Saffire Pro 26, Firewire, Windows DPC latency
For the last 6 or so months, I've had a big problem with crackles and pops when playing or recording music, due to DPC latency issues.When I ran DPC Latency checker v1.3, it would show sudden red...
View ArticleI can't update Android apps installed on the sd card anymore
Connect your device to your PC (you may need to have the USB drivers that came with your phone installed)I've recently started having a problem with updating my Android apps.If they were located on the...
View ArticlePlaying my music from my NAS to a Raspberry Pi player ... and beyond
[work in progress]Due to audio issues with Win7 and 8, I had to move my music playback off the PC and onto a Raspberry Pi.Here is a brief description of what I have:Raspberry Pi I use a Model B+ (Model...
View ArticleMake Logitech keyboard media keys work with AIMP
Logitech's Setpoint software does not seem to support the AIMP media player.I have an MK300 keyboard and when I press the volume up/down, mute and pause keys, all is well.However, when I press the...
View ArticleI've published my first music album
All work and no play... Well, I decided to have a little fun (while still working) and published an album of my music! Finally! They are all composed and played by me (I play electric guitar; all the...
View ArticleUninstall remnants of Visual Studio 13 and above
Microsoft has created a utility that is run from the command line (administrator level needed), which cleans up any leftover files or registry keys that may be left over after a failed un-install.This...
View Articleopen source software I use, part 2
[update 26-jun-2016Thanks to Audrina W., I have now corrected the link to SmartyNote that a lot of what is shown here was relevant in 2010 or so but is now out of date.]Continuing on from part 1 of...
View ArticleVisual Studio 2015 installation issues ('package did not load ...')
[updated 9oct2016]I am using VS2015 Community edition and recently decided to apply some updates that VS suggested, as well as add a few more addins.Once the installation finished, I tried to open the...
View ArticleVery useful interactive CSS reference
I came across this very handy, interactive, visual CSS reference guide.It describes all CSS properties and shows how they would appear on a page.And, while studying the above, you may want to enjoy...
View Articleopen source software I use, part 2
[update 26-jun-2016Thanks to Audrina W., I have now corrected the link to SmartyNote that a lot of what is shown here was relevant in 2010 or so but is now out of date.]Continuing on from part 1 of...
View ArticleSelecting a worksheet from within a userform in Excel VBA
I came across this problem recently.I had a 'Goto to sheet' button in the main sheet of an Excel workbook that contained a large number of sheets.Pressing that button caused a userform to popup,...
View ArticleHow to move files into different folders while keeping git (TortoiseGit) happy
Create the folder you want to move the files into.Select all the files and right-drag them (i.e. drag while pressing the right mouse button) into the relevant folder.When you release the right-button,...
View ArticleInstall Virtualbox Guest Additions to Kali Linux
Start the Kali Linux VM.Edit your official repos list:nano /etc/apt/sources.list and ensure that the following 2 lines are theredeb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-freedeb-src...
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