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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…
Troubleshooting Using Bias Voltage
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 ( I ntegrated C ircuit P iezoelectric) vibration sensors not working. The sensor is driven by a dead simple circuit: As you see: A current limiting diode (surprisingly expensive) A polarised capacitor ( Tip : Use 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 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 and…
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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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…
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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…
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 από το Los Alamos (Manhattan project - Ατομική…
Review: Deep Work by Cal Newport
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 convinced that you can do this kind of work and you can. At the same time, the gist is there from the…
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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…
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 the "revert of the merge" would look like this: ---o---o---o---M---x---x---W / ---A---B…
Get mains out of my signal
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 the accoustic…
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 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 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: # views.py from django.views.generic import…
Python instance check
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 datasets gets you in trouble. Suppose you don't care about that and you just want to have an endless page of if statements…
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")
Uncloud
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 about 100€ and I cannot accept that the management cost for maintaining them is that high. There must be a program…
Beach freeze
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 safe!
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. 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 it that Hercules was sent to slay the Nemean lion which terrorized the hills and bring back it's skin. Beyond that…
Milos – Sea, See, Eat, Drink
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. Sea First order of business about a week before your trip, book a boat toor. Before you book watch the weather for the best possible date in terms of wind. meteo.gr is a great site for that. The…
Snow Mask
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. They nod at us as we smile at the adorable affair. We walk a bit to be greeted by untapped snow. I slide a bit and my feet stick…