Adding Alternative Remote Git Repository

I had a large project, which I kept in a Git repository. As a backup I also pushed it to a private Github repository. I wanted it to be private, bacause of the nature of the project, which wasn't in a state to be public.

But, as usual, it was a little problem, which was the price in this particular case. While I kept the private repository on Github, but moving back to a free plan made for me impossible to push changes.

Fortuantely, I heard Microsoft's Visual Studio Team Services has Git support - and quite a bit later - I decided to copy my repository there.

Git not only supports multiple branches, but also supports multiple remote repositories. Which is good if you want to make your life mote confusing :) . The nice thing is that all remote repositories are considered to be the same. So the usual origin/master branch is nothing special and it's the same as teamfoundation/master branch we're going to create.


 In the following, I'll list the commands I used to create the alternative repository, with regards to the existing remote repo.

git remote show - lists all remote repositories
git remote add teamserver "https link from teamserver repository description" - well, it adds the new repo to our local one
git remove show teamserver - lists the details of our remote repository
git push teamserver master - finally, we can push our commited changes to the new remote repository. This command will also create the master branch on the remote server

The funny thing is, that I searched for tutorials how to do this remote repository thing and didn't find in the mean time, that the detail page of my Team Services repo explicitally tells me the needed git command to push the changes there from an existing repository.

 Thanks for reading :)

VirtualBox snapshot problem

While I was setting up a development machine in VirtualBox, I created several snapshots of it. I was doing this to being able hopefully painlessly un- or reinstall Visual Studio. However, after the first shutdown I wasn't able to  run my virtual machine again, because the first snapshot VHD file didn't have the right parent UUID. It was set to {00000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}.

Skype's Disk Activity

I have a rather weird issue with Skype on my desktop computer. If it's running - even in the background I hear the hard disk ticking. When I close the Skype the ticking stops.

Checking in the Task Manager Skype is accessing my disk with around 0.1 Mbytes / s rate, which I found a bit unusual.

Crashing Spotify - probably solved

I really love Spotify, because of tons of music I can browse. I usually use its Windows desktop client. I find it kinda usable, no worries and I'm keeping it updated.

Perhaps, since one update (cca. 2 weeks ago) app crashes appeared. Especially in Radio feature, when I rapidly switch between the tracks. The weird thing about the crash was, that there was no system message about application crash, the app window - and naturally the Spotify process - just disappeared.

Today, after installing Windows updates gave it a second try and business as usual :( . After some rapid switching Spotify crashed again, but I didn't give up. In advance, I must admit I'm using it on a really old HP notebook, with Core Duo T2050 processor, but in combination with Windows 8 (no 8.1 of course :D).

While browsing Spotify's prefrences, I noticed some Hardware Acceleration tweaks. I found them interesting and most interestingly they were enabled. After disabling them and restarting Spotify I haven't encountered any crashes, yet. Win situation - finally I can browse the music with no limits :D.

I love pictures, so here is one about Spotify Preferences dialog, with Hardware Acceleration settings working on my old workhorse:

Is hwinfo.com infected?

My story starts with my mother's problem. She complained me about her computer which turned off after several minutes of working. I decided to clean its heatsink, but it was pretty clean, so I decided to not take apart the notebook, because I didn't yet have any thermal paste.
Well this isn't special thing, but I really wanted to make sure, that the CPU's overheating, so I downloaded and sent her the hwinfo32 application, which I use to monitor the CPU temperature. Then surprise happened:

PlayStation 4 introduced

The first presenter at Playstation meeting 2013 introduced the new gaming console Playstation 4.

Google's Youtube has some problems

According to several user reports Youtube has some technical problems causing monkeys have lot to do. On the other hand , it seems, that not only Youtube is facing some internal server errors, but there is a problem to Google's HTTP servers, too.

So what are, the symptoms?

The most well known problem is Youtube's internal server errors, making videos unreachable. The problem is present at least since yesterday, make me beleive, that this is not a planned maintance action. Moreover, the fact that they haven't still fixed it, tells me it's some serious problem. Fortunately, not the whole service is down, perhaps due to load balancing, so you can get the video from a working server.

Also it seems, that the storage isn't affected, because nobody reported any data loss, so don't panic. But if I were you, I wouldn't upload any video, until this issue is present.

Google's ad service also facing the same issues, causing some ads unavailable. What a shame, isn't it? :-D ( Perhaps, due to the new feature, where ads are videos. too )

 

Finally, even I can't get the message about highly trained monkey ( probably Skipper's chimp partners ), because of HTTP service's unavailability.

We cannot speed up recovery, so have one choice...live our offline life. So, go for a walk and enjoy air!