Monday, April 18, 2016

Youtube error

YouTube's HTML5 player failed to play on Mozilla SeaMonkey browser.
To make it work do the following:
  1. Go to the about:config page
  2. Set the value of media.fragmented-mp4.enabled to false
UPD: that settings prevents some site to show video gifs.
Looks like this setting works better:
media.mediasource.webm.enabled: true

Monday, January 18, 2016

Bitlocker

A new Surface laptop came with the bitlocker is not activated, but the hard drive was yet encrypted. The owner asked to turn off the encryption completely.
The UI of Windows 10 does not provide such an ability, but that could be achieved using the command line utility:
 manage-bde -off C: 

Read more how bitlocker works here.