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  • Blu-Ray discs for archival – research

    List of all licencees: https://www.blu-raydisc.info/licensee-list/discmanuid-licenseelist.php (basically anything that is not single layer is always HTL type) French study looking into archive quality of different brands: https://club.myce.com/t/french-study-on-bd-r-for-archival/302333 Panasonic followed by Sony are the best for longevity according to the study. However, neither are widely available outside Japan. Acu-disc are a supplier of HTL discs widely avaiiable…

  • Freeview info

    Good sites: Lots of info on how UK Freeview works, how MUXes are structured and which channel is on each, and info on the 700 Mhz clearance programme:https://www.aerialsandtv.com/knowledge/digital-freeview-tv#700mhz-clearance TV Signal strength info and advice:https://otadtv.com/digital_tv/signals.html UHF Channels and corresponding frequencies : UHF channel number Frequency (MHz) 21 474 22 482 23 490 24 498 25 506…

  • Azure AD and SAML single logout POST binding

    As of September 2020, Azure AD does not support the HTTP-POST binding for SAML logout requests. AD FS supported both HTTP-Redirect and HTTP-POST, so this means that not all apps on AD FS will be able to migrate to Azure AD successfully. If your relying party only supports the POST binding, Azure AD will ignore…

  • Dealing with Photos on Google Pixel phones

    I own a Google Pixel 3a. It is a great phone, with a great camera for the price. I allow Google Photos to back up using the free “high quality” option, but prefer to also store a copy of the full-res photos and videos from the phone and save them to a hard drive before…

  • Outlook won’t connect to Office 365 account

    Problem It seems like a very common situation: user has an account in office 365, wants use Outlook, tries to add Office 365 email account. Result is that they are faced with: A prompt for AzureAD credentials. A slow “Adding your account…” screen, which inevitably results in… A very unhelpful error message: “Something went wrong…

  • Things to do around the Forest of Dean with young children

    If you are anything like us, you end up endlessly researching before holidays to find age-appropriate things to do, so here are some ideas based on our week away in case anyone goes googling “things to do in the forest of dean with toddlers”!! We stayed at Whitemead Forest Park in the Forest of Dean.…

  • How to set MIM up to use Exchange Online / Office 365 for email

    If you want to set the MIM Portal up to use Office 365 for sending email, and you hadn’t previously set it up during installation, you have the option of re-running the MIM installer and setting up the Office 365 details, as described in this helpful post on tlktechidentitythoughts There are a couple of scenarios…

  • Explicit-disconnectors remain in connector space after deleting

    After exporting some deletes, I noticed that the objects remained as placeholders in the connector space, with a state of explicit-disconnector. The issue this causes is that if the object needs to be re-added to the connector space, it can’t be, because a duplicate anchor value is generated. In the end, the cause of this…