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Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer hangs while starting or shutting down

Anyone playing with the Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer application on MAC (Catalina 10.15.1 (19B88))? Mine was working fine and suddenly stopped working. Starting the tool would take an unusually long time and quitting the app was futile. I had to force quit the app everytime. Going through the documentation revealed a small nugget. If you …

VMWare 2.0.2 on CentOS 5.4

I have CentOS 5.4 Kernel version 2.6.18-164.15.1.e15 and upgraded my VMWare server to 2.0.2-203138.x86_64 version. Running vmware-config.pl worked fine and the modules loaded successfully. However, when I login into the VMWare console, the vmserver crashed immediately. Looking through various websites and forums, I came across the following solution. I have provided the updated solution according …

Adding new fonts on a CentOS system

Going through the CentOS documentation talked about two different services for rendering fonts in X, namely fontconfig and xfs. I performed the following steps to get the new fonts working. Create a new directory under /usr/share/fonts called imported so you will end up with something like /usr/share/fonts/imported Copy all your newly installable font files to …

Error adding to source control. Type manager “text_file_delta” failed create_version operation

When I was trying to check in loads of Javascript files from the Dojo library into Clearcase, I received the following error dialog. Error adding C:clearcaseprojectviewlibrarydojodojodojo.js to source control. Created banch “dev” from “C:clearcaseprojectviewlibrarydojodojodojo.js” version “main”. Type manager “text_file_data” failed create_version operation.  I was told by the Clearcase experts in our office that there seems …

Recursive checking of folders and files into clearcase

Assuming that you have loads of files that you need to Add to Clearcase source control, the easiest way to do this is to run the following commands. The source folder is C:workspacesworkspace2ProjectFolder1 The target or destination folder is C:clearcaseprivateview_folder The command to execute is clearfsimport -recurse -preview -nset “source path” “destination path” The above …