I’m trying to migrate away from Dropbox to Syncthing. In the process, I’ve hit a small snag. It seems that, in my Dropbox folder, two of the folders contain a file called Iconr where r is, bizarrely, the carriage return character. Problem is, this is invalid on Windows, so Syncthing […]
Daily Archives: April 10, 2026
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I want to build an ASUS NUC 15 Pro i3 mini PC with 8GB of RAM. Now I’m faced with the following dilemma: The memory hardware compatibility list lists various 8GB modules. However, the manual (first download button) contains the following note on page 27: NOTE: 2 Gb, 4 Gb, […]
I have an HPE Smart Array P440ar controller. Originally I had a 4x SSD RAID 10 array and everything was working correctly. I then tried to expand the array by adding 2 more SSDs so that I could later increase the capacity. Unfortunately, those two SSDs turned out to be […]
A few days ago a friend brought me her laptop, with her files/documents seriously messed up. She broke up with her boyfriend 2 weeks ago and he took it badly. It wasn’t after he had left that she realized her laptop was still in his apartment. He returned the laptop […]
The 7-Zip command is failing to extracting some archives, even though they appear to be valid and they can be opened in other ways. Running this at a PowerShell prompt: .7r.exe x .strawberry-perl5.42.2.1-64bit-portable.zip gives the error message “Cannot open the file as archive”. That’s this Zip file. It also happens […]