Author Archives: TimL

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Noodle can integrate with Large Language Models to aid in content creation. ArtificialAnalysis.ai has a nice pricing, quality, and speed overview. One token is roughly equivalent to 0.75 million words.

Links to 3rd party Application Programming Interfaces and pricing:

Free tiers:

Paid only:

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To get a screen share from Vialect please use any free offering:

Or send us a link to a paid service:

Or let us know if you have some other preference.

Currently not working on some Web Browsers:

  • Microsoft Teams [CoreError::LAYOUT_ERROR][Error::Cannot return null for non-nullable field AuthenticationUserProfile.upn.]

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If certbot from Let's Encrypt is not used certificates will need to be updated annually.

  • Download the signed public key from your Certificate Authorities (CA)
  • Import the signed public key into the keystore already containing the private key (and intermediate certificates if required)
keytool -import -alias noodle.domain.tld -trustcacerts -file noodlecert.crt -keystore noodle.pfx
  • Restart the Noodle service

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Add the following to the Host tag in server.xml

<Context docBase="ROOT" override="true">
    <Resources cachingAllowed="true" cacheMaxSize="100000"/>
</Context>

Add the following to multiserver or intranet.bat

-Xmx1000m -Xms1000m -XX:+UseG1GC

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Add the following to the Host tag in server.xml

<Context docBase="ROOT" override="true">
    <Resources cachingAllowed="false" />
</Context>

Add the following to multiserver or intranet.bat

-Xmx50m -Xms50m -XX:+UseG1GC

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Wikipedia has a list. Comments on the popular options;

  • Apache - Tomcat (most popular)
  • Eclipse - Jetty (small and fast)
  • Eclipse - GlassFish (heavy)
  • Payara - Payara
  • Red Hat - WildFly / JBoss EAP

Micro services; fast start with native executables via GraalVM;

  • Red Hat - Quarkus
  • Micronaut - Micronauts

Specifications at jakarta.

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To display timestamps exported from Noodle to csv files in Microsoft Excel, format the column as custom with this pattern;

yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.000

To show just the date one of these formulae can be used;

=DATE(YEAR(B2),MONTH(B2),DAY(B2))
=CONCAT(YEAR(B2),"-",MONTH(B2),"-",DAY(B2))

To show just the time one of these formulae can be used;

=TIME(HOUR(B2),MINUTE(B2),SECOND(B2))
=CONCAT(HOUR(B2),":",MINUTE(B2),":",SECOND(B2))

Like all formula the above examples can be applied to whole columns by copy pasting, dragging, or double clicking.

Note that Microsoft Excel does not respect original formatting so any save (without any edit) can convert a timestamp into a number representing seconds since epoch.

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cert.sh

certbot renew --quiet --manual --preferred-challenges dns \
--manual-public-ip-logging-ok \
--manual-auth-hook cert_dns.sh \
--deploy-hook cert_deploy.sh

cert_dns.sh

ssh $DNS "nsupdate <( echo \"server 127.0.0.1
update delete _acme-challenge.$CERTBOT_DOMAIN.
update add _acme-challenge.$CERTBOT_DOMAIN. 3600 TXT $CERTBOT_VALIDATION
send
quit\" )"
sleep 10

See letsencrypt for other options.