We’ve been here before, but Oracle keeps being a pain in everyone’s rear end. This time, we want to keep testing against version 7 of the JDK with Travis CI.
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Download Oracle JDK without nagscreens
With M as the major, m as the minor, and r as the revision,
export M=8 m=65 r=17; wget --no-cookies --header "Cookie: oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/${M}u${m}-b${r}/jdk-${M}u${m}-linux-x64.tar.gz
Useful for scripting, headless operation, continuous integration, and just for any time when one doesn’t have any for unneeded account creation.
Dear Google, why don’t I receive emails to Google Groups I subscribed to?
TLDR: I do, they just don’t get delivered to the right inbox… If you want to avoid that, make sure you don’t use the Send email as option with non-GMail addresses in the Accounts and Import settings, as well as the Alternate Email Addresses in the general Account settings.
Unecessary encryption in WD MyBook Essential enclosures
Beware: some Western Digital MyBook Essential disk enclosures do some encryption in hardware (in the USB bridge, it seems). It doesn’t appear to be configurable, and renders the disk data inaccessible when used in any other way.