i never thought of writing blog posts in german but i started some projects which apply only to germany and are not computer related. thus it would not make much sense to have them posted here in english only.
in case i find the time i will translate any upcoming posts and publish them on the german blog aswell.
you can find my german blog here: http://de.gpunktschmitz.de
when i was trying to change the network settings of our servers it fails with the error:
C:\Windows\System32\en-US\sconfig.vbs(696, 21) SWbemObjectEx: Invalid index.
it turned out that i disabled ipv6 previously on that ethernet port. so i enabled it via powershell using the following command (you may have to edit the property “InterfaceAlias”):
Enable-NetAdapterBinding -InterfaceAlias Ethernet -ComponentID ms_tcpip6
after setting up DPM 2012 SP1 I was only able to install the agent remotely on a server if I turned the firewall off … when the firewall was on and I tried to initiate the installation from the management console it started the installation with 1% and after a couple of minutes aborted.
I didn’t want to believe that the “solution” would be to turn the firewall off for the installation and thus searched and found that microsoft indeed suggests this ‘resolution’:
“Temporarily disable the Windows Firewall on the target computer when deploying the agent. Once the installation completes the Windows Firewall can be re-enabled.”
I was not satisfied with this “solution” and checked again what processes where running when I initiate the remote installation .. as the KB-article mentions a “dpmac.exe” I was looking for a DPM process and found it …
looking at the properties I now had the location of the current DPM agent coordinator version …
so I added an exception to the firewall to allow this programme for inbound traffic .. deployed that via GPO and now am able to install the agent with no more hassle …
of course I will have to edit the rule once the version of the dpmac.exe changes as Microsoft seems to put each version in its own directory .. but that will be the least problem …
i was installing some apps on my prs-t1 (which was rooted with a custom firmware) and moved them to the sd card when suddenly the device would not react anymore but showing a rotating loader icon … i then let the battery drain and powered the reader on again .. with the result that i was prompted with a popup message saying “google framework service stopped unexpectedly” every time i powered it on …
when i then connected the reader to any pc (windows and linux) and selecting “data transfer mode” the device was stuck at “connecting” … this made the device no more usable .. thus i decided to reset it to factory defaults …
the reset button does not reset the device to the factory defaults but restarts it so this was no option at all …
it does not matter how long you press the button .. after releasing it the reader will be restarted after approx. 3 seconds …
so the next goal was to reset the system defaults via software .. i was on version 1.0.04.12210 and did not want to update (though the custom firmware project over at sourceforge which i was running and wanted back on had a stable release for 1.0.05.11130 [current latest version]) as everything was working fine and the changelog did not mention anything promising new features …
i was searching the web for the “PRS-T1_Updater_1.0.04.12210.exe”-file (MD5 c7d279a54fee81b9638821c898c7aea9) .. (found it on mediafire) downloaded it and couldn’t believe the updater-message saying “now connect your device using ‘data transfer mode’” .. which .. still did not work …
on i went looking for a solution to restore the reader .. and i found one and will now shamelessly copy the instructions (with some modifications):
after these steps you are “back to normal” … you now want to check all settings and maybe also root the device (again) using a custom firmware .. which i might do tomorrow .. i will keep you updated …
i was just about to switch from google reader to tt-rss when i scrolled through my starred articles and stumbled upon an lifehacker article mentioning feedly …
so while i was uploading tt-rss i thought i could give feedly a try …
what i can say now:
- it is fast
- it integrates in firefox and has an iphone app (which is amazingly fast)
- the ui is clean and clutter free
it seems to be the perfect replacement for google reader .. but .. from this first (approx. 30 minutes) evaluation i am missing two things:
just like google takeout i would like to know that i can export my feed list and switch my reader of choice at any time .. maybe that option exists but i could not find it …
the search seems to be a web search .. i was not able to search just within my feeds … (just found out it is requested and planned)
at a first sight it seems to be the perfect replacement .. but the lacking features makes it not my first choice …
i will set up and evaluate tt-rss next …
i love ebay … ebay is to me what amazon is to others .. a place where i get any item … and with the help of ifttt you can even receive an email if there is a new offer available for that special/rare item you are looking for .. this is how it goes:
first you have to search for that thing you are looking for .. in my case: the rare cd from “la boom” named “atarihuana” .. so i search for “atarihuana” .. specific enough in my case ..
then looking at the very end of the search page you will find the orange “RSS”-button: right-click that and
seems that ebay removed the RSS button due to the layout change (thanks to Dennis Lind for his comment!) .. the solution is as follows …
when i search for “atarihuana” on ebay.de i am presented with the following URL:
http://www.ebay.de/sch/i.html?_nkw=atarihuana&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=
we now have to append “&_rss=1” (without the quotes) to the URL (and reload to verify that this awesome feature still exists) and thus result with the following URL
http://www.ebay.de/sch/i.html?_nkw=atarihuana&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_rss=1
copy the url .. now head over to ifttt and create a new recipe for that RSS-feed to send you an email whenever a new item is added …
and that’s everything you have to do .. from now on whenever a new offer is added on ebay you will receive an email with that new item …
hope this is useful to you …
the idea for this project came from The IT Crowd which is/was a British sitcom. i have just found this video over at youtube which will describe it best. video has been removed …
Moss came in one morning telling his colleague Roy that he has got a new cup. which at first sight looks just like every other cup in the office. but clever Moss put a picture of him on the base, so everyone knows it’s his. but everyone else in this episode is drinking from his cup (without knowing it) but him.
