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01May 2024 by Ajay No Comments

CI CD with TestStand Deployment

Lately I have been working a lot with TestStand deployment utility to organize the proper release verisoning of TestStand project. One of the consistent feedback of a customer is that they find hard contorl the various TestStand sequence file and numerous versions and dependencies floating around the manufacturing floor. I suggested them to use TestStand deployment utility and put those up in a CI (Continuous Integration) server so that whenever the test engineer changes the sequence, there will be a package spits out from the server with proper versioning. What I really ended up is helping them to setup and burying myself in the mysteries of TestStand deployment utility unknown areas. First thing I came across is the BuildTSD.exe that helps in command line execution for TestStand Deployment utility. I…

27Aug 2023 by Ajay No Comments

Window Losing Focus

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TLDR: When any window in Windows OS loses focus after closing a dialog, the best method that works for me to get back to normal behavior is by killing the explorer.exe from the task manager. For safety, I keep the command prompt open so that I can reopen Windows Explorer again if it doesn't reopen automatically. Just pass the explorer.exe command in the command prompt. Quite a few times, I found while working in LabVIEW that when I open some dialogs like VI properties or LabVIEW Options and close those dialogs, focus is lost and my Ctrl+Space or Ctrl+W doesn't work in the previous window I was working with. Initially, I thought it was due to some bug in LabVIEW, but later found that Windows Explorer is taking on some…

15Aug 2023 by Ajay No Comments

Aptio AMI BIOS – Auto Power ON

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Recently I purchased Trigkey Mini PC and found it hard to set it to auto power on as there are very less documents. Later I found from a Facebook Post that the terminology used for such a setup is different. They use the G3 and S0-S5 keywords instead of lucid terminologies. So to set the Aptio AMI-based PC to Auto Power ON State go to Enter BIOS >> Chipset >> PCH-IO Configuration >> State After G3 and set to S0 State S0 is Auto Power On State S5 is Off State Other State details can be found at this link

25Jul 2023 by Ajay No Comments

Pipeline: Repository Variables in GitHub Bitbucket for Version Info

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Recently I've been working a lot with pipelines to automate the build aspects of a LabVIEW framework development and it's quite interesting how it all takes in various directions. To be frank, I think there are too many options when you come into this world from a fixed monolithic application world. Anyways a new learning today is the repository variables used as version info. LabVIEW Project & Version Limitation When it comes to LabVIEW (or maybe in other environments too, I'm not sure), you can save the version info of a built config only to the source file, ie., .lvproj in the LabVIEW case. You can't change this version info in the .lvproj file after your build server builds the executable because you usually don't want the build server to…

14Jul 2023 by Ajay No Comments

Compress-Archive Multiple Paths

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Today it took me a while to get this out working for multiple paths (or other words multiple files) to get compressed using Compress-Archive command. If you want to pass multiple paths to Compress-Archive command in PowerShell, give it with comma separation as in this video. https://youtu.be/4FlYiust4Bw

14Mar 2023 by Ajay No Comments

Reposting Company Posts on LinkedIn

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LinkedIn doesn't give the option to repost your company post (esp. when you're company admin). One other way to repost the company post is Go to the specific post in the company timeline.Click on the three dots and choose Copy link to postOpen the link in the browser after you have logged in to your regular LinkedIn profile.Boom! There you have the repost option from your profile page.

16Feb 2023 by Ajay No Comments

Windows 10 Trackpad Gestures in Boot Camp MacBook Pro

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When I installed Windows 10 on my MacBook Pro, I was devastated when I noticed I couldn't use the touchpad to its fullest since it showed only one option in Windows Settings without any precision settings. Later I found we need to upgrade the Boot Camp software to be beyond v6.1.15 to get the trackpad working. Hope this helps someone. Strangely Apple Software Update doesn't update the BootCamp to the latest version in a single shot. First I had to install v6.1.13 and v6.1.14, do a restart, then later redo the update to get Boot Camp version v6.1.17 v6.1.19 Apple Software Update - Boot Camp v6.1.17 v6.1.19 After a reboot, it gives the Precision Touchpad option in Boot Camp Control Panel. Boot Camp Control Panel with Precision Touchpad option Then…

27Aug 2022 by Ajay No Comments

Changing Page Layout Doesn’t Reflect in PDF Printing

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For quite some time it was strange to see some unnecessary margin borders in the PDF printing like below. A4 Page layout in Microsoft Word prints with some extra margins in the PDF The reason for this inappropriate printing is there is another layer of printer properties that control how the printer actually prints. In the printer settings, there is another page property which overrides the A4 page property that's set in MS-Word To fix the printer property (Microsoft Print to PDF printer in this case), go through the following in image below. Windows Settings → Printers & Scanners → Select Printer (Microsoft Print to PDF in this case) → Printing Preferences → Advanced → PaperSize → Set your required paper size that matches Page settings in MS-Word

21Aug 2022 by Ajay No Comments

Refreshing LinkedIn Post Thumbnails

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LinkedIn updates the images or text from the link for the first time and later when those links are updated with new images, it still doesn't update. To refresh it, use LinkedIn Post Inspector where you can drop your link to refresh. Now when you go back to your post, you may find its images and relevant text from the link is updated. I didn't have the dragon in the LinkedIn post before and after updating the blog with the dragon image, the post didn't update. After dropping the link in the post inspector, the dragon got updated. Image in a LinkedIn post updated after post inspector

18Aug 2022 by Ajay No Comments

Adding Alias Email to Gmail

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We can send proxy emails from Gmail with other email addresses. You need to verify that another email address is your own in order to do this. I use this service to send email as if I'm sending from another Gmail itself. Recently Google has stopped the authentication of this kind of less-secure apps. However, there is another way to achieve it is via using the google app passwords that allow temporary password generation to connect from less-secure apps. Steps to add alias email in this new method Generate the password from your App PasswordsGo to Gmail settings --> Accounts and Imports --> Send Mail as: --> Add another email addressEnter your Name and Alias's Email address on the first pageEnter Google SMTP (smtp.gmail.com), Google ID, generated passwordVerify the code…