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Oct
15
Fixing “Failed to connect to settings endpoint” Error in Microsoft Teams App on the Mac
Filed Under Computers & Tech on October 15, 2020 | Leave a Comment
As of October 2020, if you go to Microsoft’s site and download the very latest version of Teams and install it on a brand new Mac running the very latest version of macOS with all patches applied and all the default settings set, the Teams app will fail to log you in because it thinks it can’t see the internet. You’ll get a cryptic error that includes the phrase “Failed to connect to settings endpoint”.
The fix for this is really simple, but it took me for ever to find, so I figured I’d share it with the world and perhaps save other some stress ?
Jul
26
TTT Part 39 of n – Advanced TMUX
Filed Under Computers & Tech, System Administration on July 26, 2020 | Leave a Comment
In the previous instalment we learned how to use the tmux as a replacement for the screen command which has been deprecated on RedHat Enterprise Linux (and hence CentOS too). In this instalment we’ll take TMUX to the next level, making use of the fact that a single TMUX session can contain arbitrarily many windows, each consisting of arbitrarily many panes.
As a reminder from last time — in the TMUX-universe, sessions contain windows contain panes. By default a session contains one window which contains one full-width and full-height pane. Windows can be thought of as stacking behind each other, like tabs in a browser, and panes are arrayed next to each other within a window.
Jul
11
TTT Part 38 of n – TMUX (A Screen Alternative)
Filed Under Computers & Tech on July 11, 2020 | Leave a Comment
Since we covered the screen command in instalment 36, it has been deprecated in Red Enterprise Linux 8, and the official advice from Red Hat is to transition to the tmux command. Having been a fan of screen for years, I was skeptical, but I shouldn’t have been — tmux can do everything screen can, it can arguably do it better, and, it can do much more than screen ever could!
Jun
16
PBS 98 of X — Building with Classes Part 1: Has-A
Filed Under Computers & Tech, Software Development on June 16, 2020 | Leave a Comment
This instalment is hosted on GitHub — Read the Show Notes Here.
Jun
16
PBS 97 of X — Class Data Attributes & Functions
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This instalment is hosted on GitHub — Read the Show Notes Here.
Jun
16
PBS 96 of X — World Clock Challenge Solution
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This instalment is hosted on GitHub — Read the Show Notes Here.
May
3
PBS 95 of X — Better JavaScript Class Attributes
Filed Under Computers & Tech, Software Development on May 3, 2020 | Leave a Comment
This instalment is hosted on GitHub — Read the Show Notes Here.
Apr
7
PBS 93 of X — Encapsulation with JavaScript Objects
Filed Under Computers & Tech, Software Development on April 7, 2020 | Leave a Comment
This instalment is hosted on GitHub — Read the Show Notes Here.
Feb
26
Generating SSH Keys on Windows with PuTTYgen
Filed Under Computers & Tech, Security, System Administration on February 26, 2020 | 1 Comment
In instalment 30 of the Taming the Terminal series I showed how SSH keys can be used to more securely and conveniently connect to servers. The instructions in that instalment are for Linux-like OSes (including MacOS) where the standard OpenSSH tools are available.
Windows doesn’t ship with OpenSSH (or indeed any SSH implementation), so Windows users who want to SSH need to install some kind of additional software. With Windows 10 there is the obvious option of installing the Windows Subsystem for Linux, but people may prefer a GUI experience. The obvious choice for Windows users is the venerable free and open source PuTTY suite of tools.
The PuTTY SSH client itself is easy to use, and if you install the full suite of apps via the MSI installer (available on their download page) you’ll also get a GUI for generating SSH keys named PuTTYgen.
Feb
23
PBS 91 of X — JavaScript RE Objects
Filed Under Software Development, Computers & Tech on February 23, 2020 | Leave a Comment
This instalment is hosted on GitHub — Read the Show Notes Here.