For whatever reason my Windows desktop profile is not reflected to my Citrix apps. So I get to figure out the settings that I’ve changed over the years all over again.
In Skype for Business I want a fixed width font and no emoji.
This morning Alexa was an hour behind — she hadn’t moved to DST. A quick search on Google showed that last year DST switching had worked.
The top hit, however, was a fresh Reddit thread with Alexa users reporting the same issue. After keeping an eye on it, I saw a user come up with the solution that worked for me (and it is the only solution on the thread so far).
Launch the Alex app and go to Settings, select a device, and change the timezone
The fix takes immediately: just ask “Alexa, what time is it?” — no power cycling needed.
Since switching to the iCloud Photo Library, the Photos app on my laptop has kept telling me that
To identify the oddball photos, I created the following smart folders respectively:
Referenced photos can be consolidated into the library and would then be uploaded to iCloud — mine was a duplicate, so I just deleted it. The photos that could not be uploaded were photos that had been deleted, but somehow a reference had been kept or imported.
References:
If you have already upgraded to jessie and have systemd as init, you can switch back with these commands:
apt-get install -y sysvinit-core reboot apt-get purge -y systemd
Running with sysvinit works better on my servers, as daemons have a chance of doing their own graceful shutdown before the network is brought down.
Before upgrading to jessie, create /etc/apt/preferences.d/use-sysvinit:
Package: systemd-sysv Pin: release o=Debian Pin-Priority: -1
See also: How to stay with sysvinit in Debian Jessie by Petter Reinholdtsen
Windows Update has been getting stuck checking for new updates for the past several months. The automatic update somehow manages to complete, at least sometimes, but running a check manually doesn’t complete within a couple of days. It should be more like minutes, shouldn’t it? (more…)
I should have noted this Outlook tip with the fixed font one earlier:
What are “extra line breaks” anyway? Removing them does bad things to code.