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high sierra – Remote Desktop 10.2.3 Database Creation Error; 10.2.1 runs fine; 10.2.2 crashes: how to find actual cause(s)? – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/21

From a while back:

What would be good steps to find the cause of the below errors?

I get this error when running Microsoft Remote Desktop 10.2.3 or higher on MacOS High Sierra:

Database Creation Error

"An error occurred during persistent store migration.

[Domain: NSCocoaErrorDomain, Code: 134110]"

[WayBack] high sierra – Remote Desktop 10.2.3 Database Creation Error; 10.2.1 runs fine; 10.2.2 crashes: how to find actual cause(s)? – Ask Different

Related Twitter thread: [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “Help! Stuck at @msremotedesktop 10.2.1 (that cannot add new users) on High Sierra because 10.2.2 keeps crashing, and both 10.2.3 and 10.2.4 cannot migrate: “An error occurred during persistent store migration. [Domain: NSCocoaErrorDomain, Code: 134110]””

Tried beta: 10.2.6 (1529) at [WayBack] Microsoft_Remote_Desktop_Beta.app.zip from [WayBack] Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac – HockeyApp

--jeroen

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Foldimate: Cooles Gerät. 1000 US$ ist jetzt auch nicht soo teuer…

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/18

Hopefully they are around nowand available in Europe: [WayBack] Cooles Gerät. 1000 US$ ist jetzt auch nicht soo teuer (eine gute Waschmaschine kostet auch 500 Euro, und der Preis wird sicherlich noch fallen). – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+.

Estimate early 2019 was availability end of 2019, Europe usually takes longer so this is a reminder to myself (:

More info in German:

–jeroen

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Do not block User-agent ia_archiver because you think it is Alexa, as it makes it harder for the Internet Archive WayBack Machine to stay up-to-date

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/18

I observed some sites block the User-agent: ia_archiver in their robots.txt, thinking the would just block Alexa Internet: [Archive.is1/Archive.is2] Crawlers – Alexa Support (which oddly refuses the details to be archived in the Internet Archive).

It will indeed block, but also makes it harder for the Internet Archive WayBack Machine to stay up to date

This sounds complicated, and it is. The Internet Archive originally wrote ia_archiver, but it was ran by Alexa Internet, and still feeds lots of the Internet Archive. By now, the Internet Archive also uses their own both that uses User-agent: archive.org_bot and is called Heritrix.

What makes it complicated, is that most (maybe by now that is down “a lot of”) content is still donated to the internet archive by Alexa Internet.

So if you block ia_archiver, then the Internet Archive still misses data.

Further reading:

and:

Example: [Archive.is] https://assarbad.net/robots.txt

–jeroen

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RAMBOOT – booting Linux into a RAM disk…

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/14

Interesting as this should work for other Linux distributions as well: [WayBack] RAMBOOT – How to booting Debian into a RAM disc for speed and silence. How to RAMBOOT. It’s a poor man’s SSD, or a way to get SSD benefits on a laptop … – Isaac Kuo – Google+

Via: [WayBack] RAMBOOT – How to booting Debian into a RAM disc for speed and silence. How to RAMBOOT. It’s a poor man’s SSD, or a way to get SSD benefits on a laptop … – Jürgen Christoffel – Google+

Covers: [WayBack] RAMBOOT is an initrd hack that loads the entire OS partition in RAM, making it run like an extremely fast SSD, at the expense of perhaps 1.5+GB of RAM.

A quick search revealed these:

–jeroen

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Copy files on Mac OS X using drag-and-drop | alvinalexander.com: secret is to hold the Option key

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/14

The Finder pure keyboard way of file copy+paste is using Command–C at the source position followed by Ctrl–Command–V in the destination position (in the destination position,  Command–V will do only a cut+paste) as the paste/copy decision is determined in the final stage.

This is unlike Windows, where Ctrl–C means copy, Ctrl–X means cut, and Ctrl–V finishes the initial action to copy+paste or cut+paste. 

If you combine mouse dragging, on the Mac it becomes Option–drag, whereas on Windows it still is Ctrl–drag.

