Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Spending a little extra time getting the missing pieces to work and ironing stuff out.

Medical visit

I was supposed to have a medical visit this morning, but when I went to AMETRA06, they told me I was not in their schedule. Checked with Gabriella and Catrinel.

Turns out they had told me they'd send email to confirm the appointment, but since they had no appointment, they did not send email and deduced I would not go there. But since my Red Hat mail was not working, I assumed that was the reason for not getting the confirmation email. Oh well, that did not take too long.

Windows 10

The only real issue I had was with my MSDN account. I don't really understand the Microsoft login system. It seems that it forgets my account on a relatively regular basis. But not quite.

Specifically, if I tell it that I want to recover my password, it tells me that my e-mail address is not known, but if I try to create an account, then it is known. This is not consistent across Microsoft sites, though. So I ended up being able to re-create an account from live.com, then ask for password recovery, because it logged me in without asking for a password on the Mac side, but then refused to accept the password recorded on the Mac to login from the Windows 10 VM. Really strange.

Part of the problem was that the recovery mails were sent to my Red Hat email, which I was unable to read. Once I finally got that working, I could reset my account password and successfully login from the Windows 10 VM as well. Then downloaded Visual Studio. Have not rebuilt anything with it yet.

E-mail

All it took to get it working was to find it in my account list and activate it. Why that specific account was not reactivated by default, I don't know. But I got confused, because I was also presented me with the GMail variant + SSO, which does not actually work.

So now I have my lists back, which is a good thing, because I have a lot of catch up to do.

Linux

Installed the Red Hat VPN in the Linux box, did a quick code reviews to check it works.

Rebuilt Tao with make -j6, ran out of memory. There's no swap configured on that partition. Frankly, 4GB is plenty for what I do if I don't do massively parallel builds.

High Sierra feedback

Wrote another comment on the internal note regarding High Sierra, to tell about my partitioning disaster.

Synology disk update

Disk 1 of the Synology server that is serving this very web page had been marked as "Failing" for about a week. I purchased a new one on Amazon, got it today. I love RAID for that.

For later reference:

• Disk1: 32987 hours (almost 4 years of operation), now p0 hours (Good, it's not a refurbish...)

  * Disk2: 3604 hours (around 5 months of operation) * Disk3: 33008 hours (almost 4 years of operation) * Disk4: 11470 hours (a little over one year of operation)

Reinstalling Homebrew components

Reinstalling Homebrew in order to get some basic amenities in my macOS.

brew install pkg-config pixman gtk+3 gstreamer gstreamermm libjpeg-turbo
cd spice-protocol
./configure
make && make install

Getting F25 guest to resume after move

I made a clone of my Fedora 25 guest that had the NVIDIA card attached to it, and tried to return it to "boot as a regular guest" state. So far, I've not been very successful. I tried various configuration changes on the guest side, but I always get a black screen.