Trond's place

The Office 365 instance installed on a student’s laptop showed signs of not being activated and in need of an update.

pf(4) is a bit optimistic with regard to how many states it can track using the defaults.

Cisco’s Catalyst 9400 Series introduced this summer do look promising, but it’s still missing a few highlights: Complete support for redundant supervisors; unavailable according to the release notes dated July 31, 2017 The supervisor module (hardware) sup…

I created a shell script which began its simple life as After running the script for a second time and a third time, etc, the script was successively changed to: Restart Apache using service apache24 restart.

A student experienced Revit 2018.1 giving him this rather useless error message: Licensing System Error 1 After Googling for a solution, we installed/repaired all the Visual C++ runtimes we could find in 3rdParty\x64\VCRedist and in 3rdParty\x86\VCRedist…

Yesterday, a student installed Autodesk Revit 2018 on his Windows 10 x64 laptop.

I’ve been exploring Pässler PRTG on Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (Microsoft Imagine Premium) for the past couple of days.

Without this patch, python2.7 will crash when the loop in setup.py reaches setupext.BackendGtk3Cairo().

Running OpenConnect’s ocserv with user-profile=profile.xml creates some headache as all files are removed from /var/run at reboot.

I decided to upgrade ESET NOD32 from 10.0.390.0 to 10.1.219.1 using the dashboard.

One of our Dell Latitude E7240 exhibited strange mSATA SSD behaviour.

After a couple of crude attempts at making my own versions of namei(1) this spring, namei.c and namei.go, I decided to take a look at the original.

misc/amanda-{client,server} as of r441897 fails to create the directory /usr/local/etc/amanda and an empty file named /usr/local/etc/amanda/security.conf.

I’m always delighted by the light touch and stillness of early programming languages.

Updates to Trend Micro OfficeScan last week resulted in four cases of BAD_POOL_HEADER and STOP 0x19.

We use ABB System 800xA, among other systems, for our industrial automation classes.

All commands were done as the root user unless indicated.

r400699 created some headache for me.

Unicode allows [for] even more stupid password rules.

The two old 4GB memory sticks were replaced by two new sticks of Kingston HyperX Savage DDR3 2133MHz 16GB, P/N HX321C11SRK2/16.

r436290 renamed devel/py-setuptools27 to devel/py27-setuptools.

r434380 made massive changes to Qt4 and Qt5 in FreeBSD.

Running Minix 3 in Oracle VirtualBox is pretty straight forward.

PROGRAMMER’S PRAYER Our program, who art in memory, called by thy name; thy operating system run; thy function be done at runtime as it was in development.

Earlier this week, a student walked into my office with his Dell XPS 15 9550 in hand.

See also Cisco Bug ID CSCuz72344.

I have a few FreeBSD servers I want to virtualise.

Kryptowire announced on 2016-11-15 the discovery of malware in Android-based smart phones sold by, among others, Amazon US and BestBuy.

Adobe har en artig språkbruk når abonnementet skal fornyes.

Her er en oppskrift for å få alle Norges poststeder inn i en egnet tabell.

A student came to my office today.

If you run into error 30174-4 while installing MS Office and related software, try running a full repair of the product from the Control Panel.

After installing Autodesk Revit 2017 on a student’s laptop, the software started whining about missing msvcr100.dll.

I was installing Autodesk Vault Professional 2017 in the wee hours today, and I noticed the Autodesk Network License Manager was installed in C:\Autodesk\Network License Manager.

Warning!

I just learned about the new C++ draft standard N4604.

Det er to ting jeg har sluttet å bli overrasket over.

Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi

Our product is broken, so just tell the OS not to use the broken feature and hey presto you’re a winner!

C♯ and mono are both a blessing and a curse.

I noticed the weekdays was missing from xclock‘s digital display when run in FreeBSD base/head aka 11.0-ALPHA6.

Jobbe på en speilfabrikk er noe jeg kan se meg selv gjøre.

Fra slutten av en matteprøve datert 1989-01-16: Oppgave Û.

I’m in the process of readying a brand new Dell Precision 7710.

I came across Dan Langille post on security/ssl-admin and figured I should try it before my old certificates expires later in 2016. ssl-admin exists mainly for managing OpenVPN certificates, and with some tweaking you can make it work for ordinary SSL/TLS…

Et noe omskrevet sitat fra en kommentar hos digi.no: «Oppgraderinger» i dag er bare «bloatware» med ingen ytelsesforbedringer, og er fullstappet med bakgrunnstjenester som overvåker deg og tapper maskinen for krefter.

Update 2016-05-29: BIND 9.10.4-P1 is out and available as dns/bind910 as of r415882 in the FreeBSD ports tree.

One of my MySQL 5.7.12 instances refused to start after upgrading to FreeBSD’s MySQL port version 5.7.12_1, claiming: 2016-05-18T11:03:26.688719Z 0 [ERROR] InnoDB: The Auto-extending innodb_system data file '/var/db/mysql/ibdata1' is of a different size 4…

I too was bitten by the portupgrade uninstall error, due to broken pipes, on my laptop running FreeBSD/amd64 stable/10.

All FreeBSD systems under my care got upgraded last Friday to fix some NTP bugs.