Daniel McCoy

The joy you feel when Edge is opened by another app which destroys all open tabs you once had never to get them back again. :(

Microsoft not allowing local account for Win10 Consumer Extended Security Updates? That's disappointing. Does Apple require an account for Mac Mini set-up? I'll have to research and switch my one Win10 system out with a Mac Mini.

Giving an IOCrest PCIe V4 x1 10Gbe NIC a shot. AMD 5950x x570 system. Slapped it in a x1 slot. Working like a champ so far. OpenSpeedTest container from a 10gbps Synology easily gets >9.5Mbps down and >8Mbps up. Now my GPU is running X16 and has breathing room w/ no X8 10Gbe NIC next to it.

Discovered the Windows Store Spotify app stopped working. I tried uninstalling only to not be able to install it again. I'm left with a Spotify icon in the start menu that's unusable and can't be removed. Not amused. See answers.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

Giving a 4 port HDMI KVM from @level1techs.bsky.social a whirl to see if EDID emulation helps when switching around. Got tired of Win11 resizing things with a display port KVM. So far, so good. Funky hotkeys tho... SCRLKx2+LCTRL then LCTRLx2+1,2,3, or 4? Using an old MaxKeyboard Falcon-8 to switch.

Needed to restore my main system. Discovered the Macrium Recovery media for the system had 2 partitions. One for V8 and another X. Only I couldn't boot into X. Reformatted & recreated. Then had a hard time than expected to get it to see the files off of Synology NAS share. I miss Netgear ReadyNAS!

Resolved the Macrium Reflect issue on one system by using the Synology NAS's IP address vs name. Today I find my main system's Reflect wigging out due to the license apparently having some issue. NGL, these issues are making me rethink using Reflect. But only other option is Acronis TrueImage.

Consequently, when I try to use CoPilot and try to sign in, the only two accounts available is my "work" account and somehow my "personal" account is also my work credentials. Sigh...

Windows pet peeve - When Windows "assumes" my personal computer should be tied to my work account all over the place simply because I use Teams linked to a work account. WTF, Microsoft!

This issue is making me consider trying Acronis TrueImage again.

Have verified share access for the specific users involved. Even enabled the guest account and access on a Synology DS1817+. Interactive backups work fine. A daily differential is not. Fun!

Battling an issue with Macrium Reflect on one system where it aborts a scheduled backup claiming it can not access a network share. When the schedule was created, it asked for share credentials and had no problem. These same credentials are in the default Network Share settings.

Pi-hole 6.0 has been released. Woot! pi-hole.net/blog/2025/02...

Would love to install GTA:V again for some offline/story mode play to let out some steam but I have NO interest in installing BattleEye.

I've been so out of the loop with Lightwave 3D. Plunked for the Force Awakens thing in 2023. Haven't kept track or downloaded newer versions. Just plunked the 2025 pre-order without realizing I probably didn't upgrade with 2024. I need to get myself back into some creative fun.

My Outlook issues were apparently because I was on a Microsoft 365 insider channel (beta?). I exited out of that and now see it "assumes" being tied to my work Microsoft 365 enterprise account. sigh

One thing that bothers me is that, because I use my personal system with a personal Microsoft 365 account to also access work Microsoft 365, Windows assumes everything on my personal system is tied to the work account. All because of I need Teams. WTF, Microsoft.

For some reason, Outlook is crashing when I try to open e-mails. I'm not amused. Ready to find something other than Outlook. I miss Eudora....

Used ForensiT Software Ltd's TransWiz to not only transfer the profile and add the machine to the domain. Only a couple minor hiccups afterwards but everything transferred over saving me TONS of time.

Having fun trying to migrate/copy a local Win 11 user profile into a domain user profile. I do NOT want to set up everything up all over again. Shouldn't be this difficult.

Just discovered nearly 2TB worth of Microsoft conference videos from 2009 forward sitting on a NAS box. Great googly moogly!

Got to hand it to these old HGST 2TB drives... 99736 hours on a batch purchased many moons ago.

I still love the Netgear ReadyNAS. Not as feature rich as Synology but the ReadyNAS has always been rock solid. But alas, dead product now?

Reset the Alert config in the ReadyNAS. It's been trying to send me notifications about the drive issue for some time now. That's why it kept hitting dns to resolve how to get to gmail. Ooops!!!

Went hunting for why a Netgear ReadyNAS 526X has been spamming DNS for gmail's smtp services only to discover one of the drives will likely fail soon. I've been thinking about a NAS and drive upgrade. Just waiting to see what Synology is up to.

Spent about a week trying to locate what seemed like a memory leak in some .NET 4.7.2 C# code. Heavy UDP and TCP traffic. Event driven. Tried weak events. Nope. Went full delegates. Nope. Stopped spamming UDP and added enough delay to handle receive traffic and give things time to breath. All bueno!

Probably going to miss some good dev, tech & Microsoft news by putting in a deactivate request somewhere but hey... I'll find new people to follow here. :)

Curious about QA job options out there. Need to see what skills I need to learn/re-learn.

I seriously need to remember this.

It's the advanced startup screen (with Continue, Use a device, Troubleshoot, and Turn off your PC)

Windows tip of the day - if ever you need to boot into the recovery screens / advanced startup, you don't need to do it from Settings, you can do it by holding Shift when selecting Restart using the Power button on the login screen or in the Start menu