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Electric Cordless Chainsaw Comparison by Specs : Cramer, Makita, eGo, Greenworks, Snapper, DeWalt, Milwaukee, SunJoe, Kobalt and PowerWorks

17 April 2020 Shawn-Hyde The Great Outdoors (0)

Here is a quick comparison of cordless electric chainsaws available in 2020.

List of all known interactive maps for Covid-19 (Coronavirus)

15 March 2020 Shawn-Hyde (0)

Here is a list of all of the live interactive maps for Covid-19(Coronavirus)

World Covid-19 Maps

https://www.arcgis.com (Not always up to date), Maintained by Johns Hopkins
https://sneezemap.com An interesting map that takes user input about symptoms and geo location then displays world statistics.
https://healthmap.org Interactive map with animated timeline.
https://hgis.uw.eduMaintained by University of Washington
https://www.trackcorona.live Another live map.

Unites States & Canada Covid-19 Map

https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com This appears to be the most accurate and up to date map. (includes sources). Maintained by "First generation Chinese immigrants in the US. We are software engineers living in San Francisco, Seattle and Las Vegas"

Unites States Covid-19 Maps

https://www.cdc.gov Official CDC Map
https://infection2020.com Maintained by "Ed, and indie developer"
https://talksub.com/covid19 US map with world data side bar. Maintained by Talksub

South Korea Covid-19 Map

http://coronamap.site Well done Interactive Map for South Korea

Sweden Covid-19 Map

https://www.coronakartan.se Swedish Map

How to generate a self signed PEM file on windows using IIS.

12 February 2020 Shawn-Hyde IIS, Quick Tips, Windows (0)

First if you have not already install the IIS role on your windows system.

Open IIS and choose the top level folder(your server) then choose Server Certificates

Now choose Create Self Signed Certificate from the far right

friendly name should be the DNS name of the device you need to create the pem file for, then choose ok.

Now open the certificate manager on your system, to do this run mmc

File > Add/Remove snap-in

Choose Certificates > Add > Computer account > Next > Local computer > Finish > OK

Now expand the certificates folder you create the cert in, by default this is Personal > Certificates.

right click on the certificate you created and choose all tasks > export > next > No, > next > Base-64 > next >

pick a file name

filename.cer

Now, you can rename the .cer file to .pem and that's it you're done.

Vertical alignment of a menu using pure css

06 February 2020 Shawn-Hyde Code, Design (0)

Many methods for this are workarounds or hacks that break other elements or don't work on some browsers. However, you can do this quite simply using flex.

For example:

html

<body>
 <div id="menubox">
  <ul id="menu">
   <li>menu item 1</li>
   <li>menu item 2</li>
   <li>menu item 3</li>
  </ul>
 </div>
</body>

css

#menubox {
 position:absolute;
 display:flex;
 flex-direction: column;
 width:15rem;
 height:100%;
}
#menu {
 list-style:none;
 margin: auto 0;
}

Unable to access UNC server address from remote location | Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer.

27 December 2019 Shawn-Hyde Quick Tips, Microsoft, Windows (0)

This can be one of the most frustrating errors because your UNC path may work from some computers but not others. If you are receiving this error the following steps should solve the issue.

Go to Control Panel

change the view by to small icons
select "User Accounts"
select "Manage your credentials"
select "Windows Credentials"
then "Add a Windows Credential"

Now enter your UNC server and share path for example: \\UNCServer\SharedFolder

Username and password, then click OK.

Now you should be able to access your UNC share from the windows explorer shell.