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 and run the windows dashboard from that account. It then worked. Hope that helps someone.
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 the following
openssl base64 -e < $FILE
Enjoy.
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
Researched a bit and had a few goes and quite a few different solutions but had to manually edit .vmx file which is inside the vmware folders.
Had to add
hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE"
Make sure you do this with the VM shutdown. And bobs your uncle it now runs up the windows 8.1 emulators. Took a while to run them up the first time but it did finally come up. Can now debug my Xamarin project on windows phone 8.1.
Enjoy
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 not because its running as debug from the Xamarin studio. On most Android devices they show the package name of the app in the installed apps and you can just go and remove it by the usual un-install method.
For some reason on my companies Motorola Ultra this was not showing. Took me a while but this is how I did uninstall it. You have to run up the Android debugger for which on my mac is located in …
/Users/<loggedinuser>/Library/Developer/Xamarin/android-sdk-macosx/platform-tools
Then you issue the command
./adb uninstall com.<package>.<name>
And Bob’s your uncle the package is uninstalled and you can then run the new one up and it gets deployed to the phone with no issue.
Hope that helps someone.
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 suggesting to use the tfs commands
I tried to use
tf workspaces [/updateComputerName:oldComputerName][workspacename]
Now I don’t know what was wrong but it didn’t work at all. So I took the brute force approach and updated the TFS database itself using the SQL management studio.
I used
UPDATE [TFSDBName].[dbo].[tbl_Workspace]
SET Computer = ‘NewMachineName’ WHERE Computer = ‘OldMachineName’
and that worked a treat. If your worried then do a select first and make sure you know how many it should be updating first and do a begin transaction before the statement – just to make sure your updating the right amount. Or even do a select afterwards to see the data changed and then issue a commit command.
Over the last couple of weeks I was very privileged to have some of the software that I have worked on being used for the 57th Presidential Inauguration. It is probably my biggest career moment ever – so far !
My employer Global Emergency Resources LLC landed a contract to supply the first aid locations and command centers with their product – HC Standard.
Ex·cerpt from Global Emergency Resource’s website:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The 2013 Presidential Inauguration brought landmark changes in emergency management and spectator safety. For the first time, inaugural personnel used a powerful situational awareness software suite to track medical emergencies; reunite lost family members; and provide real time information to event organizers. Emergency personnel from The District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and the United States military integrated emergency data using HC Standard® – a patient tracking and critical asset software solution developed by Global Emergency Resources, LLC based in Augusta, Georgia.
HC Standard® allowed local, state and federal agencies, including the National Parks Service, US Secret Service, the Red Cross, and Homeland Security officials to have a common operating picture of major events during the Inauguration, including the Presidential Candlelight Reception; the Inaugural Parade; activities along the National Mall; the Commander in Chief Ball; the Inaugural Ball; and the Inaugural Prayer Service.
The DC Department of Health partnered with the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Service Systems (MIEMSS), the Northern Virginia Emergency Response System (NVERS), and the Maryland Department of Human Resources (MD DHS) to provide patient care and tracking throughout the event. Each partner used its own installation of HC Standard® to enter patient data with Motorola MC65 handheld devices. The data was aggregated and shared in all systems so that EMTs, first responders, and command center leaders could see the full picture of Inaugural events as they occurred.
During the Inauguration, HC Standard® tracked every emergency or first aid case and plotted it in each of the three emergency operations centers used for the event tracking and management. Additionally, family members who were lost, and those who were looking for them, had their information uploaded to a multijurisdictional database so they could be more easily reunited. Even the 100+ horses that carried the mounted police were part of the HC Standard® operating picture.
“Interoperability was key,” says Stan Kuzia, CEO and founder of Global Emergency Resources. “The EMS and Healthcare partners in the National Capital Region (NCR) have worked diligently over the years to eliminate information silos and enhance communication. This Presidential Inauguration demonstrated their hard work is paying off”. The various civilian agencies in the NCR also worked closely with their military counterparts to share a combined picture of patients and missing persons being treated and handled during the entire event. HC Standard® helped to bridge the interoperability gaps on Inauguration Day as near real-time data was available to military responders just as fast as their civilian counterparts.
Original document can be found here: http://www.ger911.com/news-and-events/17-news/133-inauguration2013
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 back to normal.
Credit goes to this lady here http://www.sheeri.com/content/mysql-and-leap-second-high-cpu-and-fix
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
One of my experiences here in the USA has been to be a voice over for a set of TV commercials. My friend from church Tom Kotti asked me if I was willing to use my English accent and be the voice over for a TV commercial he was making. I was game, so I said “yes sure”. The TV commercials were for the 36th annual Palmetto golf tournament at the Palmetto Golf Club which has been established in Aiken since 1892. Here is one of the commercials.
I enjoyed the experience immensely and if any one wants to use my voice again please contact me via this blog.
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 the foreach parameters without warnings.
Like so
Text.pm (Line 301)
#
# Promote BackupFilesOnly and BackupFilesExclude to hashes
#
foreach my $param (qw(BackupFilesOnly BackupFilesExclude)) {
next if ( !defined($conf->{$param}) || ref($conf->{$param}) eq "HASH" );
$conf->{$param} = [ $conf->{$param} ]
if ( ref($conf->{$param}) ne "ARRAY" );
$conf->{$param} = { "*" => $conf->{$param} };
}
Lib.pm (Line 1412)
foreach my $param (qw(BackupFilesOnly BackupFilesExclude)) {
next if ( !defined($conf->{$param}) );
if ( ref($conf->{$param}) eq "HASH" ) {