- Heading out on vacation later today. Planning to share lots of photos. #
- I was writing a long response to someone in teams and decided to cut and paste it into Word so I could add more formatting. After cutting there was nothing to paste - this means I lost the text I had been writing. #
- Lesson learned: do not write a long response in Teams and do not trust its ability to cut and paste. #
- Do you despise the web app versions of Office as much as me? Now you can share URLs that open your docs directly on the desktop (as it should be!):#
- 1. Open your doc in an Office app from Office 365, then go to File...Info...and get the path to the doc#
- 2. Append the appropriate prefix to the URL as follows:#
- WORD: ms-word:ofe|u|#
- EXCEL: ms-excel:ofe|u|#
- PPT : ms-powerpoint:ofe|u|#
- Others: see here#
- Your url should look something like this:#
- ms-word:ofe|u|https://your-site.sharepoint.com/your-path/Shared%20Documents/your-doc.docx?web=1#
- 3. Use your new URL to link directly to your Office doc and it will immediately open in the Desktop Office app for editing. #
- NOTE: Since appending the Office prefix will result in a non-standard URL, some tools will complain about the Office-specific URL and will prevent you from saving the link. Microsoft Teams is, surprisingly, one of many tools that will complain about this. I really wish the team would adopt a more standards-friendly approach (e.g. just use https://your-site.sharepoint.com/your-path/Shared%20Documents/your-doc.docx and let the browser invoke the associated application type).#
- I had lost access to my Twitter account because I turned on 2FA, added validation via authentication app, add validation via YubiKey, and turned off validation via SMS. A few weeks later I had to pave and reconfig my phone. I stupidly assumed by authentication app had been backing up my codes but nope, it defaulted to not backing up the codes. (Thanks Microsoft!). Luckily I found my YubiKey and was able to regain access to my account. #
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I just realized it's midnight as I write this. I should really get to bed but I'm so excited about Dave Winer's new (to me) blogging tool called Drummer. #
- Drummer is a multi-tab outliner that runs as a web app and as a Mac desktop app.##
- Drummer as an outliner can be used for all kinds of idea processing and workflow applications, but Drummer has been especially adapted to publishing weblogs. ##
- Drummer was incredibly easy to set up and start using. I've always admired the look and usability of Dave Winer's blog and have shamelessly tried to copy it in my old blog. I use the term "old blog" here because I'm so taken with the look and ease of use in Drummer that I've decided to move to it and start blogging again.#
- I'm especially excited about Drummer's extensible scripting language and plan to use it to try and add some support for IndieWeb standards. #
- I'm apparently not the only one blown away by Drummer.#
- That's it for now - I need to grab some shut eye. Night night!#
Group Policy Editor is a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in that is used to configure and modify Group Policy settings within Group Policy Objects (GPOs). You can change many things about your Windows Installation using the Group Policy Editor. Unfortunately, Group Policy Editor does not work in Windows Home Editions. Luckily you can still enable Group Policy support if you are running Windows Home. #
- The Group Policy Editor provides administrators with a hierarchical tree structure for configuring Group Policy settings in GPOs. These GPOs can then be linked to sites, domains, and organizational units (OU) that contain computer or user objects.#
- To enable the Group Policy Editor in Windows Home simply copy and paste the code below into a file named EnableGroupPolicyEditor.bat (or something similar):#
- @echo off#
- >nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system"#
- if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' (#
- ) else ( goto gotAdmin )#
- :getAdmin#
- echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"#
- set params = %*:"="#
- echo UAC.ShellExecute "cmd.exe", "/c %~s0 %params%", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"#
- "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"#
- del "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"#
- exit /b#
- :gotAdmin#
- pushd "%~dp0"#
- dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~3*.mum >List.txt#
- dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~3*.mum >>List.txt#
- for /f %%i in ('findstr /i . List.txt 2^>nul') do dism /online /norestart /add-package:"%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\%%i"#
- pause#
- About the code:#
- This code checks if it's running as Admin and if not, gets Admin rights and restarts the batch file.#
- After getting Admin rights the batch file downloads and installs the Windows components needed to use the Group Policy Editor.#
- After saving the code you can double-click on it (no need to run as Admin, the code will get Admin levels on its own).#
- Once the code has finished running you can hit Windows+R and type gpedit.msc #
- Earlier tonight I finished one of his most famous books "100 Love Sonnets and A Song of Despair". The poems in this book are incredibly moving. #
- Expand for a reading: "Here I Love You"#
- I just realized it's midnight as I write this. I should really get to bed but I'm so excited about Dave Winer's new (to me) blogging tool called Drummer. #
- Drummer is a multi-tab outliner that runs as a web app and as a Mac desktop app.##
- Drummer as an outliner can be used for all kinds of idea processing and workflow applications, but Drummer has been especially adapted to publishing weblogs. ##
- Drummer was incredibly easy to set up and start using. I've always admired the look and usability of Dave Winer's blog and have shamelessly tried to copy it in my old blog. I use the term "old blog" here because I'm so taken with the look and ease of use in Drummer that I've decided to move to it and start blogging again.#
- I'm especially excited about Drummer's extensible scripting language and plan to use it to try and add some support for IndieWeb standards. #
- I'm apparently not the only one blown away by Drummer.#
- That's it for now - I need to grab some shut eye. Night night!#
