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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/04
A while ago (in fact more than a year), I posted Encoding is hard… go G+ with the below picture.
[Wayback] ftfy (“fixes text for you”, a parody on “fixed that for you”) [Wayback] fixes it, but:
How did the single quote become “’“?
Actually, because of a a common “beautification” of many Office suites (Microsoft and Open alike), the single quote was a special one: a Unicode Character ‘RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK’ (U+2019) which in UTF-8 is encoded as 0xE2 0x80 0x99.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/03
From a while ago: a Norwegian (left) and German (right) thermometer. In dialect. Because.
Anyone having more of these in other dialects?
Sources:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/03
Even though Photo Booth has an “Auto Flip New Items” option, but that only works for stills, not videos.
I needed it to see without mirroring the images from a DBPOWER 2 Million Pixels Cmos 7M/23FT USB Waterproof HD 6-led Borescope Endoscope Inspection Tube Visual Camera.
What does work are these:
I forget how I bumped into QCamera, but later I found out he posted on apple.stackexchange.com.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/03
Ugh, this new Google+ is killing me.I used to be able to click someone’s name in Google+ and then start a hangout with them by clicking the hangout icon… – Koushik Dutta (Koush) – Google+ has this nice comment:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/30
So I won’t forget:
SSD BareMetal cloud servers, Simple and flexible pricing, enjoy a predictable cloud pricing model
Source: Pricing BareMetal | Scaleway
They are based in France and host both ARM and x86 servers at very competitive prices.
At the time of writing the cheapest bare metal x86 server has 8 GB or RAM, 4 cores and 50 gigabyte SSD storage at EUR 12/month. VPS are even more affordable. 50 gigabyte extra is EUR 1/month.
Via: C2: Insanely Affordable x86-64 Servers
And: Günstige dedicated server – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/30
There are odd things with the InitialKeyboardIndicators registry setting. Technet only documents bitflag value 2.
According to the docs it should be a bitflag, but sometimes you encounter InitialKeyboardIndicators value 2147483648 (0x80000000) especially as part of the .DEFAULT profile at HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard.
The problem I had was having these symptoms:
InitialKeyboardIndicators=0 in my local profile at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard.After reading Num Lock problem: Strange number in InitialKeyboardIndicators in Registry, I set both values to 0.
Now that it is 0 in both at HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard, symptoms 4-5 still hold. Strange.
It is not the same problem as Num Lock state not retained after resume from Hybrid Shutdown in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
If it persist, I might just put a script in: [Partially Solved: re-wired keyboard lol] Registry key “InitialKeyboardIndicators” NEVER keeps NumLock ON + ScrollLock ON (6) at startup and reverts back to NumLock ON (2).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/30
Time permitting, I will research more on this later:
Homebrew no longer needs to have ownership of /usr/local. If you wish you can return /usr/local to its default ownership with: sudo chown root:wheel /usr/local
Reason: the log does look funny, see below.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/30
via
OCR-ed by https://www.newocr.com/:
adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you’ll sound like a maniac. It’s an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out. And as size comes before colour, green great dragons can’t exist.
Then I found some more references:
The indicated this went viral earlier this month and all pointed the actual source: Icon Books » The Elements of Eloquence subtitled “How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase” by Mark Forsyth.
My mother language Dutch probably has a similar rule that I never knew but just subconsciously use.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/30
Many people – me included – complain about the sadness of IoT device security.
It seems the hackers found out it’s time to take advantage of that as within a week both these attacks by IoT devices took place:
The first already suspected IoT devices, the latter confirmed it were ~ 150-thousand hijacked cameras and DVRs [WayBack] performing the attack.
Or in short:
The IoT strikes back
Few parties can cope with this kind of traffic (Akamai had to stop their pro bono servicing of Krebs on Security; it took a few days and a lot of effort for Google’s Project Shield to take over).
So I’ve a few questions for anyone running IoT devices:
Edit 20161004:
–jeroen
Source: Da ist einiges neu an dem Fall: 1) Ein bisher unbekanntes Botnetz. a) Das neue…
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/29
Version 1.8.1 History | Continua CI:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 