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Eagle: Approach to print a layout repeatedly to a page

Hi,

Eagle does not offer a possibility to print a PCB layout repeatedly to a page. Also the copy & paste approach is limited to the max. board size and therefore depending on the license.

A possible way is to export the layout of the PCB to an .png file, import the image to GIMP and duplicate them.
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VI/VIM: Enable syntax highlightning in vi

Hi,

there are two options to enable syntax highlightning in vi/vim.

Just for your current editor session. Open your file
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Java: Create a jks keystore with a selfsigned certificate

Hi,

short “HowTo” today 🙂 This post contains the keytool command line parameters for creating a jks container which contains an key and the selfsigned certificate belongs to that key.
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VMware vSphere: Cannot register a virtual machine in inventory: A virtual machine or template having the same name is already registered

Hi,

a customer had the problem that a virtual machine is shown as invalid or orphaned. After removing from inventory (not from disk) he couldn’t register the vm again: “A virtual machine or template having the same name is already registered”

This could have multiple causes:
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Windows: Cumulative Update cannot be installed on Windows 10

Hi,

let us assume you have installed Windows 10 1607 and you want to install the cumulative Update KB3189866 and the update fails:


c:\Temp > wusa %TEMP%\AMD64-all-windows10.0-kb3189866-x64.msu /quiet /norestart

Eventlog: EventID 3,
Windows update could not be installed because of error 2149842967 (Command line: “C:\Windows\system32\wusa.exe” “C:\Temp\AMD64-all-windows10.0-kb3189866-x64.msu”)
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