Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/10
It has been a while after my last post about me having cancer. No, I am not giving up. But I am having the regular fear of the upcoming checks: did the metastases return, or do I have the luck to outlive some 30% of my peer group.
The last metastases surgery has been slightly more than a year ago. A year from now, that percentage hopefully will be 50% and slowly increase over time until about 90% in some 9 years from now.
At year’s end, I will know for sure.
Below are some links on, mostly Dutch but with English abstract, articles about the mental side of having cancer, or having survived it for now.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/06
A while ago, I got reminded of the [Source:/Archive] 1984 RULES OF NETNEWS DEBATING at We are ALL Rich Rosen… that was posted in Newsgroups: net.flame, net.jokes (which had many ROT13 jokes) back more than 40 years ago by the (in)famous – depending on your point of view – Rich Rosen on his site [Wayback/Archive] neurozen.com – Rich Rosen’s web site (which is in a subfolder, I think because of humour, see [Wayback/Archive] Apache Tomcat/7.0.62 – Error report – this Apache Tomcat version 7 is has been end-of-life since the end of March 2021 :).
I regard is as both fun and insightful, fun for instance as all rules are rated “RULE #1”, and insightful for instance as this is a great quote for on a T-shirt:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/06
[Wayback/Archive] memory spy
It is universal for most other programming languages too as explained in [Wayback/Archive] New playground: memory spy
why is it useful to look at C?
You might be wondering – I don’t write C! Why should I care how C programs represent variables in memory?
In this playground I’m mostly interested in showing people how integers and floats are represented. And low-level languages generally all represent integers and floats in the same way – a 32-bit unsigned int is going to be the same in C, C++, Rust, Go, Swift, etc. The exact name of the type is different, but the representation is the same.
In higher-level languages like Python it’s a little different, but under the hood a float in Python contains a C double, so the C representation is still pretty relevant.
Via
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/05
20260805: edits as since scheduling, some links suffered link rot and a new tool appeared.
For my link archive because – for offline usage – sometimes Windows XP is still useful to run tools that have never been made compatible with less ancient hardware/software combinations.
The xp_activate32.exe mentioned below emulates the phone-activation response and is the important bit for me as I can re-use existing Windows XP license keys that I already have.
The WindowsXPKg generates new Windows XP license keys.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/04
I forgot to schedule this post, but it was great news: a 50+ year old Unix V4 tape that was discovered in November 25 and digitally restored in December 25.
This was a big step forward in restoring the History of Unix.
There was a lot of coverage, but I think this thread was was the coolest part. It starts at [Wayback/Archive] Rob Ricci: “While cleaning a storage room,…” – discuss.systems.
An archive of the tape is now at for instance UNIX V4 tape from University of Utah (raw) : Computer History Museum : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Not just the tape was found back, also the 1974 letter accompanying it: Letter to Martin Newell on UNIX delivery to University of Utah : Ken Thompson : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
If you want to play around with it yourself, then try [Wayback/Archive] UNIX v4 (1973) – Vintage Terminals (which I found through the thread I mentioned above).
Two of the many articles that covered the recovery (pun intended):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/04
Somehow I find these hard to find back on-line, so here is a list for my easier reference
- Modifier key – Wikipedia
- Control key – Wikipedia, mostly described as Ctrl (Control or Ctl) and usually symbolised with a
^ like ^ Ctrl (^ Control or ^ Ctl) though by now the official symbol is ⎈, so the descriptions should be ⎈ Ctrl (⎈ Control or ⎈ Ctl). Note they can be translated like on German keyboards as Strg, ⇧ Strg or ⎈ Strg).
- Shift key – Wikipedia Shift or ⇧ Shift.
- Alt key – Wikipedia Alt , ⎇ , or ⎇ Alt .
- AltGr key – Wikipedia AltGr or ⇮ AltGr.
- Option key – Wikipedia (on MacOS) Option, Alt, ⌥ Option, ⌥ Alt, or ⌥ Option Alt.
- Command key – Wikipedia (on MacOS) ⌘, ⌘ Command, Command, ⌘ Cmd, or Cmd.
- Menu key – Wikipedia (on Windows) ≣ Menu.
- Windows key – Wikipedia (on Windows) ⊞ Win.
- Meta key – Wikipedia (on various Unix systems) ◆ Meta.
- Hyper key – Wikipedia (on the Space-cadet keyboard – Wikipedia) ✦ Hyper.
- Super key – Wikipedia ❖ Super (usually equivalent to ⊞ Win or ⌘ Command).
- Fn key – Wikipedia Fn.
Most of the above link have examples of common key-combinations where the modifier keys are used for.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/03
English (Nederlands hieronder): The same thing happened Joke Boon as to me: she got rectumcancer with full treatments. Unlike me she already was a book author, and decided to write a book about the whole process, with the second half of the book dedicated to recipes that worked well during and after her treatments.
The rest of the post is in Dutch.
Nederlands: Joke Boon overkwam 3 jaar later hetzelfde als ik: Endeldarmkanker. In tegenstelling tot mij was ze al auteur van een reeks boeken, en schreef ze er een boek over. Het eerste deel vooral met het proces en ervaringen rond kanker en de behandelingen; het tweede deel gevuld met recepten (maar liefst 80 stuks!) die haar in de periode van en na kanker hielpen.
[Wayback/Archive] Eten en leven met kanker, Joke Boon, 9789023017431
Het is een mooi boek, een geweldig kado voor mensen die zelf kanker hebben/hadden en hun omgeving, maar eigenlijk gewoon voor iedereen: het helpt je meer inclusief te worden en je krijgt er een berg fijne recepten mee die makkelijk aan te passen zijn naar niet veganistisch.
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Joke Boon (@jokeboon.bsky.social) — Bluesky.
Gerelateerd, waaronder diverse recensies waarvan ik eentje echt heb uitgelicht en tips uit een andere geciteerd:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/03
With both the ever increasing amount of internet data, and ever increasing number of web sites pulling the plug, archiving them into the Internet Archive is ever more important.
The thread at [Wayback/Archive] Double Your Archiving Impact: Guide to Setting Up Your 2nd ArchiveTeam Warrior in VirtualBox (Windows) : Archiveteam has great tips on running ArchiveTeam Warrior instances, even running more than one on a machine.
It covers:
- Running in VirtualBox
- Running in docker
A third option is to run on ESXi which I have covered the ESXi quite a few times on my blog already. You can find the main post at Running ArchiveTeam Warrior version 3.2 on ESXi, and all posts at wiert.me/category/ArchiveTeamWarrior.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/31
[Wayback/Archive] SKÅDIS Series – IKEA
SKÅDIS is an extremely versatile pegboard that you can rearrange endless times. Add containers, shelves, letter holders and elastics and keep your things organised and tidily gathered where you can always find them. In your kitchen, hallway, study or bathroom, it’s perfect for keeping things handy.
Related:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/30
Ever since introduction of the IfThen functions introduced in Delphi Delphi 2007 in both the Math and StrUtils units (see WayBack radstudio2007 HUpdate4 EN delphivclwin32.pdf ¹), I have been telling people that these do not perform lazy evaluation of the then and else parts which the if/then/else statement provides.
The newly introduced if/then/else ternary conditional operator in Delphi 13 ² (of which I am not a fan, not even of the generic workaround³) – despite the unlucky number – luckily also provides lazy evaluation of the then and else parts.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 