My Personal Tech Blog
I just have a quick rant today. In the old days we had a thing called a “read receipt” in email where we could optionally allow a “receipt” of opening the email go back to the sender. We always had to allow this or not, and most people didn’t bother
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There are a couple things to keep in mind when you use the Task Scheduler in Windows to run a batch file. Actually there are only two that get batch files working for me on most occasions. Proper File Permissions The first thing is that the batch file itself must
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I’ve seen some posts online from people who claim to be missing their Yahoo mailing list tool. For some strange reason, Yahoo Mail collapses the contact list area, preventing you from creating a contact list, or group, or mailing list, or whatever you want to call it. When you have
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This little trick can be found a thousand places online. I wanted to share it for my own safe-keeping.
Continue readingThe latest update of Avast made a problem for me at work when it updated to the latest 2014 version. Suddenly networked computers were not able to communicate, could not ping them by IP or netBIOS name, host unreachable, timeouts etc. After spending a couple hours changing every setting I
Continue readingMaybe this will help someone. I wanted to pay my Amazon Store Card through Bank of America’s bill pay system and it wanted the card’s zip code. Anyway, if you call the phone number on your card, you can say “talk to representative” during the automated system to get to
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