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Sat, Feb 14, 2026 7:02 pm
Changing the time zone on a Microsoft Windows system from the command line
The timezone on a Microsoft Windows system can be changed from the
command line
by
opening a command prompt window
with administrator privileges and then typing
timedate.cpl and
hitting
Enter, which opens a window where you can alter the
timezone or you can use the
tzutil utility to
change the time zone using a command of the form
tzutil /s
"TimeZone" where
TimeZone is the appropriate time zone
identifier, e.g.,
tzutil /s "Eastern Standard Time".
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Fri, Feb 13, 2026 9:45 pm
Installing OpenSSH Server software on a Windows 10 system with PowerShell
OpenSSH Server for
Windows 10 requires at
least Windows 10 (build 1809).
You can determine the build number for Windows 10 by typing winver
in the Windows "Type here to search" field at the bottom of the screen or
at a
PowerShell prompt. Or
you can use the
systeminfo utility and pipe it's output into the
findstr command, filtering
on the line that has "OS" at the beginning of the line and also "Version" in
the line.
PS C:\> systeminfo | findstr -B "OS" | findstr "Version"
OS Version: 10.0.19045 N/A Build 19045
PS C:\>
The SSH Client software may already be installed. You can determine if
it is already installed by opening a PowerShell prompt and typing
ssh. If it is installed, as it was on the Windows 10 Professional
Version 22H2 (OS Build 19045.6466) system on which I wanted to set up
the OpenSSH Server software, you will see a response like the following one:
PS C:\> ssh
usage: ssh [-46AaCfGgKkMNnqsTtVvXxYy] [-B bind_interface] [-b bind_address]
[-c cipher_spec] [-D [bind_address:]port] [-E log_file]
[-e escape_char] [-F configfile] [-I pkcs11] [-i identity_file]
[-J destination] [-L address] [-l login_name] [-m mac_spec]
[-O ctl_cmd] [-o option] [-P tag] [-p port] [-Q query_option]
[-R address] [-S ctl_path] [-W host:port] [-w local_tun[:remote_tun]]
destination [command [argument ...]]
PS C:\>
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Sun, Feb 08, 2026 4:29 pm
Checking an NVMe drive's status in Ubuntu Linux with nvme-cli
You can check the health of a
NVM Express (NVMe)
drive on an Ubuntu Linux
system using the nvme-cli
command-line
interface (CLI) application. The description for the package is as follows:
NVMe management command line interface
nvme-cli is a NVMe management command line interface. NVM Express™
(NVMe™) is a specification defining how host software communicates with
non-volatile memory across a PCI Express® (PCIe®) bus. It is the industry
standard for PCIe solid state drives (SSDs) in all form factors (U.2,
M.2, AIC, EDSFF).
You can install nvme-cli throught the App Center on a Ubuntu Linux
system.
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Fri, Feb 06, 2026 3:36 pm
Downloading YouTube videos on a Windows system with yt-dlp
YouTube recently
changed its website (around January 4, 2026) so that programs that worked in
the past for downloading YouTube videos, such as
StreamFab,
no longer work. My wife and I like to archive YouTube videos we find that
have useful information we might wish to refer to again in the future,
since we've sometimes found that when we try to view them again on
YouTube that a channel where they were posted has disappeared along with
all its videos. We have a YouTube premium subscription, which allows
one to download videos, but they are stored in a blob file where they
are not accessible to programs we use to view videos and there is no
guarantee they will remain accessible even in YouTube's limited offline
viewing method when a channel disappears. So we were very perturbed that
YouTube has now made it very difficult to archive videos. StreamFab has been
working very well for my wife and is easy to use, but I needed to look
for an alternative for her. A couple of sites that still work that
allow one to download YouTube videos are listed below, but downloading
through those websites is slower and she found that for fairly large
videos the downloads would fail.
https://ytdown.to/en2/
https://v6.www-y2mate.com/
Since I had WinPython, a
free and
open-source version of the
Python programming language installed on a Windows laptop and she is
using a Windows 11 system at the moment, though she wants to switch to
Linux, I decided to try
the yt-dlp
Python program that allows one to download YouTube videos from a
command-line
interface (CLI).
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Mon, Feb 02, 2026 10:07 pm
Adding the capability to save webpages as a single file to Firefox
The
Firefox
web browser does not have the capability to save the
contents of a webpage to a single file, such as an
MHTML file,
which is a web archive file format that allows one to save
the
HTML
code, images etc. on a webpage into a single file.
Though the capability is absent from Firefox, you can add the
functionality of saving a page to a single file by installing
Save
Page WE, an
add-on for Firefox by
DW-dev.
The
extension provides the capability to "Save a complete web page
(as currently displayed) as a single HTML file that can be opened
in any browser. Save a single page, multiple selected pages or
a list of page URLs. Automate saving from command line." The
saved file is not an MHTML file, or one of the other common
web
archiving file formats, but it is a single HTML file that Firefox
and other browsers can read. Save Page WE is implemented using the
WebExtensions API and is available for both Firefox and
Chrome with
identical functions and user interfaces.
[ More Info ]
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Sun, Feb 01, 2026 3:27 pm
Viewing Payment Details for a Loan in the Desktop Version of Quicken
If you automatically update a loan's balance by downloading transactions
from a bank's website, when you click on "Payment Details" in the Windows
Classic Business & Personal desktop version of Quicken, you won't
be able to actually view details on payments, such as the amount of
principal and interest paid for each transaction. You can change the loan
account's settings in Quicken to stop automatically updating the account
by right-clicking on the account and then selecting "Edit/Delete account"
then clicking on the "Online Services" tab and then clicking on the
"Deactivate" button in the online setup portion of the window. When asked
"Would you like to deactivate this service?", click on "Yes". You can
then close the "Account Details" window. Then, when you choose "Payment
Details", you should see the individual transactions for the account and
you will be able to modify the opening balance, principal and interest
for payments, if needed. If you then want to transfer money from another
account, such as a checking account, as a payment on the loan, you may
not see the account listed as one of the transfer options in the dropdown
list for transfers, but if you type the account name in the Category field
exactly as it appears in the account list and then hit the
Tab
key, the amount you specify will be transferred to the loan account.
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