https://wtangy.se/menu has been born!
A colorful menu where one can (at least I hope) fairly easily choose a team if one does not want to change the URL :)
This was a requirement for being able to make a simple webview app :)
This is a good one!
Previous entries in this series: http://www.guldmyr.com/blog/wasthereannhlgamelastnight-com-now-using-object-storage/ and http://www.guldmyr.com/blog/wasthereannhlgamelastnight-appspot-com-fixed-working-again/
First things first! The website has been renamed to wtangy.se! Nobody in their right mind would type out wasthereannhlgamelastnight.com.. so now it’s an acronym of wasthereannhlgameyesterday. wtangy.se . Using Sweden .se top level domain because there was an offer making it really cheap :)
Second important update is that now we do some automatic testing and deployment.
This is done with travis-ci.org where one can view builds, the configuration is done in this file.
In google cloud there’s different versions of the apps deployed. If we don’t promote a version it will not be accessible from wtangy.se (or wasthereannhlgamelastnight.appspot.com) but via some other URL.
Right now the testing happens like this on every commit:
With NHL 2017-2018 season coming up and I had some extra spare time I thought why not finally fix this great website again :)
As NHL changed the layout of their schedule page about two seasons ago – there’s these days “infinite scrolling” or whatever it’s called when the page only loads what you see on the screen. This means it’s a bit difficult to scrape the page (but not impossible).
Lately I’ve been using REST API and JSON data for quite many things – after a short search I managed to find this hidden gem: https://statsapi.web.nhl.com/api/v1/schedule?startDate=2016-01-31&endDate=2016-02-05&expand=schedule.teams,schedule.linescore,schedule.broadcasts,schedule.ticket,schedule.game.content.media.epg&leaderCategories=&site=en_nhl&teamId=
Now that’s a link to an API provided by NHL where you get the schedule and you can filter it. I’m not sure what all the parameters do, they’re not all needed. You just need the startDate and endDate. The API also has standings and results. I have not managed to find any documentation for it. Best so far seems to be this blog post. So I’m not sure about if it’s OK to use it or if there are any restrictions.
p.s. – there is a shorter URL to the main page: https://rix.fi/nhl – but the commands – like https://wasthereannhlgamelastnight.appspot.com/MTL – does not work.
Was there an NHL game last night?
Lately I’ve been using ankidroid to study Finnish – or at least to expand my vocabulary a bit. I think it’s great but it won’t work by itself and requires quite a bit of tenacity.
The good Finnish deck:https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1918695216 it’s called “Finnish järjestyksessä”.
It’s made by Rendall and it’s quite good, it took a list of the most common Finnish words (assembled by my company ;)
The deck won’t work by itself though, I get a lot of help by:
Some notes about the contents:
Making changes to the template:
On each card there is this “info” and sometimes hints. I found myself wanting to change the URL to wiktionary on the cards because google chrome didn’t redirect wiktionary.org to en.wiktionary org but to www.m.wiktionary.org which doesn’t exist. It’s quite easy to change this, because that part is done with a template and is not added in each card. To change:
Update! If you view this blog on an a mobile device with the right user agent (and apparently very few of you do that) there’s now very little white space wasted! It’s not perfect yet but I’m working on it making it nicer. It seems to have some
Now about the normal Hemingway Ex theme, I like it. But there’s a lot of unused white areas when on 1920×1080 (17% of visitors – also the one I use ;)
So I tweaked the stylesheets to make some sections thinner and some wider. Don’t like it? Please let me know in the comment section below.
P.s. Developer Tools in web browser are full of awesome! Trying to find the right CSS section to edit would have been mental without it.
P.s2. Just to be clear, the Blog was not hostile towards mobile users before.
Merry Christmas!
Thanks for stopping by so often!
The most visited articles last 2 months are:
OK, that’s the biggest one by a magnitude and the article I have surely spent most time on to keep up to date over the years :)
Here’s the shared second places :)
Made it through flights and security checkpoints and buses and trains!
Next time I’m going on this long flight it woud be awesome to actually bring tooth paste and tooth brush in the hand luggage. Also possibly some own food in case the air plane food is not so awesome. And some water :) Besides that the hoodie, sleeping/eye covers, scarf and Kindle and head phones were enough.