so when i was looking for “moss mug” and “moss cup” on ebay i sure found some cups which all stated they where not waterproof. but as i was not willing to wash my cup everyday by hand instead of with our dish washer - i was looking for a better solution. also one could easily spot that the cups on ebay where all self-made. so i found out that those surely have been made with decal paper. so i was looking for a solution to make a cup with decal paper but also waterproof. the first thing i tried was to use inkjet decal paper and fixate that with clear paint (spray can). so i cut the inkjet decal paper to size, put it on the base of an old test-cup and fixated it with several layers of clear paint.
it looked quiet good and also got passed several cycles of the dish washer. but then went off after .. i think .. the 6th cycle or so …
time passed and i always had this project in my mind but couldn’t find any good solution until i met Eva. Eva came to our hackerspace in nuremberg (which is an “open workshop” in Künstlerhaus) as her computer was broke. as she was also part of the Künstlerhaus in an other open workshop .. the ceramic workshop .. i said i would fix her computer if she’d help me with making such a cup. she asked colleagues of her and also gave me several books where i found the suggestion to print the graphics with a laser printer and burn it (i then also found this howto). some laser printers toner consist of iron oxide which survive firing them .. here the image before the firing in a furnace at several hundred degree.
so we did several test runs which all had the same result. the decal and the printing itself where gone after the firing. i therefore assume that the toners i was using did not have enough iron oxide in them.
again some months went by and i stumbled upon a box saying “paint-a-cup” (which be found on amazon) .. turned out my partner bought it five six years ago to create a birthday present …
i instantly tried to think of a good solution to bring my likeness to the base of a cup. for my first tries i printed the portrait twice on an overhead transparency and cut out several parts so that it resulted in two patterns which overlapped made the likeness complete and also would be stiff enough to let me paint easily. it turned out that if the paint once got between the cup and the transparency it spread widely and i couldn’t manage to remove just the not wanted paint. thus i had to clear it completely and start all over again. also it was not easy to remove the patterns as the paint was still wet …
so i thought back of my first tries and remembered that i still got some printed laser decal papers laying around. so i cut them to patterns and folded one edge so that i just had to tip on the edge to easily remove the pattern.
so i started to test again, painted the test-cup waited impatiently for four hours (as intended) and put it in the oven at 160°C for 90 minutes. back in the office i put it in the dish washer every day for a week and the paint still was there.
then it was time to experiment with the colours and i ordered some more cups and another pen and went wild.
i just finished firing them in my oven and also the painting of the pen which said to fire it “no longer than 30 minutes” looks quite good.
if you want to have a waterproof painting/image/something on a porcelain - use paint or pencils saying “ceramic/porcelain paint”.
if you want to use a patterns take thick paper so if there is too much paint it can be suck by it. fold one edge for easy remove.
here is my result:
as i could not find any solution to reset the bios to the default values i had to ask the tech support for it.
it is the key-combination “ALT + E + F + B” …
press it when in the bios
as you will see in the script header comments i initially created it back in august 2012 .. as i saw the article on how to autorip dvds with windows on lifehacker i just had to reply …
i started writing this script because i wanted a ripping-solution which anybody could use. i did not want to write a howto for windows/linux but a solution that is truly auto-magic .. and then sends you an email when it’s done …
my approach for linux is a bash-script (now hosted on github) which can take one parameter for the dvd mount point. if no parameter is given it will go for “/dev/dvd”. it uses “mencoder” for the ripping, “mail” to send an email and “volname” to get the dvd volume name.
i then set this script to run as default action whenever a dvd video is inserted on my (atom) server, which is still running linux mint 9 with gnome. i did not have the time yet to set it up with LMDE but will post an update when i’ve done that.
unfortunately i could not find an easy way to embed the source .. therefore please go check it out over at github
in nautilus selecet “edit > preferences”
then select the “Media” tab and set the script as default action for “DVD Video”
i had a bit of a trouble finding a way to stop a running windows server backup.
the internet told me to click on “show details” or “modify scheduled backup settings” in the mmc snap-in .. but all i got was an error that i could not click on the option as a backup was running or i got just details from the last completed backup …
turned out you can do this via this command:
wbadmin stop job
you are prompted whether you really want to stop the job …
@MS: would a button “stop current backup” have been too much of an effort?! or am i blind and don’t see the button / gui-way to solve this task?