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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Raspberry Pi Zero: the $5 computer - Raspberry Pi

If $35 was too expensive for you why not try Raspberry Pi Zero



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Pandora application crashing on Xbox One after a few songs

If you find Pandora on the Xbox One crashes after 3-4 songs (black screen no noise) I find if you pin the Pandora app on the side stops it from crashing.

But you know what? How about MS and Pandora fix the problem so I don't have to do this every time I want to listen to music.

I've e-mail Pandora If you would like to also e-mail them here's the link

BTW its now a month later and no fix yet.



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Lotus Notes Touch interface

Now would that be great? a touch friendly interface for inotes or Lotus Notes.

Come on IBM get cracking. The world is moving on to touch you need to keep  up.



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