Weather is way better here than in Helsinki :) Pretty cool to get to see Greenand from above with no clouds, also Yukun is pretty impressive. But the farmlands of USA are pretty cool too – so structured and organized.
So what’s a good way to get rid of jet lag? Tomorrow I’l see if a bike ride is it :)
The hostel I’m in is the same as in 2008 when I was here last time – although this time there’s way more folks hanging out in the “social room” – but all people do is play with their phones and tablest/computers.. maybe because it’s Sunday people chill out a bit more.
Today I applied to exchange my Swedish driver’s license for a Finnish one.
This is because after two years in Finland the foreign is not valid anymore.
Poliisi.fi is the main resource for information.
The Finnish page has a bit more information than both the Swedish and the English one.
Some tips:
Disclaimer: I am still studying Finnish and not so good :)
The posts that I’m trying to write here are just a way for me to practice writing Finnish.
—
Kaivopuisto on iso, vihreä ja meri vieressä. Sisällä ovat puut ja kukat.
Kaivopuisto is big, green and next to the sea. Inside are trees and flowers.
— Turned out this sentence was not the best finnish :) Puistossa and partitivi might be better to use!
During the weekend the screen on my amazon kindle 6″ decided to go partially broken.
It happened while it was in my backpack inside a ‘leather cover’ that I also got from amazon at the time of purchase.
Usually with these electronic devices it’s that if the screen breaks you’re on your own / can try to get some help from home insurance. So my hopes were not so high when I sent an e-mail to amazon.
They however just asked me to start a chat or call them. I started a chat because I didn’t feel like calling a US number (although they had apparently some service that they’d call me back too), and got a very quick and efficient response. They just asked me to reboot the device (hold the release thing for 30 seconds).
They’re sending a new one and will let me send back the broken one in the same package and with a pre-paid shipment too!
Hope to get it soon, I feel nekkid without this e-book (or anything to read really), and of course it happened just when things were getting really excited in “A storm of Swords” (part of the “game of thrones” book series)!
Merry Christmas ya’ll!
Making food in our little apartment this year, avovaimon family is coming here.
Ham in the oven, potato and carrot box, janzon, lots of fun stuff :)
Do you print pictures or keep all of them online?
What about if you’ve written a lot of text on some obscure blog on the Intertubez.
What if something happens and you can’t retrieve it?
Maybe this is just because I just started reading a post-apocalypsian book where an EMP just got set off. And it’s making me a bit paranoid.
But I think I need to go print some pictures to ease my mind :)
Here’s a great CLI file browser for Linux.
It also gives a preview of text files.
It’s called Ranger.
Do check it out.
Here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93025
This was also my introduction to ‘git’.
Quite easy :)
git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/ranger.git
Time for another ‘do-release-upgrade’!
This took away dwm-tools and suckless-tools (amonger other stuff). This means that META+p does not work anymore. So you cannot start any apps. Just install them again with ‘sudo apt-get install dwm’ and you’re good to go. Don’t even need to restart anything.
Found this cool command to check what release you’re on: lsb_release -d -s -c.
Maybe this only works on Ubuntu?
Time for some more Linux testing.
The reason for this is because I think I will go ahead and try to study for the RHCSA – Red Hat Certified System Administrator. Work might send me to a course in December, probably wise to play around with it before this.
So here we go.
Scientific Linux (SL) is a free clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Historically it’s been updated faster than CentOS. It’s same as Enterprise Linux (EL) – it’s re-compiled from source.
New VM, \SL-61-x86_64-2011-07-27-Install-DVD.iso, RHEL6 64-bit. 1 Core, 2G RAM, NAT, LSI Logic, New virtual disk, SCSI, 20G. Then boot the VM.
SL.org has this in pictures.
First thing you see is the Grub menu:
Chose 1. Next screen is a graphical interface where you click and write, so you need keyboard/mouse. Next screen asks if you want local disks or external storage (fc, iSCSI, or zFCP – for system Z). Hostname: SL1.localdomain.
Create disks. Custom/full size. xfs/encryption/lvm cannot be used for boot volumes.
Role: Virtual Host (I want to try KVM). Enabling SL 6.1 and SL 6.1 Security Updates repositories.
Pinging to something on the Intertubes work from the start.
