Posts made by thwr

@MattSpeller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@thwr I enjoy German, should spend some time to learn it (more than swearing). Good solid chunky language and you can combine words together in delightful way.

Reminds me of physics professors naming things. Blackhole -> hole that is black.

Yepp, but quite hard. It's said to be one of the hardest languages at all, only topped by Chinese, Japanese and other Asian and some African languages.

Try to read a bit about Genitiv and Dativ. We got a learning boardgame here, titled "Der Genitiv ist dem Dativ sein Tod". PITA even for some native speakers.

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@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

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@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

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@mlnews said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Youtube Video

That just.... but........ I can't even

Don't be shy, just tell us. This is a small community, just you, us and Google

throws knackwurst

/me slaps @MattSpeller with a Bockwurst

Good old IRC...

Let's go for beers and you can teach me new swear words

Would love to. Can't find it right now, but I've posted a screenshot a few days ago. EN->DE translations of to puke. German is a wonderful language, we got like 20 different words and even more phrases for puking.

I think we should arrange a LassiCorp ML event, preferably in central Europe. Seriously, @scottalanmiller, what do you think about that?

@MattSpeller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@thwr said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@MattSpeller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@mlnews said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Youtube Video

That just.... but........ I can't even

Don't be shy, just tell us. This is a small community, just you, us and Google

throws knackwurst

/me slaps @MattSpeller with a Bockwurst

Good old IRC...

@MattSpeller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@mlnews said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Youtube Video

That just.... but........ I can't even

Don't be shy, just tell us. This is a small community, just you, us and Google

@scottalanmiller said in Phone Calls Over WiFi:

@BRRABill said in Phone Calls Over WiFi:

@JaredBusch said

It can do that also, but that is not the core implementation of GV. GV has always been a forwarding service.

That's why I was wondering if you just turned off your cell service, would GV just use WiFi?

I don't see how they could block that, but I have read this does not work.

I have no idea what they do with existing accounts, but the GV web page is entirely blocked in the EU. I can't even look at it for information.

Seems to be available here in Germany: www.google.com/voice

Installed on my machine:

• Acrobat X Pro
• Creative Suite 5.1

Helvetica not included. Arial was designed to be a proper replacement anyway (or was it the other way around?)

@scottalanmiller said in Phone Calls Over WiFi:

@thwr said in Phone Calls Over WiFi:

@scottalanmiller said in Phone Calls Over WiFi:

@BRRABill said in Phone Calls Over WiFi:

I'm looking for something that would not need to connect to a PBX. Purely for non-business usage.

Does such a thing even exist?

No, because a PBX is needed to make the calls connect to the PSTN. Something has to be the translation point.

I used a PBX at home for this, works great. Provides a lot of cool functionality even for home use and you can provide access to family and friends, get video calling, control blacklists and all of that business type stuff that normally you can't get at home.

I also have T-Mobile Wifi calling.

Asterisks or something else?

Yes, using Asterisk. It's nice because family members can each have an extension, you can use it for family to family calling, you can have desk phones, soft phones, use it from anywhere in the world, etc. Very nice to have, especially for travellers.

Yep, great piece software. You can virtually route between anything.

@scottalanmiller said in Phone Calls Over WiFi:

@BRRABill said in Phone Calls Over WiFi:

I'm looking for something that would not need to connect to a PBX. Purely for non-business usage.

Does such a thing even exist?

No, because a PBX is needed to make the calls connect to the PSTN. Something has to be the translation point.

I used a PBX at home for this, works great. Provides a lot of cool functionality even for home use and you can provide access to family and friends, get video calling, control blacklists and all of that business type stuff that normally you can't get at home.

I also have T-Mobile Wifi calling.

Asterisks or something else?

What about hosted SIP?

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

From the S's & G's questionnaire:

I'm pretty sure that this question has been posted before but I thought it was worth posting an updated version.

Yep, but I didn't take a screenshot.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Playing with Raspberry Pi's, video streaming and software defined radio (SDR)

Curious to know more about the arrangement... and what SDR you chose / why.

Ah, that's no magic at all. RTL-SDR with adrbox (dump1090 before) and a cheap DVB-T USB receiver. Pi-A (behind the touchscreen) is decoding ADS-B. Additionally, it acts as HTTP and VNC server. Pi-B grabs the VNC stream and does a little upscaling.

VNC is in use for a simple reason: I can catch any disconnects and restart the VNC client. That's way harder to accomplish with a browser. At least in the short amount of time I had to build this (roughly two days)

I'll post some instructions on my blog next week.

Awesome - look forward to it. Now,.. back to ripping the truck apart (there are only four more screws....

A few more pics, also showing the new Frontend. Sorry about the quality, just shot them with my mobile.

Pi behind touchscreen

Adsbox on Pi

Stream on TV

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Playing with Raspberry Pi's, video streaming and software defined radio (SDR)

Curious to know more about the arrangement... and what SDR you chose / why.

Ah, that's no magic at all. RTL-SDR with adrbox (dump1090 before) and a cheap DVB-T USB receiver. Pi-A (behind the touchscreen) is decoding ADS-B. Additionally, it acts as HTTP and VNC server. Pi-B grabs the VNC stream and does a little upscaling.

VNC is in use for a simple reason: I can catch any disconnects and restart the VNC client. That's way harder to accomplish with a browser. At least in the short amount of time I had to build this (roughly two days)

I'll post some instructions on my blog next week.

Awesome - look forward to it. Now,.. back to ripping the truck apart (there are only four more screws....

