phil's blog

Update 06/2025: I don't know when but Schema.org and subseqently Google, both recognize Back Ordered as a status now. Their implementation is that Back Ordered means a product should be on it's way back to the store where-as Out Of Stock means the product has no ETA. Time has passed since I originally wrote this, I've slept and moved onto more pressing things. I'm now in the boat of "Whatever" and no longer care about the logistics of how the words are used by the "internet gods" that enforce them.

Have you ever needed to pause the ajax loading throbber on your Drupal (or other) site for styling purposes?

If you're fairly new to using a browsers inspector, it can be a little intimidating to figure out how to first pause it when it kicks off and second, style it once you get it paused. It's actually quite easy though and I'll show you how! This is done in Google Chrome, but other browsers like Firefox should probably be fairly similar.

Usually I have time to go into lots of fluff about the topic at hand, but today I don't.

If you have a newer Intel processor with the Intel Turbo Boost Max 3.0 Technology with an annoying window that stays open every time you start windows (it "should" disappear on its own), let's try a few fixes to resolve it. Note, uninstalling probably won't do you any good because it will automatically re-install itself.

Fix #1)
The first fix is pretty easy and the one that worked for me.

Create .reg file and paste, save, then execute:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU]
"NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers"=dword:00000001
"NoAutoUpdate"=dword:00000000
"AUOptions"=dword:00000002
"ScheduledInstallDay"=dword:00000000
"ScheduledInstallTime"=dword:00000003
"ScheduledInstallEveryWeek"=dword:00000001

Notes

AUOptions

I recently had the "fun" of working on a Dell Latitude E6400 and getting Windows 10 installed on it. Surprisingly, that computer for its age, doesn't do half bad on Windows 10 once you throw a decent SSD into it.

One thing I noticed from the get-go, was that the touchpad was extremely wonky, even during the Windows PE or Windows 10 installation environment. I simply installed an external mouse to get past the problem of installation and figured I would see how it did once fully booted into Windows.

Update 08-12-2021: Google (finally) did their domains.google makeover sometime in 2021 and I honestly haven't had a chance to dive into this problem to see if it still exists. This page may be officially outdated.

The Dell Latitude 5580 and Dell Latitude 5590 are pretty decent business laptops for the money. Out of the box, they come with one of two options for hard drives, either an M.2 SSD (SATA or NVME) option or a traditional 2.5" spindle drive.

cPanel is like the Windows of website hosting platforms. It's got a great GUI to click around on, lots of power under the hood but rarely "just works".

It seems like you always have to muck with the most mundane stuff in order to make cPanel work right and they've added yet another thing to muck with: AutoSSL Renewal.

These instructions assume pfSense or OPNSense is installed. Since the two platforms are basically identical save for the web interface, the information is pretty well interchangeable between the two platforms.

There's a lot of folks who say "Don't use the nic in the computer as a switch!! go buy a switch if you need a switch!". I'll agree if you're using a 266Mhz computer from 2000, but if you've got a computer with a core i5 or something, set it up as "a switch" and forget about it. It's why you bought the 4 port card amiright?

At some point, you decided to use the Bootstrap CDN starterkit theme provided by the Bootstrap Drupal Theme. You probably ran across a google pagespeed of your site, and they told you to get rid of those external loading files like bootstrap.min.css and bootstrap.min.js.

Going back to your site, you changed the CDN delivery method to "None" and reloaded your site, only to watch in the horror of expectations that the theme just blew up... So you go back and quickly turn on the CDN, refreshed and sighed a big relief.