19Apr 2021 by Ajay No Comments

How did I migrate WordPress & Added SSL to this site?

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When my Let's Encrypt SSL gone up and the website become unsecure, the nightmare started. Easily the web traffics go low due to Chrome browser stops the visitors to avoid entering unsecured sites. I couldn't renew my SSL as well due to older version of Bitnami Stack that I had and eventually I had to migrate whole stuffs to get it fixed . So How did I migrate the whole WP to newer Bitnami stack and fixed the SSL issue? What has happened? Though I had words with Bitnami community team, it wasn't much fruitful. Later I understood that Bitnami stack that I had was older version and so the Bitnami's own Certification tool bncert-tool were not working. Configuring the Let's encrypt the old way yet not worked and thrown…
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16Apr 2021 by Ajay No Comments

My Favorite Linux Command line tools & Commands

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Disk Space Analyzers df - command This command can quickly give a glance of how much space are consumed and left out on overall level. For example, below image shows that I have consumed 51% of my disc, so I have 49% left out. NCDU The below command worked for me in bitnami stack however there are also other commands for other OSes. The key feature about NCDU is we can analyze from the root folder and easily navigate with arrows and enter the key to see which is occupying more space. Remember to use Ctrl+Z to exit this at any time. sudo apt install ncdu Folder & File Permission Command: chmod Recursive: -RAll Read Write: a+r+w sudo chmod -R a+r+w /FOLDER/
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31Oct 2020 by Ajay No Comments

Preview Google slide without any fuss

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If you are looking for simple presentation without the bottom bar while you presenting with Google Slide Then use the below preview short code in URL which shows only a presentation view without an editor. You can full screen F11 the browser to make it present just like a normal presentation. preview?rm=minimal https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/ASdfeokag3DbrBK5YM1BHGJ3ovo9t_4nthEW6WMuISoo/edit#slide=id.g9f190313b0_0_6 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/ASdfeokag3DbrBK5YM1BHGJ3ovo9t_4nthEW6WMuISoo/preview?rm=minimal&slide=id.g9f190313b0_0_6
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14Oct 2020 by Ajay No Comments

Native Windows Tools which makes my life easier

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Multi desktop (Ctrl + Win-key + Left or Right arrows) The icon next to Search in taskbar. Task View button on Windows Taskbar Usually I keep 2 desktops in my work PC where one is for my personal works, after all most of the cloud services keeps us busy personally in office ? Two desktops - My preference is to keep one for work and other for personal The shortcuts I use for easy switching the desktops are Cntl + Win-key + Left or Right arrows to switch to the desktop on left or rightTrackpad gesture 3 fingers swipe left or right. (I guess I configured it a while ago in windows settings.) Clipboard History (Win-key + V) Historical Paste This helps me a lot. Once you copy the text…
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20Jul 2020 by Ajay No Comments

Contribution to Wikipedia – Be concise, precise, and long-lasting

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I never knew Wikipedia was so much socially contributed encyclopedia. I was looking for key missing info in the wiki for CAN-FD Transfer Protocol (TP) header ?. Though it's very technical which no-one usually turns to Wiki for the help, yet I found another very technical article about CAN bus Transfer Protocol (TP) which is as technical as ISO standard itself. To my surprise, Wiki had such unexpected technical information for one but not the other. Later when I found the information for CANFD TP ?, I thought it's a good idea to ask the responsible person to add it to the Wiki page. Amazingly then I came to know the real workflow of the wiki as, Wikipedia is socially contributed and there is no one single ownership of any…
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09Feb 2020 by Ajay No Comments

Car Driving License process Ireland

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Obtaining a driving license in Ireland looks too cumbersome for beginners. And it's an especially lengthy process if you're from India. Good thing is that if you already have driving experience in India for more than 2 years, then you can reduce your license obtaining cost by about 200 euros with EDT Shortening. For all newcomers, I tried to grasp the steps below to achieve a driving license. Ireland Car Driving Lesson process steps Legends: ? Input to the step? Output from the step⌚ Time for the step? € Price for the step Step 1: Theory Test Practice Use theory-tester.com. No need for additional materials to practice.Complete all 900 questions on this website and pass at least 10 tests consistently.⌚ 10-20days? €Free? Your knowledge Step 2: Theory test booking ?…
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05Feb 2020 by Ajay No Comments

Snippet: How to show week number in Gmail & Google Calendar

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It's easy to show up week numbers in Gmail calendar view. For this you have to use the settings in Google calendar. Google calendar on Gmail showing week numbers Follow below steps Open Google calendarClick on Settings gear icon in G-calendarScroll down to enable week number visible. Also the same reflects in the Google calendar as below. You can see week number is shown up in left pane calendar and also on the regular large calendar. Week number shown in overview calendar on left pane and also on regular calendar in large pane. Below are screenshots to help achieve this. Step 1 Open Apps --> Calendar Step 2 Open Settings under Google Calendar Step 3 Check the Show week number
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26Jan 2020 by Ajay No Comments

LabVIEW or TestStand File Diff using TortoiseSVN or TortoiseGit

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When you're extensively working in LabVIEW or TestStand with multiple developers, you could easily end up in the need of merging different VIs or sequences. The LVCompare tool and TestStand File Diff and Merge Utility come in handy. Here is how you set up the Tortoise settings to make the diff handier right from the context menu using TortoiseSVN or TortoiseGit. You can diff the files this way without the need to go through the file selection dialog boxes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsvqPt8MB0g&feature=youtu.be For .vi file of LabVIEW "C:\Program Files\National Instruments\Shared\LabVIEW Compare\LVCompare.exe" %base %mine For .seq file of Teststand "C:\Program Files\National Instruments\Shared\TestStand\FileDifferLauncher.exe" %base %mine References For LabVIEW diff with merge, there is a good article here from Delacor.
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16Oct 2019 by Ajay 2 Comments
Not Enough Memory in TestStand + LabVIEW environment

Not Enough Memory in TestStand + LabVIEW environment

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If you have your test running in 32bit version of LabVIEW and 32-bit version of TestStand, and especially if your application is dealing with image processing algorithms, then there are numerous chances you end-up with a Not Enough Memory dialog from LabVIEW as below. There are some creative way and some workaround way to fix this memory issue. Not enough memory dialog from LabVIEW. 1. Unload option Find out the step which consumes most memory and change the Unload Option for that step in TestStand properties. I prefer Unload after step executes. This option would unload that step from the memory and thereby releasing any data stored in that module. Ensure if this module deals with any references, which upon closing, other modules might get affected. Choosing Unload after step…
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16Sep 2019 by Ajay No Comments

Oracle ODBC Connection & Key Learnings

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Using an Oracle database from LabVIEW is quite jargon journey. From Instant-Client to ODBC, OLE DB, SQL Developer etc, difference between ODBC, ODAC, OLE DB, ADO etc, all can lead one to confusion easily. NI has tried to explain well on this document, it's still not very lucid in other sources like stackoverflow. I'm not confronting here to clarify all those. I found some few key learning are worth sharing. Windows has implicit classification of files between 32bit and 64bit. If you create a file using C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe, then it creates pure 32-bit file. Look at this link for more details. LabVIEW connects to the database provider purely based on the LabVIEW bitness. If you use 32-bit LabVIEW, then use the 32-bit data provider and UDL file.Never get confused with Oracle…
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