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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/15
Hopefully it is not a coincidence that Steve Streeting left the SourceTree team four years after the first SourceTree release and shortly after the first release of SourceTree 1.6. version, but the SourceTree 1.6.x versions suck: it often hangs and is (often extremely) slow. This apart from numerous NullReferenceExceptions. I find this odd, as 1.5.x is far more stable in that respect, hence my hope it is not about Steve Streeting.
Even though many people complained about 1.6.x. being bad (read the comments on the release page), and quite a few ask for a way to downgrade, a downgrade option isn’t provided there.
A SourceTree downgrade itself is not that difficult. Ensuring the embedded versions of Git and Mercurial/Hg are up to date is more difficult. Getting that right is especially important on Windows: hgflow works much better with the embedded Mercurial/Hg. More importantly: both Git and Mercurial/Hg recently had a very nasty security issue.
So here are steps on how to downgrade, then upgrade the embedded versions of Git and Mercurial.
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Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Mercurial/Hg, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management, SourceTree, Windows | 7 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/09
Process Hacker is on my research list:
A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware.
–jeroen
via: Overview – Process Hacker.
Posted in Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/06
Thanks Brett Wilton for sharing this.
This would have saved me quite some time, as I re-did the phone registration two weeks ago in order to get a few development VMs working again.
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Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/25
On my research list:
I knew about the TrueCrypt file system for Windows, but it looks like encfs provides something similar for *nix.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/12
I had some excessive CPU usage (30% on a 4-core system) inside WheaAttemptPhysicalPageOffline when using an Intel HD graphics 2500 GPU.
At first I thought I needed to convince IT to update the drivers: Intel HD graphics causing high CPU utilization | Intel Communities.
Then I closed all Visual Studio 2013 instances and the CPU usage went to normal.
So I’m suspecting a WPF issue somewhere.
–jeroen
Posted in Development, Power User, Software Development, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio and tools, Windows, Windows 7 | Tagged: CPU usage, CPU utilization, excessive CPU usage, Intel Communities, Intel HD graphics | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/12
OSvirtual is a collection of virtual images of operating systems.
It’s a resource for those who want to recall some operating system/distribution, to try unknown OS or just to play with the virtual toy :)
–jeroen
via: OSvirtual Virtual images of operating systems.
Posted in *nix, Power User, Windows, Windows 95, Windows 98 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/28
Cool, I just found out that Wikipedia has a Screenshot topic, listing how to take screenshots (and often shots of the current window) on many platforms, where (*) means I verified them:
- Apple Mac OS X
(*) Use “⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+3” for the screen or “⌘ Cmd+⇧ Shift+4” for a part of the screen (as of Mac OS X Tiger, you can press the “Spacebar” to capture a Window in stead of part of the screen). You can press “Ctrl” with these shortcuts to the shot goes to the clipboard, otherwise it gets saved as a PNG file.
- Microsoft Windows
(*) Use “Prt Sc” for the screen or “Alt+Prt Sc” for the Window
(note that on my laptop and multi-media keyboards, you need to type the “Fn” key in order to press the “Prt Sc”)
- Microsoft Windows Phone
Press the “Sleep/Wake” button and the Startbutton at the same time.
- Apple iOS
(*) Press the “Home” and “Lock” button at the same time.
- Google Android
Hold the “Volume down” button, then press the “Sleep/Wake” button.
(*) Or press the “Sleep/Wake” and the “Home” button at the same time.
- HP WebOS
Press the “Orange/Gray Key+Sym+P” at the same time.
Or press “Home Key+Power” at the same time.
- X Window System
Varies with the installed tooling
- Maemo 5
Press “Ctrl+⇧ Shift+P” at the same time.
- Google Chrome OS
Press “Ctrl+F5” to capture the screen or press “Ctrl+⇧ Shift+F5” to capture a portion of the screen.
–jeroen
via: Screenshot – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Posted in Android Devices, Apple, Chrome, Google, HTC, HTC Sensation, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, 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, Nexus 4, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Uncategorized, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/21
The dig (domain information groper) command under unix/Linux is a great way to help verify that a DNS host like BIND is working properly.
A few of my servers are Linux, but most of my desktops usually are Windows, so I was happy to find the Using the dig dns tool on Windows 7 article by Dan Esparza explaining there is a Windows version.
So I:
- Downloaded the Windows version of BIND (I took the BIND 9.9.2-P1 ZIP file)
- Unzipped that into my C:\BIN\BIND directory
- Ran this command, just like I would on a Linux box:
dig @192.168.171.214 pluimers.com
- Checked the below output to the zone configuration on the openSUSE box serving the DNS for my domain
; <<>> DiG 9.9.2-P1 <<>> @192.168.171.214 pluimers.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 12911
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL: 6
;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pluimers.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
pluimers.com. 172800 IN A 82.161.132.169
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
pluimers.com. 172800 IN NS ns7.4delphi.com.
pluimers.com. 172800 IN NS ns6.4delphi.com.
pluimers.com. 172800 IN NS ns2.4delphi.com.
pluimers.com. 172800 IN NS ns1.4delphi.com.
pluimers.com. 172800 IN NS ns3.4delphi.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.4delphi.com. 172800 IN A 82.161.132.169
ns2.4delphi.com. 172800 IN A 176.9.152.132
ns3.4delphi.com. 172800 IN A 176.9.152.131
ns6.4delphi.com. 172800 IN A 109.70.6.22
ns7.4delphi.com. 172800 IN A 176.9.143.167
;; Query time: 15 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.171.214#53(192.168.171.214)
;; WHEN: Wed Jan 02 16:07:58 2013
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 235
–jeroen
via Dig (command) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Posted in *nix, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, SuSE Linux, Windows, Windows 7 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/17
This blog entry shows how I moved my BeSharp.net repository from SVN at BeSharp.codeplex.com to mercurial.
I develop most of my software using Windows, so if you want to perform the steps below (except TortoiseHG) on a *nix or Mac machine, you have to do some backslash to slash replacement, and find out where the mercurial settings file is stored.
The rest is pretty much the same.
Note the aim was to do a one time conversion. If you want to use both SVN and HG at the same time, then HgSubVersion definitely worth looking at.
Step zero: enable the convert extension (once per client machine)
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Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Mercurial/Hg, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management, Subversion/SVN, Windows | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/07
Great! And it is open source at https://github.com/google/nogotofail:
The Android Security Team has built a tool, called nogotofail, that provides an easy way to confirm that the devices or applications you are using are safe against known TLS/SSL vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Nogotofail works for Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, Chrome OS, OSX, in fact any device you use to connect to the Internet.
There’s an easy-to-use client to configure the settings and get notifications on Android and Linux, as well as the attack engine itself which can be deployed as a router, VPN server, or proxy.
–jeroen
via Google Online Security Blog: Introducing nogotofail—a network traffic security testing tool.
Posted in *nix, Android Devices, Chrome, Google, iOS, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, OpenSSL, Power User, Security, Windows | Leave a Comment »
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