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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/14
With the disappearing PrtScn buttons on modern keyboards, boomer screenshots are about the only way to easily persist a screenshot, as these are the only available Windows screenshot shortcuts:
PrtScn: copies full screenshot to the clipboard; multiple invocations overwrite the clipboardWindows + PrtScn: saves full screenshot to a file; multiple invocations saves to new filesWindows + Shift + S: copies full screen or part of the screen to the clipboard, and allows manual action to start snippet tool to save the clipboard contents; often looses the image when on remote desktop connections or when copying something else to the clipboard; multiple invocations overwrite the clipboard
Now look at macOS what a choices, and how less messy than on Windows:
macOS has various shortcuts to save (partial) screenshots to clipboard or file
For macOS 10.14 Mojave and newer, you can even set the folder (default: Desktop) to save the screenshots to:
I want this ease in Windows as well, and maybe I can in part without installing external tools and modifying existing shortcuts to make things easier:
Written after bumping into [Archive.is] Jeff Atwood on Twitter: “Someone just called a smartphone pic of their monitor a “boomer screenshot” and I literally LOLed 🤣… “
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/14
After years of use, the cooling fans of my 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro 2015 model got quite a bit dirty, causing them to run louder and louder.
The video below the fold shows how to clean them: 11 screws, some isopropyl alcohol, (dry!) compressed, and caution for the connector-clips connecting the bottom plate.
It helps having a:
- pentalobe P5 screwdriver
- plastic spudger so separate the bottom plate (especially be careful with the connector-clips)
- magnet to stick the screws to, as they are really tiny and it is easy to loose them
I got the pentalobe screwdriver with some spare screws from the German Amazon: [Archive.is] Kricson Ersatzschrauben MacBook Pro – 4 Pack Gummi: Amazon.de: Computer & Zubehör
You can get a similar one from the USA Amazon site: [Archive.is] Amazon.com: 8 Pack Rubber Case Feet + Set of 20pcs Repair Replacement Screw + 1pcs 5 Point Pentalobe Screwdriver for Unibody MacBook Pro Retina A1425 A1502 A1398 13″ 15″ Bottom Case(Retina): Computers & Accessories
Two important tips:
- After using isopropyl alcohol, let the parts dry
- Hold the fans when spraying compressed air (to prevent the fan-motors to create over-voltage, and to prevent the fans spinning faster than they are rated for)
The iFixit pictures for replacing the SSD help greatly to see how to remove and re-attach the back-cover, and where the various parts are inside the machines.
Note the screws differ between the 13-inch and 15-inch models!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/11
Note just because of a Mac being incompatible, but also because of 32-bit apps being incompatible ruling out Cataline (10.15) or newer.
[Wayback] How to get old versions of macOS – Apple Support
If your Mac isn’t compadmgtible with the latest macOS, you might still be able to upgrade to an earlier macOS, such as macOS Catalina, Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra, or El Capitan.
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Download macOS
It takes time to download and install macOS, so make sure that you’re plugged into AC power and have a reliable internet connection.
Safari uses these links to find the old installers in the App Store. After downloading from the App Store, the installer opens automatically.
- macOS Catalina 10.15 can upgrade Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks
- macOS Mojave 10.14 can upgrade High Sierra, Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion
- macOS High Sierra 10.13 can upgrade Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion
Safari downloads the following older installers as a disk image named InstallOS.dmg or InstallMacOSX.dmg. Open the disk image, then open the .pkg installer inside the disk image. It installs an app named Install [Version Name]. Open that app from your Applications folder to begin installing the operating system.
- [Wayback] macOS Sierra 10.12 (InstallOS.dmg) can upgrade El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, or Lion
- [Wayback] OS X El Capitan 10.11 (InstallMacOSX.dmg) can upgrade Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard
- [Wayback] OS X Yosemite 10.10 (InstallMacOSX.dmg) can upgrade Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard
links for 10.13 and newer on the Apple site are App-Store only, so you need to download, then save the installer in a safe place.
Alternative download methods and notes on certificate expirations:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/10
I had a vague recollection of this was possible, so I was glad to find it back after having recovered from all cancer treatments at [Wayback] Use a second laptop as an extended monitor with Windows 10 wireless displays – Scott Hanselman’s Blog.
