Thanks +Stefan Glienke for pointing me at [WayBack] xkcd: Is It Worth the Time?
Background information: [WayBack] 1205: Is It Worth the Time? – explain xkcd
–jeroen
via: via: [WayBack] Just installed … and again I have to …
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xkcd: Is It Worth the Time?
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/22
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Amazon Alexa on a Raspberry Pi (add a USB microphone and a speaker with a 3.5mm plug)
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/19
I never realised that Amazon Alexa has an open source account on GitHub: https://github.com/alexa
There are full instructions on getting a Java based Alexa Voice Service (AVS) – also used by Amazon Echo – to run on a Raspberri Pi (3 or better recommended, works on 2 as well) with this extra hardware:
- USB microphone
- Speaker with a 3.5mm audio plug
- USB WiFi (essential for Raspberry Pi 2, optional if you want to boost your WiFi signal on a Raspberry Pi 3)
Full instructions are at Raspberry Pi · alexa/alexa-avs-sample-app Wiki and a video is below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baec1CbV6A0
I should find some time to try this out (:
–jeroen
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PowerShell – query reboot/shutdown events
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/19
Thanks [WayBack] gbabu for the below PowerShell ide
As PowerShell command:
Get-EventLog System | Where-Object {$_.EventID -eq "1074" -or $_.EventID -eq "6008" -or $_.EventID -eq "1076"} | ft Machinename, TimeWritten, UserName, EventID, Message -AutoSize -Wrap
Based on it and my own experience, thse Event IDs can be interesting:
- 41 – The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first
- 109 – The kernel power manager has initiated a shutdown transition.
- 1073 – The attempt by user [domain]\[username] to restart/shutdown computer [computername] failed.
- 1074 – The process [filename].[extension] has initiated the restart of computer [computername] on behalf of user [domain]\[username\ for the
- 1076 – ???
- 6008 – The previous system shutdown at [time-in-local-format] on [date-in-local-format] was unexpected.
You can also run this as a batch file, but not you need to escape the pipe | into ^| like this:
PowerShell Get-EventLog System ^| Where-Object {$_.EventID -eq "1074" -or $_.EventID -eq "6008" -or $_.EventID -eq "1076"} ^| ft Machinename, TimeWritten, UserName, EventID, Message -AutoSize -Wrap
If you have PowerShell 3.0 or greater, then you can use the [Archive.is] -In operator:
PowerShell Get-EventLog System ^| Where-Object {$_.EventID -in "41", "109", "1074", "6008", "1076"} ^| ft Machinename, TimeWritten, UserName, EventID, Message -AutoSize -Wrap
–jeroen
- Source: [WayBack] eventviewer – View Shutdown Event Tracker logs under Windows Server 2008 R2 – Server Fault :: https://serverfault.com/questions/204417/view-shutdown-event-tracker-logs-under-windows-server-2008-r2cmd
- [WayBack] Useful Operational Insights Search Query Collection | musc@> $daniele.work.ToString() “Corporate” Blog of Daniele Muscetta, Premier Field Engineer.
- Event log IDs lists via [WayBack] List of all Windows 7 Event IDs and Sources? – Super User:
- [WayBack] Windows Security Log Encyclopedia
- [WayBack] Troubleshooting Microsoft Windows Event Logs
- [WayBack] Events and Errors isn’t a list nor searchable any more nor is [WayBack] Events and Errors
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Lidl W5 oils are identical to Pennasol types
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/18
For my link archive: [WayBack] W5motorolja på Lidl
Ihr Fax vom 21.10.2009
Sehr geehrter Herr Stanusic,
gern bestätigen wir Ihnen, dass entsprechend der folgenden Aufstellung die Produkte identisch sind.
PENNASOL Multigrade Super HD 15W40 = W5 CARCARE Engine Oil 15W40
PENNASOL Super Light 10W40 = W5 Ecotech Engine Oil 10W40
PENNASOL Super Pace 5W40 = W5 Supertech Engine Oil 5W40
Mit freundlichen GrüßenMineralöl-Raffinerie Dollbergen GmbH
i.V. Hartmann i.A. Fricke
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Choosing a centralized logging and monitoring system
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/18
Interesting read:
Searching through logs and remoting to a machine to check it’s load is not a fun thing to do. This is why I’ve decided to look for a centralized logging service. And what I’ve chosen.
It looks like Microsoft App Insight is very much worth trying.
–jeroen
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Practical Color Theory for People Who Code
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/18
Recommented reading and playing: [Archive.is] Practical Color Theory for People Who Code which is not just about the colour wheel, but also about:
- desaturation
- mixing
- contrast for tints and shades
Oh: don’t forge the “Party Mode” (:
–jeroen
PS:
- Joe C Hecht reminded me that you should also check out the “Why” sliders [WayBack]
- Bill Meyer emphasised that you should watch your grey-levels too [WayBack] (which luckily is covered in the linked article: it even has a button turning everything into grey-levels).
