Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/30
Because Marvin Gaye’s mega-hit single, ‘I Heard it Through the Grapevine,’ turns 50 this today: [WayBack/Archive.is] Hear Marvin Gaye Sing “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” A Capella: The Haunting Isolated Vocal Track | Open Culture
Media below.
Via: [WayBack] Meredith Frost on Twitter: “Marvin Gaye’s isolated vocals for “I Heard It Through The Grapevine.” Simply incredible.”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/29
[WayBack] xkcd: Free Speech is worth repeating every now and then:
Title text: I can’t remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you’re saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it’s not literally illegal to express.
Transcript
- Cueball: Public Service Announcement: The Right to Free Speech means the government can’t arrest you for what you say.
- Cueball: It doesn’t mean that anyone else has to listen to your bullshit, or host you while you share it.
- Cueball: The 1st Amendment doesn’t shield you from criticism or consequences.
- Cueball: If you’re yelled at, boycotted, have your show canceled, or get banned from an Internet community, your free speech rights aren’t being violated.
- Cueball: It’s just that the people listening think you’re an asshole,
- [A picture of a partially open door is displayed.]
- Cueball: And they’re showing you the door.
Be sure to read [WayBack] 1357: Free Speech – explain xkcd too.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/29
For my link archive: [WayBack] Language Accessory Pack for Office – Office Support (short-link)
All supported languages for Office 2010, 2013 and 2066/newer versions.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/29
Today’s internet day anniversary only started in 2005. But the networks leading to the internet are a lot older and date as far back as the late 1960s. In fact [WayBack] Internet Day, October 29th refers to the first ARPA network communication taking place in 1969.
About two years ago, David Newbury published this piece of history from 1973: a map of the ARPA network (later called ARPANET).
[WayBack] David Newbury: “Going through old papers my dad gave me, I found his map of the internet as of May 1973. The entire internet. https://t.co/0krvYoRGav”
The resulting thread has loads of more interesting pictures which I tried to save in the Wayback Machine as not even Wikipedia seems to have them.
It also includes a discussion on the meaning of the zig-zag line to Hawaii, the connection to London (UK that is, not USA) later that year and even earlier state of the late 1960s.
Worth reading (:
Here are some references to messages and links from the Twitter thread:
via [WayBack] Well, that’s changed quite a bit in the meantime https://twitter.com/workergn…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/29
Interesting: [Archive.is] Install on openSUSE / SLES – Zabbix.org is possible and there are packages for this on the OpenSuSE site itself for the various kinds of distributions.
For instance, Tumbleweed is at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/server:/monitoring/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/
Good introductions on Zabbix are via [WayBack] Stephen Fritz on Systems Engineering: Installing and Configuring Basic Zabbix Functionality on Debian Wheezy who has a [Archive.is] zabbix tag.
Other links are at Welcome to workaround.org – tips around open source and Linux stuff.
And there is www.zabbix.com/documentation
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/28
This time I was not affected, but many people were by the [WayBack] 121 – NOS Teletekst: xs4all and T-mobile outage:
NOS Teletekst 121 Kort nieuws binnenland Tienduizenden mensen zijn getroffen door een internetstoring.Abonnees van verschillende providers zoals T-Mobile en XS4ALL,hebben er last van.De problemen begonnen om 2.30 uur en doen zich verspreid over het land voor.Een technisch team van KPN is op zoek naar de oorzaak van de storing.XS4ALL meldt dat 35.000 abonnees zijn gedupeerd. In Barneveld zijn bij een schuurbrand 20.000 kippen omgekomen.De brand brak vanmorgen vroeg uit;de oorzaak is nog onbekend.De brandweer wist te voorkomendat een tweede schuur ook vlam vatte. Dit jaar zijn al veel dieren gedood door stalbranden.Zo kwamen bij twee branden in Limburg 35.000 kippen om. volgende nieuws weer&verkeer sport
Ga terug naar de navigatie, het begin van de inhoud.
Trying to grab the above page as PNG, made me find the old teletekst web-interface is directory browseable, but dysfunctional: [WayBack] Directory Listing For /webtekst.html/
Lots of people were affected as you can see at
[Archive.is] Storingsoverzicht | Allestoringen Realtime overzicht van storingen. Problemen? Wij helpen je verder.
They are powered by Downdetector which has a world-wide monitoring service [Archive.is] Status overview | Downdetector, and seems situated in Haarlem. Cool thing: they have similar sites for many other countries:
allestörungen.at | allestörungen.ch | allestörungen.de | allestoringen.be | allestoringen.nl | aussieoutages.com | canadianoutages.com | downdetector.ae | downdetector.cl |downdetector.co.nz | downdetector.co.za | downdetector.com | downdetector.com.ar | downdetector.com.br | downdetector.dk | downdetector.es | downdetector.fi | downdetector.fr |downdetector.hk | downdetector.ie | downdetector.in | downdetector.it | downdetector.jp | downdetector.mx | downdetector.no | downdetector.pl | downdetector.pt | downdetector.ru |downdetector.se | downdetector.sg | downdetector.co.uk | downdetector.web.tr |
- [WayBack] Over Ons Allestoringen
- [WayBack] About us Downdetector Realtime overview of issues and outages with all kinds of services. Having issues? We help you find out what is wrong.Ookla, LLC
Spaarnwouderstraat 37
2011 AB Haarlem
The Netherlands- [WayBack] Serinus42
- [WayBack] Serinus42 BV | Haarlem
Usually uptime robot warns me on time, and this time my connections were OK:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/28
[WayBack] ᴊᴏᴏsᴛ su Twitter: “Dear Mr. Juncker, you may not know this but here in Holland we have Dirk-Jan and it is tradition to read this comic twice a year don’t take this away from us it’s the only non-racist tradition we have!!!! Please!!!!!… https://t.co/wRIkBcQtnV”
It is about moving the clock forward in the Dutch comic DirkJan – Wikipedia by , which is done transitioning to Summer time – Wikipedia:
[WayBack] Annelies Hofstede on Twitter: “… “ posted the mirror image of moving the clock backwards:
I tracked the mirroring down to [WayBack] Reddit: Vannacht moet de klok weer verzet worden! : thenetherlands
Posting one of the above pictures was a long standing tradition in The Netherlands, usually resulting in other comics to be posted as well, like at
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/26
“fetch all”
A SourceTree fetch all actually comes down to this:
git -c diff.mnemonicprefix=false -c core.quotepath=false fetch --tags origin
Despite being such a big command-line, it sometimes doesn’t find new remote branches and you end up with a situation like this:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/26
In this article I compare the costs of network bandwidth transferred out of Amazon EC2, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Lightsail.
Bandwidth costs are one of the most ridiculously expensive components of cloud computing, and there are some serious inconsistencies in the industry, especially with Amazon.
[…]
If you move a significant amount of data you should think twice before moving to the cloud, these bandwidth prices are truly ridiculous and there’s no way they can be justified when compared to colocation facilities.
Source: [Archive.is] The Ridiculous Bandwidth Costs of Amazon, Google and Microsoft Cloud Computing – Arador
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/26
Cable pr0n
[WayBack] I have a sudden urge to organize my cables. – Lars Fosdal – Google+
and more cable pr0n…
[WayBack] Cable Porn; The Art of Tidy Data Centers
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 