Today I finished switching from GoDaddy where I hosted my WordPress blog and other older sites created in iWeb. The main reason was difficulty in using “Let’s Encrypt Certificates”.

I was running my WordPress site under a Linux Host and I would have to change to their proprietary hosting service and manually renew the “Let’s Encrypt Certificate” every few months.

It took me over a week to get all the changes done, the longest delay was moving my registered domains. I was paying GoDaddy extra to keep my contact information private. So I released that privacy feature and got authorization codes to my new registrar, and GoDaddy emailed me that my domain would be freed on January 17th. Well on January 18th the domain was still with GoDaddy, so I called their technical support.  After waiting on hold for 10 minutes, I got a support person who talked me through an instant release of the domain; slowly because the controls were taking nearly a minute to refresh in our web browsers.  (If you want the shortcut: there is a drop down in the domain control screen in the subtitle bar that allows you to bypass any domain release delays.)

This is an end of an era for my iWeb created pages, they are leaving the web for good, they are not even saved in the way-back machine.

Update: after Go Daddy finally shut down hosting my site several images were broken. I don’t know where those images were uploaded to, because I moved my full media folder.  While I was hosted at Go Daddy, the Word Press updates weren’t automatic and I had someone hack the site and put PDF files randomly on the pages, and Go Daddy called up to let me know the site was hacked and sold me a security scanning tool. (Which I bought because I was busy with other things, but paying for that was another reason I left their hosting.)

You can add several cool tools to Visual Studio by using the command window.  The following example used the command window with Tools.DiffFiles <left file> <right file>.

Here are the procedures to an NTP server on you network: on the Unix derived mac you use “ntdate -q <server name or ip>”, but on windows you use “w32tm /stripchart /computer:<server name or ip>”.

Now I started the w32tm /stripchart /computer:10.10.10.50 in power shell on my dell notebook and it started to running away with the message to use “Ctrl-Break” to stop.  Here’s where it gets fun, the FN extra keys labeled in small orange letters don’t have anything called “Break”, it took me a few minutes to do Ctrl-FN-Insert to stop this.  (The insert key is labeled with small orange letters as “Pause”.)

I have had a DS1515+ for over a year, and now I’m jealous of the new model, but not quite.  The new DS1517+ has an option for a dual 10gigabit copper connection OR a card with two M2 slots.

The “OR” is why I not fully jealous, I see the future as both these; and this model is just stuck in the middle of now and the future.

I use and recommend Clonezilla to clone hard drives, but if you want to use clone and the original disk at the same time; you might have to change the Signature ID in a windows command prompt.

Type DISKPART from a command prompt to get in to the tool.

Inside the tool “list disk” will list the disks.

To do anything with a disk you must type “select disk <number>” where <number> is ### field from the “list disk”.

After you selected a disk you can “uniqueid disk” to list the signature id; and “uniqueid disk ID=<signature id>” where <signature id> is different than the ones you are currently using.

To get back to the command prompt from the DISKPART tool just type “exit”.

I don’t believe this can be changed in the Disk Management control, which you can open from the command prompt by typing “diskmgmt.msc”, however this tool will show you if the clone is offline via signature conflict.  After changing the signature with steps above you can use this tool to right click on disk (above the work offline, not on the partitions.)

I just started exploring new techniques in c# programming.

• Delegates are pointers in C# to functions, possibly compiled in a different file.
• Events are a way for functions to subscribe via delegates to output from delegates, which are set up in delegate as a calling list.
• Lambda functions shown by the “=>” symbol in code allow a defining of an inline delegate.

If you navigate in windows explorer to a folder and type “CMD” in the address bar then the command prompt will start in that folder.

You can copy the output of a command (like dir /b) directory to the clipboard with the “| Clip” command.

The “wmic” command is the console version of the Windows Management Instrumentation and can give text outputs like listing all programs loaded with their version numbers is: “wmic product get name,version”.

Power shell commands to deal with hidden files created with MacOS on SD cards are the following: ls -Force lists hidden files, Remove-Item ..Spotlight-V100 -Recurse -Force removes spotlight directory and Remove-Item ..fseventsd -Force -Rec removes the File Events directory.

After getting a new Mac Book Pro, I have been trying to download gigabytes off my old Mac Book.

I had two problems with the Thunderbolt Ethernet adapter.  First it seems to stop working if the CPU goes in to less power state.  Secondly, in trying to get the file transfer to use the faster speed, I disabled the WiFi in the network preferences.  This worked for a little bit then stopped.  Using Sierra (10.12) this adapter showed disconnected in the network settings, until I re-added the WiFi network settings.  While it showed disconnected the router showed connection lights and the Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter showed up in the system report.

Even with the new Mac OS Sierra (10.12) the copy only uses one of the connected interfaces and never searches for a faster connection, or fails over in the event of a problem with one network interface.  This makes copying gigabytes of virtual machines difficult.

I got a new Macbook Pro computer, with Sierra installed.  Widgets weren’t instantly there because Dashboard (the Widget running program) wasn’t enabled.  When I enabled it and I tried to add my favorite Timecode calculator, the download link was broken.

So I copied my user/Library/Widgets directory from my old mac, and the old Timecode calculator widget was now an option.  (I still had to place it to the screen.)

I ran in to trouble getting visual studio send a file with the install of the program.  I finally got it with Content and “Copy always” properties.

Then I referenced the file with a:

string str1st = File.ReadAllText(System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + “\FirstSQL.xsl”);