At home I have a Sonos system. It’s probably the best of any device that I have owned in terms of quality, usability and sheer happiness. The Sonos system has been working just fine for many years. It just works! Recently I was fortunate enough to get a direct fiber into my house. Needless to say this triggered me to update my home network. Part of this upgrade was to install Ubiquiti long range access points for better performance and coverage as well as a new firewall. After this network upgrade Sonos system then started to behave strangely which brings me to the reason for this post! ...

This is a list I ran across on the Internet. I’ve kept it as a draft for some time but felt it is worth sharing, so here it is: Missing someone… Call! Wanna meet up… Invite! Wanna be understood… Explain! Have a question… Ask! Don’t like something… Say it Like something… State it! Want something… Ask for it! Love someone… Tell them! Nobody will know what is going on in your mind. ...

The other day I needed to generate some 1400+ new user passwords. Being a lazy person I figured that PowerShell could rescue me. This is what I did to check that my idea worked: PS C:\> Add-Type -AssemblyName "System.Web" PS C:\> [System.Web.Security.Membership]::GeneratePassword(10,2) 35&OjFtM^k As you can see this generates a password that is 10 characters in length and contains at least 2 non-alphanumeric characters. Now all I needed was to iterate this 1400 times and then output the result to the clipboard, simple as pie: ...