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Apple Watch OS7 stopped showing the date

· Apple, Errors, Software

I've been running the Apple WatchOS 7 beta for a while now, and when updating, my watch face lost the "date": it was no longer showing the date and day of the week (i.e. Fri).

Quite annoying -- but it's a beta after all. I shouldn't complain. I did what every good beta tester would do: I filed a bug (it's still unanswered from what I can see).

iPad Pro USB-C Ethernet

· Apple, Networking

I’ve had an iPad Pro with the new Magic Keyboard and one of the things I've been wondering... Say I am stuck in a datacenter and I need to ssh through wired networking to a server -- sure I'll definitely rather use my Mac laptop, but just in case... But would it actually work?

The answer is... Yes -- but...

Box — Docker shell server

· Apple, Linux, Networking, Software, Virtualisation

A couple of months ago I had the great idea to set up a shell server in Docker. Simply because my docker skillz were quite rusty and a shell server was something I actually genuinely needed.

Shell servers... so 2005. I remember in the good old IRC days people asking for (free) shell servers to run their eggdrop and stuff. OMG am I getting old? Anyhow...

Yard Sale: Macbook Pro late 2013

· Apple, Hardware

For sale due to getting a portable Macbook:

  • Late 2013 Macbook Pro (15.4" Retina)
  • 2.3Ghz i7 (quad core + Hyper-Threading)
  • 16Gb RAM
  • 512Gb SSD
  • Intel Iris onboard GFX + Nvidia GeForce GT 750M PCE GFX
  • BE-Azerty keyboard
  • €2445,41 in 28 October 2013
  • SUPER fast
  • Minor scratch in the back of the LCD
  • Minor (not very noticeable) corrosion at the right hand
  • Weird scratch "smear" in LCD display (only visible on white background; about 2x2cm; to be honest it's not really visible)
  • Besides this very decent Macbook Pro, it has been used, but in very good shape for the extreme work it has committed. Taken care of this device as if it was my own child. And did I mention blazing fast?
Contact: yeri+mbp@tiete.be

Specs:

My very first Apple product

· Apple

Going through old stuff in the cellar, I found the packaging of my very first Apple product, an iPod (2nd gen) 40Gb. Bought it at the Fnac (Brussels) during Christmas period a good 11ish years ago.

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Alas, its battery died after 3-4 years (lasting only about 10-20 minutes)… :(

I still have that iPod, but it hasn’t been used. I’ve tried using it as a portable external disk, but that didn’t really work.

Courier IMAP and auto deleting trash after 7 days

· Apple, Errors, Linux, Networking, Software

E-mails that had been deleted for over 7 days were automatically removed from the IMAP server. E-mail date was ignored (ie the mail could have been from 2010; the actual time in “Trash” counted). This didn’t happen to other folders (Sent, Archive, Spam). This recently happened and hadn’t happened before.

I had to restore my trash folder from backups every 7 days (yay for rdiff-backup).

It took me a while to figure it out… The problem first appeared in October, right after several big changes: