Steam – Herring's Fishbait

February 24, 2017April 3, 2018

Fixes for the “Steam Stuck at a Blank Screen” Issue

This has been broken for me for months, but recently I found a fix. Using the Steam application, all you can do is browse your library. The store, community, forums etc; all don’t work. If you use Big Picture mode, everything is great. If you use a normal browser, everything is great.

Steam though?

B0rked.

Steam support gave up after a couple of suggestions. But after working through many possible fixes, I worked out what was wrong. Continue reading “Fixes for the “Steam Stuck at a Blank Screen” Issue”

April 29, 2016April 29, 2016

Only Slightly Less Cool Than In Snowcrash: The HTC Vive

I got a Vive. A real, working Virtual Reality system. That makes it officially The Future (hover-boards / flying cars / utopian government notwithstanding).

I’ve been using it for a bit over a week and here are my my thoughts.

(Spoiler: It’s awesome) Continue reading “Only Slightly Less Cool Than In Snowcrash: The HTC Vive”

February 13, 2015April 27, 2016

Improving Steam Client Performance

Steam is awesome. It keeps all my games organised, makes it easy to play with my friends, lets me buy games for cheap and has a library of information about the games I like.

The client also tends to run like a dog.

Or at least, it did. Read on to find out how a average man sped up Steam with one simple trick! Origin marketers hate him!

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August 27, 2014

Powershell Archiving Script, Part 8 (Final Part)

The final functions are done (in the last part) now it’s just the main body of the script. This will bring all the code together and produce the output we want. The full script can be found here.

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August 26, 2014August 27, 2014

Powershell Archiving Script, Part 7

We’re on the home straight now. In the last part we dealt with the last major workhorse of the script (actually moving objects to and from the archive with Move-ArchiveObject) and in this part we deal with some of the formatting / presentation functions. The full script can be found here.

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August 22, 2014August 26, 2014

Powershell Archiving Script, Part 6

In the last part we looked at the Get-FolderInformation function, which returns an object describing a folder so the user can tell if they want to process it or not. This part is going to focus on the Move-ArchiveObject function which will actually perform the archive (or return from archive) process on a chosen folder. The full script can be found here.

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August 20, 2014August 22, 2014

Powershell Archiving Script, Part 5

Continuing on from the last part where I defined the Get-FolderSize function the next function to be defined is Get-FolderInformation. This gets the relevant information about all the folders that could be processed and outputs that information as objects. The full script can be found here.

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August 18, 2014August 20, 2014

Powershell Archiving Script, Part 4

In the last part we wrote out the Powershell to handle the parameters (including some crude validation) and for the skeleton of the rest of the script. In the next few parts we’ll define the functions the script will use. The full script can be found here.

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August 13, 2014August 19, 2014

Powershell Archiving Script, Part 3

In this part we’ll start writing some Powershell. Initially we’ll write about the function call and function structure (see below). The full script can be found here. Continue reading “Powershell Archiving Script, Part 3”

August 6, 2014August 11, 2014

Powershell Archiving Script, Part 2

Or, A Cunning Plan for Archiving.

The first thing to do is a quick brain-dump of things I want the script to do. From that I should be able to get a better idea about how I want it to work.

So in no particular order here is a list of all the elements I want in the script;

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