Comments for yPass.net http://www.ypass.net/blog Solaris, PHP, and Random Things Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:24:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 Comment on Dencor Energy Control Systems – Bad Idea Or Worst Idea? by Bob S http://www.ypass.net/blog/2011/07/dencor-energy-control-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-1687 Bob S Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:24:06 +0000 http://www.ypass.net/blog/?p=559#comment-1687 Eric - fantastic response to the President. I struggled to figure out how to use mine and did exactly as Lee, killed the entire unit and threw it out. Here is a taste of capitalism.....everytime I talk to a neighbor I let them know the unit is a worthless piece of junk! Wait until i get off the grid! Eric – fantastic response to the President. I struggled to figure out how to use mine and did exactly as Lee, killed the entire unit and threw it out. Here is a taste of capitalism…..everytime I talk to a neighbor I let them know the unit is a worthless piece of junk! Wait until i get off the grid!

]]> Comment on PulseAudio: An Async Example To Get Device Lists by sayem.bd http://www.ypass.net/blog/2009/10/pulseaudio-an-async-example-to-get-device-lists/comment-page-1/#comment-1685 sayem.bd Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:50:52 +0000 http://www.ypass.net/blog/?p=415#comment-1685 Wow sir, thank you very much, been searching for this a long time now Wow sir, thank you very much, been searching for this a long time now

]]> Comment on nVidia Overscan Correction fixed in Latest Drivers by Stefan http://www.ypass.net/blog/2010/04/nvidia-overscan-correction-fixed-in-latest-drivers/comment-page-1/#comment-1683 Stefan Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:12:31 +0000 http://www.ypass.net/blog/?p=517#comment-1683 I also had problems with overscan, the nvidia overscan compensation just didn't work for me, all blurry and text looking bad etc... I did a lot of searching and messing around with the xorg.conf file untill I ended up with the idea to fix this problem the same way that I fixed it in windows, using a custom EDID file. I booted into windows to install a program called Phoenix which lets me extract AND edit the EDID information. I think it's kind of a bad thing that a program like Phoenix doesn't seem to excist on linux. Anyway, after extracting and editing the EDID file, i saved it as a .raw file using the export function in phoenix. So back in linux I copy the edid file and rename .raw to .bin and placed it in the /etc/X11/ folder. In xorg.conf file I added a line in the screen section: Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-1:/etc/X11/EDID.bin" Rebooted and the overscan was GONE! btw in my case all I had to change in Phoenix in the EDID file was the number of extensions or something similar (on the first tab on the right side of the program window), I set it to 0 and that seemed to have done the trick. Hopefully this helps! I also had problems with overscan, the nvidia overscan compensation just didn’t work for me, all blurry and text looking bad etc…

I did a lot of searching and messing around with the xorg.conf file untill I ended up with the idea to fix this problem the same way that I fixed it in windows, using a custom EDID file.
I booted into windows to install a program called Phoenix which lets me extract AND edit the EDID information. I think it’s kind of a bad thing that a program like Phoenix doesn’t seem to excist on linux.
Anyway, after extracting and editing the EDID file, i saved it as a .raw file using the export function in phoenix.
So back in linux I copy the edid file and rename .raw to .bin and placed it in the /etc/X11/ folder.
In xorg.conf file I added a line in the screen section:
Option “CustomEDID” “DFP-1:/etc/X11/EDID.bin”

Rebooted and the overscan was GONE!

btw in my case all I had to change in Phoenix in the EDID file was the number of extensions or something similar (on the first tab on the right side of the program window), I set it to 0 and that seemed to have done the trick.

Hopefully this helps!

]]> Comment on yTransit and GTFS revisited by Landon http://www.ypass.net/blog/2011/07/ytransit-and-gtfs-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-1680 Landon Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:06:07 +0000 http://www.ypass.net/blog/?p=551#comment-1680 Any updates on how the conversation went? Any updates on how the conversation went?

