Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/28
Every once in a while you want to browse back to WordPress visitor stats from a while ago.
Well, you can hand-build your URLs like this:
Stats at the end of last year for the default WordPress.com blog:
The Old WordPress.com Stats – How to Access Them | Planet Botch post explains how to do this for non-default blogs as well.
–jeroen
via: Old WordPress.com Stats – How to Access Them | Planet Botch.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/27
Reminder to self:
–jeroen
via: C# and VB are open sourced | Fabulous Adventures In Coding.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/27
At USD 50, this seems like a bargain for Apple I / Apple II lovers.
From the The WOZPAK Special Edition – Overview page:
In 1978, The WOZPAK was a 300 page technical manual produced by Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange. The poor resolution of copy machines and fax machines of the era made The WOZPAK an illegible and challenging to use collection of handwritten and typed notes. This collection as a whole was provided to the A.P.P.L.E. by Apple Computer, Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak and then company president Mike Scott.
…
Thanks to the encouragement of a number of computer industry legends, and the efforts of Apple historians, Brian Wiser and Bill Martens, we now have a completely refurbished and dramatically enhanced version of The WOZPAK. The WOZPAK Special Edition comes complete with the original materials from The WOZPAK and The WOZPAK II as well as some new materials provided by Apple legends from their personal libraries.
–jeroen
via: The WOZPAK Special Edition – Overview.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/25
Interesting:
How Do Young Go-Getters Get With Old Git?
fournova launches Git learning platform — from command-line interface to GUI
–jeroen
via: Dr. Dobb’s – Google+ – How Do Young Go-Getters Get With Old Git?….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/25
(Another one in the missed schedule list: this post was scheduled for this morning 06:00)
When you run a Windows 8.1 guest on VMware ESXi 5.1 with the VMware tools that belong to ESXi 5.1, the Minimize/Maximize/Close buttons are invisible but functional.
It doesn’t matter how you access that VM:
It is good to know that this is just a visual artefact, the Minimize/Maximixe/Close buttons still work:
I was having the same exact problem with my Windows 8.1 VM. If you click the location where the buttons should be, it still works like they are there.
But he uses a solution that is not really the kind I like:
I opened Device Manager on the VM and then uninstalled the VMware Display Adaptor, including the software for the driver. After doing that, I scanned for hardware changes and it reinstalled the display adaptor using a windows driver.
The youngest VMware Tools version it fails with on my system is this one: 9.6.1.1378637.
Uninstalling the driver from the device manager indeed solves the issue, but: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/24
GitBook is definitely on my list of things to try.
See the experiments from Ilya Grigorik – Google+ – Build interactive books using Git and Markdown:….
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/24
Getting Apache configured on a *nix installation like openSUSE installation is always a bit of a challenge.
A few things I observed: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/23
I just bumped into Compile and Execute C# Sharp online.
As of writing, it uses Mono 2.10.2.0 which is quite old, and it is dead slow: it takes more than a minute to compile and execute a simple console application.
The reason is that this is a one man project.
IdeOne is much faster, for instance it took a few seconds to compile and run this simple C# program.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/23
Interesting, not only because it is available as Chrome Extension:
Project Naptha automatically applies state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms on every image you see while browsing the web. The result is a seamless and intuitive experience, where you can highlight as well as copy and paste and even edit and translate the text formerly trapped within an image.
–jeroen
via: Project Naptha.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/23
I’ve been using rsync as my MacGyver style backup-tool of choice on *nix systems and sometimes even Windows systems.
It works both locally and remotely, is simple to setup and over the years has gathered a lot of nifty functionality.
It is way easier to backup using rsync one directory to another than using tar (tar has the benefit of putting everything in one archive though) using a command like this:
rsync -aiv /path/to/source/directory /path/to/destination/directoryFor remote copies, I usually add replace
-aivwith-aivzor with-aiz.Given the ubiquitous of hard disk space, I hardly compress or archive directory trees for archival purposes any more.
For an introduction of basic functionality read Everything Linux – A Tutorial on Using Rsync. An article from 1999 that is still very valid now.
Besides my praise for rsync, there are a few small things I want to mention in this article:
-a option archive option implies -t, so the solution is to expand -a into its parts -rlptgoD, then remove the -t from that.Posted in *nix, Development, Linux, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, SuSE Linux | 1 Comment »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 