Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/26
Whoa: [WayBack] This Is The First Detailed Footage of DNA Replication, And It Wasn’t What We Expected
“It undermines a great deal of what’s in the textbooks.”
via:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/26
I forgot to blog about this before, but 2 months ago PowerShell core came available: [WayBack] PowerShell Core 6.0: Generally Available (GA) and Supported! | PowerShell Team Blog.
[WayBack] Installing PowerShell Core on macOS and Linux | Microsoft Docs is easy (one way is through homebrew:
$ brew tap caskroom/cask
$ brew cask install powershell
If you already installed a beta, then the steps are these:
$ brew update
$ brew cask reinstall powershell
Note that after installation, it is known as pwsh (at least one of the betas named it powershell) to set PowerShell Core apart from PowerShell*:
$ pwsh --version
PowerShell v6.0.2
Via: [WayBack] PowerShell Core 6.0 is a new edition of PowerShell that is cross-platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux), open-source, and built for heterogeneous environm… – Lars Fosdal – Google+
pwsh versus powershellThere has been quite a discussion on the PowerShell Core repository on the rename, but I think it is for a good reason.
Too bad that during part of the beta, the old name powershell was used, but beta-time means things break every now and then.
PowerShell Core is sufficiently different from prior PowerShell versions to warrant a name change. This also makes it a lot easier to use them side-by-side.
Many other names (like posh, pcsh or psh) were considered, usually because of naming conflicts with existing tools (like posh) or easy confusion with existing shells (like pcsh and csh). A benefit on Linux/macOS is that it now ends with sh like virtually all other shells.
More background information is at:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/26
From [WayBack] Docker – Docker Cloud Migration Notification and FAQs:
The services on Docker Cloud that provide application, node, and swarm cluster management will be shutting down on May 21.
…
If you do not migrate by May 21, your applications running on the Docker node cluster management service will cease to operate.
Swarms will continue to function; however, if you do not retrieve your SSH keys for the Swarms being managed by our swarm cluster management service, you will be unable to access your swarms using your Docker ID. For instructions on how to retrieve and access your Swarms with SSH keys, please refer to the Docker docs.
So soon, no more [WayBack] Docker Cloud – Build, Ship and Run any App, Anywhere.
Remember: still the cloud is other peoples computers, so be sure you can move when needed.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/26
The Google Opinion Rewards app offers an excellent way to earn money which you can use to buy any kind of Play Store content by taking surveys. More often
Since I didn’t get any rewards in about half a year, I’ve followed the steps from [WayBack] Get more surveys from Google Opinion Rewards.
Let’s see what happens.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/26
It should be all automagic as soon as I format an SD card as journaled HFS, but in case it isn’t, here are some links:
tmutil tricks to see if something went wrong; if they don’t help, then you can always make a free Genius Bar appointment [WayBack] Will Time Machine backup my SD card? | Official Apple Support Communities–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/24
“Downloaded my facebook data as a ZIP file Somehow it has my entire call history with my partner’s mum a historical record of every single co […]” @dylanmckaynz
Full Unrolled thread from @dylanmckaynz [WayBack], the Twitter thread head is below.
The unwrap/unroll was done by ThreadReadApp which I bumped into thanks to Kristian Köhntopp: [WayBack] Discover and Read the Best of Twitter Threads.
My archive was less than 20 megabytes, likely because I hardly used it as it is way too much of a time sink.
You can download yours via the steps at [WayBack] How can I download a copy of my Facebook data? | Facebook Help Center
Basically, logon to Facebook, navigate to www.facebook.com/settings, initiate the download to create the archive (requires your credentials again), want for the confirmation, then download the archive, then run the script that Dylan created: [WayBack] A Ruby script for collecting phone record statistics from a Facebook user data dump · GitHub.
Cannot run it yet (Mac OS sierra has a ruby version that is too old).
–jeroen
Via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/24
[WayBack] 23 Things Only 90s Sysadmins will Remember – DiscoPosse.com.
Much more for me:
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/23
This worked for me as suddenly – after upgrading to Sierra – the App Store was all Dutch where previously it was English:
After I fought with the issue for a few hours, I found the solution.
- Open Mac App Store and log out of the account.
- Restart your Mac.
- Log in to the account again.
Thanks [WayBack] Blaszard for the above answer at [WayBack] macos – How to change the language used on Mac App Store? – Ask Different
Note that this syncs the language in the App Store with the one you’ve set on the OS X level; for changing that, see [WayBack] macOS Sierra: Change the language your Mac uses
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/23
For me the easiest is on a sudo terminal (so I can omit the sudo part in the below commands), but if you’d do it “rather safe then sorry”, you can go from the fine-grained individual backup level:
sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/drive_name/Backups.backupdb/mac_name/YYYY-MM-DD-hhmmss
step by step
sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/drive_name/Backups.backupdb/mac_name
all the way back to
sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/drive_name/Backups.backupdb
Incidentally, the tmutil documentation is now regarded as legacy (I’m not sure why) so before it goes away, I’ve archived it:
[Archive.is] https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/tmutil.8.html
It’s not at http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man8/tmutil.8.html as for instance [WayBack] man tmutil … – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+ referred to a few years back.
Anyway:
enablelocal feature that Kristian Köhntopp refers to that I didn’t know about yet:Turn on local Time Machine snapshots. Requires root privileges.
disablelocal
Turn off local Time Machine snapshots and trigger automatic cleanup of accumulated local snapshot data. Requires root privileges.”
–jeroen
–jeroen
via [WayBack] macos – How can I manually delete old backups to free space for Time Machine? – Ask Different
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/21
Spring time, cleaning time: [WayBack] How to use Facebook while giving it the minimum amount of personal data – The Verge.
Via: [WayBack] Ah it’s that time of the year where all the “this is how to quit [name of service involved in a scandal]”-articles pop up. Oh well, not a bad idea to ch… – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+
–jeroen
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