Fix the engine

A giant ship's engine broke down and no one could repair it, so they took it to a engineer with over 40 years of experience.

He inspected the engine carefully, from top to bottom. After seeing everything, the engineer unloaded his bag and pulled out a small hammer.

He knocked something gently. Soon, the engine came to life again. The engine has been fixed!

7 days later the engineer mentioned that the total cost of repairing was $ 10,000 to the ship owner.

"What ?!" said the owner.

"You did almost nothing. Give us a detailed bill."

The bill:

Tap with a hammer: $ 2

Know where to knock & how much to knock: $ 9,998

Lessons to Learn:

The importance of appreciating one's expertise and experience ... 

The words "it's easy" and "that's all", should be set aside. Why? Because maybe the experience is the result of struggles, experiments and even tears.

Like above:

If someone can finish a job in 30 minutes, it's because he spent 10 years learning how to do it in 30 minutes. You pay for those 10 years, not 30 minutes.

Waardeer het, repareer het!

Eindelijk, Sire heeft mijn levensmotto ontdekt. Niets mooier dan je eigen spullen fiksen! Of het nou een fiets, auto, of een duplo treintje is :)

Twitter script for bash shell

For my Solget project I use some scripting I found on the internet. The original site does not exist anymore. However, I found out that I wasn't receive new tweets anymore. I did some homework and found the bugs. I also found out that the script could skip some code so I removed that.

Edit: since twitter made some changes again; script is also revised. (April 8 - 2015)
Edit2: another change; script revised (April 28 -2015)

Results:

#!/bin/bash

#REQUIRED PARAMS
username="TWITTER USERNAME"
password="TWITTER PASSWORD"
tweet="$*" #must be less than 140 chars

#EXTRA OPTIONS
uagent="Mozilla/5.0" #user agent (fake a browser)
sleeptime=0 #add pause between requests

if [ $(echo "${tweet}" | wc -c) -gt 140 ]; then
echo "[FAIL] Tweet must not be longer than 140 chars!" && exit 1
fi

if [ "$tweet" == "" ]; then
echo "[FAIL] Nothing to tweet. Enter your text as argument." && exit 1
fi

touch "cookie.txt" #create a temp. cookie file

#INITIAL PAGE
echo "[+] Fetching twitter.com..." && sleep $sleeptime
initpage=`curl -s -b "cookie.txt" -c "cookie.txt" -L --tlsv1 -A "$uagent" "https://mobile.twitter.com/session/new"`
token=`echo "$initpage" | grep "authenticity_token" | sed -e 's/.*value="//' | sed -e 's/"\/>.*//'`

#LOGIN
echo "[+] Submitting the login form..." && sleep $sleeptime
loginpage=`curl -s -b "cookie.txt" -c "cookie.txt" -L --tlsv1 -A "$uagent" -d "authenticity_token=$token&username=$username&password=$password" "https://mobile.twitter.com/session"`

#TWEET
echo "[+] Posting a new tweet: ${tweet}..." && sleep $sleeptime
update=`curl -s -b "cookie.txt" -c "cookie.txt" -L --tlsv1 -A "$uagent" -d "authenticity_token=$token&tweet[text]=$tweet" "https://mobile.twitter.com/compose/tweet"`

#LOGOUT
echo "[+] Logging out..."
logout=`curl -s -b "cookie.txt" -c "cookie.txt" -L --tlsv1 -A "$uagent" "https://mobile.twitter.com/session/destroy"`

rm "cookie.txt"

mail form

Zo, het zou eens tijd worden. De mailforms zijn weer in orde op alle sites. Dat krijg je als je de boel niet bijhoudt. Nu zijn de foutmeldingen in elk geval weer verdwenen en werkt alles zoals het hoort.

eregi is vervangen door preg_match; en split door explode.

Werkt prima, geen deprecated method meldingen meer!

function checkmail($email)
{
    if(preg_match("/^[0-9a-z]([-_.]?[0-9a-z])*@[0-9a-z]([-.]?[0-9a-z])*\\.[a-z]{2,4}$/i", $email))
    {
    $mailDomain = explode("@",$email);
if (checkdnsrr($mailDomain[1], "MX")) {
return TRUE;
}
    }
    return FALSE;
}

de 80; statistieken 2012

Nog gauw even uitgerekend; altijd handig voor onderweg.

	Aankomst	Vertrek	Rusttijd	KM
Unnaplein Waalwijk	07:46			0,0
Start Raadhuisplein Waalwijk	20:00			0,5
Post 1 Drunen	22:38	22:51	00:13	15,4
Die Heygrave Vlijmen	23:51			20,9
Post 2 Haarsteeg	00:44	00:54	00:10	25,5
Elshout In Den Gekroonden hoed	01:42			29,9
De overlaat Waalwijk	02:35			34,7
Post 3 Waalwijk	02:49	03:01	00:12	36,0
Doorlooppost 10 Waalwijk	03:27	03:32	00:05	38,3
Post 4 SprangCapelle	04:57	05:07	00:10	45,9
Sportcentrum Waspik	05:40	05:49	00:09	48,9
Post 5 's-Gravenmoer	06:23	06:33	00:10	51,9
Post 6 De moer	08:36	08:46	00:10	62,1
Tennispark de Moer	09:03			63,6
De Wetering Loon op Zand	09:57	10:04	00:07	68,0
Post 7 Loon op Zand	10:22	10:35	00:13	69,5
Doorlooppost 18 kaatsheuvel	11:27	11:33	00:06	74,1
Post 8 Kaatsheuvel	12:20	12:29	00:09	77,7
Toilet café James	12:30	12:38	00:08	78,0
Finish Waalwijk	13:22			81,4
		Totaaltijd	17:22
		Rusttijd	02:02
		Wandeltijd	15:20
		Gemiddeld	4,69
		Loopsnelheid	5,31

Daar gaan we weer!

We gaan er weer aan beginnen, de 17e vierdaagse staat voor de deur! Je kunt mij volgen via http://marcel.reinieren.net/p/4daagse.html

 Ik zal proberen om hier weer elke dag een kort verslagje te plaatsen.