Index of other blogs

Collections Blog   http://jimsoldtoys.blogspot.com/

Technical Notes    http://jim-st.blogspot.com/

Recipes:                http://jim-shirley.blogspot.com/

Restaurants:          http://jimsocfood.blogspot.com/

Radxa board:        http://my-radxa-rock.blogspot.com/


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other interesting blogs.

Aviation Archives   https://aviationarchives.blogspot.com/

xfce4 background, and linux command line xml parse example

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/131238/where-is-the-current-wallpaper-stored


xml script example

#!/bin/bash -

# taken from
#  http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/131238/where-is-the-current-wallpaper-stored
# must install xmllint
# /usr/bin/xmllint      libxml2-utils

#
# define xfce4 xml file that holds info about desktops 
# 
DESKTOP="/home/$(id -un)/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-desktop.xml"
#
# define xpath that will extract current desktop background file name
# (NB I am no expert in xpaths and there is probably a much more elegant way
#  to do this but this works for me)
#
XPATH='(//property[@name="workspace0"]/property[@name="last-image"])[last()]/@value'
#
# use xmllint utility to apply xpath to file and extract file path and name
#
IMAGE=$(xmllint --xpath "string(${XPATH})" "${DESKTOP}")
#
# display the file info extracted
#
echo Current Wallpaper File = ${IMAGE}
#
# rest of script........
#

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windows 10 miracast remote display on other device

maybe able to use the laptop as a remote display for the compute stick.  Not much different than using RDP, but it would remote the actual desktop if it works, not the remote connect, which would allow a reboot rather than a disconnect on the power button.


http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/turn-windows-10-pc-into-wirelss-display

enable ping and other fine tuning on windows 10

windows 10 ping etc. link

May not be enabled by default, which is a PITA

http://www.sysprobs.com/enable-ping-reply-and-ftp-traffic-in-windows-10-and-server

Windows 7 system font size issues (tiny for display)

Windows 7 font size problem link

http://superuser.com/questions/425449/how-do-i-fix-the-tiny-font-in-my-windows-7-system-dialog-boxes

Go to Control Panel -> Personalization -> Window Color -> Advanced appearance settings

Go through each item in the Item drop-down and see if anything has a very low Size set in the Font section.

Windows 10 font size problem solution search

https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+10+font+size+system&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

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Windows 10 tablet keyboard, adding arrow keys.

http://superuser.com/questions/1001053/windows-10-tablet-onscreen-keyboard-arrows

To enable this layout:

1. From the Start screen, open Settings (hidden behind the “hamburger” icon in the tablet mode). Another way to start the Settings app is the “All Settings” action icon in the notification center.
2. In the Settings app, select Devices → Typing.
3. Turn on the “Add the standard keyboard layout as a touch keyboard option” switch.

After enabling the layout you can switch to it using the rightmost icon in the keyboard options menu:

the standard keyboard has up and down arrow keys, useful for scrollback.  should be in the menu, but guess they don't use the keyboard and omitted them.

Windows 10 performance measurement tools

There are tools in windows 10 to measure some system performance.

The simple one that you will find that was included in the system health report on the system page, or a system experience report in the Games page in windows seem to be missing, maybe being removed.

these tools and measures do seem to be present.

To do some tests, hit windows button, then type powershell.  Before hitting enter or clicking, right click and run as adminstrator for all these tests.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/winsat-error-this-system-does-not-have-multi-media/fced6087-0e8e-4c4c-b07c-1927996b97c5

Memory:
winsat memformal

PS C:\Windows\system32> winsat memformal
Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: System memory performance assessment ''
> Run Time 00:00:05.06
> Memory Performance                           15379.05 MB/s
> Total Run Time 00:00:05.72

winsat diskformal

 

PS C:\Windows\system32> winsat diskformal
Windows System Assessment Tool
> Running: Feature Enumeration ''
> Run Time 00:00:00.00
> Running: Storage Assessment '-seq -read -n 0'
> Run Time 00:00:02.80
> Running: Storage Assessment '-ran -read -n 0'
> Run Time 00:00:00.25
> Disk  Sequential 64.0 Read                   230.51 MB/s          7.4
> Disk  Random 16.0 Read                       153.33 MB/s          7.5
> Total Run Time 00:00:03.11

 

winsat dwmformal

took a long time, canceled it.

 

winsat cpuformal did not run

windows version N has no windows media support, and the cpu performance assessment

is calculated from encoding a file from wmv format to prx format with a command line

passed to the measurement utility.

 

Here are a few extra links found as well with hints, still to be evaluated.

 

Using powershell:

 

Get-WmiObject  -class Win32_WinSAT will fetch up the raw WEI figure.  Seems to be

dead or missing on development Windows 10 systems.

 

Winsat prepop is supposed to fill in the information, but does not, for the above info

fetch.

 

PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-WmiObject -class Win32_WinSAT


__GENUS               : 2
__CLASS               : Win32_WinSAT
__SUPERCLASS          :
__DYNASTY             : Win32_WinSAT
__RELPATH             : Win32_WinSAT.TimeTaken="MostRecentAssessment"
__PROPERTY_COUNT      : 8
__DERIVATION          : {}
__SERVER              : DESKTOP-KAMVAGD
__NAMESPACE           : root\cimv2
__PATH                : \\DESKTOP-KAMVAGD\root\cimv2:Win32_WinSAT.TimeTaken="MostRecentAssessment"
CPUScore              : 0
D3DScore              : 0
DiskScore             : 0
GraphicsScore         : 0
MemoryScore           : 0
TimeTaken             : MostRecentAssessment
WinSATAssessmentState : 3
WinSPRLevel           : 0
PSComputerName        : DESKTOP-KAMVAGD

 

Older platforms with System page Windows experience index (WEI) figure.

 

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CalculateYourWEIWindowsExperienceIndexUnderWindows81.aspx

 

Another youtube video suggest using Shell:games to get to the games search.

That has been deleted on the development copies of Windows 10, so there is

no calculated WEI index.  other utilities show how that is calculated.

 

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