Some Notes on the Machines

Here are two well-reputed. MediCat:

https://gbatemp.net/threads/medicat-dvd-a-multiboot-linux-dvd.361577/

and Gandalf’s:

http://windowsmatters.com/2015/11/05/updated-gandalfs-windows-10-x86-pe/

If you have access to the console and the machine runs GRUB or something similar, reset of a password is easy. Just interrupt the boot before kernel load (hit the Tab key if it really is GRUB you have there), edit the kernel load line, and add the following to the very end:

init=/bin/bash

Then boot that kernel load line (F10 in GRUB) and the machine will come up in single-user ‘bash’ shell, and you can run ‘passwd’.

I imagine some readers are aware, and probably many suspect, that Wikipedia editorship has been taking large numbers of valuable articles out of commission in the last year or two, and refusing publication of many others, for widely questioned reasons. Happily, well-equipped others have noticed, and have set up a replacement:

http://everipedia.org

It has everything Wikipedia does (Wikipedia licensing requires permission to copy), plus more and more.

Here is a way, using an XML file and a registry hack:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/kristinw/2013/04/19/controlling-outlook-autodiscover-behavior/

I just tried several, including my old friend Inkscape. Gradient editing is broken partly or completely, and/or far arcane and undocumented, in everything I tried, except one new one:

http://designer.io

Gravit Designer. Install it as a program on major platforms, or use it online, or both. Amazingly good.

If there is a Canon MFP, and the desire is to implement user codes, you need more than just a driver. You need the current UFR II sort of driver, and very significantly, you need something called the “Canon Driver Information Assist Service”. This is in the “misc” folder in the driver package, it’s called DIAS for short. This is a service which makes network user codes flow from desktop to server to MFP. Without it, you will get errors as user code lookup attempts fail.

Set of steps here, worked very well just now:

https://evotec.xyz/exchange-2013-powershell-errors-out-and-exchange-2013-ecp-doesnt-work-correctly/

Here is a very powerful tool, very automatic:

https://diagnostics.office.com/#/Download?env=SOC&theme=setup

It has many functions, one of which is to automatically fix Office 365 licensing issues, reinstalling if it detects a need. It’s a 36M download, but during the install it may download twice that or more to get libraries it needs.

https://sourceforge.net/speedtest/

Best I’ve found so far:

http://nssm.cc/download