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Droste effect… best torrent sites – Google Search

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/11

Likely the Droste effect won’t last long: best torrent sites – Google Search and https://www.google.com/#q=best%20torrent%20sites both give this list at the top and a recursive link about stories with the search links at the bottom.

via many, including:

–jeroen

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Firebird: creating indices in scripts after checking for their existence

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/11

A few notes when making scripts that create indexes based if they do (not) exist (yet):

–jeroen

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3.6 GIG – Public-Mikrotik-Bandwidth-Test-Server – MikroTik RouterOS

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/10

Don’t abuse: 3.6 GIG – Public-Mikrotik-Bandwidth-Test-Server – MikroTik RouterOS [WayBack]

Primary btest server (for short high speed bursts):

  • IP address: 207.32.195.2
  • User: btest
  • Passowrd: btest
  • Max connection time: 10 minutes
  • No winbox access, only bandwidth test

Secondary btest server (for longer less high speed traffic) [WayBack]:

  • IP address: 207.32.195.10
  • User: btest
  • Passowrd: btest
  • Local Tx Speed: 25k
  • Remote Tx Speed: 25k
  • No winbox access, only bandwidth test

–jeroen

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Why each Google+ comment should get its own Web address – CNET

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/10

Sure, I’d like to be able to spotlight a Google+ comment by sharing a specific Web address. But Google’s social search effort would be the real beneficiary of comment permalinks.

After 5+ years, this is still on my wish list too…

–jeroen

via: Why each Google+ comment should get its own Web address – CNET

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Vergelijk hier alle mobiliteitskaarten (Reisbalans vs XXImo vs MobilityMixx vs NS-Buisiness Card vs Radiuz. | Comparison tables – SocialCompare

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/09

Vergelijking tussen alle mobiliteitskaarten in Nederland, inclusiefde traditionele tankkaarten.

Source: Vergelijk hier alle mobiliteitskaarten (Reisbalans vs XXImo vs MobilityMixx vs NS-Buisiness Card vs Radiuz. | Comparison tables – SocialCompare

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Happy #NoEmailDay – The case of the 500-mile email

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/07

Good reading on #NoEmailDay 2017: The case of the 500-mile email [WayBack] on how a sysadmin in the mid 1990s found the cause of not being able to send email further than roughly 500 miles.

The exact mile unit doesn’t matter as it was all approximation. Read the FAQ on the 500-mile email [WayBack]

–jeroen

via:

PS: some sendmail tricks from

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APOD: 2016 January 25 – Where Your Elements Came From

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/07

Explanation: The hydrogen in your body, present in every molecule of water, came from the Big Bang. There are no other appreciable sources of hydrogen in the universe. The carbon in your body was made by nuclear fusion in the interior of stars, as was the oxygen. Much of the iron in your body was made during supernovas of stars that occurred long ago and far away. The gold in your jewelry was likely made from neutron stars during collisions that may have been visible as short-duration gamma-ray bursts. Elements like phosphorus and copper are present in our bodies in only small amounts but are essential to the functioning of all known life. The featured periodic table is color coded to indicate humanity‘s best guess as to the nuclear origin of all known elements. The sites of nuclear creation of some elements, such as copper, are not really well known and are continuing topics of observational and computational research.

Source: APOD: 2016 January 25 – Where Your Elements Came From

Image rendered from File:Nucleosynthesis periodic table.svg – Wikimedia Commons

–jeroen

via: Where Your Elements Came From Image Credit: Cmglee (Own work) CC BY-SA 3.0 or…

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Don’t Be Scared of git rebase – via: I care, I share, I’m Nathan LeClaire.

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/06

Must read for anyone using git: Don’t Be Scared of git rebase | I care, I share, I’m Nathan LeClaire.

–jeroen

via: Everyone working with GIT should read this:http://nathanleclaire.com/blog/2014/09/14/dont-be-scared-of-git-rebase/ – Stefan Glienke – Google+

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Mikrotik RouterOS /ip firewall address-list timeout values sort-of documented

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/05

Thanks to ZeroByte answering at [Answered] Where are ip firewall address-list timeout values documented – MikroTik RouterOS [WayBack] which I edited a bit here:

I haven’t seen anything specific to the format of these time tokens, but the firewall add-to-address-list timeout is documented here:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:IP … Properties…It seems to take the same format as any other similar duration-related input I’ve encountered:
  • a raw number is interpreted as seconds
You can specify a number as another duration with tokens:
  • s = seconds (default)
  • m = minutes
  • h = hours
  • d = days
  • w = weeks

A few aspects:

  • Tokens can combine be in any order
  • Whitespace is ignored

So these are all valid:

2s 2h 2w
1w2d3h4m5s
5s4m3h2d1w

  • Days and weeks just get added together. If you specify 1w8d, this is the same as 2w1d
  • The last value specified may be in h:m:s format or in h:m (omit seconds)
  • Interestingly, if you mix and match, they just get added:
    • “1d 2h 12:30” -> “1d 14:30:00”
  • Values larger than 536870911 seconds are stored and tracked but when displayed show as 0sec.
    (248 days, 13:13:55)
  • The maximum value is 4294967295 seconds (which is the maximum 32-bit value)
    This decodes to: 7101w3d6h28m15s as the largest value….
    (7101 weeks is ~136 years counting for leap years, by the way)

–jeroen

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How cool is that Hypercube Lego Server, featuring the powerful Xeon D-1540 on tiny and familiar Supermicro X10SDV-F motherboard – via: TinkerTry IT @ Home

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/05

It’s from a while ago, but they’ve likely updated the supported motherboards and storage by now.

How cool is that Hypercube Lego Server, featuring the powerful Xeon D-1540 on tiny and familiar Supermicro X10SDV-F motherboard | TinkerTry IT @ Home

–jeroen

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