]]> Comment on Detecting Xlib’s Keyboard Auto-repeat Functionality (and how to fix it) by devildrey33 http://www.ypass.net/blog/2009/06/detecting-xlibs-keyboard-auto-repeat-functionality-and-how-to-fix-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1679 devildrey33 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:31:34 +0000 http://www.ypass.net/blog/?p=234#comment-1679 I tryed the XEventsQueued solution, when i made the tests i press a key, move a mouse, and finaly release the key. This works fine for me in my ubuntu under virtual box. This is my console test result : OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnMouseMove(cX = 79, cY = 38) OnMouseMove(cX = 79, cY = 39) OnMouseMove(cX = 79, cY = 40) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnMouseMove(cX = 79, cY = 43) OnMouseMove(cX = 79, cY = 44) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnMouseMove(cX = 78, cY = 44) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnMouseMove(cX = 77, cY = 44) OnMouseMove(cX = 77, cY = 45) OnMouseMove(cX = 76, cY = 45) OnMouseMove(cX = 76, cY = 46) OnMouseMove(cX = 75, cY = 46) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) OnKeyRelease(KeyCode = 0x0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1) I tryed the XEventsQueued solution, when i made the tests i press a key, move a mouse, and finaly release the key. This works fine for me in my ubuntu under virtual box.

This is my console test result :

OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnMouseMove(cX = 79, cY = 38)
OnMouseMove(cX = 79, cY = 39)
OnMouseMove(cX = 79, cY = 40)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnMouseMove(cX = 79, cY = 43)
OnMouseMove(cX = 79, cY = 44)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnMouseMove(cX = 78, cY = 44)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnMouseMove(cX = 77, cY = 44)
OnMouseMove(cX = 77, cY = 45)
OnMouseMove(cX = 76, cY = 45)
OnMouseMove(cX = 76, cY = 46)
OnMouseMove(cX = 75, cY = 46)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnKeyPress (KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)
OnKeyRelease(KeyCode = 0×0026, AG = 0, C = 0, S = 0, CL = 0, NL = 1)

]]> Comment on Dencor Energy Control Systems – Bad Idea Or Worst Idea? by eric http://www.ypass.net/blog/2011/07/dencor-energy-control-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-1672 eric Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:35:45 +0000 http://www.ypass.net/blog/?p=559#comment-1672 Wow... thanks for the heads up. I got off the phone with power company and I had the same thing. As it turns out, it's going to be about $30 cheaper per month! Wow… thanks for the heads up. I got off the phone with power company and I had the same thing. As it turns out, it’s going to be about $30 cheaper per month!

]]> Comment on jsmin as a PHP extension – JavaScript Minify the Fast Way by Ebrahim Imami http://www.ypass.net/blog/2009/06/really-fast-javascript-minify-in-php/comment-page-1/#comment-1669 Ebrahim Imami Sat, 23 Jul 2011 04:31:52 +0000 http://www.ypass.net/blog/?p=191#comment-1669 jsmin extension removes non-english characters that exists inside .js file in my case , jsmin removes persian characters ! What is the reason !? jsmin extension removes non-english characters that exists inside .js file

in my case , jsmin removes persian characters !
What is the reason !?

]]> Comment on Dencor Energy Control Systems – Bad Idea Or Worst Idea? by Lee http://www.ypass.net/blog/2011/07/dencor-energy-control-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-1668 Lee Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:00:17 +0000 http://www.ypass.net/blog/?p=559#comment-1668 My research has also led me to an unexpected surprise. I understand that the purpose of this unit is to limit your power usage during "peak" hours by shifting lower-priority circuits (in my case, as previously programmed, a hot water heater) to non-peak hours. This, of course, is useful only if your utility company bills you according to a plan that differentiates peak from non-peak usage in a way that leads, at least in theory, to cost savings. The Dencor unit then has to be programmed by a magical wizard so it knows what hours count as peak hours, what the difference in rates is between peak and nonpeak, which circuits get de-prioritized, when daylight savings time happens, the current price of tea in Malaysia, and so forth. What I've just discovered is that, for the last ten years, I have unkowingly been on such a plan, which apparently I inherited from the previous owners when I bought the house and put the power in my name. (Figuring this out, between a copy of a recent bill and the utility's web site, was itself no mean feat.) I personally do not want this kind of plan nor the retarded Dencor unit. I prefer to decide myself when I can and cannot take a hot shower. It turns out that I have an electrician coming out next week for other reasons, so I'll have him kill the beast while he's here, but now I know that it will be important that I change my billing plan with the power company to the "standard" plan at the same time. Um, I think. Or maybe I should just move. My research has also led me to an unexpected surprise. I understand that the purpose of this unit is to limit your power usage during “peak” hours by shifting lower-priority circuits (in my case, as previously programmed, a hot water heater) to non-peak hours. This, of course, is useful only if your utility company bills you according to a plan that differentiates peak from non-peak usage in a way that leads, at least in theory, to cost savings. The Dencor unit then has to be programmed by a magical wizard so it knows what hours count as peak hours, what the difference in rates is between peak and nonpeak, which circuits get de-prioritized, when daylight savings time happens, the current price of tea in Malaysia, and so forth.

