Flugphase

Tip: We recommend using only one user account to manage both personal and professional repositories.

Quelle: Merging multiple user accounts – User Documentation

Yes, and I am quite fond of finding out how my clients react to having „MasterCoder69“ contributing to their GitHub hosted internal repositories…

… is useless – at least for me. We’re not an „all Microsoft“ kind of organisation. This way, it just shows if somebody had the time to save documents on our corporate sharepoint site. Yay…

[X] Uninstall

Sex workers are reporting that their Google Drive files are mysteriously locked or vanishing.

Quelle: Sex Workers Say Porn on Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing – Motherboard

Google spielt mit dem Feuer – damit beweisen Sie, dass sie Zugriff auf die in drive gespeicherten Dateien haben. Der Gesetzgeber wird dann wohl demnächst fordern, dass google automatisch unerwünschte Daten löscht.

Backups are a good thing to have (although I keep screwing up the server I’m doing the backups on, but that’s another story).

For my Ubuntu systems I found „backintime“ which does a periodic backup and sends it to a local directory or server.

To keep things backed up on my NAS (Ubuntu based) I installed snapper, which does a snapshot of btrfs and zfs file systems. Be sure to add the right „ALLOW_GROUPS“ if you’re using it with Windows – that way, you can use the Windows „Previous Versions“ GUI to access previous versions on your samba network share.

Cortana kann verwendet werden, um gesperrte Rechner zu hacken (gefunden via fefe).

Ubuntu MAAS, Snaps, LXD containers, conjure-up – just a few new names and packages within the „Ubuntu Universe“ to create, manage and handle cloud infrastructure.

It’s. A. Mess. Everything seems to be designed to run on it’s own, empty, fresh install of Ubuntu-something, automatically creating, installing, destroying things. And instead of a library/ package dependency hell, you are rewarded with a mount and network service dependency hell. And often with a „something failed, look at $logfile“ whereas $logfile tells you, that super-service-whatthefuckd could not be started since the address/ port is already in use.

Traditionally, swap space is configured in /etc/fstab. It can be turned off with „swapoff -a“ (removes all swap devices).

Enter systemd (on Ubuntu 16.04): „swapoff -a“ turns of the swap – but only for 30 seconds. If you want to deactivate your swap „more permanently“, uncomment the swap part of /etc/fstab. You think you’re done? Think again, because „systemd knows best“ and goes ahead and reactivates all swap partitions (as it seems, that are on the same disc as /, didn’t test that yet) regardless your settings in fstab.

Given enough time, systemd rants are a good place to learn about non-expected systemd behaviour.

I am working with a software (TM1) that shifts it’s traditional, C-Based API to a REST-based, OData „compatible“ API. The API description is based on an XML file, the API calls are accepting/ emmitting JSON files.

The thing is: All exploration tools and services seem to be discontinued. The XOData Explorer is based on a chrome web app that is discontinued. The reference OData Explorer only understands the API version V3 (V4 is the latest standard). The metadata of the service I’m trying to use can not be viewed with the Visual Studio 2017 OData Connected Services. The proxy class generator only works with Visual Studio 2015 and older. The examples were hosted on CodePlex, which Microsoft discontinued in favor of github.

It doesn’t seem to be smart to develop a toolbox for the API based on the smell of rot concerning OData. But then, what choice do I have?