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Have been using this lately. Working a project where the geographics are important, and someone sent me a KMZ file of some relevant info.
It finally works better than it used to. Hooray!
In the past it was the case that it crashed my laptop really bad--so bad that it needed power-cycling to recover--and now that hasn't happened; well, not on my Mac Pro. I'm not trying it on the laptop again, that was way too painful--so painful that deleting the application was what I did. Twice.
Project is that I may need a ground station for some work, and need to figure out what is possible relative to some other things regarding geolocations.
Years ago I wrote my own GIS program, and while I'd prefer to use that, it doesn't, at the moment, read KMZ files. KML, yes, but not KMZ. Given that KMZ is just zipped KML, that's not significant, but it doesn't. It doesn't show satellite images from a WMS/WFS server, etc, because I didn't ever need that. Probably don't here, either, if I could grab the appropriate data-sets as shapefiles or KML.
The application is interesting, how to solve the rural broadband internet problem. Using a different solution than what you typically read about. Since Hyde University is now based out in the sticks, we need a better solution than the current choices. Can't VPN out here, for example. Boo.
Thursday, November 30, 2017
IOS, OSX and Calendars
Someone needed to share a calendar with me for some common planning needs…this has been true for some years now, but today I decided I'd try to solve it again.
This should be trivially simple, but it's not. And in fact a good bit of the online help is flat-out wrong. May have been true in the past but it ain't now.
And it should not require an Advanced Degree(™) to figure it out, on either side of the equation. Altho it used to, way back when…
Used to be that to share calendars you had to set up some weird caldav goings on. I was successful doing that once, but that was like 2004 or something. Way too hard.
If you look at:
How to Share Calendars from iPhone, iPad - OS X Daily
That's dated early 2017, you'd think that was still ok. But it's at least one full version of IOS behind. I currently have IOS 11.1.2, and what the OSX Daily page shows you in screenshots simply can't be done because the GUI has changed to remove what they show and describe.
How to do it now:
I regret that you need to do this from a Mac. It appears impossible on your iPhone or Ipad.
You have to go to calendar in OSX. Make sure the sidebar that lists all the calendars is visible.
Mouse over the name of the calendar you want to share. To the right of the name you will see a pale gray "icon" appear, that looks like the wifi icon of several circular arcs that are supposed to look like a radio signal. Click on that icon.
You now get a popup asking you to enter a contact or email:
Hit the checkbox if it's a one-way share. Otherwise, it's a common calendar all subscribers can modify.
You can enter names from your Contacts, and it matches them properly. As it should.
The recipient will receive an email asking if they want to subscribe. This went weird for me, so I don't want to claim I handled that properly. On my Ipad I got a special alert asking for confirmation and when I hit "yes" the calendar got added, and after another few minutes all the events showed up. Don't expect the events to appear instantly…
In any case, it does work, but you cannot do it from you handheld. This is stupid. REALLY stupid. Didn't matter for me, once I realized that OSX is the start point, but it you only have a phone, you are SOL.
Shame on Apple for removing that capability.
This should be trivially simple, but it's not. And in fact a good bit of the online help is flat-out wrong. May have been true in the past but it ain't now.
And it should not require an Advanced Degree(™) to figure it out, on either side of the equation. Altho it used to, way back when…
Used to be that to share calendars you had to set up some weird caldav goings on. I was successful doing that once, but that was like 2004 or something. Way too hard.
If you look at:
How to Share Calendars from iPhone, iPad - OS X Daily
That's dated early 2017, you'd think that was still ok. But it's at least one full version of IOS behind. I currently have IOS 11.1.2, and what the OSX Daily page shows you in screenshots simply can't be done because the GUI has changed to remove what they show and describe.
How to do it now:
I regret that you need to do this from a Mac. It appears impossible on your iPhone or Ipad.
You have to go to calendar in OSX. Make sure the sidebar that lists all the calendars is visible.
Mouse over the name of the calendar you want to share. To the right of the name you will see a pale gray "icon" appear, that looks like the wifi icon of several circular arcs that are supposed to look like a radio signal. Click on that icon.
You now get a popup asking you to enter a contact or email:
Hit the checkbox if it's a one-way share. Otherwise, it's a common calendar all subscribers can modify.
You can enter names from your Contacts, and it matches them properly. As it should.
The recipient will receive an email asking if they want to subscribe. This went weird for me, so I don't want to claim I handled that properly. On my Ipad I got a special alert asking for confirmation and when I hit "yes" the calendar got added, and after another few minutes all the events showed up. Don't expect the events to appear instantly…
In any case, it does work, but you cannot do it from you handheld. This is stupid. REALLY stupid. Didn't matter for me, once I realized that OSX is the start point, but it you only have a phone, you are SOL.
Shame on Apple for removing that capability.
Tuesday, November 07, 2017
New Wolfenstein
This really looks good. No, I don't have it yet, at 55 gigabytes, it's going to be a while before I can actually download that whole thing. Probably going to wait until xmas, when I'll be somewhere that has unlimited internet and I can allow the multiple-hours download.
In any case, I watched about 10 mins of play-through video (which was amusing, the guy doing the playing had it set to lowest difficulty and was getting killed often). Resolution and detail look impressive. Starting out in the wheelchair looks pretty hard. I'll need to go back and play the others (New Order, Old Blood) first.
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After christmas: Steam sale had this at half-price, so I bought it. AND did the download, which was only *45* gigabytes. Still took five hours. Just wait until the first serious update, that'll be another 30GB I'm sure. Yeesh.
Bought Return to Wolfenstein too, that was only a couple bucks, and 760 megabytes. Download maybe 10/15 mins…I only vaguely remember that one, there was some crazy Scottish guy and a fat lady who sang.
I supposedly have a Windows 10 installer DVD coming, so I can upgrade the PC, and then maybe play some of this stuff (Prey is still in the wings).
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March 1: If I'd been paying more attention, I'd have been able to buy this for Xbox for $30 at Best Buy. I'm sure it would have wanted an update that was huge. This one is in 4K. Geez that's going to be big.
The prior games are pretty cheap on Amazon, New Order + Old Blood for $18. First one seems not available. Since I have a new Xbox One X, with double the disk space, this looks like fun to do over again. Hope the controller aspect doesn't kill me.
After christmas: Steam sale had this at half-price, so I bought it. AND did the download, which was only *45* gigabytes. Still took five hours. Just wait until the first serious update, that'll be another 30GB I'm sure. Yeesh.
Bought Return to Wolfenstein too, that was only a couple bucks, and 760 megabytes. Download maybe 10/15 mins…I only vaguely remember that one, there was some crazy Scottish guy and a fat lady who sang.
I supposedly have a Windows 10 installer DVD coming, so I can upgrade the PC, and then maybe play some of this stuff (Prey is still in the wings).
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March 1: If I'd been paying more attention, I'd have been able to buy this for Xbox for $30 at Best Buy. I'm sure it would have wanted an update that was huge. This one is in 4K. Geez that's going to be big.
The prior games are pretty cheap on Amazon, New Order + Old Blood for $18. First one seems not available. Since I have a new Xbox One X, with double the disk space, this looks like fun to do over again. Hope the controller aspect doesn't kill me.
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