Ubuntu: updates are installed, restart is required
I remember how Linux community used to scoff at Windows for constant restarts and boasted ever longer uptimes: “my server has been running without reboot for 5 years!”. Guess what, […]
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Nuget shenanigans
We have added some Reactive Extensions support to our software. All went well until it went into the automated build. Nuget version 3.3.0.212 could not handle System.Reactive.Core package: it would […]
+1 to Microsoft: Dump file created. It is located at…
I had to create a dump of a misbehaving process on Windows Server 2012 using Task Manager. Not only did it tell me where it put the dump, the file […]
JavaScript WTF #3: Foo.prototype is not prototype of Foo
Consider the following code: Why is it false? Because Foo.prototype is in fact not the prototype of Foo, but the prototype of objects created via expression new Foo(): As for […]
Cannot connect to RDP
We have run into the strangest thing on our production machines, which are Windows Server 2012. The symptom is that you try to connect to the remote desktop, and immediately […]
Browserify, Uglify, and Dissatisfy
I needed to make relatively minor changes to a JavaScript project created by someone else. They use minimized files, but I found that they don’t have a source map, they […]
If npm tries to install into C:\Program Files
After some uprade (VS 2015 update 3 install?) npm started to install packages into C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules, thus requirement admin rights and generally wrecking havoc. Previous installation location was %appdata%/npm/node_modules. Npm […]
Typescript compiler, where art thou
I was trying to experiment with Typescript and Visual Studio code, and I found that there are at least three versions of TypeScript compiler one might have: 1. Microsoft compiler […]