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Archive for 2018

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Changing component class at run-time on demand for older Delphi versions need a bit more magic than you’d expect

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/16

Just in case I ever need to do heavy Delphi 2007 magic to change the component class of an object instance:

[WayBack] Quite unusual compiler behaviour (for older compilers) as seen here:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41181767/patching-instance-class-requires-base-… – David Heffernan – Google+

References:

–jeroen

Source: Quite unusual compiler behaviour (for older compilers) as seen here: http://…

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Potential wifi drop problem caused by Google devices – Google Product Forums

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/15

Sometimes the same problem here on an Asus RT-N66U: Potential wifi drop problem caused by Google devices – Google Product Forums [Archive.is].

Related:

Via [WayBack] Google Cast-apparaten veroorzaken wifi-drop-outs bij verschillende routers – Computer – Nieuws – Tweakers

–jeroen

 

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Best SSDs: Holiday 2017

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/15

Not just a great overview for the season, but also a good overview on what the state of the art in various SSD products is: [WayBack] Best SSDs: Holiday 2017.

Recommended reading when you are looking for SSDs

–jeroen

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Intel Sightings in ESXi Bundled Microcode Patches for VMSA-2018-0004 (52345)

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/15

If you’ve installed this patch [WayBack] Intel Sightings in ESXi Bundled Microcode Patches for VMSA-2018-0004 (52345), then please read the article if your processor is affected by microcode updates in it.

To inspect which processor is in your machine, please see:

On my system, this was enough:

vim-cmd hostsvc/hostsummary | grep cpuModel
vim-cmd hostsvc/hosthardware | grep -w -A7 "cpuPkg\|cpuFeature" | grep "description\|eax\|ebx\|ecx\|edx\|vendor"

The above statements are based on:

I was lucky, but for now, ESXi has retracted it.

So please disregard my previous post VMware ESXi 6.5.0 Patch History.

–jeroen

Posted in ESXi6, ESXi6.5, Power User, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »

It’s Crash-Along Cymbals! Can you keep up with the bonkers finale of Tchaikovsky 4? – London Philharmonic Orchestra

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/15

This is so cool!

And yes: I can. Even with the big cymbals (:

–jeroen

 

There is another one with timpani:

And of course there is the live version (9 minutes!)

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SexiLog – better insight in VMware vSphere/ESXi logs

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/15

On my watch list. Hopefully by now they have more recent Kibana support:

[WayBack] Any plans for Kibana 5 support? · Issue #43 · sexibytes/sexilog · GitHub

–jeroen

via: Matthijs ter Woord

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Ubuntu – changing hostname without rebooting

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/15

Assembled from various bits in [WayBack] How do I change the hostname without a restart? – Ask Ubuntu.

Assume your new host name is newHostName.

  1. edit /etc/hosts and replace the old hostname with newHostName
  2. Perform these commands:
    hostnamectl set-hostname newHostName
    exec bash
    hostname -f

Both the command prompt and the hostname output should show newHostName.

Note: if you get this when performing hostname -f then you forgot to edit /etc/hosts as per [WayBack] Just so everyone knows, the edit of /etc/hosts did the trick the 12.04 – Why I get hostname: Name or service not known error? – Ask Ubuntu:

hostname: Name or service not known

–jeroen

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du -h -c -s *  — shows human readable total sizes of all subdirectories and a overall total

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/15

Inspired by [WayBack] linux command line: du — how to make it show only total for each directories – Stack Overflow

du -h -s -c *

This displays the human readable (-h) total (-s) with a grand total (-c) of all subdirectories (*).

–jeroen

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Top 2000 vlog workshop impressies

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/14

Voor mijn link archief: [WayBack] Matijn Nijhuis op Twitter: Tof: vlogkijker @aadtje vlogt terug <3 https://t.co/RDHnGSsfmF

Na de intro volgden meteen zijn belangrijkste tips:

  • Houd het simpel (geen dure shit)
  • Doe waar je geod in bent
  • Eén volg is geen vlog (vlog liefst elke dag)
  • Kies 1 mentor
  • Kijk gerust af maar kopieer niet
  • Beloof niets
  • Laat anderen je werk doen

–jeroen

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VMware ESXi 6.5.0 Patch History

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/13

Please do not install the below patches: they have been pulled because of an Intel Microcode problem.

See:

[WayBack] Intel Sightings in ESXi Bundled Microcode Patches for VMSA-2018-0004 (52345)

In case you have not installed this yet: hurry, as it contains the Spectre/Meltdown patches [WayBack] VMware ESXi 6.5, Patch Release ESXi650-201801401-BG: Updates esx-base, esx-tboot, vsan, and vsanhealth VIBs (52198) containing [WayBack] CVE – CVE-2017-5715.

[WayBack] VMware ESXi 6.5.0 Patch History: Keep track of VMware ESXi patches, subscribe by RSS, Twitter and E-Mail! – Brought to you by @VFrontDe

# Cut and paste these commands into an ESXi shell to update your host with this Imageprofile
# See the Help page for more instructions
#
esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient
esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.5.0-20180104001-standard \
-d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml
esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e false -r httpClient
#
# Reboot to complete the upgrade

–jeroen

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