My experience upgrading anaconda from Debian 7 “wheezy” to Debian 8 “jessie”.
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Debian – issues after “upgrade” to systemd
Debian: ensure /var/run and /var/lock are symlinks and not directly mounted, or systemd will break in many interesting ways.
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Windows 7 – RTC using UTC
Ok, so this is more a note for my future self than anything interesting, but basically, to force Windows to keep the computer’s RTC at UTC (required if dual-booting Linux, and also just in general makes sense), adjust the following registry key:
Key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\RealTimeIsUniversal Type: DWORD Value: 1 (RTC is in UTC) , 0 (RTC is in local time (default)
Alternatively, save the following as a registry key file (.reg), and import it into your registry:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation] "RealTimeIsUniversal"=dword:00000001
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svn+ssh on the Windows command-line
To use svn+ssh:// style svn URLs on the Windows command-line, ensure the %SVN_SSH% environment variable is properly set:
- It must contain the fully-qualified path to the SSH client (typically plink.exe from the PuTTY suite)
- The path must be written using forward-slashes instead of the Windows-standard backslash.
setx SVN_SSH "C:/Program Files (x86)/PuTTY/plink.exe"Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10598069/svnssh-and-sourceforge
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Windows – UK International Keyboard
Windows has an officially supported international keyboard layout for the US with AltGr-initiated dead keys for composing characters. Unfortunately there is no equivalent for the UK; the UK international keyboard layout is completely unusable for programmers as it turns a lot of commonly-used keys into dead keys.
But there is a decent international layout for the UK available from here:
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~johns/kbukint.html
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Tomdroid + Snowy
Fixing synchronisation between Tomdroid and Snowy.
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Double patched
Or where Micha fixes fixed flaws.
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Decent SCP client for Windows?
No decent SCP/SFTP client for Windows?
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luksClose fails, device busy
Ok, so I recently put my backup system back into my server only to find an issue with my mount/unmount scripts.
Namely: on unmount, luksClose fails with the device showing as busy. Which is funny because nothing should have been accessing it.
There’s plenty of posts/bugs/etc online of people having the same issue, but either no solutions are posted, or the solutions didn’t apply in my case. Well, I finally tracked it down: noflushd.
noflushd is a daemon which spins down idle disks. It probably wasn’t running on my old server which is why I didn’t have any problems before.
Long story short, shutting down noflushd finally let me close my encrypted backup disk and shut it down. Yayy.
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EyeToy camera (for PS2) under Windows 7
Somehow I ended up with several EyeToy cameras for the PS2, one of which I use for my Desktop PC as a webcam. Works a treat under Linux, so I decided to try and get it working under Windows 7 64-bit as well.
There’s an archive containing drivers and a small test program here. The driver has to be installed manually using the Device Manager (it’s not signed), but seems to work. YMMV.