Interesting thought [WayBack] In windows, can I redirect stdout to a (named) pipe in command line? – Super User.
The only problem seems to be a good way of creating/removing those pipes.
–jeroen
In windows, can I redirect stdout to a (named) pipe in command line? – Super User
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Reminder to self: see how widespread support for the TCP BBR congestion control algorithm is.
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/14
The TCP BBR congestion control algorithm was introduced in September 2016 and became available in Linux kernel 4.9 in July 2017 after being in the news for a good 5 months (see links below). It strives for better bandwidth use and lowering latency on big data pipes.
This post is a reminder myself to see how widespread that is on recent distributions for both end-user and server systems.
- [WayBack] google/bbr
- [Archive.is] kernel/git/davem/net-next.git – David Miller’s -next networking tree
- [WayBack] kernel 4.9: please enable TCP: BBR congestion control algorithm · Issue #1784 · raspberrypi/linux
- [WayBack] BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control | February 2017 | Communications of the ACM Measuring bottleneck bandwidth and round-trip propagation time.
- [WayBack] BBR, the new kid on the TCP block | APNIC Blog: A look at Google’s delay-controlled TCP flow control algorithm, called BBR.
- [WayBack] Google speeds up Cloud Platform with new networking algorithm | ZDNet The BBR (“Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time”) algorithm does away with the assumption that packet loss equals network congestion.
- [WayBack] Google Cloud Platform Blog: TCP BBR congestion control comes to GCP – your Internet just got faster
- [WayBack] Google Cloud gets a new networking algorithm that boosts internet throughput | TechCrunch
- [WayBack] Increase your Linux server Internet speed with TCP BBR congestion control – nixCraft
- [WayBack] BbrTcp < PERTKB < TWiki
Via:
- [WayBack] With this simple config option you can push more data between long distance Linux server. I went from 200 Mbit/s to 800 Mbit/s. – nixCraft – Google+
- [WayBack] With this simple config option you can push more data between long distance Linux servers … (where Kim Nilsson mentions:Wow, just found this.
“The 4.10 kernel will also become the LTS Rolling Kernel in 16.04 LTS” coming with 16.04.3 in August
So, not such a long wait after all. :-)
–jeroen
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E46: replace battery in car key
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/14
Two videos that show how to cut open the E46 diamond shaped car key to replace the battery are below.
Far cheaper than a ~ EUR 200 replacement key: [Archive.is] what did you pay for your E46 diamond key replacement? – E46Fanatics
Parts needed:
- Panasonic VL2020 Akku – http://amzn.to/2emKNVN or 2016 (non-rechargeable but should be compatible)
- 66 12 2 155 753 BMW Schlüssel-Emblem
Tools needed:
- Vise/Vice (German: Schraubstock)
- very sharp knife
- super glue
Related Related: door lock and key problems; FM Antenna problems
- BMW DIY Poor Radio Reception Repair, AM and FM, E46 3-Series and Other Models | Bavarian Autosport Blog « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff
- [WayBack] BMWGM5.com Key Recode Instuctions
- [WayBack] BMW FKV Keys
- [WayBack] BMW General Module 5 (GMV, ZKE V)
- [WayBack] BMWGM5 E46 Wagon FZV Antenna Amplifier
- [WayBack] BMWGM5 FZV Antenna Amplifier
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Life after Google+: an export tool that use the G+ API and runs on Google Firebase
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/14
Another follow up on Life after Google+ – Lars Fosdal:
[WayBack] GitHub – RomainVialard/Google-Plus-Community-Migrator
This repository presents a way to export posts from a Google+ community (in this case the Google Apps Script community), along with comments & likes (plusones) using the Google+ REST API and import them in a Firebase Database, then use Firebase Hosting to display those posts. To see a live result, simply open this URL: https://apps-script-community-archive.firebaseapp.com/
It depends on the G+ REST API (so it will die earlier than G+ itself) and hosts on Google.
Related:
- [WayBack] G+ shutdown, Google Apps Script and Firebase to the rescue!:
This is the first post of a serie going into some technical details about a migration project for Google+ communities
- [WayBack] Deploying with(out) a Glitch – Romain Vialard – Medium:
Presenting Glitch to let people easily copy and deploy a Firebase project.
