Jul/10

Arduino RTC

No comments · Posted by opcode1300 in Hardware, Windows

Quick code to set the RTC for my arduino using the sketch from here

It’s copy/paste, not as good as NTP but better then guessing (and ill fix that when i get my ethernet shield (maybe)

secret project under way

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Globalization;
using System.IO.Ports;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            //Example to set the time for 02-Feb-09 @ 19:57:11 for the 3 day of the week, use this command - T1157193020209 
            //    T|11|57|19|3|02|02|09
            // Creates and initializes a DateTimeFormatInfo associated with the en-US culture.
            DateTime CurrTime = DateTime.Now;
            string[] setTimeString_tmp;
            string setTimeString="";
            setTimeString_tmp = new string[8];
            setTimeString_tmp[0] = 'T'.ToString();
            setTimeString_tmp[1] = CurrTime.ToString("ss"); // Sec (00-59) [##]
            setTimeString_tmp[2] = CurrTime.ToString("mm"); //Min (00-59) [##]
            setTimeString_tmp[3] = CurrTime.ToString("HH"); //Hr (24) [##]
            setTimeString_tmp[4] = (CurrTime.DayOfWeek+1).ToString("d"); //Day of week (1-7) [#]
            setTimeString_tmp[5] = CurrTime.ToString("dd"); //Day of Month (01-31) [##]
            setTimeString_tmp[6] = CurrTime.ToString("MM"); //Month [##] (01-12)
            setTimeString_tmp[7] = CurrTime.ToString("yy"); //[##] (00-99)

foreach (string i in setTimeString_tmp)
            {
                setTimeString += i;
            }

Console.WriteLine(setTimeString);
        }
    }
}

Arduino · c# · RTC

Jun/10

Not dead ,Just busy…

No comments · Posted by Alex in Uncategorized

Finishing training at the old job. cant wait to start the new one.

the HTC Incredible has root (kind of, NAND still locked), I have built an overclockable kernel (so far unable to flash, but its ready when ‘we’ can)

bout it for now.

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Apr/10

Validate ALL input!!!

No comments · Posted by Alex in MAKE/HACK, Software

Today one of the new guys at work ask me a question. “Can our web portal submit “Severity 1″ support request?”

The standard answer has always been ‘No.”, but today I figured it was time to test that.

Start Tamperdata and log into the portal. Dispatch request as normal with one exception. change ‘severity’ value to 1 and submit. you now have a ‘sev1d’ support request without a phone call.

Software:

Firefox with Tamperdata add-on

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Apr/10

More scripting… “Now w/ more Powershell!”

No comments · Posted by Alex in Uncategorized

We all run into situation where we need to log file sizes over time on remote servers, so we have a few options..
Buy an application… Nope!
Set an egg timer and do it manually…Nope!!
Script it…Yes!

This was my first attempt at windows powershell so be nice… I also call this from a scheduled tasks on my local PC that runs every 60 minutes.

**UPDATE**
Spent a little more time w/ debug/cleanup

#Functions
function processCheck([string] $processName){
	if((get-process $processName -ea SilentlyContinue) -eq $Null)
		{ 
			#write-host "Not Running" 
			return 1
		}
	else
		{
			#write-host "Running"
			return 0
		}
}
function Start-Proc  {
param (
[string]$exe = $(Throw "An executable must be specified"),
[string]$arguments,
[switch]$hidden,
[switch]$waitforexit
)    
 
# Build Startinfo and set options according to parameters
$startinfo = new-object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo 
$startinfo.FileName = $exe
$startinfo.Arguments = $arguments
if ($hidden){
$startinfo.WindowStyle = "Hidden"
$startinfo.CreateNoWindow = $TRUE
}
$process = [System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start($startinfo)
if ($waitforexit) {$process.WaitForExit()}

# Start-Proc calc
# Start-Proc calc -waitforexit
# Start-Proc -exe ipconfig -arguments /all
# Start-Proc ipconfig /all
# Start-Proc ipconfig /all -hidden
}
function sendmail {
param (
[string]$Server,
[string]$CACHESIZE
) 
try { 
		 
        $ol = New-Object -comObject Outlook.Application 
        $mail = $ol.CreateItem(0) 
        #$Mail.Recipients.Add("DL-SPT-ADV@company.com")
        $Mail.Recipients.Add("alex@company.com")
	$Mail.Subject = "Cache on " + $Server + " is " + $CACHESIZE + "MB"
        $Mail.Body = "Time: "  + $TIME + "`nCache on " + $Server + " is " + $CACHESIZE + "MB"
        $Mail.Send()
    }
	
