Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/12
[WayBack] What happens when a huge number of people share a single grocery store loyalty card? – The Old New Thing
An interesting discussion in the comments besides this interesting article observation:
What messes up their data analysis is when two people with different lifestyles swap cards. The system sees that somebody who used to buy yogurt and bulk brewer’s yeast is now buying potato chips and frozen pizzas, and it can’t figure out what is going on.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/12
Hopefully the next few years will finally show what the incremental software development and evolutionary management has been trying to advocate since the late 1950s and 1970s: hierarchies do not work and purpose works better for the vast majority than being in a triangle.
The first slide below is from Thoughtworks who has been doing these changes for several decades now.
Traditional hierarchies are giving way to more open and creative workplace cultures.
[WayBack] Is the era of management over? | World Economic Forum
That’s the only way to cope with complexity as talent dilutes in growing organisations.
Via:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/12
It looks like when syncing folders between Mac OS X (MacOS X?) and Windows, many directories get empty Icon? files have a size of 0 bytes.
None of these directories had custom icons, so I’m inclined to remove them all from the Google Drive folder:
find . -name 'Icon*' -size 0 -print0 | xargs -0 rm
as [WayBack] Didier Trosset answered at [WayBack] How to delete many 0 byte files in linux? – Stack Overflow
Before I do that, I need to read these in more detail:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/12
This is not what you like when you reboot a VM in Proxmox:
Booting from Hard disk...
Missing operating system
Booting from Hard disk… Missing operating system
This case was a Windows 7 UK Professional x64 SP1 virtual machine.
Luckily the ISO is at https://archive.org/download/en_windows_7_professional_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_676939_201606/en_windows_7_professional_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_676939.iso via https://archive.org/details/en_windows_7_professional_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_676939_201606 (later I found out I had the image in my backup vault as well).
I put that one in /var/lib/vz/template/iso so proxmox will automagically provide it in the local storage of iso images.
Now for some screenshots some based on what I learned at [Archive.is] How to use System Recovery Options for repairing Windows Vista or 7 installations:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 