- [WayBack] Google Apps Script – Google+:
To automate your life or business and universe
- [Archive.is/WayBack] Glitch:
The friendly community where everyone can discover & create the best stuff on the web
- Via: [WayBack] Here is the second article of my serie covering the making of a G+ export tool. – Jürgen Christoffel – Google+
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Preventing sites to add themselves to the Google Chrome search engine list
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/11
For a long time, sites have been able to add themselves to the search engine list in Google Chrome.
The last one is my own, but hundreds of them are not.
I never noticed this until I needed to add some custom search engine strings to the list and found the UI is obnoxiously slow when there are hundreds of entries in that list.
It’s like the cookies editor: the editing speed decreases exponentially with the number of entries in that list.
The feature is called Tab to Search, apparently is intentional, based on the OpenSearch standard and well documented:
- [WayBack] Tab to Search – The Chromium Projects
- [WayBack] Specifications/OpenSearch/1.1/Draft 5 – OpenSearch
Many people dislike it though:
- [Archive.is] Why chrome adds search engines automatically? – Google Product Forums
- [WayBack] Google Chrome automatically adding websites to my list of search engines? – Super User
There are various ways around it documented in the last link.
This is the one I liked best: [WayBack] Don’t add custom search engines – Chrome Web Store.
Via: [WayBack] Google Chrome: Remove all ‘Other Search Engines’ – Super User who also pointed me to the script below the signature ([WayBack] Remove chrome “other search engines” · GitHub), which likely needs this change:
Just in case you are trying to use this with the (keep) mechanism, I think that the engine.modelIndex can get muddled if you do not refresh between runs of this script, possibly deleting engines you wish to keep. UPDATE: if you reverse sort by modelIndex, this problem is obviated.
Add
val.others.sort(function (a, b) { return b.modelIndex - a.modelIndex; });just after the
.then.
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5 Simple Steps to Install Youtube Vanced Edition (No Root Needed) – Saint – watch without ads
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/11
Interesting [WayBack] 5 Simple Steps to Install Youtube Vanced Edition (No Root Needed) – Saint
You want to listen to your YouTube playlist in peace without any pesky ads and with a dark theme.YouTube Vanced is a pretty well known modded version of YouTube.
Via: [WayBack] Software-update: Pi-hole 4.0 – IT Pro – Downloads – Tweakers
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How much is Google Cloud Latency between Regions?
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/11
Interesting post which links to an on-line overview of the current latencies:
- [WayBack] How much is Google Cloud Latency between Regions?
- [Archive.is] Results for downlink, latency and dns tests from your connection to Google Cloud Platform Google Cloud Platform Network Test | CloudHarmony
Does anybody know about similar information about other big cloud providers like Amazon and Azure?
–jeroen
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Life after Google+ – Lars Fosdal: Friends+Me Google+ Export tool.
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/11
A little while ago, I blogged about Life after Google+ – Lars Fosdal. In the mean time, Lars has made a lot of progress exporting the community [WayBack] Delphi Developers – Google+ (which has moved to en.delphipraxis.net !).
He is a heavy user of the Friends+Me Google+ Export tool, which basically is an actively maintained web scraper with standard output targets:
[WayBack] Google Plus Exporter – Medium: Export your Google+ feeds to WordPress, Blogger, and JSON.
It does not depend on the G+ REST API: “the app is using web scraping and will keep working until the bitter end”.
Quite a bit of that information and the feedback he has is in this thread: [WayBack1/WayBack2] Hi Everyone, We’ve just released Google+ Exporter, an application that helps you to export your Google+ feeds (profile, pages, collections, communities… – Friends+Me – Google+
Of course G+ does not save the whole thread in the WayBack machine, so here it is copy-pasted (unformatted; maybe I will format it later):
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from a WSDL import: empty “Reference.cs” – Google Search
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/10
A search for empty “Reference.cs” – Google Search seems to indicate this happens with referenced types that – despite turning off that option – from the Visual Studio 2017 IDE sometimes results in an empty Reference.cs.
My solution: import in an empty project, then move the reference to the existing project and add it.
