Unable to open or incompatable vdproj solution

When using Visual Studio (recent versions), with vdproj files, you may get an error or warning that the file is incompatible or unable to open.

Bash comparisons

 

integer comparison

-eq

    is equal to

    if [ "$a" -eq "$b" ]

-ne

    is not equal to

    if [ "$a" -ne "$b" ]

-gt

    is greater than

    if [ "$a" -gt "$b" ]

-ge

    is greater than or equal to

    if [ "$a" -ge "$b" ]

-lt

    is less than

    if [ "$a" -lt "$b" ]

-le

    is less than or equal to

    if [ "$a" -le "$b" ]

string comparison

==

    is equal to

    if [ "$a" == "$b" ]

!=

    is not equal to

    if [ "$a" != "$b" ]

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Detect screen size in php

Detecting the screen size in php, is not something that can be done with php alone but the following is what I use to kind of get around it.

Get next AUTO INCREMENT value from a mysql table

SELECT AUTO_INCREMENT as 'next_id' FROM information_schema.TABLES
WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = 'db_name' AND TABLE_NAME = 'table_name';

 Restoring a fsarchiver file to a temporary block device.

Configure Netbeans to use ssh key with GitHub

Following a recent change to GitHub, username and passwords would no longer work with Netbeans and others when interacting with repositories. Other IDE's such as Jetbrains are able to use Tokens but Netbeans proved to be a little more stubborn.

Discrete or continuous data

Continuous data is data obtained by measurement whereas discrete data is data obtained by counting.

Cracking Windows passwords with Ophcrack

A Reminder...

Mount vhd file under Linux

To mount a vhd file under Linux (tested with Debian buster), firstly get the following;

MySQL tuning