This seems to work on other Windows versions as well: [WayBack] Windows 10 auto-logout on <5 minutes of inactivity – Super User
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Windows 10 auto-logout on <5 minutes of inactivity – Super User
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/26
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016 | Leave a Comment »
calculate crc32 on the command-line using 7z.exe – Using 7-zip hashing to compare directories and files – Sami Lehtinen
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/26
Searching 7z.exe calculate crc32 didn’t return any meaningful results, but [WayBack] Using 7-zip hashing to compare directories and files – Sami Lehtinen did help me as I never noticed that somewhere along the line the h command got added to 7z.exe. It’s not even in the documentation, as found by searching for 7zip commandline arguments:
but it is in the command-line help, at least in versions 16.x:
C:\temp>"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" --help
7-Zip [64] 16.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2016 Igor Pavlov : 2016-05-21
Usage: 7z [...] [...]
[<@listfiles...>]
a : Add files to archive
b : Benchmark
d : Delete files from archive
e : Extract files from archive (without using directory names)
h : Calculate hash values for files
i : Show information about supported formats
l : List contents of archive
rn : Rename files in archive
t : Test integrity of archive
u : Update files to archive
x : eXtract files with full paths
–jeroen
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Virtual Machine Startup and Shutdown Behavior – Proxmox VE
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/23
For my link archive as this is configured per VM on the VM level which is different from for instance ESXi: [WayBack] Virtual Machine Startup and Shutdown Behavior – Proxmox VE
- Start at boot yes/no
- Start/Shutdown order: order=# (or any) up=## (or nothing)
–jeroen
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Can you save money by using a battery to buy your electricity cheaper?
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/22
This is a reminder to write a longer post on [WayBack] Using batteries to save moneyWith the new Tesla factory, battery prices are expected to drop to 100$/KWh.This leads up to an interesting question.Can you save money by using a battery to buy your electricity cheaper?… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
By now it’s almost a year ago since I got my (City-Zen Smart City) battery. With about 50 households, we form a virtual energy provider that – because of size – can buy cheaper and sell higher than individual households.
Hopefully in a few months from now, I will have some figures that I can put into an article.
Bug me soon to start writing it (:
–jeroen
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Google URLs with funny results
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/22
https://www.google.com/search?q=blink+html
https://www.google.com/search?q=askew
https://www.google.com/search?q=recursion
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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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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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