Archive for the ‘Power User’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/27
Some links on the pfSense hardware I am planning to use.
Whereas apu1 was totally different, apu2, apu3, apu4 and apu6 are very similar. The letters after the first digit indicate evolution of the boards. The first and last digit set apart features. Together, they form a confusing matrix which is not really made clear at the PC Engines web-site as some intermediate categories are missing which makes it hard to get an overview.
Basically their shop site has the list of most current products and is easiest to get links to the actual product names. Like many Swiss companies, they accept multiple currencies, so there are three links to the shop:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/23
Remember [Wayback/Archive] Guidelines for human gene nomenclature | Nature Genetics?**
You might not, but this was what pointed me to it back in 2020: [Wayback/Archive] Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates – The Verge.
The article was a result of Excel mangling import data for decades. Somehow finally it did get Microsoft’s attention and more than 3 years later, they issued options (with mangling still being the default) to help workaround the problems.
The 2004 article [Wayback/Archive] Mistaken Identifiers: Gene name errors can be introduced inadvertently when using Excel in bioinformatics | BMC Bioinformatics | Full Text demonstrated this import problem which had been present for quite a while already (it even has a csh Script to scan for SymbolMutation error).
The gene nomenclature people by now have moved to a different naming scheme, but maybe other people can benefit from the Excel updates of which you can find more through these links:
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Posted in CSV, Development, Excel, Office, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/20
Niet alleen de omvormers voor zonnepanelen, maar ook de installatie als geheel kan storingen opleveren. Storingen thuis merk je soms aan gekke geluiden of beelden op audio- en video-apparatuur, slechte ontvangst van WiFi, BlueTooth, mobiele telefonie of draadloze telefoons.
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Posted in DIY, LifeHacker, Power User, Solar Power | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/19
I have had these two batch files on my system forever:
sha1.bat:
:: https://superuser.com/questions/245775/is-there-a-built-in-checksum-utility-on-windows-7
:: https://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2017/03/use-certutil-to-get-file-hash/
:: Windows 7 has case sensitive Hash algorithms: MD2 MD4 MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512
certUtil -hashfile %* SHA1
sha256.bat:
:: https://superuser.com/questions/245775/is-there-a-built-in-checksum-utility-on-windows-7
:: https://www.mcbsys.com/blog/2017/03/use-certutil-to-get-file-hash/
:: Windows 7 has case sensitive Hash algorithms: MD2 MD4 MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512
certUtil -hashfile %* SHA256
But I forgot to blog about [Wayback/Archive] Use Certutil to Get File Hash | MCB Systems mentioning:
on Windows 7, the hash algorithms are case-sensitive. Be sure to type, for example, “MD5”, not “md5”. On Windows 8.1 and 10, case doesn’t matter
I did mention the first link in “error: invalid object 100644” “git svn”, though only in a by-line. So thanks [Wayback/Archive] user64996 for asking and:
–jeroen
Posted in Batch-Files, CertUtil, Development, Power User, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development, Windows | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/18
Last year, I answered [Wayback/Archive] javascript – Bookmarklet to append a string to a URL – Stack Overflow (asked by [Wayback/Archive] Karlo Guidoni Martins, thanks!).
It is about not being able to run bookmarklets on pages hosted by for instance:
gist.githubusercontent.comraw.githubusercontent.com
GitHub is an exception, as RAW files from these services do work fine:
At first sight, when running a Bookmarklet on those RAW GitHub served pages, you do not see an error: it just looks like the Bookmarklet does not work at all. The last part is right, but in the Chrome console you can actually see the error.
That error lead me to my answer:
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Posted in Bookmarklet, Chrome, Development, Firefox, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/17
Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, bash, bash, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, jo, jq, JSON, man/manual pages, mankier, Power User, Python, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/16
Be careful phrasing reg.exe commands.
Sometimes it gives you the error ERROR: Invalid key name.
The reason is that the reg.exe is really sensitive on the order of the command-line: the first argument must be a full key, optionally prepended by a computername.
Any other optional command-line option (like /f to force execution without asking) needs to go after that.
See:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2023/10/11
I had speedtest-cli running on MacOS and various Linux machines, but not yet on Windows (see for instance my post Ubuntu: Fixing the myserious “Failed to stop apt-daily.timer: Connection timed out”).
[Wayback/Archive] Install and Test Internet Speed with Speedtest CLI Command Line – NEXTOFWINDOWS.COM reminded me there is a Speedtest CLI for Windows download at at [Wayback/Archive] Speedtest CLI: Internet speed test for the command line, but I am a an automation/scripting/devops person, so luckily there are also [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | Speedtest by Ookla (don’t get [Wayback/Archive] Ookla.Speedtest download, as that is the GUI version).
Both the Chocolatey and winget packages are named the same, so that is quite confusing. This is how I have set them apart:
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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Batch-Files, Chocolatey, DevOps, GDPR/DS-GVO/AVG, Internet, ISP, KPN, Notepad++, Power User, Privacy, Scripting, SpeedTest, Windows, xs4all | 2 Comments »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 