Archive for 2024
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/19
I laughed a bit too hard: [Wayback/Archive] @monsieuricon@social.kernel.org: “@torvalds I believe that tree is in a detached state.” in a response to
[Wayback/Archive] Linus Torvalds @torvalds@social.kernel.org: Day four of no power and no Internet. This big tree is the reason.…
Day four of no power and no Internet. This big tree is the reason. One among hundreds in the area, but this is the one that took out *our* power and Internet.
PGE (Portland General Electric) claims we should get power back by 10pm today, but the ice storm arrives today, so we’ll see.
Edit: well, it looks like PGE fixed the outage by just removing me from the outage database, not by actually reconnecting power. That was the second time that happened, so I re-re-reported the outage. Not that I was hugely optimistic about the 10pm timeframe, but it looks even less likely now.
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Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Software Development, Source Code Management | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/18
This is where you can still register for a free ESXi 8 account (until Broadcom kills that):
Because of:
Note that slightly more than a year ago, there was a problem getting licenses because too many were registering at once: [Wayback/Archive] Solved: esxi 8 Free registration – VMware Technology Network VMTN
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Posted in ESXi7, ESXi8, Power User, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/18
[Wayback/Archive] One-Line FizzBuzz Solution in Python 3 | by David Sanchez | CodeX | Medium
print('\n'.join(['fizzbuzz' if x%15 == 0 else 'buzz' if x%5 == 0 else 'fizz' if x%3 == 0 else str(x) for x in range(1,101)]))
(Yes, one can do similar list comprehension and conditional expression constructs in other languages to get one-liner solutions)
Via:
–jeroen
Posted in Development, Python, Scripting, Software Development | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/16
There are many interesting threads about the Okta breach (via Sitel) by LAPSUS$.
Two of them in reverse chronological order (and their starting points on Twitter):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/15
About a year and a half ago, JenMsft (Jen Gentleman) pointed me to the cool “Shortcut Guide” part of the Windows PowerToys: [Wayback/Archive] microsoft/PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity.
The PowerToys install is an all or nothing approach which will elevate you as admin during installation:
winget install Microsoft.PowerToys --source winget
From the [Wayback/Archive] PowerToys Shortcut Guide utility for Windows | Microsoft Docs:
Open the shortcut guide with the shortcut key combination: ⊞ Win+Shift+/ (or as we like to think, ⊞ Win+?) or hold down the ⊞ Win for the time as set in the Settings. An overlay will appear showing keyboard shortcuts that use the Windows key, including:
- common Windows shortcuts
- shortcuts for changing the position of the active window
- taskbar shortcuts
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Posted in Power User, PowerToys, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/14
Need to figure out what is the cause here for [Wayback/Archive] Troubleshooting Errors… | FileWave KB
General Errors
| Hex |
Decimal |
Symbol |
Description |
| … |
0x8A15003B |
-1978335173 |
APPINSTALLER_CLI_ERROR_RESTAPI_INTERNAL_ERROR |
Rest API internal error |
| … |
I got the error following the install steps at [Wayback/Archive] Download and install Google Chrome with winget
winget install -e --id Google.Chrome
Usually I don’t install through winget because it is often slow and during upgrades often fails to be silent (causing all kinds of popup Windows to appear), but Chocolatey had a history of hashing problems when installing [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | Google Chrome 130.0.6723.92.
This package always installs the latest version of Google Chrome, regardless of the version specified in the package. Google does not officially offer older versions of Chrome for download. Because of this you may get checksum mismatch between the time Google releases a new installer, and the package is automatically updated.
Yup the page contains the above warning, but often this happens a week at a time: not something I want to spend on installing a web-browser.
Error
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Posted in Chocolatey, Development, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows Development, winget | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/12
Voor min link-archief, want wellicht in de toekomst relevant voor mijn verstandelijk beperkte broer is [Wayback/Archive] Corona pictogrammen actie: PictoCanvas drie maanden gratis:
Stuur ons een e-mail met antwoorden op de volgende vragen en wij beoordelen of je in aanmerking komt om tot eind maart PictoCanvas gratis te gebruiken.
- Jouw voornaam en de voornaam van je kind of cliënt.
- De voor- en achternaam van de verzorger, familielid of contactpersoon.
- Het e-mailadres van de verzorger, familielid of contactpersoon.
- Wat is de impact van de corona-maatregelen op je kind en je gezin? Denk aan verlies contact met familie en vriendjes, wegvallen dagbesteding en onderwijs etc.
–jeroen
Posted in Awareness, Inclusion / inclusive society, LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/11
Earlier this week I wrote about Fork Gist to Repo on GitHub – Stack Overflow and found out the example is about the git configuration variable commit.template which was completely new to me.
