One of my colleagues passed on this tutorial on how to get started with Unreal Engine - Unreal Engine 5 Beginner Tutorial - UE5 Starter Course from Unreal Sensei
It looks like VR export is also possible relatively easily, but with some caveats as seen in the comments of the youtube video -
I'm not going into it right now, since I have too much on my plate already, and lots of pending content generation with translations, OpenSpace, Stellarium and available VR360 videos.
Now that I have access to a desktop computer with an NVIDIA graphics card, even though it's just a GTX1050 with 8 GB VRAM, I could try out several useful tools which generally need GPU support to run well.
There was a query about how we can authenticate users on one of our LMS servers running Moodle, if they sign up and sign in using an external website. My reply was:
Moodle supports the following authentication methods as given in the documentation link below:
One of our Google Apps scripts sometimes fails to push to Github, with the error message "(filename) does not match " - the quick fix is to just delete the relevant file(s) (filename) in the git repo, and run the script from the console - it would then successfully push, and retain the correct hash for the next push.
Edit: link to a repo with example GAS code for pushing a file to a github repo - a json file to a github pages site in this case - https://github.com/hn-88/GAS-daily-upload-to-sched
Interesting option for fast low traffic api - Netlify serverless functions using the free plan - use node.js on the back-end. (Via https://ravisiyerblog.netlify.app/ - https://raviswdev.blogspot.com/2024/01/roadmap-to-learning-full-stack-web.html )
Intro to Serverless Functions | Netlify
Tutorial - https://www.netlify.com/blog/intro-to-serverless-functions/
I just forked this repo, deployed it to my account on Netlify, it started working. Can simply modify the code to suit my requirement, no need for me to install node etc. though of course, if I need to change the functionality and use more node packages, I would need to do all that.
And it's very fast compared to Google Apps script.
Free usage comparison:
GAS - https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/services/quotas - per day and per hour quotas for some services, 6 minutes per execution.
Netlify free plan - https://www.netlify.com/pricing/ - 1M per month serverless function calls, 100 GB per month.
Seeing that the OCVWarp post comparing it to ffmpeg was mentioned in February search performance results from google as the top growing page, I browsed ffmpeg.org to check how easy or difficult it would be to contribute a plugin to ffmpeg. Seems a bit complicated. Browsing further, found these instructions in the wiki for screen-recording video using ffmpeg. Quite useful information. And ffmpeg's wiki and bug-tracking runs on Trac.
Apparently this is a "speed-up" tool on Windows! Can be safely disabled - https://helpdeskgeek.com/help-desk/how-to-fix-service-host-sysmain-high-disk-usage-in-windows-11-10/
There was an email from the Azure portal, asking us to transition from Azure classic administrator roles to RBAC roles for one of our subscriptions.
Even manually trying to renew a domain's SSL certificate from LetsEncrypt, which had not been auto-renewed, did not work.
Certbot failed to authenticate some domains (authenticator: apache). The Certificate Authority reported these problems:
Domain: theconcerneddomain.ours
Type: unauthorized
Checking the DNS, found the relevant domain was pointing to a godaddy ip address instead of our ip address. Then, checked the whois record and found that the domain had expired. Alerted the concerned person, they renewed the domain, and a few hours later, certbot auto-renewed the SSL certificate, too.
Downloading a large file from noirlab.edu, only 4.5 GB had been downloaded before "server error" was reported. When I tried to resume the download, the server would not respond. (and the issue was not that the server was not reachable - if I started a fresh download in a different location, it would start - only the resume was not working.)
Unfortunately, with the noirlab link, we're unable to resume partial downloads with aria2c after 12 hours or so. The download also seems to stop after a few hours of downloading, with a server error message.
Reported this to the people at the website, and they made an ip-address-only link available for me to try. That worked, with the resume functionality working even after many hours.
[#b2e54e 64GiB/244GiB(26%) CN:15 DL:1.0MiB ETA:50h51m51s]
Implemented like this with a Modal box.
Apparently this happens when there are no spaces - as is the case with our download-file-names.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12196885/text-flowing-out-of-div
Use css
word-wrap : break-word;
overflow-wrap: break-word;
From the link on a spam email, found these links and read about the IPFS - interesting -
