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"Only the woman is wearing complete protective gear."

An observation my wife makes while we watch the [Bridge Breaking Competition][0]. A dozen engineers mill about, loading metal weights into buckets, and measuring when the popsicle sticks and dental floss contraptions slide, blow and explode into constituent pieces to the oohs and ahs of the delighted and dismayed onlooking crowd of grade school students and families. All of the engineers wear glasses, a few sport steel toed boots, though most have sneakers, and two hard hats are in attendance.

"Oh. That's interesting." says me, and softly led the thought to the background, there being more interesting things to think about. Crack! Crash! and another broken bridge suffers catastrophic ignomy and flies into pieces to the waiting floor and bucket. "Oh wow, that one supported 72kg!"

Applause. We leave. Time passes. Life goes on.

Four hours later I'm sitting in the emergency room clutching a fileted finger and cycling through alternating turns of waiting,

maphew

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\cmd_here]
@="@shell32.dll,-8506"
"Icon"="cmd.exe,0"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\cmd_here\command]
@="cmd.exe /s /k pushd \"%V\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\cmd_here]

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@echo off
:: Run this on the LM server machine
setlocal
set _p=C:\ArcGIS\License_Manager\LicenseManager\bin

:inbound
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="ArcGIS License Manager - arcgis" dir=in action=allow program="%_p%\arcgis.exe" enable=yes
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="ArcGIS License Manager - lmgrd" dir=in action=allow program="%_p%\lmgrd.exe" enable=yes
netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="ArcGIS License Manager - LSA" dir=in action=allow program="%_p%\LSA.exe" enable=yes

maphew

Install [Stork-search][0] on Windows

Assumes winget is installed and in PATH. If not go to MS Store and install 'App Installer'.

winget install Microsoft.VisualStudio.2022.BuildTools

Then Start >> Visual Studio installer >> and Select 'Desktop development with C++' kit (req. ~7 GB)

winget install rustup

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer]
"DisableThumbsDBOnNetworkFolders"=dword:00000001

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# PS-BGInfo
# Powershell script that updates the background image with a random image from a folder and writes out system info text to it.

# run as a lower priority task
[System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.Priority = 'BelowNormal'

# Configuration:

# Font Family name
$font="Input"

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#
# part of https://askubuntu.com/questions/1402336/apt-trying-to-fetch-versions-not-available-in-archive-ubuntu-com-ubuntu-pool-mai?noredirect=1#comment2434286_1402336
#
(rio-viz) geoadmin@geonix:~$ sudo mv /var/lib/apt/lists/* apt-temp/
[sudo] password for geoadmin:
(rio-viz) geoadmin@geonix:~$ ls /var/lib/apt/lists
(rio-viz) geoadmin@geonix:~$ sudo apt update
Get:1 https://mirror.it.ubc.ca/ubuntu focal InRelease [265 kB]
Get:2 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu focal InRelease [57.7 kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease [265 kB]

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#
# a console output snippet that shows conda does downgrade to older version of currently installed package
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23974217/how-do-i-revert-to-a-previous-package-in-anaconda
#
$ conda install gdal=3.4.0
Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.
Solving environment: done
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve.

maphew

'''Copy RPC metdata from IN raster to OUT raster

Adapted from @user7821537
https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/264644/transfer-rpc-metadata-from-one-geotiff-to-another
'''
import os
import sys
from osgeo import gdal

gdal.UseExceptions()

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scoop uninstall scoop

$xlist = "$env:userprofile\scoop", "c:\apps\geo", "$env:userprofile\.condarc", "$env:userprofile\.conda", "$env:userprofile\.config\scoop"

foreach ($x in $xlist) {
    if (Test-Path $x) { Remove-Item $x}
    }