Random Tech Thoughts

A quick, easy, free LAN speed test for Windows PC's is LANBench, check it out! (For the record, they did not pay me for this, I did not contact them about me doing this, I just found this great tool and wanted to share it with you.) http://www.zachsaw.com/?pg=lanbench_tcp_network_benchmark Become a podcaster and get one month free! Sign up for a Spreaker pro plan with this link to save: https://www.spreaker.com/plans?coupon_code=thetalkinggeek I love Humble Bundle, check them out! https://www.humblebundle.com/?partner=thetalkinggeekBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/random-tech-thoughts--2829929/support.

One of the internal applications that we use is Alfresco Community Edition. I got a notification that a particular folder on my Windows server for our internal applications was getting bigger than one would expect it to be. I looked in the Apache Tomcat log files had accumulated over the last year and were taking up over a 180GB worth space! So I archived all but the current logs, and then set out to update the log4j properties file to change the logging level from "info" or "debug" (where not commented out) to "warn" (I left the "error" flags alone, and didn't see any "fatal" flags).Become a podcaster and get one month free! Sign up for a Spreaker pro plan with this link to save: https://www.spreaker.com/plans?coupon_code=thetalkinggeekI love Humble Bundle (especially the book deals), check them out: https://www.humblebundle.com/?partner=thetalkinggeekAnd if for some reason you want more of me, my blog is https://thetalkinggeek.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/random-te

Microsoft is buying GitHub, and a bunch of people think it's going to suck. I don't. Become a podcaster and get one month free! Sign up for a Spreaker pro plan with this link to save: https://www.spreaker.com/plans?coupon_code=thetalkinggeekBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/random-tech-thoughts--2829929/support.

Project Natick 50% OF US LIVE NEAR THE COAST.  WHY DOESN'T OUR DATA? A research project to determine the feasibility of subsea datacenters powered by offshore renewable energy Project Natick seeks to understand the benefits and difficulties in deploying subsea datacenters worldwide. Phase two extends the research we accomplished in phase one by deploying a full-scale datacenter module in the North Sea, powered by renewable energy.  http://natick.research.microsoft.com/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/random-tech-thoughts--2829929/support.

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You know the issue where YouTube video will play, and you see the progress bar going, and you can even hear stuff, but the video box is just black? It's weird because if you move your mouse along the progress for the video it'll even show you the little snapshot preview. I tried a couple things that didn't work, and then one that did to fix my playback issue. Spoiler alert, I had to clear the browser data.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/random-tech-thoughts--2829929/support.

I do a quick overview of a pivot table in Excel. Honestly Googling instructions and reading through them with pictures or watching a video is going to be more beneficial to you and listen to this. Also my throat hurts so I'm talking pretty quiet, sorry.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/random-tech-thoughts--2829929/support.

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I needed to merge two spreadsheets that did not have a unique identifier that matched but they did have a column that was kind of in common so I did some formula craziness and got most of it addressed.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/random-tech-thoughts--2829929/support.

To remove the OCR from a PDF you have to go to remove heading information which is under the protection set of tools, sanitize document also does this as well as many other things. I get into some file size reduction stuff too.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/random-tech-thoughts--2829929/support.

If your keyboard is not working, and turning it off and on doesn't work, and rebooting your computer doesn't work, and you're sure it's not the batteries, just try pushing the buttons especially the all can control key several times and see if that helps; a key may get stuck in the down position you may not even realize it.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/random-tech-thoughts--2829929/support.

There is this company website I found that exposes TONS of private data.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/random-tech-thoughts--2829929/support.

I know you're going to ignore this, so it's really your own fault when you get bit by it. But just because you're not going to do it doesn't mean that you shouldn't, this is good advice (if I do say so myself).Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/random-tech-thoughts--2829929/support.

Sorry for my stumbling in this one, I distracted myself and went to the wrong place for the web applications / online services anyways if you've joined the Microsoft Partner Network but have had trouble finding your software downloads and license keys hopefully this helps. https://www.microsoft.com/msppdd/Home/IndexBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/random-tech-thoughts--2829929/support.

This doesn't apply just to PayPal, but the latest phishing email I received was a decent fake of an email from PayPal; but there's a few telltale signs, don't fall for them.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/random-tech-thoughts--2829929/support.

I look at statistics for the last year on https://netmarketshare.com about web browsers. Chrome dominates on desktop and mobile, and overall Safari is the second most important, but you shouldn't ignore Edge/IE.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/random-tech-thoughts--2829929/support.

High-level APIs like tf.keras enable developers to train models easily and effectively. This session will introduce these APIs, and notebooks you can run live in the browser to get started using Colab. We'll walk you through writing your first neural network in TensorFlow using just 10 lines of code with tf.keras, and then will introduce you to Eager execution. We'll close with educational resources you can use to learn more about ML. By releasing easier and more intuitive APIs, we hope to make TensorFlow an open source machine learning framework more accessible for all.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/random-tech-thoughts--2829929/support.

John Maeda gave a great short talk and a interview with Hannah Beachler all about inclusion and diversity from multiple angles with a ton of facts, and opinions; go check out the video.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/random-tech-thoughts--2829929/support.

The developer keynote went over a bunch of things to kind of showcase what all the different sessions later could be about, so listen and and figure out what's most important to you so that you can tune in to the other sessions that will mean the most to you.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/random-tech-thoughts--2829929/support.

Everyone at IO got the "Oprah" treatment with "you get a domain, you get a domain... everybody gets a domain name!", but even if you aren't there you could still learn about this new TLD.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/random-tech-thoughts--2829929/support.