Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Turn annoying zoom off on Vizio

If you are like me and someone messed up your settings
and when you turn on your tv it goes into zoom.

The quickest fix is to do the steps below





Step 1: Push menu on remote
Step 2: Go to system
Step 3: Go to accessibility
Step 4: tun zoom mode off

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Lambdas they are everywhere now

What is a Lambda?

The quickest ad fastest response would be:

A Lambda is an entity that is key for "anonymous functions / run code on events" aka...  It does stuff in response to conditions.

"Otherwise think of it as a huge super computer turned off and only runs your functions with conditions happen to keep your cost (maintenance/power/usage) low!

AWS Lambda (Node.js, Java, and Python) - is the service code on behalf of your infrastructure.

Azure uses Functions called (Logic Apps) - 

Google's Cloud Functions -

All of them can do what AWS is doing!

Now let me teach you some quick functions(Lambdas) so you can get started!


Teaching lesson 1 "hello-world"

Step 1:

Pick the wizard that says "Hello World"




Step 2: Put in your names and select 






Step 3: Now its time to learn configure the trigger (The event that makes it happen) :

We will use a Cron (Cloudwatch event schedule):



Step 4 Now just name some random variables, then click enable: 

* Note: If you need help with crons go here: http://www.cronmaker.com/
* I will be using: every day at 2:25pm 

  |25 14 30 * * ? |
--- use * for wild cards meaning every
  | | -| -| -| -|  = min (0 - 60)
    | -| -| -| -|  = hour (0-23)
       | -| -| -|  = day of the month (1-31)
         -| -| -|  = month (1-12)
             | -|  = day of the week
                |  = year








Step 5 now you need to name your function: 



Step 6 scroll down and name the role: 




Step 7 now click next and select create function





Step 8: You are now done, now your trigger is set on a timer to happen!





Running a website in S3 as static, but when a logic page is accessed I want to turn on a system and serve it from there (Elastic Load balance (ELB) with response to code would be the cheapest way unless it was clicked all the time) so a bad choice would be something that is clicked a million times per second.  Because you are charged pennies when you click and for the lambdas.

*So be careful as they can add up if you have 20 lambdas running per trigger.  As it may be smarter to run a small ec2, google vm, Azure vms.  To minimize an ongoing trigger.