The feature is called “Miracast” and has a built-in Windows 10 implementation for both sending and receiving not just over WiFi, but also over the local fixed ethernet network: [Wayback] Miracast on existing wireless network or LAN – Surface Hub | Microsoft Docs.
With such support, I’d expected an “it works out of the box” experience. It is far from that, so let me show what I bumped into and how I finally did not get it working.
TL;DR
- Windows will tell you when it doesn’t work
- Windows won’t tell you why it doesn’t work
- The tooling to try to find out why it doesn’t work is not sufficient: documentation is scarce and far from complete
When out of luck
I tried two machines with Intel processors having built-in graphics engines.
Thinkpad T510
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/10
Windows 10 on desktops still defaults to the Sleep option to be available in any Power action while the Hibernation option is unavailable.
This is odd now that most systems have fast and sizable SSD options: from a power loss perspective, Hibernate is much safer than Sleep on desktop machines.
[Wayback] How To Fix Missing Hibernation Option On Windows 10 explains how to restore the Hibernate option.
It is a three step process, partial on the Administrator elevated command-line, part in the UI. I wish all could be done on the commandline
- Enable an hibernation file:
powercfg.exe /hibernate on
- Start the “Power Options” control panel applet:
powercfg.cpl
- In the UI, under “Choose what the power buttons do”, disable “Sleep” and enable “Hibernate” (you might need to “Change settings that are currently unavailable” first), then press “Save changes”
I have not tried yet, but these Registry Values under [Wayback]HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FlyoutMenuSettings might just cut it, but I am not sure it is complete:
ShowHibernateOption with values 0 and 1ShowSleepOption with values 0 and 1
There is also a value ShowLockOption that defaults to 1.
Two git places where these registry values are mentioned:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/08
Since this is what I use to VPN home:
pfSense is a free and open source firewall and router that also features unified threat management, load balancing, multi WAN, and more
[Wayback] Download pfSense Community Edition: [Wayback] pfSense-CE-2.5.1-RELEASE-amd64.iso.gz
–jeren
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/08
The [Wayback/Archive] Embarcadero/IDERA Documentation Wiki has been mostly down since March 3rd, 2022 (not the main page, but almost all other pages are).
I modified [Wayback/Archive] Docwiki https – EmbarcaderoMonitoring to show the actual status of a deeper page as the (mostly static) top page is up, so monitoring that is useless as the deeper pages are down.
The deeper pages are dynamic and require a functioning MySQL database connection. That connection is mostly down (the error message is not clear, so this could be a network or a database server problem, or maybe even a loadbalancer gradually entering bit heaven).
Since it had been down for like 6 days in February*, I’d expect Idera to keep an eye on it and prepare for more downtime. Apparently that’s either not a 24×7 thing for them or they missed the “pre” in preparation as it is dead-silent on .
It also runs on an unsupported version of Mediawiki 1.31** which by itself does not explain the outage, but does indicate that their idea of handling their internal lifetime management is different than what they advocate to clients in their software subscription model, see [Wayback/Archive] Delphi – Embarcadero store, [Wayback/Archive] Update Subscription – Embarcadero and [Wayback/Archive] Special Offers on RAD Studio, Delphi & C++Builder – Embarcadero:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/07
Too bad that when trying this out in 2021, you got the message
Please sign in with your work Google account.Clockwise does not currently support signing in with a personal Google account.
G-Suite only
Note that if you have a G-Suite account, it needs these cookies to be accepted to signup via [Archive.is] https://www.getclockwise.com/signup:
Please enable cookies to sign in to Clockwise
Google sign in requires that third party cookies are enabled to work properly.
- Open cookie settings by going to this url: chrome://settings/content/cookies
- At the bottom, in the “Allow” section, click “Add”.
- In the dialog that opens, copy and paste: [*.]getclockwise.com
- Repeat step 2, this time in the dialog copy and paste: [*.]google.com
Without this setting, Clockwise may be unable to log you in or keep your session active.
The domains on which cookies are required.
More info:
Via:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 