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macbook – OS X 10.9.5 hangs with grey spinner; safe mode last message is “payload 2: device was reinitialized” – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/24

[WayBack] macbook – OS X 10.9.5 hangs with grey spinner; safe mode last message is “payload 2: device was reinitialized” – Ask Different

[WayBack] Recovery partition: “Restore From Time Machine Backup” stuck at 43.6% for more than 60 minutes – Ask Different

Steps since then:

  1. Restoring an image backup failed: same situation
    • (it took an hour to verify the media, then an OK button appeared before continuing to restore in the middle of the night; actual restore took 4+ hours)
  2. Reinstalling OS X 10.9.5 failed: error -4403F
  3. Restoring a prior Time Machine backup hung at less than 50% (taking like 6 hours)
  4. Reinstalling OS X 10.9.5 over a different fiber connection worked
  5. Mounting the image backup succeeded, but took 3 hours to complete “verifying…”
  6. Migration Assistent on the image backup worked fine

In total it took 2.5 days to get the machine back in working condition.

Related links:

There was no transparent proxy inbetween the MacBook and Apple so these didn’t help:

What did help was ensuring there was only ONE NAT in between the MacBook and Apple.

–jeroen

 

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User | Leave a Comment »

OpenBSD on PC Engines APU2 | Hacker News

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/21

Via [WayBack] OpenBSD on PC Engines APU2 | Hacker News and [WayBack] Ilya S – Google+ commenting at [WayBack] I am thinking about moving to BSD as my main OS – Joe C. Hecht – Google+:

Just in case I want to build my own router on PC Engines APU2 hardware: installation instructions at [Wayback/Archive] elad/openbsd-apu2: OpenBSD on the APU2

–jeroen

Posted in APU, Development, Hardware, Hardware Development, Internet, Network-and-equipment, Power User, routers | Leave a Comment »

Google Maps gets a new look

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/20

[WayBack] Google Maps gets a new look:

Via: [WayBack] New looks! – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+

–jeroen

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Excellent blog post from Jessica on how to setup the best Linux on Windows environment! @jldeen – via @shanselman

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/20

Via [WayBack] Scott Hanselman @shanselman: Excellent blog post from Jessica on how to setup the best Linux on Windows environment! @jldeen:

[WayBack] Badass Terminal: FCU WSL Edition (oh-my-zsh, powerlevel9k, tmux, and more!)

It’s that time again! The time to write another epic blog post, this time for WSL, also known as Windows Subsystem for Linux.

It requires Windows 10 Version 1709 (Fall_Creators_Update) which has build number 10.0.16299.

–jeroen

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Some notes on “The WordPress bookmarklet was deprecated. Please delete it from your web browser.” because the `/wp-admin/press-this.php` based URLs look very similar.

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/17

Some notes on “The WordPress bookmarklet was deprecated. Please delete it from your web browser.” because the /wp-admin/press-this.php based URLs look very similar because of this:

–jeroen

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OS X El Capitan: Open an app from an unidentified developer

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/17

The first trick works for WinBox 3.7 on Mac [download], the second doesn’t.

First trick:

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Posted in Apple, Hardware, iMac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, MikroTik, Network-and-equipment, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Power User, routers, WinBox | Leave a Comment »

github – Open Atom editor from command line – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/17

I have the Atom editor and was wondering how you can open a file or folder from the terminal in Atom. I am using a Mac. I am looking for a way to do this: atom . (opens folder) atom file.js (

The answer to it isn’t any good any more (since then, Atom has evolved), but this comment works splendid:

I solved the issue by choosing “Install Shell Commands” under the “Atom” menu.

It will add a script in /usr/local/bin/atom that starts Atom with the parameters you entered.

Thanks [WayBack] rxgx!

[WayBack] github – Open Atom editor from command line – Stack Overflow

–jeroen

PS: Reminder to self to add a screenshot.

Posted in Apple, atom editor, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, macOS 10.12 Sierra, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Power User, Text Editors | Leave a Comment »

DNS BIND9 acl clause – they *can* be nested

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/16

One of the use cases of DNS acl I needed involved having some data to be duplicated across acl.

So I was looking at some way to de-duplicate and found out the term for that is nesting which the bind acl allow.

–jeroen

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immediate “Too many authentication failures” – check your authentication methods

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/15

If you ever ssh into something and immediately get the immediate Too many authentication failures message, then you’ve probably mixed your authentication methods.

Follow the steps in [WayBack] ssh – Too many authentication failures for username – Super User (thanks [WayBack] John T and [WayBack] Ben West).

First check out whats wrong by slowly increasing the number of -v parameters to make output more verbose:

ssh -v
ssh -v -v
ssh -v -v -v

Then try to find out which authentication method fails: usually it’s a private key that’s wrong.

I’ve had success in various cases where I screwed up with these ssh parameters:

-o PubkeyAuthentication=no
-i some_id_rsa -o IdentitiesOnly=yes

–jeroen

 

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

Did you miss the ‘View Certificate’ button in Chrome? : sysadmin

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/13

[WayBack] Did you miss the ‘View Certificate’ button in Chrome?:

Good news, it’s back for those who want it:

  1. chrome://flags/#show-cert-linkEnable
  2. , restart, Bob’s your uncle.

Via: [WayBack] Kristian Köhntopp – Google+ chrome://flags/#show-cert-link

It seems I need to update from Version 59.0.3071.115 (Official Build) (64-bit).

–jeroen

Did you miss the ‘View Certificate’ button in Chrome?
byu/Jeoh insysadmin

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