Category Archives: Technical

So Pebble is bought by Fitbit. The Kickstarter is done. The Pebble Time watch that my wife bought me is now officially UNsupported. The good news is, there's Rebble.io. A volunteer-run substitution for Pebble. The site offers all the apps … Continue reading →

Solution: SHIFT-F10 for command prompt, then type: explorer.exe After that, task bar should appear for restart purpose. But in my case, system began to restart before task bar even shows up.

This can be bypassed by clicking on the Advanced button at the bottom of the message page. However, in many cases, this is due to expired SSL certification or that the certification needs update. Check the error message.

It seems that when browsing Sharepoint Online files for more than 5000 items, it will break and say "The server is busy now. Try again later..." A solution I could think of is to do OneDrive sync with a local … Continue reading →

This appears to be causing some panic at my company lately. Spoof mails (usually sending as recipient's address) claiming to be a darknet hacker and sometimes revealing passwords of users asking for bitcoin payment. It seems that this is related … Continue reading →

All SMTP servers basically work this way. This can be done using the freeware PuTTY. Telnet to server & port: (bold types are user input) 220 BY2NAM03FT048.mail.protection.outlook.com Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Wed, 3 Oct 2018 23:54:21 +0000 ehlo … Continue reading →

Problem: When a user is given a shared mailbox, that mailbox should automatically appear in the user's Outlook client right under the user's folder in the left panel, within a couple of hours if not minutes. But some users never … Continue reading →

I have an entry that lists all SAS resources (Questions) that is a great resource for training. Here, I will start with installing SAS programming environment. The SAS site offers free University version.