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New Train Driver At Manukau Live Steamers

Manukau Live Steamers, https://manukaulivesteamers.co.nz/ at Centre Park on Robertsons Road Mangere are a great place to go for some fun out for the kids. This club “was formed in 1980 to build a ground level track so members that were building miniature locomotives would have a track on which to run their locos.“ Adults and… read more…
Creating a Weaver Slider in WordPress

As a user of the Weaver WordPress theme I have moved to using the Weaver sliders in my posts. This is how to create a slider. Click on “Add Media”: Then: select the images you want, remember if you want to select multiple images use <ctrl><left click> Select “Create Gallery” and then click on “Create… read more…
Date Problems Converting A Dictionary To JSON

If you want to convert a dictionary object to JSON you would use something like: myJSON = json.dumps(myDict, indent=4, sort_keys=True) read more…
Reduce audio noise without video loss

I have a Nikon Coolpix S7000 compact camera that I use for most things. Its showing it’s age and it would be nice to replace it – one day. The other day I learned a painful lesson, this camera has terrible audio, specifically it adds a lot of hiss to recordings. I was using it… read more…
Replacing a system disk in Open Media Vault

Fortunately Open Media Vault, OMV, emails warnings when disks are failing. This is also true for the system disk. I have been getting warnings my old system disk is failing and this is what I did to fix it. First shutdown the PC and disconnect the RAID disks – just to ensure you don’t do… read more…
Persisting Azure Pipeline Variables

Azure pipelines are great, but a frustration is how to persist variables through phases in build and release pipelines. For two tasks running in the same agent phase you can pass variables a number of ways. If it is a Windows host you can do it through PowerShell or the O/S, otherwise you can drop… read more…
Scanning a booklet without an ugly crease

When you try to scan a thick booklet or a book you can often get the above ugly crease around the staples when you try to lay the booklet flat. Less than desirable, the question is how to remove the crease mark. While you can remove the crease after scanning this may not work so… read more…
Getting your YouTube videos in full HD

Have you noticed that you can upload a full HD video to YouTube and it’s great quality but when you watch it on YouTube the quality is rubbish. The likely problem is that YouTube is not displaying it in the resolution you uploaded, sometimes quite a low resolution. Google: Low video quality after upload https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/71674?hl=en… read more…
Diwali 2018 at Spark NZ

Diwali is such great fun and the Indian community at Spark are so enthusiastic and welcoming. The energy and variety is fantastic, Well done fall of you, I know you put in the long hours practicing the dancing and it shows. Can’t wait for next year. Simon Moutter and Claire Barber had some good… read more…
Network browsing broken with Windows 10 build 1809

I have a relatively new install of Windows 10 and it is currently running build 1809 and do you think I can get it to browse to a network share. If I do the standard thing of typing in a host name into file explorer as “\\nas2” it should bring me back all the available… read more…