Frank Contrepois

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How to change the timezone on Windows 10 when the UI fails

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Changing the timezone should not be complicated! There is a nice user interface, with a list of timezones, I pick the one I need, click sync time and … it fails. The old timezone is back and the time on my laptop is wrong! So how to force (in this case brute force works) Windows to change the timezone. Simple we will use powershell Find Powershell and run as Administrator Find the id for your current timezone PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-TimeZone -ListAvailable Read more...

video editing made simple

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Hello, sharing that since I discovered Camtasia I am really having fun going back to my roots of being a shared of knowledge Read more...

[Tech] An error occurred (InternalFailure) when calling the ListDataSources operation (reached max retries: 2): None

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Is it just me or the AWS Quicksight API call to list data sources is broken? For the last few weeks I am getting $ aws quicksight list-data-sources \-\-aws-account-id 1234566789012 \-\-region eu-west-1 An error occurred (InternalFailure) when calling the ListDataSources operation (reached max retries: 2): None Tested today with aws-cli/2.1.36 Python/3.8.8 Linux/5.4.72-microsoft-standard-WSL2 exe/x86_64.ubuntu.20 prompt/off Read more...