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These bone-conduction glasses are on sale for less than USD 70…
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/15
From a while back, but intrigued me as I wasn’t aware that bon conduction devices had become so affordable.
[WayBack] These bone-conduction glasses are on sale for $69 Would you wear them? They can be fitted with sunglasses or prescription lenses, and you can use the… – Mike Elgan – Google+
My ~60 dBA Unilateral hearing loss – Wikipedia of my left ear is only through the air: my bone conduction hearing loss – though still significant – is far less.
Since my right ear is very good, a regular hearing aid is of no use: the human brain effectively shuts down the left ear when the quality difference between the two ears is too large.
For listening to music or phone conversations however, conduction based hearing might allow me to get a bit more of a stereo sound.
Time to find out which ones work for me and which don’t, so here are a few links that describe (lists of) potential devices:
- [WayBack] Are bone conduction headphones good enough yet? – The Verge
- Bone conduction headphones are the best and only true open ear headphones. They allow users to take calls or listen to music while still being completely aware of their surroundings. They’re an awesome alternative to traditional headphones.[WayBack] Best Bone Conduction Headphones of 2018: A Complete Guide –Everyday Hearing
- The first and most important thing you should know is that bone conduction headphones are nowhere near traditional headphones (no matter if they are on-ear, over-ear, in-ear) when it comes to sound quality. Even those really expensive bone conduction headphones (AfterShokz Trekz Titanium and Trekz Air) are not as good as some average traditional headphones. So, if you are looking for high-fidelity sound, you are in the wrong place. Traditional headphones offer much better sound quality with much cleaner and punchier bass than bone conduction headphones. Bass response is probably the worst thing about bone conduction headphones.On the positive side, bone conduction headphones leave your ears open and allow them to breathe. If you can’t stand having your ears covered or having something inside your ear canal, bone conduction headphones might be the solution you’ve been looking for (the earpieces of bone conduction headphones usually rest on the temporal or lower jaw bones (mandibles), right in front of your ears).
Because of this open-ear design, bone conduction headphones make you more aware of your surroundings. You will be able to hear all that’s going on around you while listening to music, and if that’s something you prefer, bone conduction headphones are the best choice.
[WayBack] 9 Best Bone Conduction Headphones In 2018 – AudioReputation.com
–jeroen
Pictures from the Verge and Everyday Hearing
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Check if a domain is services by GMail for Business (former Google Mail for your domain)
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/15
Anyway: at the time of writing it is at https://gsuite.google.com/products/gmail/.
If you send mail to such a domain and the user doesn’t exist, you get a confusing error message like this:
<<< 550 5.1.1 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=NoSuchUser [^] j191si981824wmd.134 - gsmtp
So I wanted to test if a domain is being services by gmail and found this StackExchange question:
Basically you can test it in two ways:
- on a web-page at [Archive.is] Google Domain Tester
- using a DNS query for the MX servers, for instance using
digas shown here:
dig takeheart.com mx
takeheart.com. 86399 IN MX 20 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com.
takeheart.com. 86399 IN MX 30 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com.
takeheart.com. 86399 IN MX 10 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com.
takeheart.com. 86399 IN MX 40 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.com.
takeheart.com. 86399 IN MX 50 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.com.
–jeroen
Puns:
- [WayBack] Confusement | Bonkers World via:
- [WayBack] Alphabet (disambiguation) – Wikipedia
- [WayBack] Alphabet Inc. – Wikipedia Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate founded on October 2, 2015, by the two founders of [WayBack] Google.
–jeroen
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gmail – Way to automatically download or print attachments or URLs from emails with specific labels – Web Applications Stack Exchange
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/15
Seems that IFTTT might be able to help me out here: [WayBack] gmail – Way to automatically download or print attachments or URLs from emails with specific labels – Web Applications Stack Exchange
[WayBack] Create a new document in GDrive when you receive a digital receipt in your Gmail. #drive #gmail #rec – IFTTT
–jeroen
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Firebird error “Operating system call _beginthreadex failed. Error code 8” can mean your server process ran out of memory
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/14
On a production system we had this error occurring without warning:
The cause was running out of private bytes or virtual size as they were almost 2 gigabyte which is too much for a 32-bit process:
The not so nice thing is that there were no memory warnings in the Firebird.log file at all.
In the client application the DAC (Data Access Layer) was getting lots of “unable to allocate memory from operating system” errors back from Firebird (and logging them in the client log file), so the client didn’t run out of memory: the server did.
This was with 2.5.2.26540 (at that time the most recent version) and it looks like more people suffer from this:
- [WayBack] [#CORE-2978] Operating system call _beginthreadex failed. Error code 8 … – Firebird RDBMS Issue Tracker
- [WayBack] firebird-devel – 32-bit Firebird attempting to create large amount of thread on 64-bit server
We put a monitor to watch the fbserver.exe process and warn us if it was reaching 1.5 gigabyte so we could re-start it before running out of memory.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 