More posts coming with more fun stuff :)
This is the third book in the Malazan world. The previous ones by Ian are Night of Knives and The Return of the Crimson Guard.
Beware, this post will/may contain spoilers.
I’m now roughly 41% through the book (reading it on my Kindle) and I must say that the writing style is fairly similar to the Stephen Erikson books. OK, there’s a bit of change in how the chapters are ordered with the books.
The plots centers around the continent of Fist (also called Korel).Supposedly they would all come together in the end as there aren’t any additional books planned after that would initially appear to be in the same series, but here’s where we might be mistaken. As this book is not directly after The Return of the Crimson Guard (supposedly a few year after, but not directly, there are some gaps). Some of the important characters are common between the books.
http://the-void.co.uk/book/interview-damn-contrarian-steven-erikson-conversation-094/ if you want to know what’s happening after the Malazan Empire, apparently there’s going to be books about the huge Toblakai Karsa Orlong!
Back to the Stonewielder. The Mael priest is now the Emperor and has managed to persuade some highly influential (and old) folks to join the cause to do something about the black stain on the Malazan empire: Korel. It appears that they’ve pretended to be Malaz but have in fact been running their own little empire. Not happy.
There’s also the famous Stormwall, which has been mentioned quite often previously in the books but not too much has been written about the setups and what happens there. I believe Traveller hung out there for a while but he escaped. One side-plot surrounds a few Crimson Guard survivors that are prisoners/defenders on the wall, there are also a few of the Crimson Guard that have been crossing an ice wasteland and later they all meet up for some nasty fighting. Good times.
Kyle with the “normal” name, (he was not a Malazan empire recruit) is quite funny. I mean a guy named Kyle kicking some ass just feels odd after dudes like Greymane, Paran, or Whiskeyjack.
I almost like this book more than the Steven Erikson books, but that I think is because they are different. There’s not as much poetry in them for one, but maybe also because the Crimson Guard are bad ass!
After this one I decided to give Erikson’s Crack Pot Trail a go, but this is one weird book. There is a narrator who is very present. At least in the beginning. This is one odd duck, but I suppose after so many books in normal ‘Malazan’ style this ought to be refreshing.
Got this for ps3 from verkkokauppa.com when it was released (yay, shipping from Åland = no taxes = lots cheaper games). Great if you live in Finland :)
Anyway, the game is pretty awesome (I haven’t played it since NHL ’94) but there are quite a lot of bugs that cause the game to freeze. For example they have this one mode where you use cards as players. Each card can only be used so many times. You use this to make a team and play tournaments, online, singleplayer whatever. Quite often when I play single player tournament the game freezes (often it sounds like the opponent hit the bar so it’s almost/probably goal). This causes a deduction of -1 in the player contracts and probably other nasty things that I haven’t bothered to check. It’s quite annoying anyway.
– Real NHL is starting soon! Too bad Kronwall got injured in Detroit, but I hope he gets back. Bertuzzi looks like he’s just getting better, see this shootout goal: http://video.redwings.nhl.com/videocenter/console?id=124735&catid=-6
Been reading a bit, is nice to get to read something other than fibre channel :)
1.) The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison
If you like Douglas Adams this should work for you too.
It’s quite old books (first one is from ’61) but the language does not feel archaic (like James Bond books for example). Slippery Jim is quite devious and goes through evil plots like some folks go through t-shirts. The book has a quite high tempo but sometimes I couldn’t see the logic/reasoning behind what DiGriz was doing, but maybe that is justified because he is ‘smart’, arrogant and a con-man in a universe where there are supposed to be none.
There’s a few of the books, the first one was quite short and it did feel like an introduction without starting when the main character was born but with jumping straight into the action.
2.)
Second one I’m on now is one about a Doctor at the “Hospital to end all hospitals”. Gigantic one in space somewhere that could accomodate people/species/aliens/whatever from everywhere. The series is called Sector General. First one is ‘Hospital Station’ which contains 5 shorter stories. I’ve only read the first one so far and it contains a bit of drama, not very interesting main character, yet.
The book so far has focused on Dr Mara’s treatment/feeding (basically not killing it) of a baby which could seem quite boring but honestly the baby/species is described in such detail and I just want to know more. Also older books (’60s and ’70s).
20110919 Update: Just finished the 5 short stories that constitute Sector General. Altogether quite pleasing and interesting stories. Will definitely give more of these a go in the future!
