I decided to get rid of the Lenovo bloatware, which had come preinstalled on my Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro and to reclaim space used by recovery partitions. Here is the recipe for a fresh install of Windows 8.1 with the OEM product key.

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A few years ago, a friend came to me for advice about solving her problem on how to access her digital copy of Dictionary of Standard Slovenian Language from her Android phone. She told me that there is no Android version and that she was using TeamViewer to query the dictionary installed on her desktop machine. Recently, the same problem has been brought up again by another person so following is a hypothetical explanation of how I would have approached this problem.

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Let’s implement a guest wifi with passwords that change periodically (eg. every 24hours) and via a button press. Let’s display the current password on an LCD. This comes handy when you want to provide wifi access only to clients that are physically present in your lounge for that day and prevent password leaks and massive wifi sharing to all the buildings nearby.

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