I’m having issues with my internet connection lately. My modem seems to reset it self from time to time. It can work days without issues and then it starts to reset a couple of times without any warning. The internet provider sees nothing wrong with the modem. A mechanic needs to come by, but until then…
Author: Maikel
I wanted to write a script for expanding my Python knowledge. I ussually create small scripts to accommodate my “problems” or wishes. If you want use it:
A couple of weeks back was my birthday and although i don’t really celebrate, my daughter wanted to get me a gift. Because we’ve gotten a new second hand car with an old tape deck that doesn’t support aux or something, i saw a so-called FM Transmitter. This is a device you place in you…
Sometimes when you make a SQL script, that loops through a lot of records, you want to print a status. When you do this using print (or select), this will only display the content when the buffer is full. To immidiatly print everything to the screen use: This will flush the buffers to screen and…
This weekend our standby had issues with our backup shares, and mainly with the backups from MongoDB. These weren’t compressed or something. When we started using MongoDB we were at version 3.0, so compression (–gzip) wasn’t implemented yet. Now we are at version 3.2, compression is possible so we started implementing it. Because we wanted…
After a while it was time to reinstall my Raspberry pi OSMC installation. The installation was corrupt after some testing with different pieces of software. Well it was time to do a new installation. After a while i found out that OSMC had upgraded to PHP version 7, while Spotweb was only working with PHP version…
When i script (i don’t program), i do this in CodeLite. This is a nice bit of software (open source) that does the trick for me. Only the last couple of months i couldn’t get Zeal working. The strange thing was that when i pressed F1 it just started Zeal and it didn’t search the…
One of my favorite persons in the F1 circus through the years has to be Paul Stoddart. For many reasons, his team (Minardi) was the starting place for different F1 drivers. Think of Justin Wilson, Mark Webber, Fernando Alonso but also the dutch drivers Robert Doornbos, Christian Albers and Jos Verstappen (Minardi was the last…
One of the things i love to do is open up old hardware that needs to get scrapped. Reason is not to learn from it, but to see if i can reuse stuff from it. Mainly old pc’s i find interesting. Main boards i don’t really have a new use for, and even CPU’s i…
Saturday i was placing a fluorescent lamp at my attic. After we moved 5 years ago there was only a small light, so when we needed something from the attic we needed to get it by daylight or we needed to find it by touch. My brother is a construction worker and had brought a…