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Moving a VHD (disk image) between Azure Storage accounts with x-plat CLI

Sep 30, 2016 3 min read how-to

I’ve discovered I’ve accidentally created a VHD in a Premium storage account, so I wanted to migrate it into a standard one. (Premium data are stored on SSDs and much more

Windows 10 video playback broken after the Anniversary update - solution

Aug 16, 2016 1 min read how-to

Sometime last year I got frustrated by my system’s apparent inability to play web videos. Back then, it had turned out to be my fault (no surprise there) – I hadn’t realized

Discord - a new voice and text messaging platform.

Jul 13, 2016 4 min read tools

Discord’s [https://discordapp.com/] tagline is quite bold: “All-in-one voice and text chat for gamers that’s free, secure, and works on both your desktop and phone. Stop paying for

Data and Goliath, by Bruce Schneier

May 19, 2016 1 min read books

I’d recommend Bruce Schneier’s book Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World to anyone who uses (or comes in contact with) any electronic devices.

csv-to-sqlite - copying from CSV files to a SQLite database

May 4, 2016 2 min read tools

csv-to-sqlite is a command line tool that **takes CSV files and dumps their contents into a SQLite database**. The basic gist: for each file, the script creates a database table with the same name, tries to guess the data type, then copies all the data into the database.