I think the Windows ones are more consistent, especially when looking at them in table form:

Action Windows Mac
Keyboard-Only Mouse-drag Keyboard-Only Mouse-drag
copy+paste Ctrl–C; Ctrl–V Ctrl–drag Command–C; Ctrl+Command–V Option–drag
cut+paste (or move) Ctrl–X; Ctrl–V drag Command–C; Command–V drag

(table with help of HTML Table generator – TablesGenerator.com)

Mac shortcuts via:

–jeroen

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Listen Notes: The best podcast search engine

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/14

For my link archive: [WayBack] Listen Notes: The best podcast search engine:

The most comprehensive podcast database online. Discover best podcasts. Search podcast show notes and audio transcripts by people, places, or topics.

Via: [WayBack] interesting imo The Best Podcast Search Engine: https://www.listennotes.com – DoorToDoorGeek “Stephen McLaughlin” – Google+

–jeroen

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FAQ Desk: Autosaving “unnamed” `new 1` files | Notepad++ Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/14

From [WayBack] FAQ Desk: Autosaving “unnamed” new 1 files | Notepad++ Community:

Check your directory %AppData%\Notepad++\backup\

–jeroen

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Win32 build of less 530

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/11

Since I do not have a C or C++ build environment, I was looking for the less 530 release for Windows.

I found it via these links:

Searching for less 530, I bumped in these links as well:

  • [WayBack] `less` performs differently when invoked from Bash and from Git – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange 
    • When invoked via git, it does not restore screen content
  • Cause: [WayBack] Git – git-config Documentation: core.pager

    core.pager

    Text viewer for use by Git commands (e.g., less). The value is meant to be interpreted by the shell. The order of preference is the $GIT_PAGER environment variable, then core.pager configuration, then $PAGER, and then the default chosen at compile time (usually less).

    When the LESS environment variable is unset, Git sets it to FRX (if LESS environment variable is set, Git does not change it at all). If you want to selectively override Git’s default setting for LESS, you can set core.pager to e.g. less -S. This will be passed to the shell by Git, which will translate the final command to LESS=FRX less -S. The environment does not set the S option but the command line does, instructing less to truncate long lines. Similarly, setting core.pager to less -+F will deactivate the F option specified by the environment from the command-line, deactivating the “quit if one screen” behavior of less. One can specifically activate some flags for particular commands: for example, setting pager.blame to less -S enables line truncation only for git blame.

    Likewise, when the LV environment variable is unset, Git sets it to -c. You can override this setting by exporting LV with another value or setting core.pager to lv +c.

 

–jeroen

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Vaccineer de kinderen die je wilt behouden, om de verspreiding van besmettelijke ziektes te voorkomen

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/11

[WayBack] EenVandaag op Twitter: “Vaccineren was het afgelopen jaar onderwerp van discussie, ook op social media. Deze video over polio-patiënt Roelofje werd in 2018 het meest bekeken op onze Facebook-pagina.”

Vaccinatiegraad is helaas nog onder de 95% in veel gebieden van Nederland.

Een aantal gebieden is het nog veel lager, waardoor ze geen kudde-immuniteit meer hebben waardoor het verspreidingsrisico enorm versterkt.

Gerelateerd:

 

 

 

–jeroen

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Why We Should Change The Rhythm Of Business | Corporate Rebels

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/12/11

This should be on the reading list of every corporate manager: [WayBack] Why We Should Change The Rhythm Of Business | Corporate Rebels:

The problem arises when people bring their accounting background and mindset with them into business management. Decimals no longer works very well when the focus is on a future with lots of dynamics and uncertainty.

…

The solution is simple: (1) Targets must have natural deadlines; (2) Forecasting must be dynamic or rolling; (3) Resource allocation must be dynamic; and (4) Performance evaluation must take place when work is completed.

Or as Marjan Venema quoted:

“Yes, something is definitely wrong, but maybe more in the finance manager’s head than with the fisherman’s work rhythm!”

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] “Yes, something is definitely wrong, but maybe more in the finance manager’s head than with the fisherman’s work rhythm!” – Marjan Venema – Google+

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