As the holiday season nears, a new laptop for developing skills and personal projects is worth considering. The Dell XPS 13 7390, with an Intel® Core™ i7-10710U processor, is really enticing. Windows 10 Pro, an M.2 PCIe NVMe SDD, and non-touch display are motivating as well. As with other big purchases, a decision will require […]
System.InvalidOperationException: Cross-thread operation not valid. Control “textBox1” accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on. The above exception was encountered while placing a function call with long execution time on a separate thread and having that thread update a TextBox with status updates. The issue arises, because “access to Windows Forms […]
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Login attempts can be tracked in real time with the following command: /bin/utmpdump -f /var/log/btmp I received a Logwatch email reporting a “corruption detected in /var/log/btmp : XX time(s)” issue. By performing an Internet search for the reported issue, I found Gabriel Cánepa’s How to Monitor User Login History on CentOS with utmpdump. Cánepa describes […]
Sometime around November 2005, I stumbled upon Scott Berkun’s Essay #41 – Why I Left Microsoft. At the time, I felt inspired by his courage of leaving an environment where he acquired tenure as a program manager for the Internet Explorer web browser project. In his essay, Scott Berkun writes: So I chose to leave […]