# Catch an error
catch 
    {
        Write-Host "Error"
    } 
	
}

#Vars
#System Time
$TIME = get-date

#Servers to check
[Array] $Servers =  "SERVER03", "SERVER04",

#Max Cache size
$MAXFILESIZE = 1800

#Process
Foreach( $Server in $Servers)
{
    $Server_UNC = "\\"+$Server+"\Application\ComponentServer\jboss-3.2.3\server\default\data\hypersonic\localDB.data"
    #if file exsist and is larger the MAXSIZE
	if ((test-path $Server_UNC) -and ($CACHESIZE -ge $MAXFILESIZE))
    { 
       $CACHESIZE = [math]::round((([System.IO.FileInfo]$Server_UNC).Length  / 1024) / 1024,2)
	   Set-Content ErrLog.txt ("`n"+$TIME+" : "+$Server+" : "+$CACHESIZE+"MB")
	   if (processCheck("outlook") -eq 1){ Start-Proc outlook.exe }
	   sendmail $Server $CACHESIZE
    }
 }

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Mar/10

Dynamic PHP Image with countdown (I am a Dad!!!)

1 Comment · Posted by opcode1300 in Site, Software

I have not said much on the internet about it, but I am going to be a dad.
And the sonograms to determine the sex of the baby are coming up. So I figured what better way to count it down then w/ a little code. =)

Code from here (why reinvent the wheel..)

**EDIT**

Changed the way the time was calculated to make it easier to read.

Awesome's Countdown

<?php

header("Content-type: image/png");  
// Tell the browser to display the page as an image.

// Define your target date here
$targetYear  = 2010;
$targetMonth = 03;
$targetDay   = 30;
$targetHour  = 9;
$targetMinute= 15;
$targetSecond= 00;

date_default_timezone_set ('America/New_York');
// Sets the default time zone, in this case GMT -05
       
$dateFormat = ( "Y-m-d H:i:s" );
// Check the PHP Documentation for date uses.

$targetDate = mktime ($targetHour,$targetMinute,$targetSecond,$targetMonth,$targetDay,$targetYear,1);
// Sets up our timer

$actualDate = time();
// Gets the actual date

$secondsDiff = $targetDate - $actualDate;
// Finds the difference between the target date and the actual date
if ($secondsDiff > 0)
{
// These do some simple arithmatic to get days, hours, and minutes out of seconds.
$dayInSec  = 86400;
$hourInSec = 3600;
$minuteInSec = 60;

$remainingDay     = floor ($secondsDiff /$dayInSec);
$secondsDiff     -= $remainingDay * $dayInSec;

$remainingHour    = floor ($secondsDiff /$hourInSec);
$secondsDiff     -= $remainingHour * $hourInSec;

$remainingMinutes = floor ($secondsDiff /$minuteInSec);
$secondsDiff     -= $remainingMinutes * $minuteInSec;

$remainingSeconds = $secondsDiff;
       
$targetDateDisplay = date($dateFormat,$targetDate);

$actualDateDisplay = date($dateFormat,$actualDate);

// Sets up displays of actual and target

// if in the future
$string = $remainingDay." Days, ".$remainingHour." Hours, ".$remainingMinutes." Minutes, ".$remainingSeconds." Seconds";
$string2 = "Until we find out if 'Awesome' is a boy or girl...";
}else {
//if countdown is over
$string = "The Wait is over...";
$string2 = "It's a boy!!";
// Two strings
}

$dx = 10;
$dy = 10;
/* Displacement of the text from the top right corner
This should be measured in Pixels. */

$image = imagecreatefrompng ( "baboon.png" );
// We want to create an instance of our image to work with

$text_color = imagecolorallocate ( $image, 30, 30, 30 );
/* The imagecolorallocate function only accepts RGB values.
If you need to convert hex to rgb, check the PHP Documentation */

$font_size = 5;
// Needs to be between 1 and 5.

imagestring ( $image, $font_size, $dx, $dy, $string, $text_color );
imagestring ( $image, $font_size - 1, $dx, $dy + 12, $string2, $text_color );
// The actual function that puts our string on to the image.

imagepng ( $image );
// Sends our image to the browser.

imagedestroy ( $image );
/* Not required, but good practice.  The image gets
destroyed at the end of the script anyways */

Baby · PHP

Mar/10