There is an annoying bug in the Windows 11 Installer that catches me way too often. If you select something different than the pre-selected values in the first screen for the language options, the installer starts but then stays forever at this progress level:
42%
We decommissioned an older application and for the clean-up phase we had to delete the Windows Services for this application. Uninstalling the services took longer than expected, even if it should be a straightforward action.
A few weeks ago, I upgraded my Synology DiskStation to the newest version of the DSM 7.2 branch. The upgrade warned about a few incompatibilities, but I used none of them – at least I thought. While the upgrade went through without any problems, it took a while to notice an odd new problem. When I tried to log in via SSH, all I got was the access denied message.
Strange, then the Passwordless Backup with Synology DiskStation worked as it did before, yet I could not connect with the same credentials.
Last week we addressed the most annoying problem of Visual Studio 17.12, the messed up NuGet audit for vulnerabilities. This gives us now the chance to talk about the second big problem we may run into in Visual Studio 17.12: the missing CSS and JS files when we build our web applications.
Together with .Net 9 we got a new Visual Studio version. Not a Visual Studio 2025 or something that signals the significance of the version change. No, we got the small step of 17.11 to 17.12 and may give not much notice to all the changes – and they are big.
Many tasks for Octopus Deploy in Azure DevOps work asynchronously. What is great in fire-and-forget scenarios, can be a problem when we need to finish a task before we go to the next one.
We had many failing BDD tests right at the beginning of the test run. After a long and cumbersome debugging session, we found the source of the problem: Our tests started before Octopus deployed our release to the server. But how can we delay our pipeline enough until Octopus finishes its work?
On a regular Linux, we would use this command to restart the computer:
On my newly upgraded Ubuntu 24.04 LTS I got this error when I started a Java application:
Exception in thread "main" java.awt.HeadlessException: No X11 DISPLAY variable was set, or no headful library support was found, but this program performed an operation which requires it,
at java.desktop/sun.java2d.HeadlessGraphicsEnvironment.getDefaultScreenDevice(HeadlessGraphicsEnvironment.java:58) at foo.lj.a(Unknown Source) at foo.lj.(Unknown Source)
The upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 took a lot more effort than I am used to. The option to install to the current LTS version did not show up in the graphical update application and the command line tool ended with this error:
There is a simple trick to find out if a certain website uses the CDN Cloudflare or not. All we need to do is to add /cdn-cgi/trace at the end of the (sub)domain name: