wilo Brauchwasserpumpe durch eine Vortex pumpe ersetzen

ich war lange Jahre durch eine Wilo star z 15 geplagt und habe heute Ersatz bekommen: eine Vortex blueone universal Pumpe : 433-101-000
der Einbau ist kinderleicht, die neue pumpe verkalkt auch weniger da Sie kein nassläufer ist.
Der Vortex support war sehr hilfreich und hatte mir die richtige Pumpe zum Ersatz empfohlen.
Anbei einige Fotos

thinkorswim slow on old laptop

2 weeks ago, thinkorswim migrated to the version 8 of the oracle JRE.
Since then, the software got terrible slow on my old laptop running linux Mint and using a ATI Radeon HD2400XT card.
Xorg used nearly 100% cpu all the time, and the GUI was not responsive at all.

After some investigation, i discovered that :
- thinkorswim uses JavaFX for the fancy graphics.
- JavaFX on JRE8 has some sort of blacklist for old graphic cards.
- No 3D hardware acceleration  was used.
- Xorg had to render everythink by software.

No the solution was quite simple, just add these options to yourthinkorswim.vmoptions file:
-Dprism.forceGPU=true
This option bypasses the JavaFX blacklist.

I also added other options, don't know if they changed anything... :

-Dsun.java2d.opengl=true
-Dsun.java2d.xrender=true
-Xverify:none -XX:+UseParallelGC
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m

Hope this helps those having the same issue :)

Viewcomb 6

Just updates my Tegra 2 tablet POV Mobii with honeycomb ;)
It just rocks....
(Viewcomb 6)

New toy

I just got my new toy :
A point of view mobii tablet, i love it :)

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Dreambox dm7000 and Andoid

I just got my Samsung Galaxy (SGS) and i searched some dreambox remotes for Android on the market.
But they are all designed for newer dreambox models, and the DM7000 isn't supported any more.

But i found a nice workaround, the web-interface is not well suited to be used on a mobile device, but :
You can use direct URLS to open each frame on the dreambox webinterface.
Ex:
- Timers : http://yourbox/body?mode=timers
- Remote : http://yourbox/showRemoteControl
- Control menu : http://yourbox/leftnavi?mode=control
- Zapmode : http://yourbox/body?mode=zap&zapmode=0&zapsubmode=4

These are much easier to use on a mobile device than the whole interface.

Have fun !

scan2google

I asked myself how to archive all my paper documents in an onlione storage available everywhere from the internet.

Here's the solution: scan2google
A small script on Ubuntu to upload multiple pages (one PDF) from your ADF scanner to your google documents account.

Tools needed:
scanadf
convert
pdfjoin


Source:

1. #!/bin/bash
2. # Configuration:
3. # Obtain device name from scanadf -L
4. devname=pixma:04A91712_10FA81
5. guser=yourgoogleuser
6. gpass=yourgooglepassword
8. set -x
10. cd /tmp
11. mkdir scanadf
12. chmod 770 scanadf
13. cd scanadf
14. rm -Rf *
15. googfile="$(date +%Y%m%d-%Hh%Mm%Ss)-scanned.pdf"
17. # Parameters below are for grayscale lettersize paper at 150dpi
18. resolution=150
19. scanmode=gray
22. ###################################################
23. #echo Start page number?
24. #read startp
25. #echo Nbr of pages
26. #read nbrp
27. echo "Scanning pages..."
28. if [ "$1" == "--noadf" ]
29. then
30.         scanadf -d $devname -o p%d.pbm --mode $scanmode --resolution $resolution -e 1
31. else
32.         scanadf -d $devname -o p%d.pbm --mode $scanmode --resolution $resolution --source "Automatic Document Feeder"
33. fi
34. echo "Converting bitmapped images to PDF..."
35. rm -f *.pdf
36. for i in $(ls -rt *pbm)
37. do
38.     convert -compress jpeg $i $(basename $i.pdf)
39.     rm -f $i
40. done
41. echo "Merging PDF file..."
42. pdfjoin --outfile $googfile $(ls -rt *.pdf)
43. rm -f *.pbm.*
44. echo "Uploading to google docs"
45. java -jar /usr/local/bin/google-docs-upload-1.2.jar "$1" --without-folders --username $guser --password $gpass "$(pwd)"

UPDATE 25/4/2012:

Since 2011, the google docs upload was broken, now i found another nice way to fix this:

1) Install cloudprint explained by this post:
http://www.niftiestsoftware.com/cups-cloud-print/

2) Replace line 45 by this one:
cat $googfile | lpr -P $PRINTER -T"$(date +%Y%m%d-%Hh%Mm%Ss)-$(zenity --entry --text="Document keywords").pdf"

I've included a zenity dialog to include some meaningful text describing the document

Simple Javascript Datepicker

If you need a simple Javascript DatePicker, here is one:
http://javascriptcalendar.org/

It can be used as a Popup and as an Inline datepicker.

Of course, it's published under GPL and free of charge