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• Webb telescope – Secondary mirror fully deployed

  Posted on January 5, 2022 at 15:01 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  If you’ve been following the James Webb telescope saga, you’ll know that they are so far… so good.

  The sunshield has been deployed and now the secondary mirror deployment is completed.

  Too bad the Nasa folks can’t code up Windows updates, ‘eh?

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• It’s nearly 2022

  Posted on December 31, 2021 at 17:40 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  At least for me in my time zone, I have a few hours left. For those of you downunder you are already there.

  2021 has had it’s moments. I’m proud of this site and everyone who participates. We’re ending it on a bit of an odd note with the news that actress Betty White has passed away at nearly 100.  Geekdom had a great post the other day and I hope everyone takes the time to read it and contemplate what you’d like to add to his list.

  Again thank you all for helping us close 2021 and open up 2022. Here’s to the new year!

  To close a bit of YoYo Ma from his twitter account.

  Yo-Yo Ma on Twitter: “Wishing you all a happy 2022. https://t.co/AgX2JRP4Y9” / Twitter

  Click on the link above and enjoy his fabulous talent.

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• Tasks for the weekend – December 25, 2021

  Posted on December 25, 2021 at 19:41 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  So what are my tasks for THIS weekend?  Well if you got a brand new geek device the first thing you should do is turn it on and update it. Because EVERYTHING you purchase these days needs an immediate firmware update.

  But if you didn’t get a new geek thing? My task for you is to turn off the technology and relax tonight. Take a stroll around your neighborhood and look at the Christmas lights. Drink a cup of egg nog or hot chocolate.  Wherever you are, whatever you do, have a wonderful day today and from all of us at Askwoody, thank you to all of you for supporting this endeavor!

  Everyone have a happy and safe Holiday season!

  (remember the newsletter comes out tomorrow!)

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• Twas the night before (tech edition)

  Posted on December 24, 2021 at 20:19 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  With a hat tip to Kevin Moradi on the Churchmag site

  To you and yours, I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday (and don’t forget to get up early to watch the Telescope take off!)

  

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• We’re tracking the telescope this year!

  Posted on December 22, 2021 at 00:15 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  Looks like rather than tracking Santa, we’ll be tracking the launch of the telescope on Christmas day.

  NASA Webb Telescope on Twitter: “Due to adverse weather conditions at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, the James Webb Space Telescope’s launch is postponed from Dec. 24 to no earlier than Dec. 25. A weather forecast will be issued tomorrow to confirm this date: https://t.co/JCxIuDuCgJ #UnfoldTheUniverse https://t.co/c6v2UK2ZuL” / Twitter

  The James Webb telescope launch was supposed to be on December 24 and now won’t go out until December 25th.

  Keep an eye out for launch!  Of course if you still want to track Santa, Norad will still be there to provide the details.

   

   

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• Happy Birthday to Richard!

  Posted on September 6, 2021 at 23:56 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  Happy Birthday to AskWoody reader Richard who got gifted a surprise Plus membership by his Sister, Janet!

  Here’s a bunch of virtual birthday candles wishing you a wonderful birthday from all of us at AskWoody.  And thank you to Janet for reaching out to me so we could surprise him!

  

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• Slow file copy

  Posted on January 22, 2021 at 22:32 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  I’m setting up a new Server 2019 with HyperV and I’m reminded of something I did on the LAST Server 2019 that I set up.

  I disable RSS on the server  by typing into PowerShell the following command:  netsh int tcp set global RSS=Disabled

  And then Disable-NetAdapterRsc -Name (and then you put in the name of your Ethernet connection)

  Now for that second command you need to make it easy on yourself by renaming the name of the Ethernet connection so you don’t have to type a huge line into the command. When I went googling for the exact command I realized that while I don’t do this command on my workstations, I DO indeed do this command on my servers. There is a detailed write up on this blog about this command and it walks you through the process of identifying if your network connection is impacted by RSC.

  So what is RSC?  A technology that is SUPPOSED to make things better/faster.  I’ve found that at least when your server is supposed to do file sharing, it does better when it’s off.

  The underlying issue (as I understand it) comes down to drivers. For me, I needed to turn this off. On desktops running the latest Windows 10 and reasonably up to date drivers I have not needed to use this command to impact wifi  speed on my workstations.

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• 2021 has arrived

  Posted on December 31, 2020 at 20:00 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  (well for some…. for me not quite)

  Well we almost have made it.  It is …or nearly is… 2021.

  I’ve seen some of the fireworks displays of other countries – hopefully these links work for everyone?

  Auckland fireworks

  Sydney fireworks

  Taipei fireworks

  Dubai fireworks

  Paris fireworks

  England fireworks and drone show

  New York

  Las Vegas

  Los Angeles

  Here’s to a better 2021 for everyone from all of us here at Askwoody.com

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• Twas the night before 2020 style

  Posted on December 25, 2020 at 01:05 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  Depending on where you live it’s either the night before or the day of Christmas.  I hope you will have or have had a wonderful day where ever you are.  Here’s hoping that all of your technology worked, your Christmas lights were all lit up, and more than anything else, you and your loved ones are hanging in there even if we can’t be as much together as we want to this year.

  The other night, Dolly Parton sang a song on her Christmas special that resonated with me because of this year.  Have a listen to the song here   (*) and more importantly read the lyrics here.

  This has been such an unusual year that I just want to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you and especially thank Woody for starting this site.  I want to thank him for entrusting me to continue on with what he started.  I know I’m looking forward to 2021 and I hope you are too!

  Again thank you for all that you do here on Askwoody.com.

  “I believe to my very core we’ll walk again in the sunshine by the seashore
  That we’ll dance and we’ll sing and be happy again
  Don’t know how or when
  But we will again
  You’ll see ….”

  (*) If you can’t view the video from that link, try this one instead.  (thank you E in the comments for the link to one that works in Belgium)

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• Arecibo Observatory Tower collapse

  Posted on December 3, 2020 at 16:04 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  Off topic post for the day – wow what a view of when the radio observatory collapsed.

  There was a drone inspecting the Tower 4 Cables when the collapse started so we get a close up on the cables breaking, check the second video segment. pic.twitter.com/Qw37Z5byWg

  — Scott Manley (@DJSnM) December 3, 2020

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• Today is…. uh…

  Posted on November 13, 2020 at 11:44 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  I kinda agree.  Let’s stay safe out here.

  Happy Friday the 13th, 2020. Not that I'm superstitious or anything, but if you need me I'm hiding under the table for the rest of the day.

  — Jesper Johansson (@jjdives) November 13, 2020

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• Patch Lady – what’s a GUID

  Posted on October 9, 2020 at 21:56 CDT by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  So the other day Microsoft indicated that they will be slightly changing the release notes – better known as knowledge base or KB’s as we often call them.

  The KB ID will now be in the link and there will be a new thing in it that will look a little strange.

  It’s called a GUID or Globally Unique Identifier.  This is a unique number or value that is used to identify something.  You can actually generate your own for various things.

  It is a 128-bit integer number used to identify resources. The term GUID is generally used by developers working with Microsoft technologies, while UUID is used everywhere else.

  Bottom line if starting next week when we get the October updates you see a funky thing like “b8a2d0c6-a297-4ed2-b59b-9ccc0ad35eca” on the last part of the URL (or uniform resource locator), just be aware that this is new.

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