SATA drive not detected in Windows or Disk Management but shows in BIOS
Today I purchased a new SATA drive to replace a lower capacity version. The model I purchased was Kingston A400 Solid State Drive 400GB To my horror, the disk did…
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#Cancelled
Call it schadenfreude, but I am glad that Hollywood has eaten one of it’s own! This week news came through that Ellen Degeneres has cancelled her long running talk show….
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Hitting the reset button
This week I will have completed my 7th hike in 7 weeks. Perhaps the COVID situation and lack of routine, especially in regards to the structure of office life has…
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Covid 2020 and beyond
Not many of us would have predicted that 2020 would start off as a once in a century plague that essentially crippled the world. Unlike Halley’s Comet -which was another…
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Mutual SSL authentication
Introduction When the web was in it’s infancy, data security was of little concern. Businesses were still trying to figure out what the web could be used for beyond a…
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Gillette: Making men their best?
The new Gilette ad that has been doing the rounds on the internet has been creating quite a stir. I don’t need to describe it, but in broad strokes it…
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Docker: Access to DialectResolutionInfo cannot be null when ‘hibernate.dialect’ not set
I came across this problem when dockerizing a Springboot application. A number of people have also come across this issue and the answers given weren’t all that helpful. com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.jdbc4.CommunicationsException: Communications…
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What happens to old data?
Of all the buzzwords in IT “Big Data” is one that irks me the most. There has always been the concept of large volumes of data (think banking) before we…
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