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  • Microsoft Next Lock Screen on MIUI 9.6 and other Oreo-based phones

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    MIUI 9.6.1 update on my Xiaomi Mi5 phone brought the Android version up to 8.0 Oreo. The Microsoft “Next” lock screen app no longer works, even after double checking all the relevant permissions – allow overlay drawing / allow popups etc. The only way to make it appear is to disable the system screen lock…

  • Powershell background Jobs

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    Run about_Jobs  for info Jobs a run as children of the powershell session, so if the session goes, the jobs goes. Get-command -noun job  lists commands relating to running jobs Can either run a scriptblock if quotes in curly brackets, like this… PS C:\> Start-Job {Get-EventLog -List} -name eventJob Id     Name            PSJobTypeName   State         HasMoreData     Location            …

  • Powershell Pipeline

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    ForEach-Object  cmdlet  (alias = ForEach) acts on each object coming through the pipeline. ForEach returns a set of objects to the pipeline for further processing This is different to the ForEach enumerator, which is your normal loop (for x in y)… The enumerator doesn’t return objects to the pipeline. 3 parameters, each is a script…

  • Powershell Objects

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    Cmdlets output objects, and can consume objects. Objects have properties. Properties can be read-only, or modifiable. Not all properties are shown by default when you view an object Objects have methods, which may have parameters. Cmdlets are often associated with methods, but methods can be invoked manually too. Get-Member lists all properties and methods of an…

  • Tacolneston Transmitter frequencies – post 700MHz switchover

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    I was having trouble with TVheadend not picking up lots of freeview channels. When I looked in to it, I found out there is a big reshuffle of channels and frequencies going on to free up the 700MHz band (694 – 790MHz) for mobile broadband use. TVheadend didn’t seem to pick up these changes even…

  • Redirecting to the MIM site by default

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    When you start to install MIM, you first need to install SharePoint, which MIM runs on top of. As part of this, you set up a SharePoint website with a name, usually one that matches the domain name, e.g. mimportal.contoso.com After MIM is installed, going to this root URL will confusingly just load a default…

  • Parse Apache Log Files into a MySQL database

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    Sometimes you have a lot of log files that are hard to search using a text editor either because of the size or you want to do more complicated queries. You can quite easily load an Apache log file into a database to allow easy searching, and even allows you to generate useful statistics. The…

  • Enabling multiple users on Lenovo A10-70 tablet

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    One of the main features of Android since 4.2 Jelly Bean is the ability to have multiple user profiles so that, for example, you can share the same tablet between your family members and keep your toddler’s prodding fingers away from your precious email. This tablet shipped with Android 4.4 (KitKat), so I fully expected to…