SwazzyNotes, Designs, and Solutions

Clean up that full ubuntu /boot drive

Without any kind of monitoring or alerting enabled, you may run into your /boot drive becoming full, and resulting in errors such as:

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YouTube cast surround sound

Apparently the default YouTube app does not cast surround sound. However, YT Music app does. * Cast To Device: Vizio SmartCast * Cast From Device: Samsung S8

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AWS

Short script to create and attach an EBS Volume in AWS

Short script for creating and attaching an EBS Volume to […]

AWS

Get Volume ID of a Volume, if it exists

volume_name="Name of your volume" volume_id=`aws ec2 describe-volumes --filters Name=tag-key,Values=diskuse,Name=tag-value,Values=${volume_name} |jq -r --arg zone "$zone" '[.Volumes[] | select( (.State=="available") and (.AvailabilityZone==$zone))][0] | .VolumeId'`

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Generate Certificates using openssl One Liner

This is useful for scripting the generation of certificates for web servers. openssl req -new -newkey rsa:4096 -days 365 -nodes -x509 \ -subj "/C=${node.ssl.country}/ST=${node.ssl.state}/L=${node.ssl.city}/O=${node.ssl.ou}/CN=${node.ssl.cn}" \ -keyout /etc/ssl/private/node-selfsigned.key -out /etc/ssl/certs/node-selfsigned.crt

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Set Message Attribute on SQS Message

Example on setting message attribute on SQS Message. Subscribers can perform actions based on the attributes. queue.send_message(MessageBody=json.dumps(instance), MessageAttributes={ 'instance_id': { 'DataType': 'String', 'StringValue': instance['InstanceId'] } } )

AWS

Monitor an SQS Queue based on your instance id

Example of monitoring an SQS queue for messages that an attribute instance_id, which is set to your EC2 instance. The python subscriber can be used to monitor a shared SQS […]

ADF

Alfresco ADF 2.3 the TL;DR version.

Install NPM https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm Start Alfresco Content Services, and Alfresco Process Services. Locally via SDK with default user/pass (admin:admin) #Fill in prompt to generate your project mvn archetype:generate -Dfilter=org.alfresco.maven.archetype: #After Project Generation, […]

Documentation

How to convert SVG to PNG on a MAC?

This simple command will allow you to generate a PNG of a Font Awesome SVG icon, in the color that you want. sed -i '' 's/path /path fill="#2E74B5" /' […]

Alfresco

Alfresco Default Administrators

Issue: Default Administrators identified in Alfresco does not give the user Administrative privileges Troubleshooting: Check that there isn’t any space in your comma delimited list of names. Recommendations: If you are using […]

Alfresco

Overriding Solr Configurations in Alfresco SDK 3.0

This post allows the user to override the Alfresco Solr configurations in the Alfresco SDK 3.0 TL;DR Override Tomcat’s Solr context configuration to point to custom Solr4 config dir. Copy […]

Alfresco

RAD! Alfresco SDK 3.0. Upgrade and enjoy!

Why upgrade SDK 3.0? Support for RAD (Rapid Application Development) and TDD (Test Driven Development) via HotswapAgent and JRebel Simpler SDK layout Jar packaging by default Support for Alfresco version 4.2 to 5.2 […]

Easy

Smart Lighting

Overview Smarter automated lighting can be achieved a few different ways, but the end result could all be similar. In that, lights can respond in hue, lumens and brightness based […]

Audio

The Smart Hub

Overview The next phase to a smarter home is to select a smart hub. There are quite a few on the market, which includes: Smart Things by Samsung, Wink 2, […]

Automation

Smart Home Level 1: Automatic Lighting

Overview Another cheap easy way to automate lighting in your home, is to use motion sensed or occupancy sensed switches. These switches are good for places like laundry rooms, half bathrooms, boiler rooms, […]