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Indifference (drift) (Hot or cold not lukewarm) What if it’s the wrong direction? Even if you go in the wrong direction but with feeling you’ll find out quicker and can adjust. Inspiration or desperation Strong Feeling people do better than people you need to...
DNS Propagation Test Site
This is a handy site if you are wondering why some parts of the global internet are still resolving an old IP address after a DNS record update. https://www.whatsmydns.net Go to the above site, enter your domain name and wulah!
Docker LOL
Just bought copy of www.dockerbook.com and am running through the code samples as I read. Just did a docker ps -a and noticed one of the auto-named containers was "condescending_torvalds". Wondering now what other names Linus will be called as I keep doing the...
Reclaiming Disk Space by Deleting old inetpub logfiles
cd /d c:\ du -l 1 . ... output of du showing big directories ... cd /d C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles REM for test C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles>forfiles /M *.log /S /D -09/11/2015 /C "cmd /c echo @path" REM fo real C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles>forfiles /M *.log /S /D...
Switching Wine versions using Homebrew on a Mac
After a recent brew upgrade I tried to launch one of my Wine applications and it exited with a "Program Error" screen Apparently when a brew upgrade runs it links to the version of the program that it has just installed. In my case it made wine version 1.6.2_1 the...
C struct written to file loses settings
I am having an issue with a Siemens WinCC control system that writes C struct data to files on disk under windows. The C function in the control system (see below) reads the Tag values from the user interface into a struct and then writes it to disk with a call to...
Installing Postgres 9.x for Postbooks on Synology Diskstation with Docker
I wrote a post about hacking another instance of Postgres onto the Synology Diskstation. But now that Synology has docker you can do it nicely. Don't know if I have included everything needed below but let me know in the comments if you have questions. You need to...
Run a command from your bash history
For years I have been typing history and then copying and pasting the result to the command prompt to rerun a command. But you can simply type history, make a note of the number and then type !xxxx where xxx is the number of the command. e.g.: history !1210
Who’s down with RPC? Apparently not me
Just got this error from an Outlook 2010 client: Cannot open your default e-mail folders. You must connect to Microsoft Exchange with the current profile before you can synchronize your folders with your Outlook data file (.ost). P1: 300032 P2: 14.0.7015.1000 P3: heqz...