I splurged and got the prestigious Siemens LogoSoftComfort 8.4.1 DVD as my old V8.0 copy was only installing on Windows due to changes and restrictions making no sense. Here is the domination of Windows for all of you Unix freaks. Old things still work.I received an actual DVD in 2025 …
I recently started testing Apple mail and found it impossible to use a hosted image in my professional signature.By default, dragging or pasting an image into Apple Mail’s signature editor causes Mail to embed the image (i.e. attach it) to every outgoing email. To use a remote image (so that …
ICP aka IEPE sensors are nice! Much easier to work with than the old stuff and still way better in performance than MEMS equivalents. Beginning with those, I was frustrated with som ICP (Integrated CircuitPiezoelectric) vibration sensors not working.The sensor is driven by a dead simple circuit: As you see:A …
I just started running again after I just started running again
Gear Acquisition Syndrome is a thing and it works if you clench your teeth and restrain yourself. When I got a new running watch on May 2024 I started running again. I got a Garmin Instinct 2X, black and white no-touchscreen G-SHOCK like behemoth which I fancy a lot. When …
Gmail Forwarding - Avoid messages being trapped to spam
My work email is on Gmail. I cannot in any way understand people with multiple inboxes. I have tried it, it is the most cumbersome thing.So I forward my work Gmail to my personal and use the SMTP to send from the personal email.Here and again however spam email are …
Review: The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement - Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox
It is a novel that guides you through the theory of constraints and production flow. It is also a good story. Rarely you would be interested in the life of a plant manager (Alex Rogo) and his marital issues but the authors captivate you with it. Simplifications were not disregarded …
I had performed one clean install of Windows since 2018. Since then I didn’t have any particular problems until last week when my laptop started acting up…I figured some driver is corrupted. A format is past due for that champ anyways. Let’s start over. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Too much …
Τελευταία ακούω Audiobooks. Έχω μαζέψει πάνω από 12 ώρες αυτό το μήνα. 30 λεπτά το πρωί, 30 το απόγευμα και λίγα ακόμα στις μεγαλύτερες διαδρομές μου. Το αποτέλεσμα είναι σχεδόν να έχω ολοκληρώσει 3 βιβλία. Σε αυτά είναι και το Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! για το οποίο έγραψα ένα …
Ήταν ένας μήνας εκθέσεων για την Arpedon.Αρχικά το maintenance forum. Και έπειτα η Euronaval όπου ήμασταν μέρος του εθνικού περιπτέρου. Αυτό το μήνα έχω δύο βιβλία στη ζώνη μου:Several Short Sentences About Writing Paperback - Verlyn KlinkenborgNever Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It - Christopher …
Review: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman
Ο Richard P. Feynman, φυσικός και κάτοχος βραβείου Nobel είναι τουλάχιστον πνευματώδης. Το βιβλίο είναι γραμμένο από τον ίδιο.Review: ★★★Ο Feynman είναι απόδειξη ότι οι καλές ιστορίες φέρνουν τους οπαδούς. Κατά δηλώσεις της περιόδου στο Caltech οι φοιτητές κρέμονταν από τα χείλη του. Πολλοί συνάδελφοι τον φθονούσαν.Έχει όντως απίστευτες ιστορίες …
I am falling much behind in my book reading. To change that and jumpstart that train again I turned to an Audiobook and in particular the Deep Work by Cal Newport.Cal Newport gives a lot of examples getting also information from different figures scattered across the years. You definitely get …
Μόλις γυρίσαμε από ένα ταξίδι στη βόρεια Ιταλία. Θυσιάσαμε το ελληνικό καλοκαίρι για brunello και ζυμαρικά και άξιζε. Οπότε αυτό το site μετατρέπεται προσωρινά στο food blog που θα ντροπιάσει τα food blogs.Φλωρεντία Το ταξίδι ξεκίνησε εδώ. Η Φλωρεντία είναι η μεγαλύτερη πόλη της περιφέρειας της Τοσκάνης με γραφικούς πλακόστρωτους …
Who to revert a revert to avoid a revert of revert
I fucked up a git thing.I merged a big ui change that hadn’t tested with real data and resulted in crashes.No problem, I revert but how you continue working after?The Linux kernel team has an answer.As per their explanations this is my preferred method of those explained:The history immediately after …
Power-frequency interference gets picked up through insufficiently shielded instrumentation or electricly generated mechanical faults.While correct installation, ground loop avoidance and elimination of other sources is the goal sometimes it is not possible.Bellow is the timeseries and spectrum of an heterodyned output ultrasound sensor. It transfers the high frequency signals to …
Recently I stumbled upon Simon Willison's of Django and Datasette fame TIL project.It is a public scratchpad of sorts and I like the idea. That guy scratches a lot though. I bookmark all kinds of stuff without really getting back to it and take notes on many places. Some notes …
I made some changes and slashed a page on Mechbase.Now it is possible some users have the page bookmarked or on an email and I wanted this to work but to not retain the url.At the same time I did't want to create a view just for that.There is a …
Yesterday I wrote about a search implementation using icontains filters.It made me think of a simpler implementation on the HTMl side.In the past couple of years "extensions" to HTML that are not a full JS frameworks are getting poppular. We use the Hotwire.A useful feature of Hotiwire is that you …
Sometimes you want to create a search box for your model entries in a django app.In order to not mess with complex search packages you can use the icontains QuerySet test on a filter.And because the UI is almost always the same, for my simple needs I have the following …
Python being a dynamically typed (🦆) language lets you set whatever you want on a variable. Is it a string now and later a float. No worries now, we will worry when we have to.This is great when you want to set something but dealing with complex, not necessarily cohesive …
Setting a variable default datetime value in Django/python
Django comparisons almost always require timezone aware datetimes.I tried with a None value but the comparison failed.A workaround to keep this compatible is to use epoch and isoparse with the timezone in the ISO string.from dateutil import parser check_date = parser.isoparse("1970-01-01T00:00:00+03:00")
Recently I realized how ridiculus cloud storage prices are given that physical storage is dirt cheap. That relization was brought from our company's Dropbox anuall cost at 432€ for 3 people that need to share 250GB of files. A good quality 4TB HDD disk with 3 years of warranty costs …
It looks like climate change is a thing and it is changing alright.In Greece every year now we experience heavy snow in southern places in February or March. It became our thing while it was not so much. Anyway…Will try to go out and shoot a bit if possible. Stay …
Start of December we visited a winery.I have been to distilleries and breweries but wine making has not made me drunk yet.Arriving at such facilities makes you aware of how much vines are needed for wine. Nemea is the place where the first Labor of Hercules took place. Myth has …
While in love or alone, Milos is a place to enjoy the sand and sun. Bellow are some musts from my visit. I will not bore you with the unpleasant or meh experiences. Only with the great and there were many.SeaFirst order of business about a week before your trip, …
On the snowiest day of the forever sunbathed Athens suburbia, I watch a boy cry about sand in his shoes.Little dude and his parents made the beach with masks and all the riches to enjoy the rare phenomenon. A pair of girls watch their dog joyfully jump around the kid. …
