because Windows, by default, keeps the system clock set to the local time. This is stupid. The […]
For personal reference: MNL-1566.pdf Original source here.
Mostly a note to self, original source here. SELECT TOP 10 SUBSTRING(qt.TEXT, (qs.statement_start_offset/2)+1, ((CASE qs.statement_end_offset WHEN -1 THEN DATALENGTH(qt.TEXT) ELSE qs.statement_end_offset END – qs.statement_start_offset)/2)+1), qs.execution_count, qs.total_logical_reads, qs.last_logical_reads, qs.total_logical_writes, qs.last_logical_writes, qs.total_worker_time, qs.last_worker_time, qs.total_elapsed_time/1000000 total_elapsed_time_in_S, qs.last_elapsed_time/1000000 last_elapsed_time_in_S, qs.last_execution_time, qp.query_plan FROM sys.dm_exec_query_stats qs CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(qs.sql_handle) qt CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_query_plan(qs.plan_handle) qp ORDER BY qs.total_logical_reads DESC — logical reads […]