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Archive for 2018
Google URLs with funny results
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/22
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Interesting IKEA BEKANT desks via AOC U3277PWQU 4K 32″ monitor.
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/21
via [WayBack] Trying out a new AOC U3277PWQU 4K 32″ monitor. (31.5″ to be exact). It definitively looks like a keeper :)I am actually using it at 100% font size atm… – Lars Fosdal – Google+
Interesting desks: IKEA BEKANT:
- [WayBack] http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/workspaces/18962/
- [WayBack] http://www.ikea.com/nl/nl/catalog/products/S69022523/
- [WayBack] http://www.ikea.com/no/no/catalog/products/S69022523/
- [WayBack] http://www.ikea.com/de/de/catalog/products/S69022523/
- [WayBack] http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/desks/office-desks/bekant-desk-sit-stand-birch-veneer-black-spr-49061191/
You can electrically adjust the desktop height seamlessly from a low sitting to a high standing position.
--jeroen
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Searching for Windows shutdown messages in the event log
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/21
Searching for shutdown isn’t enough as frequent WAS messages also contain that search string.
Searching for shutdown of will work as they match both these:
The process C:\Windows\system32\shutdown.exe (COMPUTERNAME) has initiated the shutdown of computer COMPUTERNAME on behalf of user COUNTERS\Administrator for the following reason: No title for this reason could be found
Reason Code: 0x800000ff
Shutdown Type: shutdown
Comment:
and
The reason supplied by user DOMAIN\Username for the last unexpected shutdown of this computer is: Other (Unplanned)
Reason Code: 0xa000000
Problem ID: ######
Bugcheck String:
Comment: VM host failure
–jeroen
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Code Review Checklist – CodeProject
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/20
Still relevant: [WayBack] Code Review Checklist – CodeProject
[WayBack] Best “Everything Else” Article of November 2016 Ebenezar John Paul – Code Review Checklist… – CodeProject – Google+
–jeroen
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Atom.io package pandoc convert requires pdflatex for converting to pdf
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/20
It’s a bit hard to copy the error messages that only last a second or so, but I finally managed to:
File 0Project 0No Issues20170204.rst1:1
LF19 L | 168 W | 2329 CUTF-8reStructuredTextmaster1
[pandoc-convert]
Command failed: /usr/local/bin/pandoc --standalone --to=latex --output=/Users/jeroenp/20170204.rst.pdf /Users/jeroenp/20170204.rst pandoc: pdflatex not found. pdflatex is needed for pdf output.
In order to have pdflatex on my Mac OS X installation, I had to do this:
brew install Caskroom/cask/mactex
This will install pdflatex as
/Library/TeX/texbin/pdflatex
–jeroen
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Cleaning up a huge “Console.log” file on SBS 2008
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/19
You might think the Console.log belongs Console.exe. That’s right, but that’s a different thing than the Windows Command prompt that many people call console, but is in fact C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe on a default Windows installation.
C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs>dir console.log
It belongs to the SBS 2008 console which you can access using the https://sbs2008serverIP/remote (for more details, read [WayBack] Accessing Windows SBS Console) and is served by:
C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Bin\console.exe
It is started when any user logs on (which is sort of odd) and never log-rotates the log file but keeps the log file locked when the process executes.
So the only way to get rid of a really big console.log file is this:
- Terminate console.exe in the Task Scheduler (
taskschd.msc) - Move away the old
C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs>dir console.logfile - Start console.exe in the Task Scheduler or logoff/logon
Further reading:
- [WayBack] SBS 2008 Console Log Fix – Techkiwi’s Blog
- [WayBack] Further SBS 2008 Space Fixes – Techkiwi’s Blog
- [WayBack] How To Enable Verbose Logging For Most SBS 2008 Wizards and Console | The Windows Server Essentials and Small Business Server Blog
–jeroen
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Cleaning up a huge “DataServiceComponents.log” file on SBS 2008
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/19
When cleaning out an old SBS 2008 Servers, I saw a huge “DataServiceComponents.log” file. [WayBack] SBS 2008 disk space and the DataServiceComponents.log file – Oxford SBS Guy indicated how to clean it up and pointed to [WayBack] Recovering Disk Space on the C: Drive in Small Business Server 2008 | The Windows Server Essentials and Small Business Server Blog.
Both posts have the problem that many backslashes missing in the the various paths.
So this is how I cleaned the DataServiceComponents.log file using an UAC command prompt:
C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs\MonitoringServiceLogs
net stop DataCollectorSvc
"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe"a -t7z -m0=lzma2 -mx=9 -aoa -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on -sdel DataServiceComponents-backup.7z DataServiceComponents.log
net start DataCollectorSvc
Note that DataCollectorSvc is the shorthand for the Windows SBS Manager service.
