Software

Black magic

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

I’m considering to move my personal cloud from OwnCloud to NextCloud. Then you read those build instructions.

Building on Linux

Run:

mkdir build-linux
cd build-linux
cmake -D OEM_THEME_DIR=`pwd`/../nextcloudtheme ../client
make
make install

Building on OSX

Attention: When building make sure to use an old Core 2 Duo build machine running OS X 10.10. Otherwise the resulting binary won’t work properly for users of an older device. Have at least 180 GB free disk space when compiling Qt. Make sure your user is named “builder”.

The building instructions for MacOsX are almost black magic. You must build it with user “builder”?

Really?

You must use an old machine otherwise the binaries won’t run on older devices? Are you serious?

That’s another set of reason why I will surely avoid Apple.

windows-subsystem-for-linuxWindows Subsystem for Linux

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a compatibility layer for running Linuxbinary executables (in ELF format) natively on Windows 10. Microsoft and Canonical partnered together to enable a genuine UbuntuTrusty Tahr image to be downloaded and extracted to the user’s local machine, and for the tools and utilities contained within that image to run natively on top of the WSL.

Some people may say that we’re at step four:

  1. First they ignore you,
  2. Then they laugh at you,
  3. Then they fight you,
  4. Then you win.

I’m not that sure. The once-dark-knight doesn’t look that dangerous these days. The evil overlord is now another.

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InactiveAccount

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

Dear VMWare, why do you keep telling me that my newly registered and freshly activated account is inactive?

InactiveAccount

Activate Your My VMware Account

You must activate your My Vmware account before you can log in. To activate your account, open the confirmation email sent when you registered for your account and click the link in the email.

If you have already activated your account and think you may have received this page in error, click Back to log in again or close your browser and try again.

I can tolerate being forced to use a couple of times your proprietary software – paid by my employer. I also acknowledge that it’s not the latest release.

Just let me tell you that finding «vSphere Remote Command Line» for GNU/Linux is just a pain, as the link you provided into your own ESXi 4 is hopelessly broken.

Mildly put using your website is a severely suboptimal experience.

Greetings.