Coburn's online journal featuring thoughts, opinions of a programmer upside down in the Southern Hemisphere.
When you’re working in IT and doing computer repairs, sometimes when you are sourcing parts – in this case a 512 GB SATA SSD – you come across lesser-known branded drives that are cheaper than the named brands like Samsung, Kingston, Crucial, et al. Amazon was offering a Prime discount on the ORICO Y20 SATA…
Ugh, here we go again – more browser privacy drama. This time it’s the fox on fire, Firefox, in the spotlight over Mozilla recently changing their Privacy Policy. You can read about this on the Ars Technica article that I’ve linked here. Mozilla used to be a company that looked after your privacy and valued…
Invoice Ninja is a great self-hosted invoicing software written in PHP utilizing the Laravel Web Application Framework and uses SnapPDF for its invoice generation. I use a moderately modified version of the software to tackle my invoicing needs. Overall, it works well mostly. I recently had to reinstall one of my production servers due to…
I use the wonderful PM2 process manager to handle processes on my Linux servers. Sometimes though, I’ll get a weird error about “N/A” not being a valid version string when running NET Core applications.
From time to time, AliExpress sends me emails that show off some really nice deals. One said deal was 30% off a FENVI-branded USB 3.0 WiFi 6 Adapter. I decided to check it out and order one unit. The unit arrived after a bit of an extended wait due to the Chinese Lunar New Year….
I forgot to write about this earlier but I will admit that I have had second thoughts in ripping off Microsoft Edge from Windows 10 or 11. Instead, it’s probably better to leave it installed but disable its automatic updates executable, which I detail in my guide for this. Why the change of heart? I…
If you’ve followed my guide to purge Microsoft Edge off your Windows installation, sometimes you may notice that it’ll come back uninvited. Luckily, I have figured out how to stick a gag into it and tell it to bugger off. The Remedy Firstly, check to see if the MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe file exists in a specific folder…
Microsoft doesn’t let you do this because their shitty Chromium-based browser is a “vital component of the operating system”, but with some brute force, Edge will be no more. And it actually works – this ain’t clickbait!
So… we’re back and here’s the results of the testing of the AliExpress Choice MicroSD Cards. These were XrayDisk-branded, which has been a good brand with some SSDs I got from them in the past. Surprisingly, they are genuine and unlike the fake 256GB/512GB KRY-branded MicroSDs some time ago, they actually have a good read…
These just arrived in my mailbox today. Are they legit, or are they fakes? Stay tuned for some tests…