–jeroen
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Nas4free – keeping an eye on the daily increase of ZFS disk usage
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/16
Assuming your nas4free is at https://nas4free, this page will give you the daily increase of ZFS usage:
There you can estimate based on the snapshot history how soon you will run out of ZFS storage.
This is especially important when you have a retention configured using ZFS [WayBack] auto snapshots. Under the same assumption, those are configured at https://nas4free/disks_zfs_snapshot_auto.php in order to support “Previous Versions” on CIFS shares using those ZFS volumes.
Note nas4free is way harder to configure in this respect than freenas, see for instance this article: [WayBack] The Ars NAS distribution shootout: FreeNAS vs NAS4Free | Ars Technica. Luckily there is this small guide to get you going [WayBack] Jason’s Notes » Blog Archive » Windows previous versions for ZFS backed Samba shares
In the logs at https://nas4free/diag_log.php you can view the snapshot management: when they are created and removed. When you have trouble with the snapshots, monitor your Nas4free version at https://nas4free/system_firmware.php.. For me, NAS4Free 10.3.* seem very stable.
If you for instance have a 5 gigabyte nightly backup written to such a snapshot volume and the volume has 500 gigabytes of free space, a retention of 100 days it will fill up after 100 days.
–jeroen
PS: background reading:
- Page 1: [WayBack] The Ars NAS distribution shootout: FreeNAS vs NAS4Free | Ars Technica
- Page 2: [WayBack] The Ars NAS distribution shootout: FreeNAS vs NAS4Free | Ars Technica
- Page 3: [WayBack] The Ars NAS distribution shootout: FreeNAS vs NAS4Free | Ars Technica
- page 4: [WayBack] The Ars NAS distribution shootout: FreeNAS vs NAS4Free | Ars Technica
- Page 5: [WayBack] The Ars NAS distribution shootout: FreeNAS vs NAS4Free | Ars Technica
- Page 6: [WayBack] The Ars NAS distribution shootout: FreeNAS vs NAS4Free | Ars Technica
- Page 7: [WayBack] The Ars NAS distribution shootout: FreeNAS vs NAS4Free | Ars Technica
- Page 8: [WayBack] The Ars NAS distribution shootout: FreeNAS vs NAS4Free | Ars Technica
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How to Install and Configure Postfix as a Send-Only SMTP Server on Ubuntu 16.04 | DigitalOcean
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/16
[WayBack] How to Install and Configure Postfix as a Send-Only SMTP Server on Ubuntu 16.04 | DigitalOcean
Postfix is a *mail transfer agent* (MTA), an application used to send and receive email. In this tutorial, we will install and configure Postfix so that it can be used to send emails by local applications only.
–jeroen
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When Atom crashes you’re guided to use safe-mode, but safe-mode cannot disable packages
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/15
When you get a Window like this upon Atom.io start, and starting to report a bug, they guide you to a “start Atom in safe mode first, then try to disable all packages to sort out if it’s a package issue” and point to [WayBack] Debugging: using safe mode.
The problem here is that when you start Atom in safe mode (from the console using atom --safe) then in the preferences you cannot disable packages: clicking on the “Disable” button has absolutely no effect.
This was with atom --version
atom --version
Atom : 1.12.8
Electron: 1.3.13
Chrome : 52.0.2743.82
Node : 6.5.0
I worked around this by editing ~/.atom/config.cson as that already contained a section like this:
core:
disabledPackages: [
"nav-panel"
]
So I wrote a poor-mans little script that generated the inner portion of that block:
pushd ~/.atom && ls -1d packages/*/ | sed 's/packages\// "/g' | sed 's/\//"/g' && popd
which got me this nice list:
"atom-beautify"
"atom-html-preview"
"atom-keyboard-macros"
"atom-wrap-in-tag"
"autocomplete-xml"
"broadcast"
"close-tags"
"color-picker"
"counter"
"emmet"
"export-html"
"file-icons"
"git-plus"
"language-batch"
"language-bbcode"
"language-innosetup"
"language-pascal"
"language-plantuml"
"language-restructuredtext"
"language-routeros-script"
"linter"
"nav-panel-plus"
"nav-panel"
"omnisharp-atom"
"pandoc-convert"
"plantuml-preview"
"print-atom"
"rot13"
"rst-preview-pandoc"
"sort-lines"
"sync-settings"
"tabs-to-spaces"
"xml-formatter"
"xml-tools"
From there, I did a binary search for the offending package: broadcast so I’ve filed an issue there.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 