The IT Blog

Month: October 2015

  • How to fix: Windows 10 store fails to update or hangs during download / update

    For a couple of days I saw some pending updates in my Windows 10 store that didn’t seem to install or download. The downloads were either in progress or done but none of them installed. Restarting the downloads didn’t help either.

    Some quick research came up with all kinds of Powershell and registry hacks. Quite weird. Then I remembered about a recent issue that I had with Windows 8.1 which was solved by simply disconnecting the Microsoft account and reconnecting it after a restart. And it worked!

    Dead easy

     

    • Go to account settings: Hit the Windows Key, type “Account” (german: Konto)
    • Disconnect from your Microsoft account
    • reboot (optional – I didn’t try without reboot)
    • Reconnect to the Microsoft account
    • Open the Store and do the update

     

  • How to enable Camera Streaming on a Raspberry Pi

    This is a very brief tutorial how to get a stream of the Raspberry Pi camera into a browser. The original article can be found here.

    I was searching a lot how to stream directly from the camera to the network, yet I did not find a solution. So what we are doing here is using the timelaps feature from raspistill combined with MJPG-Streamer. In the end you will be able to see the stream in a webbrowser or in VLC Media Player.

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