It seems now that Microsoft Edge is able to provide the PDF file preview in windows explorer. I have done nothing, could it be that an automatic update to Microsoft Edge is magically providing preview?
I have the Edge browser set as the default viewer for PDF files.
Look at this screenshot. The file is open in PDF file preview in Explorer.
HAPPY!!
(Adobe Acrobat Reader under Windows 11 ARM does not support this)
It is taking quite some getting used to the difference between the old surface pen from a Surface Pro 7 and the new Slim Pen 2 with the Surface Pro 11.
Slim Pen 2 definitely feels a bit plasticky and junky in your hand compared to the much more substantial Surface Pen c. 2017.
I am not liking the slippery feel of “plastic on plastic”, making the experience feel much less premium.
Turning on the haptic feedback does fool me a bit into thinking there is some texture there.
Sadly power toys is listed as supporting ARM, but the PDF file preview in explorer does not work.
biggest annoyance so far – Acrobat Reader ARM64 will not render file previews in windows explorer preview pane.
I uninstalled acrobat reader instantly. What a bloated crock. Edge opens PDFs so much faster.
Going to use extra large icons in explorer instead.
This is a major pain for how I like to use Windows.
Adobe, get your skates on.
Update 13th August 2024.
It seems now that Microsoft Edge is able to provide the PDF file preview in windows explorer. I have done nothing, could it be that an automatic update to Microsoft Edge is magically providing preview?
Look at this screenshot. The file is open in PDF file preview in Explorer.
HAPPY!!
Just wanted to create another post out there to confirm that you can easily use Netgear Orbi to be the main internet router on the iiNet/TPG NBN Fibre To The Premise (FTTP) service. You do not need to purchase another device to connect to the ethernet port on the FTTP NBN Fibre Modem.
Not only is it a great direct to NBN modem, but the wireless mesh is fast and reliable. No username or password is needed on the orbi, just plug it in, default values for VLAN tagging and PPPoE are just fine.
It even supports wired backhaul from the satellite to the main modem.
Indeed iiNet has now listed the RBK50 as a viable non-iiNet Modem for FTTP
She is working a charm at my place. In fact I am able to get very close to the theoretical maximim 990 MBps (yes!) when using a wired PC and the iiNet Ultrafast service. The web pages arrive *before* you click on them 🙂
Its seems that you can run https://sendy.co on Siteground’s Cloud service. Previously the cron and CPU restrictions from Siteground made sendy difficult to run.
I have moved my installation of sendy from an AWS EC2 tiny instance to my newly upgraded (and 20% more expensive) cloud service on Siteground.
I love Siteground, and have been with them for over 10 years. Everything they do is to make their service better for their customers. Not so excited about how much they now charge for their cloud service though. That being said, I do get 4 CPUs, 8 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD which is not too shabby.
Anyway here is what needed to be configured. I created a new subdomain, transferred across the mysql database, installed sendy and configured the cron scripts.
The cron configuration is located under DEVS in the beautiful new SG SiteTools.
To make the sendy scripts run every 5 minutes, you can paste the cron schedule string “*/5 * * * *” into the form and it senses automatically that this means every 5 minutes. Just set the Interval to Set Manually.
Whilst I could get 50 emails a second from the N. Virginia located EC2.tiny, the SG server in Iowa is slower to send to Amazon’s SES servers, more like 10 per second effective send rate. Whilst this is a lot slower, it is more convenient to have all my services in one location.
I’m still proving that the emails were actually delivered. Sendy says that 5804 emails were sent to the SES servers, but my SES status page says only 1958 emails have been sent in the last 24 hours. I seems to be missing a few of my honeypot emails as well.
Stay tuned.
Siteground have since migrated to Google Cloud Services to host all of their infrastructure, so the path names have changed and usernames to login with ssh.
I seem to be able to maintain a solid 20 emails per second with the SG cloud server which is enough for me.
So overall it is good news that send and siteground look to be ok.
Finally I can try Google’s RCS replacement for SMS. Belong enabled the feature so I can try it out. SMS is so last decade.
So I can see messages being sent, arriving and being read. Huzzah
OK, if I factory defaulted the Play:1, connected direct to router with ethernet. Configure the Wireless Password while connected using the ethernet, then remove the ethernet cable and reset, it now DOES login to the Orbi WiFi and I can stream again.
Halelujah!
Until the next time it won’t login again of couse.
Not sure if I had to default the config or not, but am glad I seem to have a solution.
I’m really happy with the performance of my new mesh WiFi setup. It gives me awesome WiFi coverage of my entire property. See my posts here and here. What I’m not so hot on, though is the issue that keeps arising with my Sonos Play:1 getting into a state where it will not join the Orbi WiFi network.
You connect to the Sonos Play:1’s configuration WiFi, and supply the credentials for the Orbi WiFi, but you get a continual password incorrect error.
I was in this state when I first upgraded to my new Netgear Orbi mesh WiFi. Immediately I could not connect to the new WiFi. Then a few weeks later I tried again and I could connect and had a few weeks of useful operation. Can you think that I remember what part of the configuration reset I performed? Sadly no. It was not a factory reset because the Sonos has retained my favourites and playlists that I have saved there in the past.
I powered the Sonos off and on a few times as I moved it round the house, and it seems it has lost some part of the configuration that allowed it to connect to the WiFi. I also updated to Sonos S2 which might also have triggered my issue.
Sadly, as is often the case, searching the online forms is frustrating with lots of useless advice and repeat copies of the same fluff. No one who had this problem seems to be able to provide a workable solution.
Trying the cabled connection directly to the Orbi does not help, neither did a factory reset. It still won’t come online.
Very frustrating SONOS.
I’m really impressed with the orbi wireless router. So far it has done everything that I asked of it. The software seems pretty rock solid.
I had the Satellite-2 located quite a few metres away from Satellite-1. The backhaul status was listed as poor, but worked quite ok. The max download was around 15Mb/s through my 100Mb/s internet link. Whilst this is not fabulous, I could use the same SSID throughout the whole property – bonus!
So now I plugged the Satellite-2 into ethernet that was connected back through 2 hubs to the orbi router module, reset and waited a few minutes. Voila – the Satellite-2 saw that there was a wired backhaul available and reconfigured to use it. Now I’m getting a solid 89Mb/s over wireless down in my office! Yay. Finally super fast Wi-Fi everywhere at my place.
Thanks orbi, you are a legend.
It is a bit hard to see, but here are my 2 satellites both showing good backhaul – one over wired and the other over 5G.
digital davo on da web 