I began to use cherry picking to add changes from a commit from one branch and move them onto another branch. Cherry-pick looks promising for transferring the code changes between branches. Everything is simple according to the documentation but a little different in real life. It took me approximately one hour to pick a cherry… Read More »
WebSocket protocol is a suitable way to create a reliable two directional connection between a server and a client. WebSocket is using the same ports as HTTP/HTTPS protocols: 80 and 443. However very frequently WebSocket is not such transparent as HTTP and may be blocked by firewalls, proxy or antivirus applications. Anyway if multiple WebSocket… Read More »
The openssl help shows 2 groups ciphers with ECB (Electronic Code book) and CBC (Cipher Block Chaining) suffixes. For example aes-128-ecb and aes-128-cbc or aes-256-ecb and aes-256-cbc for AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) ciphers. In ECB mode input data is divided in blocks of the same length. Then every block will be encrypted with the same… Read More »
Suddenly ssh remote control to some of Mac devices stopped working, because remote host identification of that Mac device had been changed on remote side. Generally it means that the remote host key does not match the host key currently saved in /var/root/.ssh/known_hosts file. In other words the ssh handshake failed because host key verification… Read More »
I installed TeamViewer Host on Mac, used it and when tried to drug and drop TeamViewer Host to Trash the dialog “The item “TeamViewer Host” can’t be moved to the Trash because it’s open” was popped up. I did not find any option to quit TeamViewer Host from GUI, just I could minimize the TeamViewer… Read More »
Web response form with email validation looks more professional and help to protect from posting garbage entered in email email text field. Email validation is a hard problem and cannot guarantee 100% address authenticity. There is TCP Finger protocol, which can retrieve user information via email address and confirm that the email address is valid… Read More »
Every time when I am applying WordPress I am googling for some installation details. I remember the whole procedure but always need to refresh some nuances. I am not doing this every day or ever every month and it is difficult to keep everything in memory. It takes time so I decided to create my… Read More »
This post is continuation of “Mac OSX CPU Information. Terminal and Programmatically”. Finally I got device with Apple Silicon processor. Virtual so far. I want to buy physical one when both happen it will be available in store and enough money in my pocket or account or whatever. I hope it happens soon. # sysctl… Read More »
About 10 years ago I applied to software developer position and received the following coding exercise: Using Java/Python, please design and implement the classes for a card game (pick any game, Poker for example), which uses an ordered deck of cards, containing 52 cards divided in 13 ranks (A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,… Read More »
The Unix time was born January First 1970 exactly at 12 AM with no minutes and seconds. Its age already exceeds 1 billion and 600 millions seconds or 0x5F5E1000 in hex value, so far it is good for 32-bit positive signed integer, but until Tuesday, January 19, 2038 when this number becomes 32-bit negative integer.… Read More »