abillybob Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 Think it can be quite interesting sometimes to share small findings out when on your trip down IT road. Today I found out that Windows Offline Files are stored in C:\Windows\CSC, never knew this although never had to until today What's your latest discovery in IT?
cpjitservices Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 I have found out that Office for MAC on 365 doesnt let you connect to exchange until you renew subscription if the current subscription expires.
Novalee Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 That you can't just copy and paste a TTF file into the fonts folder from another machine - you have to be on that machine for it to install. (Or so it would appear from what I was doing this morning!)
AXE Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 I found out that SIMS report definitions are just zipped xml files with weak encryption. Makes updating 100 or more reports to change one parameter much easier.
unixman_again Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 That it is possible to run kmail without akonadi and nepomuk provided you are prepared to go through the pain of recompiling kde.
TechMonkey Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 That you can't just copy and paste a TTF file into the fonts folder from another machine - you have to be on that machine for it to install. (Or so it would appear from what I was doing this morning!) You can if you add in the registry fragment also. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts] "Font Name"="Font File" 2
Davit2005 Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 Something so simple MS can make a right PITA . Oh, known that for a long time
LosOjos Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 Today I found out* Excel 2007 does not play nice with dynamic charts, losing the formula used to generate it's content on opening, whereas 2010 is fine with this. Solution is a macro to reapply the formula when the workbook is opened * is it killing anyone else inside that this thread isn't "today I learned" / TIL?
fiza Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 (edited) That it is possible to run kmail without akonadi and nepomuk provided you are prepared to go through the pain of recompiling kde. I just found out what Nepomuk and kmail mean as I just googled them!! Edited February 23, 2015 by fiza
Miscbrah Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 Today I found out that "photocopier" means "printer" as does "the thing" or "it" (as in "it's not working.") I've been too specific in the past and really must use more general terms for equipment, because spending half my day walking around the site after over-paid retards who don't know the difference is cruise-control for big salary.
arwen Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 If you have OneNote installed, the quickest way to do a screen grab/capture is pressing windows+S 1
LiamH Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 (edited) Slightly embarrassed to admit i only found this trick out a few months ago but... ".\user" rather than typing out the machine name for local log in. Edited February 23, 2015 by LiamH 1
rad Posted February 23, 2015 Posted February 23, 2015 More at home than at school... FiL laptop wouldnt allow a camera to appear when plugged in via USB... uninstalled all usb ports in DEvice Manager. Brothers laptop didnt work on Wifi at home, fine on network and wifi fine connected to my phone.....rebooted home router
Oaktech Posted February 24, 2015 Posted February 24, 2015 Robocopy is the work of the devil for more than a few GB of transfer.
Garacesh Posted February 24, 2015 Posted February 24, 2015 (edited) That you can't just copy and paste a TTF file into the fonts folder from another machine - you have to be on that machine for it to install. (Or so it would appear from what I was doing this morning!) You used to be able to IIRC but that changed with the whole TTF vulnerability thing.. Now they have to be installed administratively. Slightly embarrassed to admit i only found this trick out a few months ago but... ".\user" rather than typing out the machine name for local log in. Also handy if you want to find out the machine name (rather than logging in and viewing System or using the Hostname command) as it will change the domain to log on to (underneath the username and password boxes) from $DomainName to $Hostname It's one of those things, though, that you don't usually need, as the typing in the default localadmin (without .\ or $Hostname\) will still change it from domain to local logon (but only for the default admin, never found a way to do this for 'normal' local accounts..) Robocopy is the work of the devil for more than a few GB of transfer. Until a few months ago, I thought Robocopy wasn't native to Windows, so I never even bothered to look into it. Edited February 24, 2015 by Garacesh
hardtailstar Posted February 24, 2015 Posted February 24, 2015 I learned i cant eat my lunch on first day back
p3dr0 Posted February 24, 2015 Posted February 24, 2015 I learned today that if your dhcp server shows 169. address in the console you need to disable unused interfaces on the server...
eyetea Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 That everything that you don't need any documentation for there is ample, for stuff that you do need documentation for there isn't any!
sted Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 That everything that you don't need any documentation for there is ample, for stuff that you do need documentation for there isn't any! or worse its wrong that in execl as well as pressing ctrl: to insert the current date (i knew that one) ctrl shift: inserts the current time 3
witch Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 That there is a brilliant little exe to tell if the computer can run 64 bit https://www.grc.com/securable.htm
LosOjos Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 (edited) That there is a brilliant little exe to tell if the computer can run 64 bit https://www.grc.com/securable.htm If you're on a Windows machine, the presence of a "Program Files (x86)" folder means it's almost certainly a 64 bit machine (I say almost because there's always the chances some crappy bit of software has created the folder itself) A more robust check (without requiring any software) is to type the following in to the command line: echo %ProgramFiles(x86)% If the output is blank, you're looking at a 32 bit installation. Edited February 26, 2015 by LosOjos
witch Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 (edited) @LosOjos I'm not trying to find out if the computer is running 32 or 64 bit, but whether it is capable of running 64 bit. We are refreshing the whole network and would like to avoid a mixed 32 and 64 bit environment, so I am looking at the older computers Edited February 26, 2015 by witch
Garacesh Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 If you're on a Windows machine, the presence of a "Program Files (x86)" folder means it's almost certainly a 64 bit machine (I say almost because there's always the chances some crappy bit of software has created the folder itself) A more robust check (without requiring any software) is to type the following in to the command line: echo %ProgramFiles(x86)% If the output is blank, you're looking at a 32 bit installation. An even better way is going Start > Computer > RightClick > Properties There's a similar System screen in 8+, too, by right clicking the bottom-left to get the Power User menu and clicking System (I believe, not able to test right now)
scotyboy56 Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 (edited) An even better way is going Start > Computer > RightClick > Properties There's a similar System screen in 8+, too, by right clicking the bottom-left to get the Power User menu and clicking System (I believe, not able to test right now) Or you can open up windows explorer, and right click This PC -> Properties in windows 8+ But yes your way for windows 8+ does work, just tested it. Edited February 26, 2015 by scotyboy56
Garacesh Posted February 26, 2015 Posted February 26, 2015 Or you can open up windows explorer, and right click This PC -> Properties Well. Today I learned Didn't realise it worked there, too.
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