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Archive for August, 2016

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If your Solitaire Collection on Windows 10 has display issues: ditch your old ATI/AMD Radeon graphics adapter

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/15

Solitaire Collection display issues on older ATI/AMD Radeon graphics cards

Solitaire Collection display issues on older ATI/AMD Radeon graphics cards

If you’ve installed Windows 10 and the Solitaire Collection looks like the picture on the right, then there is a good chance your machine has an older ATI/AMD Radeon graphics adapter (or mobile one).

At least these categories are affected:

Despite Microsoft knowing this (heck it fails on some Windows 8 systems as well), it keeps luring people into upgrading their working systems with Windows 10 resulting in non-working systems.

Not a smart move…

–jeroen

via: solitaire collection display problems radeon – Google Search

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Fix the OS X Finder not displaying the contents of specific folders | MacIssues

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/15

The culprit is usually the mds [WayBack] process (metadata server).

Simple command-line solution:

sudo killall mds

A more convoluted way with the Activity Monitor is in the link below.

–jeroen

via: Fix the OS X Finder not displaying the contents of specific folders | MacIssues [WayBack]

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User | Leave a Comment »

The End of Gmane? – via: Random Thoughts

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/12

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen at the end of July posted:

In 2002, I grew annoyed with not finding the obscure technical information I was looking for, so I started Gmane, the mailing list archive. All technical discussion took place on mailing lists those days, and archiving those were, at best, spotty and with horrible web interfaces.

The past few weeks, the Gmane machines (and more importantly, the company I work for, who are graciously hosting the servers) have been the target of a number of distributed denial of service attacks.

…

But I ask myself: Is this fun any more?

…

And now the DDoS stuff, which I have no idea why is happening, but I can only assume that somebody is angry about something.

…

I’m thinking about ending Gmane, at least as a web site. Perhaps continue running the SMTP-to-NNTP bridge? Perhaps not? I don’t want to make 20-30K mailing lists start having bouncing addresses, but I could just funnel all incoming mail to /dev/null, I guess…

…

I feel like I’m letting down a generation here. And despite what I rambled about in that paragraph up there, I’ve had many fun interactions with people because of Gmane. And lots and lots and lots of appreciative feedback over the years.

Later that day he posted a comment explaining a few more details.

Cutting things short: NNTP and MX work (for now), he is talking with parties for them to continue gmane, but for now the web-site is offline.

So I looked at which posts I had been using gmane links to correct them into linking to the Web Archive (a.k.a. WayBack machine) as much as possible. There were quite a few (even more than a simple Google search revealed) as shown in the list below.

Lesson learned
Counting how many of the gmane links were not at the WayBack machine I learned that for every blog post, I should links before posting them. Problem: I’ve scheduled about 400 posts and published some 3200, so that’s going to be a lot of edits.

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Setting the language of HP Solution Center needs a full uninstall/install cycle *and* the non-Unicode Windows Language to be set

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/12

I can imagine why some people hate the HP Solution Center software: it’s a dork on the language front and not even Unicode-aware.

You cannot set the language form inside it. The language is fixed at install time. You’d think it would take the users language settings for that. But it doesn’t: it takes the users non-Unicode language setting for it. Which – of course – you cannot find when searching in the control panel for Language (or Dutch Taal) you get there by searching for Region (or Dutch Regio).

This succeeds:

Nederlands (Nederland)

Nederlands (Nederland)

 

It fails when it is set to:

Engels (Verenigde Staten)

Engels (Verenigde Staten)

–jeroen

Posted in HP Printer Drivers, Power User, Printer drivers, Windows, Windows 10 | 2 Comments »

Infrared ceiling fan and light control repair

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/12

–jeroen

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freegeoip.net – Free IP geolocation HTTP API

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/11

Not sure yet how frequently you can call the Free IP geolocation HTTP API but it’s surely interesting.

Source: freegeoip.net

–jeroen

via: Hi everyoneDoes anyone know how to get the country code for where a device is currently residing… – Chris Pimlott – Google+

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programmers humor – Google image Search

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/11

An ever varying list of programmer humour images: programmers humor – Google Search.

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The Codeless Code: Ancient code

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/10

something like: 100 PRINT “&F2&B&H3&W2Hello, world!”would select font , bold, with triple height and double width, and render “Hello!” on the high-res screen

Source: The Codeless Code: Ancient code – hand coded (on paper) 6502 assembly!

via: 6502 assemblerbeen there, done that – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+

–jeroen

Posted in //e, 6502, 6502 Assembly, Apple, Apple ][, Assembly Language, Development, History, Power User | Leave a Comment »

reg files: Deleting Registry Keys and Values

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/10

The registry key deletion example from Microsoft is slightly wrong, as they wrapped the code over three lines:

[
-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test
]

That confuses some people, so here is the correct example:

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test]

The registry value deletion misses the square brackets, so that example should be like this:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test]
"TestValue"=-

The original Microsoft article:

Deleting Registry Keys and Values

To delete a registry key with a .reg file, put a hyphen (-) in front of the RegistryPath in the .reg file. For example, to delete the Test subkey from the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software

put a hyphen in front of the following registry key in the .reg file:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test

The following example has a .reg file that can perform this task.

[
-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test
]

To delete a registry value with a .reg file, put a hyphen (-) after the equals sign following the DataItemName in the .reg file. For example, to delete the TestValue registry value from the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test

put a hyphen after the “TestValue”= in the .reg file. The following example has a .reg file that can perform this task.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test

“TestValue”=-

To create the .reg file, use Regedit.exe to export the registry key that you want to delete, and then use Notepad to edit the .reg file and insert the hyphen.

–jeroen

via: How to add, modify, or delete registry subkeys and values by using a .reg file..

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tombh/texttop: A fully interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/09

Wonder if I can get this to work from macOS / OS X as a client:

texttop – A fully interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH

Source: tombh/texttop: A fully interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH

via: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Communications Development, Development, Internet protocol suite, Linux, Power User, Software Development, SSH, TCP | Leave a Comment »

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