We need pictures

@gjacobse As for why adrbox: Great interface, good performance. Backend is the same between dump1090 and adrbox: rtlsdr.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Playing with Raspberry Pi's, video streaming and software defined radio (SDR)

Curious to know more about the arrangement... and what SDR you chose / why.

Ah, that's no magic at all. RTL-SDR with adrbox (dump1090 before) and a cheap DVB-T USB receiver. Pi-A (behind the touchscreen) is decoding ADS-B. Additionally, it acts as HTTP and VNC server. Pi-B grabs the VNC stream and does a little upscaling.

VNC is in use for a simple reason: I can catch any disconnects and restart the VNC client. That's way harder to accomplish with a browser. At least in the short amount of time I had to build this (roughly two days)

I'll post some instructions on my blog next week.

@aaronstuder said in SOB, my TV died, and the new one isn't here yet.:

@thwr said in SOB, my TV died, and the new one isn't here yet.:

@JaredBusch said in SOB, my TV died, and the new one isn't here yet.:

@Dashrender said in SOB, my TV died, and the new one isn't here yet.:

@JaredBusch said in SOB, my TV died, and the new one isn't here yet.:

@Dashrender said in SOB, my TV died, and the new one isn't here yet.:

@JaredBusch said in SOB, my TV died, and the new one isn't here yet.:

@Dashrender said in SOB, my TV died, and the new one isn't here yet.:

But I should add that my power cut might simply be coincidence.

Several people claimed there was no power issue, the house didn't loose power, when their problem occurred.

Your problem is bad verbiage. A power cut implies, system on and power failed.

I would assume that since you are intentionally performing this work, the TV was powered off first.

Sadly no - I didn't know if the outlets the TV was on were on the same circuit as where I was adding my new extension outlet. I killed 3-4 breakers before I found the one I needed to kill for the work I was doing. and the wife was watching TV.

Well that is honestly all on you also. I would never live in a house and not know exactly which outlets and lights were on which breakers.

So your new house you're going to make a map of ever outlet and light fixture that is affected by every breaker? Other than MAYBE Scott Allen Miller, I know of no one who's ever done this.

Not saying it's not a good idea, just never hear/seen/helped anyone who has done so before.

I have done it in every house I have ever lived. Rental or owned.

Same here.

I guess @Dashrender and I are the only one that doesn't do this

Don't worry, cable fires are just horror stories to scare little kids. Nothing a tough guy must be afraid of.

@BBigford

SFTP-Browser to the left. Drag & Drop possible. Whenever you are changing your directory in the terminal (e.g. cd), the browser will "follow you".

Advanced features

Tunnel wizard (nice add-on)

Supported session types (clients)

And... just found this (full SFTP client):

@JaredBusch said in SOB, my TV died, and the new one isn't here yet.:

@Dashrender said in SOB, my TV died, and the new one isn't here yet.:

@JaredBusch said in SOB, my TV died, and the new one isn't here yet.:

@Dashrender said in SOB, my TV died, and the new one isn't here yet.:

@JaredBusch said in SOB, my TV died, and the new one isn't here yet.:

@Dashrender said in SOB, my TV died, and the new one isn't here yet.:

But I should add that my power cut might simply be coincidence.

Several people claimed there was no power issue, the house didn't loose power, when their problem occurred.

Your problem is bad verbiage. A power cut implies, system on and power failed.

I would assume that since you are intentionally performing this work, the TV was powered off first.

Sadly no - I didn't know if the outlets the TV was on were on the same circuit as where I was adding my new extension outlet. I killed 3-4 breakers before I found the one I needed to kill for the work I was doing. and the wife was watching TV.

Well that is honestly all on you also. I would never live in a house and not know exactly which outlets and lights were on which breakers.

So your new house you're going to make a map of ever outlet and light fixture that is affected by every breaker? Other than MAYBE Scott Allen Miller, I know of no one who's ever done this.

Not saying it's not a good idea, just never hear/seen/helped anyone who has done so before.

I have done it in every house I have ever lived. Rental or owned.

Same here.

@BBigford np, yw.

The browser is more like a window to the left of your terminal window. It's OK to upload or download a few files or folders, but a real NC/MC style SFTP/SCP client like FileZilla or WinSCP is still in use on my machine.

Don't get me wrong, I really like small purpose build tools and I'm not really a big fan of Swiss knife solutions - but MobaXterm helped me. Was recommended to me by a guy working for a project partner.

@tonyshowoff Msgpack looks interesting. I've got an upcoming project where I need some very small footprint (low power 8 bit uC), some of the grid nodes probably even need to send data via SMS for example (160 bytes per message). Msgpack with MQTT... Need to do some reading

@garak0410 Just don't know how to tell it, with VBA, to take each job number in column W and do what it normally did the other way and then put a warning up if it doesn't match exactly and to STOP when it teaches a null cell.

Little helper function

Function IsNullOrEmpty(val as String) as Boolean
  REM Strings are always initialized as "" in VB/VBA/VBS, so checking for Null is redundant. At least In theory.
  If (val is Null or val = "") Then
    IsNullOrEmpty = True
  Else
    IsNullOrEmpty = False
  End If
End Function

To process your values (like @dafyre suggested):

Dim myRange As Range

Set myRange = Sheet1.Range("W1", "W5")

For Each ritem In myRange
  If (IsNullOrEmpty(ritem.Value)) Then 
    REM Empty string, processing finished
    Exit For
  Else
    REM Do something here with ritem.Value
  End If
Next

The original script is a bit... ugly. Could be easier to have the XLS with test data only.