Other activities – Jos Menhart SQL Consultancy

04May 2020 by Jos Menhart

Reinstall your development laptop, fast

Today was one of those days again. You know, one of these days when Visual Studio keeps freezing up on you and you decide to finally do something about it. After a few hours disabling extensions to no effect, and comparing with my other laptop where VS is working without issue I decided to do a fresh reinstall of my laptop. Windows, all programs, everything. Cleaning Windows Everything I need is on my secondary disk so I did a windows refresh: just type "reset" in Start and follow the breadcrumbs: Reset this PC Alternatively, you can download the Windows iso manually from your msdn benefits page. Next, we wait.. Waiting... Scripted installation After reinstalling my laptop a few times it became time to do it differently. I now use a…

Mattress ball

Other activities, Random stuff

While working on today's post I came across a picture I could not withold from you, namely, the legendary Dutch sport of Mattress Ball. While some sports can be very expensive in terms of equipment, this one certainly is not. All that is needed is/are: An old mattress A sizable length of duct tape, available at your nearest hardware store A friend who does not suffer from motion sickness A friend who loves to give a helping hand A slope. In our case, it was the side of a dyke Instructions: Fold the mattress across its length and tape the ends together with the duct tape, such that a fairly round shape is made Insert the friend into the cavity that now exists in the mattress. When you do not…

Revisiting an old hobby

Mixing music, Other activities

Back in the year 2004, when my face had no crowfeet and I had no real job yet (I was working a supermarket job with no real responsibilities except showing up on time) me and my friends were in a band and we won some studio time in a local band contest. We went to the studio, which was in the backyard of the studio owner's mother (please don't write any comments on this ;)) and we recorded some songs. The recording sounded pretty good and it landed us some gigs, but when we left the studio, I asked the technician if I could have all the raw tracks we recorded, so in the future, I could experiment a bit with these. So I went and experimented, but it did…