SSL Certificates issued by royalvulkan.com
A student came to my office today. His browser showed our fronter.com instance protected by a peculiar SSL certificate issued by royalvulkan.com. The norm for fronter.com instances are SSL certificates issued by COMODO CA Limited. The intrusive SSL certificate has a validity period spanning from 1996 to 2056, which is very odd. The certificate probably […]
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Error 30174-4 while installing MS Visio Professional 2016?
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.
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After installing Autodesk Revit 2017 on a student’s laptop, the software started whining about missing msvcr100.dll. This was solved by repairing Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4, both x86 and x64.
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Autodesk Vault Professional 2017 and Autodesk Network License Manager
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. That’s a bit strange when C:\Autodesk has until now been a temporary location for extracting the setup files. I can confirm moving the files to a saner location like […]
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Warning! Your server is on fire! Also, you are out of milk. Ref.: Linux Journal, Issue 267, July 2016, pp. 14-15.
Read More → Server on fire while running out of milkC++ draft standard N4604
I just learned about the new C++ draft standard N4604. I read Section 16.8 “Predefined macro names” and created this little test program to assess the compilers available:
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Det er to ting jeg har sluttet å bli overrasket over. Etterretningenes kynisme og befolkningens naivitet. Ref.: http://itavisen.no/2016/07/21/dette-er-dingsen-snowden-vil-beskytte-mobiler-med/#comment-2796233067.
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Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi
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Our product is broken, so just tell the OS not to use the broken feature and hey presto you’re a winner! Now stop bugging us with your Loonixes and stuff. Ref.: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fstrim/+bug/1449005/comments/53.
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C♯ and mono are both a blessing and a curse. Most documentation, FreeBSD-specific or not, on the internet are more or less outdated. Maybe I was looking in the wrong places. It was really frustrating. Soon this will be outdated too. Start by adding lang/mono. Then add x11-toolkits/libgdiplus.
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