Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/26
The Google Opinion Rewards app offers an excellent way to earn money which you can use to buy any kind of Play Store content by taking surveys. More often
Since I didn’t get any rewards in about half a year, I’ve followed the steps from [WayBack] Get more surveys from Google Opinion Rewards.
Let’s see what happens.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/26
It should be all automagic as soon as I format an SD card as journaled HFS, but in case it isn’t, here are some links:
tmutil tricks to see if something went wrong; if they don’t help, then you can always make a free Genius Bar appointment [WayBack] Will Time Machine backup my SD card? | Official Apple Support Communities–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/24
“Downloaded my facebook data as a ZIP file Somehow it has my entire call history with my partner’s mum a historical record of every single co […]” @dylanmckaynz
Full Unrolled thread from @dylanmckaynz [WayBack], the Twitter thread head is below.
The unwrap/unroll was done by ThreadReadApp which I bumped into thanks to Kristian Köhntopp: [WayBack] Discover and Read the Best of Twitter Threads.
My archive was less than 20 megabytes, likely because I hardly used it as it is way too much of a time sink.
You can download yours via the steps at [WayBack] How can I download a copy of my Facebook data? | Facebook Help Center
Basically, logon to Facebook, navigate to www.facebook.com/settings, initiate the download to create the archive (requires your credentials again), want for the confirmation, then download the archive, then run the script that Dylan created: [WayBack] A Ruby script for collecting phone record statistics from a Facebook user data dump · GitHub.
Cannot run it yet (Mac OS sierra has a ruby version that is too old).
–jeroen
Via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/24
[WayBack] 23 Things Only 90s Sysadmins will Remember – DiscoPosse.com.
Much more for me:
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/23
This worked for me as suddenly – after upgrading to Sierra – the App Store was all Dutch where previously it was English:
After I fought with the issue for a few hours, I found the solution.
- Open Mac App Store and log out of the account.
- Restart your Mac.
- Log in to the account again.
Thanks [WayBack] Blaszard for the above answer at [WayBack] macos – How to change the language used on Mac App Store? – Ask Different
Note that this syncs the language in the App Store with the one you’ve set on the OS X level; for changing that, see [WayBack] macOS Sierra: Change the language your Mac uses
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/23
For me the easiest is on a sudo terminal (so I can omit the sudo part in the below commands), but if you’d do it “rather safe then sorry”, you can go from the fine-grained individual backup level:
sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/drive_name/Backups.backupdb/mac_name/YYYY-MM-DD-hhmmss
step by step
sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/drive_name/Backups.backupdb/mac_name
all the way back to
sudo tmutil delete /Volumes/drive_name/Backups.backupdb
Incidentally, the tmutil documentation is now regarded as legacy (I’m not sure why) so before it goes away, I’ve archived it:
[Archive.is] https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/tmutil.8.html
It’s not at http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man8/tmutil.8.html as for instance [WayBack] man tmutil … – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+ referred to a few years back.
Anyway:
enablelocal feature that Kristian Köhntopp refers to that I didn’t know about yet:Turn on local Time Machine snapshots. Requires root privileges.
disablelocal
Turn off local Time Machine snapshots and trigger automatic cleanup of accumulated local snapshot data. Requires root privileges.”
–jeroen
–jeroen
via [WayBack] macos – How can I manually delete old backups to free space for Time Machine? – Ask Different
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/21
Spring time, cleaning time: [WayBack] How to use Facebook while giving it the minimum amount of personal data – The Verge.
Via: [WayBack] Ah it’s that time of the year where all the “this is how to quit [name of service involved in a scandal]”-articles pop up. Oh well, not a bad idea to ch… – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/21
Cool tool to clear out Linux VM’s non-paged RAM: [WayBack] From TailsOS – I needed a faster security wipe to clear out a Linux VM’s non-paged RAM on demand and on shutdown – someone might find my little journey… – Joe C. Hecht – Google+
A Way Fast Memory Wipe – based on van Hauser’s / [THC], vh@thc.org sdmem
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/21
About a year ago, [WayBack] Rumors of Cmd’s death have been greatly exaggerated – Windows Command Line Tools For Developers got published as a response to confusing posts like these:
But I still think it’s a wise idea to switch away from the Cmd and to PowerShell as with PowerShell you get way more consistent language features, far better documentation, truckloads of new features (of which I like the object pipeline and .NET interoperability most) and far fewer quirks.
It’s time as well, as by now, Windows 7 has been EOL for a while, and Windows 8.x is in extended support: [WayBack] Windows lifecycle fact sheet – Windows Help:
Client operating systems Latest update or service pack End of mainstream support End of extended support Windows XP Service Pack 3 April 14, 2009 April 8, 2014 Windows Vista Service Pack 2 April 10, 2012 April 11, 2017 Windows 7* Service Pack 1 January 13, 2015 January 14, 2020 Windows 8 Windows 8.1 January 9, 2018 January 10, 2023 Windows 10, released in July 2015** N/A October 13, 2020 October 14, 2025
Which means the PowerShell version baseline on supported Windows versions is at least 4.0: [Archive.is] windows 10 powershell version – Google Search and [WayBack] PowerShell versions and their Windows version – 4sysops
PowerShell and Windows versions ^
PowerShell Version Release Date Default Windows Versions PowerShell 2.0 October 2009 Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2 (**) PowerShell 3.0 September 2012 Windows 8 Windows Server 2012 PowerShell 4.0 October 2013 Windows 8.1 Windows Server 2012 R2 PowerShell 5.0 April 2014 (***) Windows 10
So try PowerShell now. You won’t regret it.
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] Very interesting clear-up post and comments on CMD, command.com, PowerShell in past and future DOS/Windows versions and Unix shells altogether. – Ilya S – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/20
One of those “duh” moments: go --version says there is no go -version, but there is go version as shown below.
It is even at [WayBack] Print Go version right in the middle of this 30 page [WayBack] go – The Go Programming Language.
On the hunt for that, I found this very interesting link for when you have binaries built with go and need the version: [WayBack] How to find out which Go version built your binary | Dave Cheney.
$ go --version
flag provided but not defined: -version
Go is a tool for managing Go source code.
Usage:
go command [arguments]
The commands are:
build compile packages and dependencies
clean remove object files and cached files
doc show documentation for package or symbol
env print Go environment information
bug start a bug report
fix update packages to use new APIs
fmt gofmt (reformat) package sources
generate generate Go files by processing source
get download and install packages and dependencies
install compile and install packages and dependencies
list list packages
run compile and run Go program
test test packages
tool run specified go tool
version print Go version
vet report likely mistakes in packages
Use "go help [command]" for more information about a command.
Additional help topics:
c calling between Go and C
buildmode build modes
cache build and test caching
filetype file types
gopath GOPATH environment variable
environment environment variables
importpath import path syntax
packages package lists
testflag testing flags
testfunc testing functions
Use "go help [topic]" for more information about that topic.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 