So below are a few links as it is a very cool feature!
Basically it is a pointer/softlink to a template file that has the initial commit message (the config can either be per repository or global).
Links (most via [Wayback/Archive] “commit.template” “git” – Google Search):
It also has some links to the documentation, but not deep links and misses a few, so I added those below myself.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/10
I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Script to rename a virtual machine in ESXi 6: gist.github.com/Gremgoll/8bd91258d71fe895c0d416e2543ca2dc.
Then I forked it with the intent to make usage more clear, as the current usage on my ESXi rig (which has mos VMs not in the root of data stores) is like the bold italic portion here:
[root@X9SRI3F-ESXi:/vmfs/volumes/608be754-f21556ad-1082-0025907d9d5c/VM] vm-rename.sh NVMe980PRO_1TB/VM X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-OFFICE X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-OFFICE
VOLNAME=NVMe980PRO_1TB/VM
DIRNAME=X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-OFFICE
OLDNAME=X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL
NEWNAME=X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-OFFICE
VM_DIRPATH=/vmfs/volumes/NVMe980PRO_1TB/VM/X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-OFFICE
NW_DIRPATH=/vmfs/volumes/NVMe980PRO_1TB/VM/X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-OFFICE
Failed to rename './X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-flat.vmdk' to './X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-OFFICE-flat.vmdk': The file specified is not a virtual disk (15)
renaming ./X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-41260b40.vmem to ./X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-OFFICE-41260b40.vmem
renaming ./X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-41260b40.vmss to ./X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-OFFICE-41260b40.vmss
renaming ./X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-6a4b8f29.hlog to ./X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-OFFICE-6a4b8f29.hlog
renaming ./X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL.nvram to ./X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-OFFICE.nvram
renaming ./X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL.vmsd to ./X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-OFFICE.vmsd
renaming ./X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL.vmx to ./X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-OFFICE.vmx
renaming ./X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL.vmx.backup to ./X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-OFFICE.vmx.backup
renaming ./X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL.vmxf to ./X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-OFFICE.vmxf
renaming ./vmx-X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-1093012288-1.vswp to ./vmx-X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-OFFICE-1093012288-1.vswp
All Done. You now need to register X9SRI-3F-W10P-NL-OFFICE to the inventory.
There also was a renaming bug (see the italic line).
I managed to fix both that and added more documentation plus output.
Repositories and code
- Original:
- Fork with added VSAN functionality (see [Wayback/Archive] Revisions · Script to rename a virtual machine in ESXi 6):
- My fork of 2:
- My fix:
Code before modifying: [Wayback/Archive] gist.githubusercontent.com/jpluimers/fcc601dd41ac89f601a5174be92c841c/raw/e3683fbb6bdf1e73d65d2b784027c70cf42a5512/vm-rename
Code after modifying: [Wayback/Archive] raw.githubusercontent.com/jpluimers/vm-rename/master/vm-rename.sh.
Yes, that is not in a gist any more (see below why), it is now part of [Wayback/Archive] jpluimers/vm-rename: Script to rename a virtual machine in ESXi 6; fork from https://gist.github.com/jpluimers/fcc601dd41ac89f601a5174be92c841c as [Wayback/Archive] vm-rename/vm-rename.sh at master · jpluimers/vm-rename.
The reason was
Yesterday I described the workaround in Fork Gist to Repo on GitHub – Stack Overflow.
Queries
I found the original via [Wayback/Archive] script esxi rename vmx vmxf and related files – Google Search.
My start was [Wayback/Archive] script esxi duplicate vm and rename vmdk – Google Search which found:
- [Wayback/Archive] Renaming a virtual machine and its files in VMware ESXi (1029513) which has a PowerCLI script (that requires Windows to run PowerCLI on)
- [Wayback/Archive] Solved: How to clone a VM on a ESXI 6.5 server? – VMware Technology Network VMTN which pointed me to the next Google Search result :
- [Wayback/Archive] VMware esxi – Script to clone a VM without vSphere or vCenter. | GrangerX which I put in this gist:
- [Wayback/Archive] Script to create Linked Clones on ESXi | RedNectar’s Blog which is great, but way to complicate for my use case. It references a few other cool scripts though, and shows how to use Resource Pools in ESXi (which the Web-UI does not seem to support):
- [Wayback/Archive] [script] Cloning VMs using ESXi shell/admin console – Virtualizing Unraid – Unraid
- [Wayback/Archive] Script to clone a VM with free VMware ESXi – Rob Pomeroy (again: PowerCLI)
–jeroen
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