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Fix login issue in Visual Studio 2013 and 2015

After start Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 may have login problems with the following error:

The Online service is not available. Please try again later

The reason is that web server go.microsoft.com now supports only TLS1.2 protocol.

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Introduction

This guide describes process of re-generating initramfs of Linux installation using chroot (for example, using a Live USB). Such manpilations may be useful, for example, in case the system fails to boot after changing of disks, cryptsetup partitions, re-created partitions with changed UUIDs.

Tesed on:

• Fedora 43, 41
• Ubuntu 26.04, 24.04

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Git Cheatsheet

Start rebase of all history including initial commit

git rebase -i --root

Change executable flag of files

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# Get VM IP address by name
# Examples:
# .\Get-VM-IP.ps1 -vm_name "Ubuntu 24.04 Server"
param([string]$vm_name = "Windows 10")
$mac = (get-vm -name $vm_name | select -ExpandProperty networkadapters| select -ExpandProperty macaddress) -replace "([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})", '$1-$2-$3-$4-$5-$6'
Get-NetNeighbor -LinkLayerAddress $mac | select -ExpandProperty IPAddress

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MS Visual Studio Installers and ISO direct links

Contents

• VS 2019
• VS 2017
  • VS 2017 Express
• VS 2015
  • VS 2015 Original release (without updates)
  • VS 2015 Express

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Blender 3D Tips&Tricks

How to automate blender video sequencer

Adda sequence of images to video timeline:

import os

from bpy import context

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Installation guides

• Abaqus 2020/2022 on Ubuntu 20.04: https://github.com/franaudo/abaqus-ubuntu
• Abaqus 2019 on Ubuntu 20.04: https://gist.github.com/cmaurini/60fab556ba4a43bd44341a1af114dde7
• Abaqus 6.14 on Ubuntu 16.04: https://github.com/Solid-Mechanics/Install-ABAQUS-on-Ubuntu

Adjust GUI fonts on Ubuntu Linux

Replace default X11 fonts (left image) in Abaqus GUI by installing 75dpi (center image) or 100dpi fonts (right image) and then reboot to apply the changes.

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Introduction

Vodafone K3565-Z (ZTE K3565-Z) is listed in MikroTik wiki [1], but this page doesn't specify any settings.

Setup

1. Setup ppp-out1. Specify modem parameters in Advanced Mode:

• Data Channel = 3
• Info Channel = 3

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Twitter

FxEmbed

GitHub repository: https://github.com/FxEmbed/FxEmbed

Also supports Bluesky (see below)

Nodes:

• https://fxtwitter.com/

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Fix Wayland icons of apps after switching to KDE & Wayland [Ubuntu 24.04]

Description

After switching to Wayland some apps have default Wayland icon:

Example setup for Firefox