Andrew mcandre

How to retrieve the current user's home directory from either Command Prompt or PowerShell:

C:\> cmd /c "echo %homedrive%%homepath%"
C:\Users\andrew

PS C:\> cmd /c "echo %homedrive%%homepath%"
C:\Users\andrew

Unix: which <program>

Windows: where.exe <program>

The .exe requirement is due to where being a token of the PowerShell language

The latest BootCamp drivers fail to support Function keys on Apple internal laptop keyboards in Windows 10. To fix this, one can use an older driver.

Download the older BootCamp drivers from https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1720?locale=en_US
Extract the ZIP file contents.
In BootCamp5.1.5621\BootCamp\Drivers\Apple, run AppleKeyboardInstaller64.exe.

The driver situation with Apple Bluetooth wireless keyboards and Windows 10 is horrible, even with the latest BootCamp drivers. Fortunately, a workaround is available, if you're patient.

Pair keyboard once

Turn on the keyboard.
Press and hold Command + w until the keyboard light begins blinking, indicating the keyboard is ready to pair.
Use Windows Bluetooth settings to pair the keyboard, entering the same code (e.g. 123456 Enter) on both internal and external keyboards.

Pairing the keyboard is very trial and error. 9/10 times, Windows will complain that the keyboard is not available for pairing. Just keep trying.

Create a shortcut to the desired file.
Run -> shell:startup
Copy the shortcut to the startup folder.

using Ansible command line:

ansible-playbook --connection=local 127.0.0.1 playbook.yml

using inventory:

127.0.0.1 ansible_connection=local

README

Services declared as oneshot are expected to take some action and exit immediatelly (thus, they are not really services, no running processes remain). A common pattern for these type of service is to be defined by a setup and a teardown action.

Let's create a example foo service that when started creates a file, and when stopped it deletes it.

Define setup/teardown actions

Create executable file /opt/foo/setup-foo.sh:

	PS C:\Users\andrew\Downloads> .\fciv.exe -both .\BootCamp5.1.5621.zip
	//
	// File Checksum Integrity Verifier version 2.05.
	//
	MD5 SHA-1
	-------------------------------------------------------------------------
	b32fce2718918a7ada6e2153b95c2d1f 72c71be259474836c17ddd400aca2218660b8aac .\bootcamp5.1.5621.zip

	curl --include \
	--no-buffer \
	--header "Connection: Upgrade" \
	--header "Upgrade: websocket" \
	--header "Host: example.com:80" \
	--header "Origin: http://example.com:80" \
	--header "Sec-WebSocket-Key: SGVsbG8sIHdvcmxkIQ==" \
	--header "Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13" \
	http://example.com:80/

	node {
	echo 'Results included as an inline comment exactly how they are returned as of Jenkins 2.121, with $BUILD_NUMBER = 1'
	echo 'No quotes, pipeline command in single quotes'
	sh 'echo $BUILD_NUMBER' // 1
	echo 'Double quotes are silently dropped'
	sh 'echo "$BUILD_NUMBER"' // 1
	echo 'Even escaped with a single backslash they are dropped'
	sh 'echo \"$BUILD_NUMBER\"' // 1
	echo 'Using two backslashes, the quotes are preserved'
	sh 'echo \\"$BUILD_NUMBER\\"' // "1"