Some things to remember:
Ever had to read a man page on a Solaris system?
You’ll see these
SunOS 5.11
System Administration Commands
on each page in the manpage, making it quite hard to read.
To make it more readable you can run this:
man $1|grep -v ‘SunOS 5.11’|grep -v ‘System Administration Commands’|less
With $1 being the command, for example mpathadm.
You could also put it in a bash script file, for example /usr/bin/man2, :
#!/bin/sh
man $1|grep -v ‘SunOS 5.11’|grep -v ‘System Administration Commands’|less
Don’t forget to set executable permissions with chmod 755 on the script file so that normal users can run it.
Then instead of running man, run ‘man2 mpathadm’ and you’ll have a much more readable manpage.
The free material does not go through the virtual fabrics and the exam objectives does not mention them specifically. Even so – it’s probably a good idea to get some grip about it anyway as it is mentioned in the BCFP 8G material and there are questions concerning it in the Nutshell Guide and the BCFP 8 knowledge assessment. Also it is mentioned in the pre-requisites for the BCFP (the AFS 141).
Brocade’s overview page of Virtual Fabrics.
There is also quite a lot of information about VF in the FOS Administration Guide. You can find this guide in lots of places but it is in the exam objectives in the link above.
It is what it says it is – a way to create independent and logical fabrics and switches that you can use to segment your SAN.
It does not require a license.
There’s logical fabrics and logical switches.
From the FAQ:
A Logical Fabric is an implementation of a Fibre Channel fabric with one or more Logical
Switches participating in the fabric. A Logical Fabric has its own independent instance of
fabric services, name server, zoning database, and so on.
A logical switch needs a fabric id. Default is 128 but can be changed. Same FID cannot be used for same logical switch in the same chassi. You move ports from the default to the new switches. VE_ and EX_ ports needs to be configured after the move. LD, QoS, F_port buffers/trunking may not be enabled on the port.
Max 8 VFs in the DCX, enabling it is disruptive (requires a reboot).
DCX uses 10-bit addressing. Uses part of the last part of the ALPA part of the PID.
Means that that part of the PID does not always indicate a port area.
Increases limit of NPIV, support loop devices.
For 8G products it’s available on the DCX, B5100 and the B5300.
For 16G it’s available on 6510, VA-40FC
FC10-6, FS8-18, FCOE10-24 ports can only be part of the default switch.
The default switch – is the first logical switch you create.
To connect a logical switch (henceforth known as LS) to another one you can just have one of the ports in the LS as an E_port, or you can use XISL – extended ISL.
To use XISL you designate one LS as a base switch. This is used for interconnects and you can have ISLs for several fabrics on this one port/cable. It can have E, VE and EX, VEX ports. *x_ports can only be in the base switch. One base switch per chassi, on DCX platforms the default cannot be the base switch. You connect the base switch to other base switches and then the other logical switches with the same FID merge. By default the logical switches are enabled to use XISL. You can combine normal ISL and XISL. Normal ISL have a lower cost.
ISL (between physical switches)
DISL (between Logical Switches)
IFL (routing, not merging)
XISL (several LISLs inside)
LISL (part of an XISL)
With XISL a logical port is created, their WWN start with 5x.
fosconfig –enable vf
lscfg –create FID [-base] [-force]; setcontext FID; swichdisable (set Domain ID etc); configure; switchenable
lscfg –config 128 -slot <slot> -port <port>
lscfg –delete non-default-logical-switches
lscfg –show
lscfg –change 5 –newfid 7 (disables switch and sets it); fosexec –fid FID -cmd “switchenable”
fosexec –fid FID -cmd “cmd” (how to run a command on another LS)
fosexec –fid all -cmd “cmd” (on all logical switches)
ipaddrset -ls 123 –add 10.10.10.10/24 (set an IP for a logical switch, to segment management)
From about 2/3 to the end:
And as usual – there’s lots of spoilers below. If you haven’t read the book yet, I’d advise you not to read the below.
There is actually quite a lot going on about the First Shore.
The malazans found the kids, they’re running out of water. How are they going to cross this thing? It needs to be magical!
There the Tiste comes back (Nimander).
