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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: [WayBackVirtual 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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Getting close to 7zip GUI “Ultra” compression from a batch file

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/23

These are the command-line parameters I assembled to get close to “Ultra” compression from the 7-zip command-line:

"C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" a -t7z -m0=lzma2:d1024m -mx=9 -aoa -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on -sdel filename archive.7z

This will move filename to archive.7z using maximum compression.

Sometimes this is slightly better than “Ultra” compression from the 7-zip UI, sometimes slightly worse, but never far apart.

via:[WayBackbatch file – 7zip Ultra LZMA2 compression – Stack Overflow

–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:

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: [WayBackCode 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 [WayBackAccessing 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:

  1. Terminate console.exe in the Task Scheduler (taskschd.msc)
  2. Move away the old C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Logs>dir console.log file
  3. Start console.exe in the Task Scheduler or logoff/logon

Further reading:

–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. [WayBackSBS 2008 disk space and the DataServiceComponents.log file – Oxford SBS Guy indicated how to clean it up and pointed to [WayBackRecovering 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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