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So I finally got around to installing something so I can host my own calendar and contacts so that data is not shared with the big four corporate companies. As I just need basic calendar and contacts functionality I chose the open source project Radicale. As I have run Fedora to control the house and my private data since 1998… Continue reading Installed Radicale3 for hosting my own calendar and contacts data
Always fails. At first I thought there was an issue with the SD card. Then I read that you have to right-click and run as Administrator from your windows box. I could not get this to work – it never ran. In the end I had to enable the local Administrator on my windows box and login to that account… Continue reading Failed to unpack the windows 10 IoT Core installation package
Not sure what happened to this or why but its no longer available. I used to have a script that used it to convert binary data to text for attachments on emails. Having searched high and low I came up with a new solution – use openssl. You can do the same that you were doing with mmencode by doing… Continue reading MMEncode is not available on Linux distros any more.
Trying to run up my windows project using Xamarin for windows phone 8. Kept getting this error when the windows phone 8.1 emulator “Failed to start the virtual machine because one of the Hyper-V components is not running” Researched a bit and had a few goes and quite a few different solutions but had to manually edit .vmx file which… Continue reading Visual Studio 2015, Windows 10 under VMWare Fusion 7 on a Mac
On running from the Xamarin studio, I could no longer deploy to the companie’s Motorola Ultra. From the deploy to device window I was seeing the following error: [INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE] This normally means that there is an old version hanging around on the device which you can’t overwrite – usually because the older version is signed and the new version is… Continue reading Xamarin: Unable to install new debug version of Android app on a Motorola Ultra
My laptop was corrupted and decided to move to another laptop at work. I had existing checkouts so I copied all the code involved to the new laptop. Then I couldn’t add the workspace with the same name as it kept saying the workspace exists on my old machine. I looked around at posts on the internet and they were… Continue reading Moving From One Computer To Another With Existing Checkouts In TFS (Team Foundation Server)
So I find that my MySQL database is running high on CPU all of a sudden. I optimize the tables etc and no difference. I hunt around the internet to find that there seems to be a problem with this years leap second adjustment which sends MySQL into orbit. The solution reset the date date -s “`date`” and it dropped… Continue reading MySQL pegging CPU after the leap second adjustment.
Now I keep forgetting the key combination for getting the hash key on my MacBook Pro. Now this is as much for me as everyone else. Wait for it, its …. Alt + 3
So since upgrading Perl I am presented with qw warnings coming out of the cron job checking that BackupPC is running. Use of qw(…) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Storage/Text.pm line 301. Use of qw(…) as parentheses is deprecated at /usr/share/BackupPC/lib/BackupPC/Lib.pm line 1412. The way to get rid of these warnings is to enclose qw in parentheses and Perl processes… Continue reading BackupPC Has qw(…) Warnings Since Upgrading Perl
Since upgrading to firefox 3.5, I couldnt login any more to my wordpress (currently 2.7) blog. It was wierd as I couldnt login using firefox 3.5 on my apple running OS-X 10.5 and I couldnt login using firefox 3.5 on Vista. But I could login on my clients machine running firefox 3.5 on Windows XP. What seemed to be the… Continue reading Firefox 3.5 and WordPress – Cant Login