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Archive for May, 2015

Reminder: check for PCIe SSD upgrades – via: How-To Upgrade the SSD in your MacBook Air or Retina MacBook Pro, boosting size & speed | 9to5Mac

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/29

Need to check this out in the summer: see if there is PCIe SSDs available for my Late 2013 Retina MacBook Pro.

Newer-generation 13″ and 15″ Retina MacBook Pros use newer SSDs with faster PCIe connectors. As of early 2015, no third-party SSDs are compatible with this standard, but we’re expecting to see options hit the market closer to the middle of the year. Some Retina MacBook Pro SSDs will apparently be capable of achieving speeds in the 1.2GB/second range, compared with the 700-800MB/second speeds of stock drives.

–jeroen

via: How-To: Upgrade the SSD in your MacBook Air or Retina MacBook Pro, boosting size & speed | 9to5Mac.

Posted in Apple, Mac, MacBook, MacBook Retina, Power User | Leave a Comment »

So I won’t forget: some wordpress.com links for my site

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/29

So I won’t forget:

Sitemaps

(via: Sitemaps — Support — WordPress.com and how to create a page Sitemap « WordPress.com Forums.)

XML-RPC

(via: XML-RPC Support « WordPress Codex and Settings Writing Screen « WordPress Codex.)

https://wiert.wordpress.com/xmlrpc.php or http:wiert.me/xmlrpc.php or /xmlrpc.php

robots.txt

(via: robots.txt « Tags « WordPress.com Forums.)

https://wiert.wordpress.com/robots.txt or http:wiert.me/robots.txt or /robots.txt

 Google webmaster tools

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dashboard?siteUrl=http://wiert.me

Google Analytics

(via: How to Add Google Analytics to WordPress in Under 60 Seconds – WPMU DEV  and Google Analytics Official Website – Web Analytics & Reporting.)

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, SocialMedia, WordPress | Leave a Comment »

Enabling GIT_CURL_VERBOSE to research “unable to get local issuer certificate”

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/28

A while ago, I was fighting a corporate web proxy playing Man-in-the-Middle on all https sessions.

Though playing MitM on your employees is a debatable thing to do (especially without informing the employees, and illegal in certain countries, I had to get a GIT connection to the outside world working.

This helped tracking it down: GIT_CURL_VERBOSE “unable to get local issuer certificate”.

What I finally did was this:

  1. obtain the CA certificate that issues the MitM certificate in base-64 CRT form (which is the same as the PEM form):
  2. added it at the top of either of these files:
    • "%ProgramFiles%\Git\bin\curl-ca-bundle.crt"
    • "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Git\bin\curl-ca-bundle.crt"
  3. added it to the top of either of these files:
    • "%ProgramFiles%\Mercurial\cacert.pem"
    • "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Mercurial\cacert.pem"

–jeroen

PS: These were the failures I was getting:

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Posted in *nix, cURL, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, PKI, Power User, Security, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »

The Zen Of Programming

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/27

From The Zen Of Programming:

The novice thought for a moment. “I will design a new editing program,” he said, “a program that will replace all these others.”

There are different forms of the above.

Think about them for a while.

Then name at least three.

Now go back to work.

–jeroen

via: The Zen Of Programming.

Posted in .NET, Delphi, Development, Software Development | 2 Comments »

Pastebin, but for HTML? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/26

Nice question (thanks aplm!), as for instance Gist does not render html:

Pastebin is a useful online tool to paste snippets of text. Pastie is a similar tool. Also, Ideone is similar except that it also runs the source code, as well as being a general pastebin.

Is there a similar tool, for HTML?

And ditto links in the answer (thanks meder!):

Unbelievable that such questions get closed as “not constructive”.

Note I could not get http://www.pastekit.com to work.

–jeroen

via: javascript – Pastebin, but for HTML? – Stack Overflow.

Posted in Development, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript/ECMAScript, JSFiddle, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

OH: “Final is Latin for Time To Refactor”

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/25

OH: “Final is Latin for Time To Refactor”.

Thanks Kristian!

–jeroen

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HCL:Raspberry Pi – openSUSE

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/25

Interesting: HCL:Raspberry Pi – openSUSE.

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Hardware Development, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, Raspberry Pi, SuSE Linux | Leave a Comment »

Error 13EC when installing The .NET Framework 4.5.2 means you need to free more disk space. 3GB that is.

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/23

About a year and a half ago, I wrote:

My conclusion is that various Microsoft updates now require 3 gigabytes of disk space.

This seems to be the case with the .NET Framework 4.5.1 KB 2858725 update, and probably more future updates. I tried installing the KB 2858725 update with slightly less than 3 gigabytes of space (and after the 3 gigabyte reserve.tmp appeared), and I was still getting error 13EC. But with slightly more than 3 gigabyte the update would install.

That is quite difficult when you run loads of VMs on SSDs: they usually don’t have an awful lot of disk space left.

The same issue holds for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 for Windows 7 x64-based Systems (KB2901983) which got released earlier this week:

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Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista | 1 Comment »

Error during: git svn clone “RA layer request failed: PROPFIND request failed on” means fix your proxy configuration

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/22

When during a git svn clone you get an error message starting with “RA layer request failed: PROPFIND request failed on” it means you have to set your git svn proxy.

This is in a different location than the git proxy setting (it would be too easy if these were the same, right?).

So you do not get/set it through commands like these:

git config --global --get http.proxy
git config --global http.proxy localhost:3128

Via Cannot do git-svn fetch behind proxy and  git svn clone died of signal 11 under cygwin (thanks janosFredrik Pihl and User Pavel, I found out that you need to change these files (create the .subversion directory and servers file when they do not exist):

  • Windows:
    • %HomeShare%\.subversion\servers
    • %UserProfile%\.subversion\serverssour
  • Linux:
    • ~/.subversion/servers

If you ever run in the same problem with the regular SVN client, then you need to change yet different files (why have 1 standard when you can have many?):

  • Windows:
    • %AppData%\Roaming\Subversion\servers
  • Linux:
    • ~/Subversion/servers

Ensure a section like this exists and fill in the blanks:

[global]
# http-proxy-exceptions = *.exception.com, www.internal-site.org
http-proxy-host = YOURPROXY.com
http-proxy-port = YOURPORT
# http-proxy-username = defaultusername
# http-proxy-password = defaultpassword
# http-compression = no
# http-auth-types = basic;digest;negotiate
# No http-timeout, so just use the builtin default.
# No neon-debug-mask, so neon debugging is disabled.
# ssl-authority-files = /path/to/CAcert.pem;/path/to/CAcert2.pem<

Notes:

In some poorly managed networked environments, the %AppData% environment variable can be wrong, so make sure your Windows profile is not somewhere on a network share.

TortoiseGit seems to use yet another directory for GIT SVN server configuration.

–jeroen

via:

Posted in Cntlm, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Power User, Source Code Management, SourceTree, Windows, Windows-Http-Proxy | Leave a Comment »

Woot: AsciiImage for Delphi http://memnarch.bplaced.net/blog/?p=129

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/05/21

Woot!

AsciiImage for Delphi by Alexander Benikowski on GitHub repository Memnarch/AsciiImage..

AsciiImage for Delphi

AsciiImage for Delphi

–jeroen

via: And here it is: AsciiImage for Delphi http://memnarch.bplaced.net/blog/?p=129.

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