Outdoor Technologist

★Julia – Modify 3D Background colors

Julia allows for you to customize plots to meet customer’s requests. This came in handy, but it was hard to find for this novice programmer. This link helped me solve the problem: https://plotly.com/julia/3d-axes/#background-and-grid-color My task required printing from 3 dimensional temperature data, rather than equations, so I couldn’t follow the exact method shown here. My…

Smoke & CO Alarms in California

In my search to add wired smoke and smoke/CO alarms I found a 10 year battery requirement, yet Home Depot was selling a 4 pack of Kidde Smoke alarms and a single Kidde Smoke/CO Combo Detector that did not have a 10 year battery. This confused me so I started searching to make sure I…

Power Toys Configurations

I installed power toys because I wanted different Display split options, aka FancyZones. I thought it would add or replace the existing Display zoning options, but it doesn’t (Or I haven’t spent enough time to figure out how to use it.) Unfortunately, it added some annoyances for me. Startup – in progress The first is…

Dashlane Issue – Solved

After a Chrome browser update Dashlane starting acting differently on one of my chrome profiles – this was annoying and a potential security issue. The issue I was having was not due to the design of Dashlane, but rather an issue of User Experience caused by some odd issue. This is a security hole because…

My Old House

My house was built in the early 40s and it has Plaster with Rock Lathe. The Plaster and Lathe is about 1″ thick so normal anchors don’t work because the gap between the screwhead and the toggle needs to be large enough for the toggles to be able to engage. I learned this after some…

Quicken Classic B&P: Making a Loan

I have a Self Directed IRA that I make loans out of, and I like to keep track of them. Fortunately Quicken allows you to “Make” a loan, but it isn’t well documented. There are still a few things I haven’t figured out, but I figured I’d put this out to help anyone who wants…

ftdibus.sys driver preventing Windows 11 Memory Integrity

Due to a program I’ve installed for a project my Windows 11 machine was no longer to protect the memory, and I finally did some work to remove the issue. The issue was a ftdibus.sys driver installed by one of the tools for device I use in projects. I’ve never removed a .sys file before,…

TIL parking my WK2 on a slope can result in QL2 ‘kneeling’

tl;dr – if your vehicle is kneeling intermittently, try parking it on a slope and see if it happens more frequently. I have a ’15 EcoDiesel Overland that I got with 42k miles on it and it now has 89k miles on it, It has the beloved QL2, which I like. I had some issues…

Use Name of Tab in a Cell

I found something that would allow me to use the name of tab in a cell to make some of my work easier =MID(CELL(“filename”,C1),FIND(“]”,CELL(“filename”,C1))+1,255) Surprisingly, I found it on the Mircosoft answers site! https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/making-cell-equal-tab-name/06486c8c-a1d9-4f2b-ba17-cf147161353c

Multiline footer in Word

I have a document that has a multiline footer that contains information that needs to remain on the document, but it wasn’t robust enough to handle the latest filenames and other required information, so I googled my way to success. I’m still not an AI fan for my questions because it usually takes more time…

regex notes

Searching in Notepad++