The network cables in my home are old. Some date back to the time I moved in and even the newer ones passed the five-year mark. Over the last few years, I have again and again read @SwiftOnSecurity’s recommendation to replace network cables more often. Since I had no problems with my network, there was …
2019 was a year full of challenges and I am happy that it is over. I use the time between the holidays to recharge my batteries so that I will be ready to tackle the changes that 2020 will bring. With everything going on I missed my 10th anniversary of my blog graberj.wordpress.com. I started …
A few days ago, I got an email about problems with comments on this blog. When you tried to post a comment you only got this error message: Forbidden You don’t have permission to access /wp-comments-post.php on this server. If you search for this error for WordPress, you get plenty of answers. However, most of …
Today’s post is not about software development. I like interesting pictures and the Spotlight images used in the lock screen of Windows 10 are often so interesting that I like to keep them for longer. Those images are stored on your computer, you only need to find them – but where? The location of …
My personal highlight of 2018 was definitely my talk What Doctors Can Teach Us on Continuous Learning at NDC Oslo. You can find the recording of it on YouTube: I learned a lot while preparing this talk and I hope I can attend in 2019 again as a speaker. I am working currently on ideas …
After a fresh install of Windows 10 I had to get .Net 3.5. That’s normally a simple step of activating a Windows feature. However, this time it did not work. Instead of .Net 3.5 I only got the error 0x800F081F. According to the documentation, the installer could not find the installation source. But the problem …
With every newly installed Windows Server, I run into the same problem: This default setting is most annoying, but at least it does not take much effort to fix it. Open the settings dialog of Internet Explorer and go to the Security tab: Click on the Custom level button to open up the long list …
Multiple tabs in a web browser are great. If they persist a restart of your browser, you quickly use them as a read-later list. In such a case you don’t want to close the wrong tab. Unfortunately, this happens more often than you want. But there is a simple way to reopen the last closed …
This summer I could finally catch up with many podcasts I wanted to listen to. To hear different perspectives is a great opportunity to rethink what you are doing and discover new possibilities. One of the new discoveries I made is the CodeNewbie podcast by Saron Yitbarek. Every week Saron produces a new episode on …
Working in the flow feels great. You are fully immersed and can spend hours focused on one single goal. However, it’s not that easy to get into this state of mind. Some use a form of meditation techniques, other listen to music. The later one sometimes worked for me, but most of the time it’s …