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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/24
A while ago, I had this error on BitBucket:
Running git.exe with arguments "fetch --prune" failed with return code 128 and error output: "fatal: unable to access 'https://%account%@bitbucket.org/%user%/%repository%.git/': Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to bitbucket.org:443
A quick search for “Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to bitbucket.org:443” pointed me to a comment by Ludwik Trammer on an answer by Jordfräs:
I resolved the issue by upgrading from git 1.8 to git 2.0.
Which reminded me this was a Windows system, where there is no package manager that verifies how far your non-system software is behind.
One day, I will write a script that finds out about the git version history and inform me of major/minor versions I’ve skipped.
Some notes for that:
Probably I will need to do something similar for Mercurial/hg in the future as well.
–jeroen
via: git – Unknown SSL protocol error in connection – Stack Overflow
Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/23
I never found the cause for this error:
The number of connections to this computer is limited and all connections are in use right now. Try connecing later or contact your system administrator.
I tried all the links I found via The number of connections to this computer is limited and all connections are in use right now. Try connecing later or contact your system administrator. – Google Search
In the end I did a hard power down of the machine and rebooted. The error never returned.
I tried these links all to no avail:
–jeroen
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/15
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
del %LOCALAPPDATA%\IconCache.db /a
start explorer
Source: Inno Setup: Program Folder not showing up In Start > All Programs. I’ve been… (A Google+ post not archived in the WayBack machine)
It will kill explorer.exe, delete the IconCache.db, then starts explorer which will rebuild IconCache.db.
–jeroen
Posted in Development, InnoSetup, Installer-Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/12
A few interesting links I don’t want to forget:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/26
I just made this little batch file to start the dialog that allows changing the Windows Profile type:
"%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe" sysdm.cpl,EditUserProfiles
–jeroen
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/23
DYMO Drivers and Downloads has the Windows drivers for my LabelWriter 400:
I’ve had this LabelWriter for a long time, but I retired my physical Windows XP PCs a while ago so I needed to get it connected to a Windows VM on my ESXi rig.
The rig and printer are almost 10 metre apart (bruto distance through cable ducts) which is beyond the maximum USB distance of about 5 metre. A repeater or Active Cable can get around that limitation. Basically these repeaters are bus powered 1-port hubs. I already had good experience with a 5 metre extender combined with a 7-port external powered USB hub to connect the XP machines to some USB printers in the printer closet (a 5 metre USB cable sometimes would fail; the repeater always worked).
So I bought a 33ft 10M USB 2.0 A Male to A Female Active Extension / Repeater Cable, fed it through the cable ducts and added these devices to my VM:
Now I can print my 36mm x 89mm Dymo 99012 (or compatible) labels again (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/09
When you’re not a frequent iTunes user, and recycle computer systems, then every once in a while you will get you in to a situation where you have Music on your iPod, but not on your PC any more.
Whereas iTunes is great at putting music on an iPod, it cannot get it back.
There are numerous paid tools to get the music from your iPod, but doing it manually is not that hard. Below are a few links to get you started, but they all come down to this:
- Your iPod has a hidden folder called iPod_Control in the root
- Inside the iPod_Control folder is a folder called Music
- Inside the Music folder, there are folders named with letters and numbers like F00
- Each numbered folder has media (music, video or even photos!) files with a strangely encoded name like B00N.mp3 or 3DUN.m4v with supported media extensions including mp3 m4a m4p jpg gif tif m4v mov.
- The media files contain meta data with song, artist, album, etc.
The steps to copy them back
- Do not erase your iPod when opening it in iTunes!
- Ensure you can mount your iPod as a disk (the “enable disk use” option in iTunes)
- Mount your iPod as a disk in Mac or PC
- Ensure you can view the hidden files
- Copy the Music folder including all subfolders to your Mac or PC
- Unhide the Music folder and all
Music and Music/F* folders inside it using this chflags trick from Unhiding Unix Directories | Apple Support Communities:
chflags nohidden Musicchflags nohidden Music/F*
- Add these to your iTunes library and have iTunes re-generate the correct filenames from the meta-data
Some links explaining this in more detail:
–jeroen
Posted in Apple, iPod, iTunes, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9 | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/02
This applies to at least these versions when you run them under at least VMware Fusion or Workstation:
- Windows 7
- Windows 8
- Windows 8.1
- Windows Server 2008 R2
Often this folder get huge: %windir%\Logs\CBS (normally C:\Windows\Logs\CBS)
I’ve successfully compressed the content, but even though it is text, they don’t compress that well.
Some reports indicate you can safely delete them when there is nothing wrong with your system nor with Windows Update:
So that’s what I’m going to try next.
Later: done the below on an UAC (Administrator) command prompt.
Cleanup CBS via [WayBack] Gin answering at [WayBack] windows 8 – Why is CBS.log file size 20 GB – Super User::
net stop TrustedInstaller
del %windir%\Logs\CBS\CBSPersist*.*
net start TrustedInstaller
Then I did this to cleanup the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb file via [WayBack] Gin at [WayBack] windows 8 – Why is CBS.log file size 20 GB – Super User:
net stop wuauserv
net stop bits
esentutl.exe /d %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb
CleanMgr
reboot
The reboot will restart the stopped services.
–jeroen
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/09/21
A while ago I asked compression – How to automate Adobe Acrobat XI Standard to re-compress a lot of PDFs? – Super User.
Back then it saved about 80% of the total file size. Very substantial.
Recently I needed to convert another (smaller, but still substantial) bunch of PDF documents and saw I forgot to post the solution here:
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Posted in Adobe, Adobe Acrobat, Everything by VoidTools, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 | Leave a Comment »
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