by admin | Oct 23, 2017 | Administration
[:en]From Windows 8 upwards, for some reason Microsoft decided to neglegt the original VSS shadow copies and and recommend the File History feature. For me this is not an option, as you need an additional HDD (or network drive). In my opinion, a regular full or...
by admin | Oct 13, 2017 | Administration
[:en]Using the command line shell or batch files (.bat), you can easily check if a single file exists. if exist c:\myfile.txt echo asdf if not exist c:\myfile2.txt echo bsdf Note the example above does not work with directories or drives! (At least, not on older...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Administration, C# .Net, Software
[:en]Just re-published an older project on Github. UPS Battery Service runs a Windows service which watches local battery events, which are then logged in local and/or Event Log where you can further proceed with custom actions, like informational emails, shutdowns...
by admin | Aug 7, 2017 | Administration, Home Automation, Linux, PHP
[:en] In a previous post, I explained how to set up Mikrotik Routerboards as a VPN gateway. This post is about how to remotely switch the VPN on and off via Smart Home visualization OpenHAB 2, so it affects your whole LAN. You can even switch to other VPN...
by admin | Aug 6, 2017 | Administration
[:en]Using Windows 10 1703, it seems to be impossible to persistantly use a combination of IE11 and Outlook 2010. Even if both applications are set as default, if you click an HTTP link in an Outlook email, the user is asked to choose a browser. Even if the user...
by admin | Jul 18, 2017 | Administration
[:en]After updating WP’s plugins, themes or WP itself, sometimes an error 500 appears, especially for multilanguage sites. Error 500 can have many causes, so first have a look in your Apache log file, e.g. /var/log/apache2/error.log You might encounter a line...