[WayBack] c# – Sometimes adding a WCF Service Reference generates an empty reference.cs – Stack Overflow
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Some ideas to show a Google Calendar on a TV using a Raspberry Pi and HDMI output
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/10
Using OpenSuSE Tumbleweed E20 on Raspberry Pi 3: accessing the enlightenment desktop over VNC after automatic logon I wanted to buy an on-line read-only diary to help my mentally retarded brother see what his next few days are going to be like.
He increasingly has difficulty handling a paper agenda and has an agenda with 30 minute blocks like [Archive.is] bol.com | Bureau Agenda 2017 – 1 dag per Pagina | 0041560163422 | Boeken (and the [Archive.is] picture on the right), but actually he needs 15 minute blocks during some portions of the day.
We call that kind “bureau agenda” which I think translates well into “desk diary”.
They were quite different from the agendas I used to have at school (:
[WayBack] [Zonder titel] Rijam agenda 1983/84 verzamelen? Stripcatalogus op Catawiki
For most school mates, they were more like this:
Had je een O’Neill of ging je voor De Familie Doorzon? De oude agenda’s uit je middelbare schooltijd zijn de verpersoonlijking van je eigen puber-ik. Afgelopen weekend startte in het Nationaal Onderwijsmuseum in Dordrecht de toffe tentoonstelling Grow Up over die vuistdikke, volgeplakte agenda’s.
Anyway, some ideas I initially had are below.
This is what I actually did:
- Build a Raspberry Pi with E20 on it that automagically logs on an X11 session, exposes it via VNC in a shared way (so the caretakers and I can remotely manage it) and shows Firefox with a start page.
- The start page refreshes itself about every minute and embeds a Google Calendar view and refreshes itself about every minute (as embedded calendars do not automatically skip to the next day at midnight, nor dynamically update themselves [WayBack] does an embedded calendar automatically update with changes? – Google Product Forums).
It’s based on these:- stefek99/htmlshell: A quick custom boilerplate HTML5 markup generator live at [WayBack] html shell A quick custom boilerplate HTML5 markup generator, has a few versions (so the http users get redirected to https)
- The page contains the agenda in an
iframeas per [Archive.is] Boyden, Mark – Embedding Google Calendars – Programming – Content and - [WayBack] Auto refresh embedded calendar SOLUTION – Google Product Forums
- I always fight with
iframeheights as when you specify100%it will shrink to the height of the content. For full screen height, the100vh(ViewportHeight) seems to do the trick as per [WayBack] javascript – Full-screen iframe with a height of 100% – Stack Overflow and [WayBack] CSS Values and Units Module Level 3: Viewport-percentage lengths: the vw, vh, vmin, vmax units
Two things for the future:
- The Agenda view does not show end-times for events. Other views do. The printable output does. I want them in the Agenda view as well. I’m not alone (:
- [WayBack] embed – Google Calendar Agenda view End Time and Location – Web Applications Stack Exchange Is there a way in the embed code for Google Calendars to display the Start time – End Time Event Title Event Location?
- [Archive.is] Display End Time in Embedded Calendar – Google Product Forums
- I might make the page responsive and have multiple iframe instances with different views on the calendar. For that, these will likely help:
Initial thoughts
Raspberry based:
- https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/sites/YN-2pHw11js
- Embedded calendar links:
- URL generator at https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embedhelper?ctz=Europe/Amsterdam
- https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?mode=AGENDA&height=600&wkst=1&bgcolor=%23FFFFFF&src=user.name%40gmail.com&color=%235F6B02&ctz=Europe%2FAmsterdam
- I likely want to fiddle with the above URLs using tips from Google Calendar – printing multiple months or weeks to PDF – URL parameter tips and tricks (which has the parameter meanings, including
mode,wkst, etc).
- [WayBack] Raspberry Pi Google Calendar Screen
- http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Wall-Mounted-Google-Calendar/
- http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Wall-Mounted-Calender-and-Notificatio/
- https://lifehacker.com/combine-a-raspberry-pi-with-google-calendar-for-a-smart-512265472
- http://dakboard.com/blog/diy-wall-display/
Chromecast based:
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21945115/display-web-sites-and-web-apps-with-chromecast
- https://www.thedash.com/login
- https://stestagg.github.io/dashcast/
- http://www.guidingtech.com/50991/creative-uses-chromecast/
- https://github.com/lanceseidman/PiCAST
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