Jim's Notes

Thursday, May 21, 2020

German bit at the end of Law and Order, Criminal Intent german to a character

Goren tells the character Rudy Langer, who is the art dealer

"sie haben ihren partner unterschatzt weil sie nun ein morderin istkriegen ihre gemalde einen riesigen preis"

In German. Goren's character was supposed to have served in Germany in the Army CID and learned it there.

Translation via google:

"you underestimated your partner because you are now a murderer get your paintings a huge price"

Episode on IMDB Season 1 Episode 2 "Art"

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0629506/reference

Also some german in Season 6 Episode 21 "Endgame" (one with Roy Sheider)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1031814/reference

Some references:

(Goren Bio)

https://ci-writers-hub.livejournal.com/675.html

Hook to an LAOCI discussion page

https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/3273-criminal-intent-all-episodes-talk/page/10/

Quotes page on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/pg/ThusQuoteBobby/posts/

Saturday, May 16, 2020

Raspberry Pi sense hat board

Board contains an 8x8 array of tri color leds.

Also the following sensors and utility:

ST Micro inav unit
contains orientation and compas sensor

ST micro pressure / temp / humidity sensor

Joystick

When installed on a raspberry pi 4, has to have a config setting changed to force on an HDMI port. Don't know if it's because there are two of these on the board, or if it's because of a gpio / programming conflict, but when run headless, the board won't boot w/o that change.

http://jim-st.blogspot.com/search/label/raspbian%20wifi%20headless

Solution was to edit the /boot/config.txt.
Remove the "#" in front of the line "hdmi_force_hotplug=1" and now the Raspberry Pi is booting attached with the SenseHAT.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=243949

https://github.com/astro-pi/python-sense-hat/issues/96

Github repository for board
https://github.com/astro-pi/python-sense-hat

Sense-of-life, small John Conway life for sense hat
https://github.com/imrehg/senseoflife

Python lib documentation
https://pythonhosted.org/sense-hat/

Example page
https://www.deviceplus.com/raspberry-pi/the-sense-hat-add-on-board-for-raspberry-pi-6-types-of-sensors/

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Monday, April 27, 2020

wrecking crew and related stories

Friday, April 10, 2020

Disable Upgrade on Ubuntu

There is a system upgrade feature that runs an annoying amount on Ubuntu, unattended-upgrades.

It is running an extended scan to create pre-staged install goods for doing upgrades. If you allow them to take place that's good. If you do version management yourself it's a waste.

If you have lightweight virtual servers running several OS's it eats the processor for an extended time every 7 hours by default (according to my logs).

Here's how to turn it off

How to Enable/Disable Unattended Upgrades in Ubuntu 16.04

https://linoxide.com/ubuntu-how-to/enable-disable-unattended-upgrades-ubuntu-16-04/

Block packages from automatic updating

You can blacklist few packages from being automatically updated by adding them in the blacklist section like below. Anything that comes under this list will not be updated automatically. In the following configuration, the packages vim, libc6, libc6-dev, libc6-i686 will not be automatically updated.

Unattended-Upgrade::Package-Blacklist {
 "vim";
 "libc6";
 "libc6-dev";
 "libc6-i686";
};

At last, edit the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic to configure when update, upgrade and auto-clean should run.

# vi /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "1";
APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "7";
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";

The above configuration lets unattended upgrades update the package list, downloads and installs available upgrades every day and the local download archive is cleaned every week. If you want to disable automatic updates, just change the value 1 to 0. Check the log of unattended-upgrades inside the folder /var/log/unattended-upgrades. You can disable the automatic updates by making the value of the parameter APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists to "0".

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Another post on disabling upgrades using dpkg option modification.

https://ostechnix.com/how-to-disable-unattended-upgrades-on-ubuntu/

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Thursday, February 20, 2020

Firefox on Rasbian

A version of firefox is in the repository for rasbian.

https://linuxhint.com/install_firefox_raspberry_pi/

sudo apt update

sudo apt install firefox-esr
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Monday, January 20, 2020

set ssh to esxi to log on with preshared keys

The ssh preshared keys are not in the home (root) directory of the esxi root account, but rather are in /etc/ssh/keys-root/authorized_keys

https://ogris.de/sshesxi/

https://serverfault.com/questions/549858/rsync-over-ssh-to-esxi

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Saturday, January 18, 2020

rsync over ssh from vm esxi

basically have to build rsync on the esxi platform. esxi uses busybox, rsync not included.

https://serverfault.com/questions/549858/rsync-over-ssh-to-esxi

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