The queen goes crazy. But as with the High Mage of Shadow (where is he by the way? Still in Darujistan?) there are some lucid comments that tell quite a bit.
Where is Silchas Ruin going? Well we have the Draconus and then the Kilmandros stuff, maybe he’s going there for a visit.
The battle is like a vinyl slowly turning into a majestic battle – soon getting out of proportions I wager. OK, we got dragons. We got some army slowly crossing the deadly desert. When are the gods entering? =)
Tehol for the King! Oh wait. Anyway, He’s funny.
I immensely enjoy the short scenes in this book staring some of the notorious characters from previous books but those that don’t have a major part of the story (yet). I also enjoy that there’s no need to describe who they are. I mean of course when they first are introduced you may not remember who they are until they’ve been around for a while, and maybe still you don’t but at least the name rings a bell right?
I’m already at 70% and this is now chapter 22. Is this book not going to be 24 chapters?? My world is shattering!
*** Reached the end:
Turned out that there was indeed 24 chapters + two epilogues including the world’s longest poem. I like that the God wrote a book.
I’m not so sure I liked the few random happy endings at the end of the book. But it sure didn’t go through all of the characters which leaves lots of openings for more stories afterwards.
Now I can finally put this series to rest :)
Part 2
Part 1
I think this book is easier to read than the previous ones. For some reason I kind of like all the thinking, pondering and analyzing that the characters do. They grow on you?
I wonder if it’s just the book or maybe the Kindle assists me in reading; I’ve been reading quite swiftly (in comparison to how fast I read one of the previous Malazan ‘real’ books).
Of course after 33% there’s a lot of stuff about the bonehunters. They’re walking through the Glass Desert. Hellian is sober and thinks they’re going to Y’Ghatan. They’re not.
Fiddler is quite depressing, most of them are but there’s a good amount of stubborn exceptions that cling on to life like super glue. Urb for example, the under dog. I hope he gets her.
Mappo starts walking through the desert, he meets a D’Ivers (all the butter flies that the Snake met explained) and he is saved by Badalle. Maybe Mappo will find his meaning when he meets these kids. First I thought maybe the kids would meet with the Bonehunters, maybe they still will. But supposedly Mappo is going to find Icarium. But where is he? It’s a bit disorienting – people are going along/across the desert but there’s not any good maps (there is even a world map online if you search for it).
*Update – Aha – it is the Bonehunters who meet the kids first (or at least that’s how I interpreted the end of the last chapter I read).
The Shake’s fighting down at the breach is also a pretty cool part. Quite a few times in the books there have been a small amount of people holding off another force trying to get through a small opening. This sword-type Husk – there hasn’t been much about these in the previous books now has there?
Take your average fantasy book and then there’s this type of sword that slices through dragons like butter – how often would that be a pretty major chunk of the story? Like how the fabled Heroes go battle some Mountain Troll and get the sword back to it’s rightful heir? About all of them. Not in this book though!
Here the wielder finds it on the b(r)each where the big fight will be :)
One personal reason why I’m writing these review posts as I read the book is because my memory sucks and I don’t feel like rereading the series again sometime soon :) 10000 pages is a lot.
Artwork
There’s some pretty awesome artwork for the Malazan books on deviantart – do check them out!
Two more things that are awesome about the kindle: a) it is better in direct sunlight than in the shadow and b) there’s a built-in dictionary that works even offline.
How often do you actually log on to your machine – hit
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade
without reading what the changes are? I do it every time, unless it’s a dist-upgrade we’re talking about.
So how do we get this going?
The tool you’re looking for is called cron-apt.
$sudo apt-get install cron-apt
This installs postfix for you as well (I chose local server, bah to e-mails, no pain, no gain).
After this, edit /etc/cron.d/cron-apt to your preferences.
If you want to see what it does – just hit what it says in that file:
test -x /usr/sbin/cron-apt && /usr/sbin/cron-apt
and see what it does!
Test -x (file exists and execute permission is granted)
Second one runs it (but this did not produce any output)
Check out /var/log/cron-apt/log for details of what it does.
Please note that the cron-apt also runs “apt-get dist-upgrade” which would upgrade your distribution. So be careful.
It also runs autoclean :)
If you want more details – it’s possible to do this other ways (for example with anacron and /or bash scripts).
See this link: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AutoWeeklyUpdateHowTo