What I’ve just discovered is that, for the last ten years, I have unkowingly been on such a plan, which apparently I inherited from the previous owners when I bought the house and put the power in my name. (Figuring this out, between a copy of a recent bill and the utility’s web site, was itself no mean feat.) I personally do not want this kind of plan nor the retarded Dencor unit. I prefer to decide myself when I can and cannot take a hot shower.

It turns out that I have an electrician coming out next week for other reasons, so I’ll have him kill the beast while he’s here, but now I know that it will be important that I change my billing plan with the power company to the “standard” plan at the same time.

Um, I think. Or maybe I should just move.

]]> Comment on Dencor Energy Control Systems – Bad Idea Or Worst Idea? by eric http://www.ypass.net/blog/2011/07/dencor-energy-control-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-1667 eric Fri, 22 Jul 2011 02:09:21 +0000 http://www.ypass.net/blog/?p=559#comment-1667 I *think* (and granted, I'm just guessing here), that if you cut the power to the control unit, the relays that control the power default to closed (i.e. on). I had a breaker in my box that seems to power only the control unit. I flipped that breaker and the control panel in the house lost power and the control unit in the outside relay box lost power as well. I finally found an electrician to come out and take a look and he told me he could figure out how to program it since he's seen a few before. But I told him I wanted the stupid thing gone merely out of spite at this point. As it turns out though, that wasn't even my problem. But complete accident today, I noticed that an air freshener in my downstairs bathroom wasn't working. I noticed the GFCI tripped and pushed the button. All of the sudden, all of my other outlets were back! Whoever installed this piece of junk wired my backyard outlet, and all 4 of my bathroom outlets serially into the same circuit (I wasn't aware I was losing power to my main floor bathroom). They're all tripped by a single GFCI outlet in the main floor bathroom. Something has managed to trip that GFCI outlet, which cuts all of them out. Conincidentally, those same outlets go through the Dencor box. Perhaps it's the Dencor box causing the problem, but hell if I know how that retarded thing works. Good riddance to it, I say... and I'll put my bathroom outlets on each bathroom's breaker. (What a concept!). Dencor Energy Systems is the dumbest concept ever. I *think* (and granted, I’m just guessing here), that if you cut the power to the control unit, the relays that control the power default to closed (i.e. on). I had a breaker in my box that seems to power only the control unit. I flipped that breaker and the control panel in the house lost power and the control unit in the outside relay box lost power as well.

I finally found an electrician to come out and take a look and he told me he could figure out how to program it since he’s seen a few before. But I told him I wanted the stupid thing gone merely out of spite at this point.

As it turns out though, that wasn’t even my problem. But complete accident today, I noticed that an air freshener in my downstairs bathroom wasn’t working. I noticed the GFCI tripped and pushed the button. All of the sudden, all of my other outlets were back!

Whoever installed this piece of junk wired my backyard outlet, and all 4 of my bathroom outlets serially into the same circuit (I wasn’t aware I was losing power to my main floor bathroom). They’re all tripped by a single GFCI outlet in the main floor bathroom. Something has managed to trip that GFCI outlet, which cuts all of them out.

Conincidentally, those same outlets go through the Dencor box. Perhaps it’s the Dencor box causing the problem, but hell if I know how that retarded thing works. Good riddance to it, I say… and I’ll put my bathroom outlets on each bathroom’s breaker. (What a concept!). Dencor Energy Systems is the dumbest concept ever.

