Displays how to extract Office 2010 or 2013 updates for silent installation purposes.

Handy way to avoid having to find all the office updates manually.



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Why Sydney's weekend traffic is likely to get worse

I agree witht this.. We were told you'll be better off with Opal.. so Un true.. Travel costs have only gone up and up since Opal (for myself)

If you push up the price of public infrastructure travel you hurt the poor the most. After all this is 'Public Transport' there are no other cheaper options for some.

Some say this is a minor issue and even suggest that public transport should cost more, pointing to regular overcrowding at peak hour. If we consider public transport to be an essential service for our society, and a matter of social justice, this clearly misses the point. It's a case for running more services, not getting people off the system or forcing them to pay more.

Another common criticism is that fares comprise a small fraction of the overall cost of a commuter's trip – about 25 per cent – while the government carries the rest. Why shouldn't users pay a bigger share, some ask? This conveniently ignores the fact that we already cover the government's costs anyway, through our taxes.

Affordable public transport is a right of all people living in NSW. It also happens to be an excellent decongestant for our roads. It's time the state government gets back on our side and recognises the indisputable value of free travel.

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MBAM Agent Error -An error occurred while sending encryption status data. Error code: -2143485933

If you find an MBAM client doesn't want send data to the server and you get error
2143485933

You may be missing the win32_encryptablevolume class from WMI.

Try running

mofcomp.exe c:\windows\system32\wbem\win32_encryptablevolume.mof

source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2756402

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Powerwall in Australia: First residential installation of Tesla’s new product complete

Powerwall in Australia: First residential installation of Tesla’s new product complete:



Wow I figure this product would save you around $60-80 per bill if you already have solar (based on a $350 average bill). Telsa powerwall isn't designed to take you off-grid so you still need a power supply contract and don't forget that you still need to pay for daily supply charges and any energy you consume from the grid. Also if you have an electric hot water that is on controlled load then Tesla isn't going to help there either as it's not designed to heat your hot water system.



At a $13000 price tag and only saving  that much per bill it's going to take you 162 bills before you even start to save money. I would personally leave this until it reaches the $3000-$4000 mark until I would consider installing one of these units.







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NSW National Parks - discounted annual pass - Renew your registration - Registration - Roads - Roads and Maritime Services

NSW National Parks - discounted annual pass - Renew your registration - Registration - Roads - Roads and Maritime Services: "* vehicle entry fee-charging parks in NSW including Kosciuszko and is $175 at the discounted price. If you’"



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Should I Enable Enterprise Mode Through the Tools Menu or an XML File? | The App Compat Guy

Should I Enable Enterprise Mode Through the Tools Menu or an XML File? | The App Compat Guy:



Basically, I think the answer is yes. Yes you should enable both the XML and the Tools menu for Enterprise Mode.



Just don't enable the tools straight away. Do it after UAT otherwise users will fix their own problems and you will never know something was fixed before going out to production.





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Internet Explorer 11 failing on prerequisite KB2729094 even though the required prerequisites are already installed

I've found that on PC where WMI is slow to respond it can cause issues with upgrading to IE11.

WMI query for Hotfixes timed out. Query string: 'Select HotFixID from Win32_QuickFixEngineering WHERE HotFixID="KB2729094"'  Error: 0x00040004 (262148).

I've found that on some systems running this query can take a good 4-5 minutes to respond. by the time the query returns something IE11 has already quit out and exited the install with a "0x00009C47 (40007) - Required updates failed to download." error.  (interesting though it will still return a 0 to say it upgraded successfully which is a different issue).

In this case opening WBEMTEST and running "Select HotFixID from Win32_QuickFixEngineering WHERE HotFixID="KB2729094"" before hand can help. when you run the query multiple times the second time the query is run it's much faster.

Generally this only affects the slowest of slow machines (ones without SSD's)

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