Techie Rambles

Any user with the a_troll permission can manage trolls.

Microsoft killed its free rich text editor in late 2023 in an effort to switch users to its premium Office apps or their free web-based versions. While WordPad is not the most feature-rich app, it still was a nice simple program for basic offline text editing. With Windows 11 version 24H2, it is no ...

Dimetrodon wrote: ↑Sun Jun 09, 2024 5:10 pm How will users be marked? Will it just be a box tick in the Administer User section of the ACP, or will there be a usergroup that does this?

You mark a user as a troll and it will set a cookie for the user.

https://www.snayhomelab.com/trolls.gif Yes, I know it says "Mode" and not "MOD" ;) Extension Name: Troll Mode Author: Kailey Extension Description: Allows administrators to mark users as trolls. Extension Version: 1.0.0-dev Requirements: PHP 7.4.0 and phpBB 3.3.1 due to needed events. Features ...

This was submitted and approved to the CDB.
https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/extension/quick_title_edition/

Updated to RC. No changes from beta.

https://www.snayhomelab.com/qte_logo.png Extension Name: Quick Title Edition Author: Kailey Previous Authors: ABDev ErnadoO Extension Description: This extension aims to create topic attributes, which can be applied by Administrators, Moderators and/or the topic author. Attributes can be under the ...

This is well documented but am posting here for reference. Since the arrival of Windows 10, the image file format on ISOs is no longer in WIM format but ESD. Copy the ESD file to the disk (C:\) Open a cmd window as administrator, go to the folder where the ESD file is located and enter the following ...

It's not too often anymore that we need a floppy drive image created, but there are times (such as when accessing a server through iLO) when it's handy to have a virtual floppy drive. There are a lot of shareware and commercial programs out there that will create a .img file from other files on your ...

Problem Starting with SQL Server 2008, the local Administrators group is no longer added by default during SQL Server setup. This means that it is possible, especially if you don't use mixed authentication (or have forgotten the sa password), that you can be completely locked out of your own SQL ...