This project consists of several pieces of furniture. I started from the children’s beds. This time, the family council chose the children’s room furniture color – oak.
Block-Front Desk
This was my first one, I made it from solid wood. Wood I chose was Alder, it’s a soft wood and it’s easy to work with. This piece I made using no table saw.
Wardrobe
How to point a client to different domain controller
Here is a useful command that I’ve discovered.
Imagine a situation where you have a domain called domain.local with multiple domain controllers DC0, DC1 etc.
For some reason some clients are not working as expected or working slower. In my case it was when I tried to run gpresult /r on some clients it was taking ages to provide full details. To find out if any of the domain controllers is having problems I wanted quickly to change the domain controller that the affected client is using.
Back in the day when Windows NT 4 ruled the world there was a command called setprfdc (set preferred domain controller) nltest does something similar.
So first I wanted to find out what DC the client is using. Now there are many different ways but here is a command that I’ve used:
nltest /dsgetdc:domain.local
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Communion cake
White sponge with very light mascarpone cheese and strawberries filling. White chocolate, ready to roll icing, silver balls and whipped cream decorations.
dns.exe high memory usage in Server 2008 R2
Here is an interesting problem with DNS service. I have a new domain with domain controller running Server 2008 R2. I’ve noticed that the server is using more memory than expected. The DNS service is using 605MB of RAM which way too much.
I’ve checked on the other domain which have Server 2003 R2 domain controller and DNS service on these domain contoller are using ~20MB. Continue reading dns.exe high memory usage in Server 2008 R2
Diary 60l: week 7
This tank is going pretty well, I decreased the lighting period by one hours and it looks to me that the growth of green dust algae has slowed down.
Diary 30l: week 8
Almost no changes in here. I trimmed down eleocharis parvula but I’m really disapointed the way this tank is progressing.
Communion cake
White and chocolate sponge with fresh whipped cream+soft cheese+mandarines+poppy seeds
LED stair lighting based on Arduino, Part 6
This project has been frozen for some time but I’ve picked it up again, not much progress has been done mainly because I don’t have the electronic components. Buying them in Ireland is a bit expensive so I mainly use Ebay to get them form UK or Asia. The problem with Ebay is that it takes time for the components to arrive.
Anyway I’ve been playing around with shift register 74HC595 as I’ve ran out of digital PWM pins on my arduino. By using only 3 digital pins and 74HC595 I can control 8 LEDs but it is also possible to add more 74HC595 and that means more LEDs without using more digital outputs.
The problem is that for my application 74HC595 is not suitable as it does not support PWM. It is possible to make LEDs fade using code but I did not like the results that I was getting.
The solution is to use TLC5940 which supports PWM. So back to the drawing board