Looking for the Perfect Mechanical Keyboard (Office & Software Development) I am a mechanical keyboard aficionado. I guess this started in the early ’90s when I typed on a Cherry G80-3000 for the first time (it also could have been […] Read more
Blocking Office Macros, Managing Windows & macOS via Intune How to completely block the execution Office macros on macOS and Windows. The configuration is centrally managed in Intune & extensible through PowerShell. Read more
Total Commander: Getting Started Total Commander is one of those few magical tools that can boost your productivity as an IT pro significantly. It not only replaces File Explorer; it does so in a […] Read more
Migrating WordPress from Multisite to Single With MU-Migration In addition to various commercial plugins, there is one free tool that helps with WordPress migrations to or from multisite installations. MU-Migration is a WP-CLI plugin that worked flawlessly when […] Read more
Windows Server 2019 on Hetzner’s EX62 & AX100 Dedicated Servers This post is a follow-up to my 2016 article on how to install Windows Server on Hetzner’s EX51 hosted dedicated servers. Hetzner offers many types of dedicated servers at very […] Read more
Searching for Keyword Strings in WordPress Posts Surprisingly, there does not seem to be a plugin or some other “easy” way of searching your WordPress posts for certain keywords, shortcodes or HTML tags. However, if you have […] Read more
Renaming Multiple Files With Regular Expressions in Total Commander I prepend every document I save to disk with the year, month, and day. While I do that manually for individual files, sometimes I encounter larger numbers of files with […] Read more
How to Configure SoftEther, a Free VPN Server for macOS & Windows This post describes a real-world configuration of the free VPN server SoftEther. It shows how to set up a VPN for macOS and Windows clients on a Hyper-V Windows guest […] Read more
Hardware-Encode Video in H.265 with Free Tools to Save Disk Space Many web meeting services have a recording functionality. Most recordings are provided as MP4 files with the video encoded in H.264 because that offers the most universal compatibility. However, it […] Read more
Free and Powerful Equalizer for Windows 10 Windows 10 does not come with an equalizer. That can be annoying when you have headphones that are too heavy on the bass, like the Sony WH-1000XM3. Enter the free […] Read more
Modern Multi-Process Browser Architecture An architecture overview of current browsers on Windows: Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. Read more
Bluetooth Audio Quality & aptX on Windows 10 Bluetooth is a flexible standard. It defines various profiles that operate on top of the Bluetooth networking protocol stack and implement specific services, such as hands-free communications. Bluetooth devices each […] Read more
Saving & Restoring Total Commander Tab Sets Total Commander’s custom start menu is a great place to quickly launch all kinds of tools and programs that are otherwise hard to get to. However, TC’s start menu is […] Read more
Upgrading Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 & PHP 7.0 to 7.2 for WordPress This post describes how I upgraded our webserver running WordPress on Apache from Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS to 18.04.1 LTS. Please see this article for more information on the server’s installation […] Read more
PowerShell Script: Test Chrome, Firefox & IE Browser Performance There is more than one way to test the performance of web browsers like Chrome, Firefox, or IE, but regardless of how you do it, you need a consistent workload […] Read more
Enabling HTTP/2 in Apache on Ubuntu 18.04 A number of requirements must be met before HTTP/2 can be enabled for a website. This is a compilation of steps I went through to get HTTP/2 working on our […] Read more
How to Limit CPU & RAM via the Windows Boot Configuration Testing the effects of different CPU and memory configurations is easiest when you run the tests on a powerful machine and restrict it to the required number of CPU cores […] Read more
Laudation to E2EVC – Experts to Experts Virtualization Conference On the eve of my departure for E2EVC Athens I feel it is time for a laudation. Let me explain why. Read more
Splunking the Aspect Ratio Distribution of National Flags When I tried to align the Union Jack and the flag of Germany on a presentation slide I noticed that I couldn’t – their aspect ratios are different. A quick […] Read more
Creating an Application Crash Dump How to Create User Mode Crash Dump Files If you experience application crashes you may be asked by support to create a crash dump file. Crash dumps are created automatically […] Read more
Standard Notes: a Note-Taking App with Client-Side Encryption Note-taking is one of those topics that appear to have been solved long ago, yet offer plenty of opportunity for new contestants. There are multiple reasons for that, but for […] Read more
DiskLED is Now Open Source DiskLED is a tool I wrote a while ago that displays performance counter data using an animated system tray icon. It comes with a graphical configuration dialog that lets you […] Read more
Inexpensive GPU Virtualization Options for Testing For a new chapter in my ongoing series of talks and articles about browser performance I wanted to examine how key user experience metrics like page load time are dependent […] Read more
Is Blockchain the Right Technology for My Application? This is an attempt at guidelines to help in technology decisions about when and where to use blockchain technology. Read more
Building a Fast and Silent Workstation PC This article describes how to build a fast workstation PC that is almost completely silent (actually the fastest possible in terms of single-thread performance). It is based on a PC […] Read more
Hyper-V Backup – Products & Options It’s 2018, and backing up Hyper-V hosts is solved, right? I certainly expected it to be when I took on the task of finding a simple and reliable way to […] Read more
Browser Ad Blockers and Privacy You have probably been in this situation: on some shopping site you put an article in your cart, but decide not to buy it after all. Later on, you notice […] Read more
Browser Video: Codecs, Formats & Hardware Acceleration Web video is ubiquitous. We take it for granted that browsers play video in high resolution, over any connection, on any device. Behind the scenes, a complex machinery of video […] Read more
Troubleshooting Splunk Error “Search Process Did Not Exit Cleanly” When Splunk displays an orange warning triangle instead of a chart or table it is time to investigate. Start by clicking the triangle to bring up a dialog with the […] Read more
Recurring Checklists from Templates the Podio Way Podio is a superb tool for team collaboration, structured information handling and even business process management. However, it is not perfect. There are some astonishing gaps in functionality. One of […] Read more
