Dynamics CRM error: invalid recipient type

While working with Dynamics CRM, a workflow threw me this error: "invalid recipient type" (Dutch: "Ongeldig type geadresseerde"). This was after we made a backup of one environment and restored it in a dev environment. After checking some stuff i decided to try click “Publish all Customizations” (Dutch: "Alle aanpassingen publiceren").

Wil je actief worden voor onze politieke partij?

Ik sta op een kieslijst voor de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen 2022. Mijn eerste keer :-). Hieronder hoe dat zo kwam, en waar ik me hard voor wil maken. Mensen die meer van me willen weten kunnen me volgen op Twitter. En mogen me altijd aanspreken, vragen stellen, suggesties doen etc! 

Omdat ik me zorgen maak om de opwarming van de aarde, heb ik enkele jaren geleden "ja" gezegd toen mijn buurman vroeg of ik samen met hem en enkele anderen een lokale energie-coöperatie wilde opzetten om bedrijfsdaken in de gemeente te beleggen met zonnepanelen, die burgers dan financieren en waar ze de voordelen van hebben. Met die coöperatie, OpgewektRijssen, hebben we in relatief korte tijd, ondermeer dankzij ondernemers die hun dak ter beschikking stelden en inwoners die in het plan geloofden, ruim 4.000 panelen op 3 bedrijfsdaken weten te leggen, die genoeg energie opleveren voor ca 325 gezinnen.

Door mijn werk voor die coöperatie, waar ik me als vrijwilliger voor inzette naast mijn baan, mocht ik op enig moment inspreken tijdens een gemeenteraadsvergadering. Dat betekende dat de verschillende politieke partijen me zagen 'optreden'. En één ervan benaderde me in de tweede helft van 2021: of ik interesse had om politiek actief te worden.

Nordland NVT 8398 freezer

Our 2008 bought Nordland NVT 9398 freezer (vrieskast) had door rubbers that were torn, so after some Google-ing i found Electrolux is the appointed service company in the Netherlands (we bought the freezer at it's, which has gone bankrupt). I called Electrolux and was told they supply a replacement door rubber with part number 224 801 6178 that can be ordered at shop.electrolux.nl . In case anyone else has such an old freezer and wants to replace their door rubbers.

Making sense of the world - about bobos and the creative class

Read a (bit long, be prepared ;-)) piece that helped me make a bit more sense of what is going on in the world. Archiving it here for myself, maybe want to read that again at some point. Yes, it is about the US, so parts will not apply to other continents/economies, but found it interesting nevertheless. And interested to hear what others think if the read it... > https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/blame-the-bobos-creative-class/619492/ 

Solved: "failed to generate sspi context"

At my new employer, i ran into "failed to generate sspi context" a couple of times while connecting to SQL servers. Turns out although Windows offers you to use pincodes etc to sign into your laptop etc, this is not the same as using your password. Are you running into that sspi error? Sign out of Windows, sign in using your password, and try again!

Tesla production per year

I had a need to see how many Tesla's were produced. So i searched, found a basis and updated the numbers. In case someone else is interested, please find the spreadsheet here. The numbers are not per model: Tesla is reporting the production numbers for S&X combined, as well as for 3&Y combined.

Windows SD card write protected?

I experienced multiple times weird Windows (even on Windows11) behaviour where for instance it would format the SD card, but still complain afterwards it could not write to the SD card. I Google-d, maar most pages mention the usual fixes that did not work for me. So on this page i plan to archive what works for me; so that i don't have to Google through all the pages that don't work for me, and maybe it will help others ;-).

I found i often could edit the SD (add a file, change a file name) fine on a Macbook. So if you have a (friend with a) Macbook, try that as well! Probably also works with machines running Linux ;-). Hope Microsoft will fix this at some point.  

On https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-fix-my-micro-SD-card-that-became-a-read-only-memory-card/answer/Timothy-Takemoto-1 i found (and make a copy here in case the source at some moment disappears):

"I use SD cards (in readers) as USB hard disks since they are cheaper than USB hard disks. I am religious about using the Windows status bar disconnect thing before removing my SD card/Reader but all the same it sometimes ends up read only.

I used unlocker, http://www.emptyloop.com/unlocker/, to kill all processes connected with my disk.

Then a Free tool from EaseUS (Tool M), https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/fix-cannot-format-usb-flash-drive-error.html, to remove write protection,

Then I formatted the disk twice, first with the above free nagware tool custom disk http://www.authorsoft.com/usb-disk-storage-format-tool.html formatter (“verbose” which takes hours) which did not finish, then secondly with the windows native disk formatter which till I had use the above free tool would crash, so it seems to be a two stage process.

Sometimes the SD card is read only in my USB readers, but writeable from a SD card port on my PC.

The Windows native method mentioned by others does not always work ( Start button> search box >cmd (right click, run as admin) > diskpart > list disk > select disk X > clear disk attributes readonly ), even when the card is in the SD port, in which I can write to it!

I have found that the format tool here which is free nagware http://www.authorsoft.com/usb-disk-storage-format-tool.html has a check function (Correct errors, Scan drive) which may cure the problem without the need for format. It can also format your cards.

Similarly I have found that the free open Testdisk https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download has worked in the past - in that just using it allowed me to write again to my disk.

I have sometimes found that toggling the physical write protect switch can cure the problem, and sometimes the contacts get corroded.

If you have to format there are a variety of options that I mention here but they do not always work. I get through about one large SD card a year due to this problem: https://forums.sandisk.com/t5/All-SanDisk-USB-Flash-Drives/How-to-remove-READ-ONLY-option-from-Dual-USB-Drive/m-p/364430#M13197 .

I am inclined to think that Windows is freezing up SD cards, by being more strict without how it tolerates (or does not tolerate) broken file systems since Windows has started selling cloud storage."