Tech Snaglets

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• Thu, May 08 2025 OneDrive Direct Download Link Generator for 2025
  Microsoft OneDrive Direct File Download URL for 2025I get asked all the time to by my clients to provide a way to direct download URL to a file and NOT preview the file, especially if the file is larg …
• Sat, May 03 2025 Gdrive Phishing Email with subject FMS Data deleted
  For the record, this is a GDrive phishing email attempt that is recently going around, with subject line ” FMS Data deleted”. What to do?  Report them, goto bottom of page.  From : FMSCloudSubject :  …
• Sat, May 03 2025 How to change the Font setting in Core FTP LE
  To access the Core FTP LE Font setting, right-click in source local directory pane, and choose font to adjust your font preference. The default is 7 points high, and nearly impossible to read. Once yo …
• Tue, Apr 22 2025 Rendlesham Forest Incident binary code message revisited with AI
  Here’s Jim Penniston binary code from his notebook while witnessing the Rendlesham Forest Incident back in December 26th, 1980, in Rendlesham Forest.  26-year-old Sgt. James Penniston was part of the …
• Thu, Apr 17 2025 Number of lines of code for WooCommerce 9.8.1
  WooCommerce Counts for 9.8.1C:\Downloads2025\woocommerce.9.8.1>cloc . 4608 text files. 4413 unique files. 342 files ignored. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 2.04 T=37.27 s (118.4 files/s, 17850.1 lines/s) …
• Tue, Apr 15 2025 Number of lines of code for Wordpress 6.7.2
  Wordpress 6.7.2 CountsC:\Downloads2025\wordpress-6.7.2\wordpress>cloc . 2937 text files. 2736 unique files. 488 files ignored. github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 2.04 T=23.97 s (114.2 files/s, 58341.3 lines/s …
• Fri, Apr 11 2025 Count the number of lines of code on Windows with Wordpress and WooCommerce examples
  There is an excellent opensource utility called CLOC (Count Lines of Code). Cloc counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages, and is quite perfor …
• Tue, Apr 01 2025 Code signing on Windows with Azure Trusted Signing for a Canadian
  Code signing on Windows with Azure Trusted Signing · Melatonin – great article on signing local exe with an Azure certificate.Just to confirm, if you have a Canadian HST number and use it for TaxID, c …
• Tue, Apr 01 2025 AI Coding Challenge – Part 3 Using DeepSeek to get innermost string between strings
  I asked DeepSeek to generate C# code to get the innermost string between strings. It beat Copilot and the very convoluted Grok in this test. The implementation worked, even with basic edge cases, unba …
• Mon, Mar 31 2025 AI Coding Challenge Major Fail – Part 2 using Grok to get innermost string between strings
  I asked Grok to generate C# code to get the innermost string between strings. The initial test case worked, but soon realized with some testing of edge cases, this implementation failed. Live Code (re …
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