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Install LOGO SoftComfort 8.4.1 on MacOS

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 - which is also the license. Upon gazing on it, and digging up a computer with a DVD reader from storage,…

Remote images in Apple Mail Signatures

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 the logo is loaded from your server rather than sent as an attachment), you must create an HTML signature…

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 I got it I run a lot. I also shed about 8kgs. When the heatwaves hit Athens this summer I stopped and all my progress fell…

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 not being forwarded. This is some security trick but in any way it brakes the illusion I have only one account. I need to log in to…

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 as tools for the story and were explained and challenged. Dealing with software you hear about Kanban and Toyota…

Microsoft ruins my computer

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 lemon though. I procceded with the recommended ways to make a windows install drive. Took my backups and…

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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 Klinkenborg Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It - Christopher Voss New pins 📌 [How to Extract Audio from video files iOS 15 New…

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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 μικρό review. New pins 📌 Sound level distance damping dB calculation How does the sound decrease with change of…

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 όταν ξέρεις να λες καλές ιστορίες μπορείς να πας πολύ μακριά. Κατά δηλώσεις της περιόδου στο Caltech οι φοιτητές κρέμονταν από τα χείλη του. Πολλοί συνάδελφοι τον φθονούσαν. Έχει όντως απίστευτες ιστορίες από το Los Alamos…

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 convinced that you can do this kind of work and you can. At the same time, the gist is there from the first pages and it is be less distracted. Review: ★★ Highlights: The Eudaimonia machine \ \

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Let’s make this newsletter an actual newsletter. Bellow are new posts, new photos, new pins. New posts ✍️ Tuscan roads 🇬🇷 Aug 24, 2022 The above post is also on the mialigoura instagram on three sections: Firenze Siena and Val d’Orcia Rome (Follow to see when posted) New pins 📌 The Ultimate Moka Pot Technique (Episode #3) - YouTube Sep 4, 2022 Belt-Drives - General Aug 30, 2022 Belt-drive…

Tuscan roads

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 δρόμους, εντυπωσιακές γέφυρες και φοβερό φαγητό. Ήπιαμε το πρώτο…

How 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 the "revert of the merge" would look like this: ---o---o---o---M---x---x---W / ---A---B where…

Get mains out of my signal

Power-frequency interference gets picked up through insufficiently shielded instrumentation or electrically 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 the acoustic…

TIL I learn

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 though and especially those for programming reference I want to go back to and even have some examples attached. Those…

Django: Redirecting from urls.py

I made some changes and slashed a page. 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 dind’t want to create a view just for that. There is a better way: from django.views.generic import RedirectView ... urlpatterns = [ ... path( "measurementpoint/<uuid:pk>/history/",…

Simpler search using Turbo Frames

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 can make a request through a form and inject the response in a predefined position in the body.…

Simple django search

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 starting point. On your views.py add a general form that contains the form action: from django.views.generic import TemplateView…

Python instance check

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")

Default Datetime Value

layout: post lang: en title: Setting a variable default datetime value in Django/python date: 2022-06-13 link: python-is-number tags: python, django, til ___ 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…

Uncloud

Recently I realized how ridiculous cloud storage prices are given that physical storage is dirt cheap.

Beach freeze

It looks like climate change is a thing and it is changing alright.

The Nemean Lion and its Wine

Start of December we visited a winery. I have been to distilleries and breweries but wine making has not made me drunk yet.

Milos - Sea, See, Eat, Drink

While in love or alone, Milos is a place to enjoy the sand and sun. In this post 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.

Snow Mask

On the snowiest day of the forever sunbathed Athens suburbia, I watch a boy cry about sand in his shoes.

No more AirPods for Zoom calls

Give up AirPods on PC. Microphone reviews on 2020

In 2020 we all did more online calls than we ever thought reasonable. Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Facebook Messenger, Webex were the bread and butter of the working professional. \ I don’t like webcams on web calls. They are distracting and my face searching for files is not a pretty thing. If I don’t know the person on the other end I want to meet them but for the rest of the call the…

Multilingual Jekyll on GitHub Pages

Babel was hard enough. A GDPR compliant multilingual language selector.

Email gripes

It all started with HEY. There was so much buzz around it. It is made from the company behind Basecamp 3. I use Basecamp and it is great so I decided to try it. It offers a two week trial which is more than enough to judge if an email service for $100/year is worth the trouble.

5 Problems from Poor Lubrication

Coronavirus &amp; Chill

Books, movies and alcohol

Prepping for a Lunar Eclipse

Valuable information on how to creep out future moon dwellers.

Open thy house

Random people decided for some reason that their house is a public place for a day. Other random people apparently read a lot about it.

OspreyT Full Flight

OspreyT Quadplane Maiden Flight

Focus advice

perispomeni.club was under attack from Chinese internet robots

Surviving an attack from the Chinese

perispomeni.club was under attack from Chinese internet robots

A pile of scam

Scam email is still escaping spam filters so having fun it is!

Just kill the messenger

A rant on Facebook Messenger’ s new redesign and functions

Aircraft design the NASA way

The tools used to design modern model aircrafts.

The ways of the Quad

The theory of operation behind the most prominent drone and how to choose yours.

Shooting film

Remember when my camera had the worst swim ever? Well, I figured I could use the old film camera my grandfather bought on one of his trips. It is a Pentax camera from the 60s, very advanced for it’s age and relatively new as they mostly used it for family pictures. It has only manual controls, it looks cool and I could learn a thing or two from the absence of any automation. So I picked up a film…

MARVELlous Music

OK, Marvel Entertainment, LLC or whatever your full name is. What you are doing to music, it has to… Continue! I just finished the latest Marvel superhero series. It’s about the indestructible black man named Luke Cage. He lives in Harlem, NY and wants to be left alone but personal reasons convince him to fight the mafia leaving me once again astonished by the selection of music made by the…

- Bye Maria… - Relax dude, it’s a camera!

how my camera died

Is it futile to un-Google?

A rant on the obsession with privacy stuff.

Running streak

For 5 days now I run every day morning or afternoon. And it’s great! I tried to form this habit many times in the past but for some reason it did not stick. At some point, my excuse would be that I could not find time and one day out of the loop was enough to throw me out of it. Casey is very motivating in that stuff so for the first time I decided to make running (among other things) a priority.…

Social media frenzy

It all started with Twitter.. or foursquare… or Snapchat! I think it was foursquare though. Twitter in Greece was not that popular and foursquare was a funny game for me. I even checked “in” at the bus stop. Anyhow. The last two months I’ve been under the Snapchat frenzy and friends I razzed about their addiction are coming out swinging. I also share more on Instagram and Twitter. Swarm (formerly…

U Can’t Touch This

No bro, it is not cool when I enter the room, you use my computer and then ask me if it’s cool. It wasn’t when you started it and it is not now. I said “Look at this” showing you a picture. I surely don’t remember saying get the phone off my hand, check all my pictures/apps and don’t forget to log me out of Facebook to check if people still like you. That big old CD collection you see there, is…

Elafonisos

On the road