- Heading out on vacation later today. Planning to share lots of photos. #
- I was writing a long response to someone in teams and decided to cut and paste it into Word so I could add more formatting. After cutting there was nothing to paste - this means I lost the text I had been writing. #
- Lesson learned: do not write a long response in Teams and do not trust its ability to cut and paste. #
- Do you despise the web app versions of Office as much as me? Now you can share URLs that open your docs directly on the desktop (as it should be!):#
- 1. Open your doc in an Office app from Office 365, then go to File...Info...and get the path to the doc#
- 2. Append the appropriate prefix to the URL as follows:#
- WORD: ms-word:ofe|u|#
- EXCEL: ms-excel:ofe|u|#
- PPT : ms-powerpoint:ofe|u|#
- Others: see here#
- Your url should look something like this:#
- ms-word:ofe|u|https://your-site.sharepoint.com/your-path/Shared%20Documents/your-doc.docx?web=1#
- 3. Use your new URL to link directly to your Office doc and it will immediately open in the Desktop Office app for editing. #
- NOTE: Since appending the Office prefix will result in a non-standard URL, some tools will complain about the Office-specific URL and will prevent you from saving the link. Microsoft Teams is, surprisingly, one of many tools that will complain about this. I really wish the team would adopt a more standards-friendly approach (e.g. just use https://your-site.sharepoint.com/your-path/Shared%20Documents/your-doc.docx and let the browser invoke the associated application type).#
- I had lost access to my Twitter account because I turned on 2FA, added validation via authentication app, add validation via YubiKey, and turned off validation via SMS. A few weeks later I had to pave and reconfig my phone. I stupidly assumed by authentication app had been backing up my codes but nope, it defaulted to not backing up the codes. (Thanks Microsoft!). Luckily I found my YubiKey and was able to regain access to my account. #
- #
- I just realized it's midnight as I write this. I should really get to bed but I'm so excited about Dave Winer's new (to me) blogging tool called Drummer. #
- Drummer is a multi-tab outliner that runs as a web app and as a Mac desktop app.##
- Drummer as an outliner can be used for all kinds of idea processing and workflow applications, but Drummer has been especially adapted to publishing weblogs. ##
- Drummer was incredibly easy to set up and start using. I've always admired the look and usability of Dave Winer's blog and have shamelessly tried to copy it in my old blog. I use the term "old blog" here because I'm so taken with the look and ease of use in Drummer that I've decided to move to it and start blogging again.#
- I'm especially excited about Drummer's extensible scripting language and plan to use it to try and add some support for IndieWeb standards. #
- I'm apparently not the only one blown away by Drummer.#
- That's it for now - I need to grab some shut eye. Night night!#
- Group Policy Editor is a Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in that is used to configure and modify Group Policy settings within Group Policy Objects (GPOs). You can change many things about your Windows Installation using the Group Policy Editor. Unfortunately, Group Policy Editor does not work in Windows Home Editions. Luckily you can still enable Group Policy support if you are running Windows Home. #
- The Group Policy Editor provides administrators with a hierarchical tree structure for configuring Group Policy settings in GPOs. These GPOs can then be linked to sites, domains, and organizational units (OU) that contain computer or user objects.#
- To enable the Group Policy Editor in Windows Home simply copy and paste the code below into a file named EnableGroupPolicyEditor.bat (or something similar):#
- @echo off#
- >nul 2>&1 "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\cacls.exe" "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\config\system"#
- if '%errorlevel%' NEQ '0' (#
- ) else ( goto gotAdmin )#
- :getAdmin#
- echo Set UAC = CreateObject^("Shell.Application"^) > "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"#
- set params = %*:"="#
- echo UAC.ShellExecute "cmd.exe", "/c %~s0 %params%", "", "runas", 1 >> "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"#
- "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"#
- del "%temp%\getadmin.vbs"#
- exit /b#
- :gotAdmin#
- pushd "%~dp0"#
- dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~3*.mum >List.txt#
- dir /b %SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~3*.mum >>List.txt#
- for /f %%i in ('findstr /i . List.txt 2^>nul') do dism /online /norestart /add-package:"%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\%%i"#
- pause#
- About the code:#
- This code checks if it's running as Admin and if not, gets Admin rights and restarts the batch file.#
- After getting Admin rights the batch file downloads and installs the Windows components needed to use the Group Policy Editor.#
- After saving the code you can double-click on it (no need to run as Admin, the code will get Admin levels on its own).#
- Once the code has finished running you can hit Windows+R and type gpedit.msc #
- Earlier tonight I finished one of his most famous books "100 Love Sonnets and A Song of Despair". The poems in this book are incredibly moving. #
- Expand for a reading: "Here I Love You"#
- I just realized it's midnight as I write this. I should really get to bed but I'm so excited about Dave Winer's new (to me) blogging tool called Drummer. #
- Drummer is a multi-tab outliner that runs as a web app and as a Mac desktop app.##
- Drummer as an outliner can be used for all kinds of idea processing and workflow applications, but Drummer has been especially adapted to publishing weblogs. ##
- Drummer was incredibly easy to set up and start using. I've always admired the look and usability of Dave Winer's blog and have shamelessly tried to copy it in my old blog. I use the term "old blog" here because I'm so taken with the look and ease of use in Drummer that I've decided to move to it and start blogging again.#
- I'm especially excited about Drummer's extensible scripting language and plan to use it to try and add some support for IndieWeb standards. #
- I'm apparently not the only one blown away by Drummer.#
- That's it for now - I need to grab some shut eye. Night night!#
