Month: October 2020

Create a bar code/QR-Code/EAN in Word without VBA/Plugin

With Microsoft Office Word 2013 and newer its possible to create nativly the following bar codes:

  • QR (2D QR Code)
  • CODE128 (Code 128 linear bar code)
  • CODE39 (Code 39 linear bar code)
  • JPPOST (Japanese Postal Service Customer barcode)
  • EAN8 or EAN13 (EAN - International Article Number worldwide bar code)
  • JAN8 or JAN13 (Japanese barcode for product ID’s)
  • UPCA|UPCE (US barcode for product ID’s)
  • ITF14 (ITF-14 item-tracking barcode for shipping)
  • NW7 (NW-7 (CODABAR) serial number bar code )
  • CASE ( barcode for tracking USPS mail)

Steps

  1. Create Word 2013 or newer document
  2. Create empty merge field with [CTRL]+[F9]
  3. You should see two curly brackets at this point. If not, toggle display merge fields with [ALT]+[F9]. Adding the brackets manually does not work, because Word does not recognize it as a function!
  4. Insert the DISPLAYBARCODE-function and the right switches into the merge field (into the two curly brackets):
    DISPLAYBARCODE field-argument-1 field-argument-2 [ switches ]

    • field-argument-1 is a quoted string containing the data (barcode-data) used to generate the barcode symbol
    • field-argument-2 is a text string containing the type of barcode (barcode-type) that will be generated. Valid are in the list above (case-insensitive).

Example:

DISPLAYBARCODE "My n!ce QR code" QR \s 50 \q 3
* DISPLAYBARCODE = barcode function
* "My n!ce QR code" = barcode data
* QR = barcode type
* \s 50 = scaling factor in percent. Valid values from 10 to 1000.
* \q 3 = error correction level. Valid values (case insensitive) are [L|M|Q|H]

More information, also for the switches, you could find in the Microsoft Docs: [MS-OI29500]: DISPLAYBARCODE.

Run iotop tcpdump etc. on Synology DiskStation or RackStation with Synogear

When you need tools like iotop or tcpdump on you Synology DiskStation or RackStation, you doens't need to itall it via ipkg. Synology had a build in way to install the tools.

  • Connect via SSH to your NAS
  • Run sudo synogear install
  • Now you could use the tools from the list below

The package "Diagnosis Tool" are now also visible in the package center. You could also uninstall it from here, but a installation from package center is not possible.

addr2name
arping
bash
cifsiostat
clockdiff
dig
domain_test.sh
file
fix_idmap.sh
free
fuser
gcore
gdb
gdbserver
iftop
iostat
iotop
iperf
iperf3
kill
killall
ldd
log-analyzer.sh
lsof
ltrace
mpstat
name2addr
ncat
ndisc6
nethogs
nfsiostat-sysstat
nmap
nping
nslookup
peekfd
perf-check.py
pgrep
pidof
pidstat
ping
ping6
pkill
pmap
prtstat
ps
pstree
pwdx
rarpd
rdisc
rdisc6
rltraceroute6
rview
rvim
sa1
sa2
sadc
sadf
sar
sid2ugid.sh
slabtop
sockstat
speedtest-cli.py
strace
sysctl
sysstat
tcpdump
tcpdump_wrapper
tcpspray
tcpspray6
tcptraceroute6
telnet
time
tload
top
tracepath
traceroute6
tracert6
uptime
vim
vimdiff
vmstat
w
watch
xxd