]]> Comment on Dencor Energy Control Systems – Bad Idea Or Worst Idea? by Lee http://www.ypass.net/blog/2011/07/dencor-energy-control-systems/comment-page-1/#comment-1666 Lee Fri, 22 Jul 2011 01:16:20 +0000 http://www.ypass.net/blog/?p=559#comment-1666 Well, talk about your serendipity. I just came across this web page, just 5 days after you posted this, while searching for information on the very-much-unwanted Dencor unit in my house. (I might note in passing that I did this immediately after exiting a cold shower, as the &%#! thing evidently had turned off my hot water heater for the 2nd time this week.) I was hoping to find information somewhere about how to TURN IT OFF. I bought this house 10 years ago, and the Dencor unit had been installed just a few years earlier by the previous owners (one of many unusual "improvements" they had made, but that's another story). Like you, I had no idea what the thing was or what it did, but fortunately (or so I thought) the previous owners left behind the manual, as well as a little booklet in which they had penciled in their settings. I don't know how many times I have sat down with this manual over the last ten years to try to figure out how to operate the thing, to absolutely no avail. Now, I'm no electronics whiz, but I do have a Ph.D. and it seems to me I ought to be able to at least discern, with manual in hand, how to TURN IT OFF. I cannot. It is apparent that use of the system -- or, for that matter, disabling it so as NOT to use the system -- requires the services of some kind of expert programmer (wizard?). Whether such programmer/wizards exist in the modern world remains something of a mystery. I suppose I've been fortunate that as it is currently programmed, I have noticed its effects only occasionally. I assume that the particularly hot weather today, for example, and thus increased AC usage, is what caused it to shut off the water heater. Nevertheless, it makes me absolutely crazy to know that this thing is controlling my electrical system behind the scenes, despite the fact that I don't want it to do so, and that I cannot figure out how to TURN IT OFF. (The only comparable thing I can thing of that I find as aggravating is the fact that MS Word believes it can write better than I can, no matter how many "auto" features I disable. But again, that's another story...) Anyway, I would greatly appreciate it if, at some point in your ongoing exchange with this public-relations moron, you can somehow get him to reveal the magic secret of how to TURN IT OFF. Or maybe this information is only available in the $100 version of the manual? Well, talk about your serendipity. I just came across this web page, just 5 days after you posted this, while searching for information on the very-much-unwanted Dencor unit in my house. (I might note in passing that I did this immediately after exiting a cold shower, as the &%#! thing evidently had turned off my hot water heater for the 2nd time this week.) I was hoping to find information somewhere about how to TURN IT OFF.

I bought this house 10 years ago, and the Dencor unit had been installed just a few years earlier by the previous owners (one of many unusual “improvements” they had made, but that’s another story). Like you, I had no idea what the thing was or what it did, but fortunately (or so I thought) the previous owners left behind the manual, as well as a little booklet in which they had penciled in their settings. I don’t know how many times I have sat down with this manual over the last ten years to try to figure out how to operate the thing, to absolutely no avail. Now, I’m no electronics whiz, but I do have a Ph.D. and it seems to me I ought to be able to at least discern, with manual in hand, how to TURN IT OFF. I cannot. It is apparent that use of the system — or, for that matter, disabling it so as NOT to use the system — requires the services of some kind of expert programmer (wizard?). Whether such programmer/wizards exist in the modern world remains something of a mystery.

I suppose I’ve been fortunate that as it is currently programmed, I have noticed its effects only occasionally. I assume that the particularly hot weather today, for example, and thus increased AC usage, is what caused it to shut off the water heater. Nevertheless, it makes me absolutely crazy to know that this thing is controlling my electrical system behind the scenes, despite the fact that I don’t want it to do so, and that I cannot figure out how to TURN IT OFF. (The only comparable thing I can thing of that I find as aggravating is the fact that MS Word believes it can write better than I can, no matter how many “auto” features I disable. But again, that’s another story…)

Anyway, I would greatly appreciate it if, at some point in your ongoing exchange with this public-relations moron, you can somehow get him to reveal the magic secret of how to TURN IT OFF.

Or maybe this information is only available in the $100 version of the manual?

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