Centos 8 has finally been released and will eventually provide the base for a new hosting platform for us. However it isn’t quite ready as there are a few packages not yet available.
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Expanding smarthome on the cheap
As I’ve written about before, I have begun to experiment with the world of smarthome devices, and currently use a smartthings hub and a google home mini. So far these have just turned on lamps and other “plugged in” devices via smartplugs, but with more compatible devices at reasonable prices finally starting to appear I wanted to start documenting more of what I’ve tried
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BT sport does work on Windows 7
If you have BT sport and try to view it on a Windows 7 PC you will find several warnings and the content may even not play. This is done entirely deliberately by BT (at Microsoft’s behest?) for no technical reasons what-so-ever. You can easily get it working again
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WiFi switches from letters to numbers
With the news that WiFi will get a new version next year, and that it will be called WiFi 6, I thought I’d knock up a little guide to the previous versions of WiFi that we’ve had
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More WDS errors solved
WDS really is quite an unfriendly system. Clunky, fiddly, and prone ot failure without helpful error information. After updating some of my unattended files I was no longer able to carry out unattended installations, but have eventually solved the series of misleading errors
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0Wdsclient — There was a problem initializing wds mode
I’ve had this error several times over the years, and it always seems to be for a different reason. So below I will collate all the possible sources of the problem I have so far encountered, along with solutions
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0Adding drivers to windows 10 boot image on WDS on Server 2012 R2
I have enough PCs in the house that I set up a WDS server to make it easier to reinstall windows if any of them go wrong. They have a lot of different hardware and so I needed to add some drivers to the boot image which is from a Windows 10 retail DVD. However, I got an error when trying to add them because the version of DISM used by WDS on server 2012 is older than the version required by Windows 10 images
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Optimal LAV and mad-vr settings for a high end GPU at 1080p
I have spent a lot of time experimenting with mad-vr and lav trying to find the optimal settings for my GTX 1050Ti which outputs to a 1080p projector. Settings for higher resolution displays will be very different, but as 4k projectors are currently so expensive, for a truly “home cinema” experience 1080p is the limit for most people.
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Free up disk space on Windows
Most PCs that I encounter have drives that are full. This was the case in the days of HDD, and with modern SSD typically being smaller it is even worse. A full drive will slow your PC down, as well as the annoyance of running out of space at a key moment. Here are a good range of ways of freeing up space
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Constant Kodi Irritations
A few years back I migrated from Windows Media Centre to Kodi (thanks to Microsoft for ending support and development of MC). Kodi is widely used and very versatile, however it has never worked quite flawlessly and I continue to come across a range of annoying issues. Where I have found a solution I will document it below
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