Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/15
For my link archive, as it has a lot of goodies in the comments, especially on how to avoid bitmaps in PDF emission: [WayBack] We took PDF to a whole new level today Load create, or editing a PDF in 2 lines of code using a simple Delphi (like) Canvas! We added a PDFPrinter and… – Joe C. Hecht – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/15
Probably by now everyone uses these 4 Ways to Jazz-up Product Descriptions (without Hype) | Practical Ecommerce [WayBack]:
According to Karon Thackston, author of Amazon Advantage: Product Listing Strategies to Boost Your Sales, successful ecommerce merchants avoid hype.
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- Sensory language.
- Imaginative scenarios.
- Unexpected vocabulary.
- Conversational tone.
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Provide Solid Info
At a minimum, keep your marketing copy free of over-promising, exaggeration, and pointless bragging. Make sure you’re providing solid information for potential buyers. Then, if you want, jazz-up your wording to heighten rapport.
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] Nice article on no hype product descriptions – Michael Riley – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/15
When you see messages like below in your bind named.d logs then you’ve a Jekyll and Hyde network config: part of it says it supports IPv6, but in reality doesn’t as “2001:500:127::30” is the IPv6 of the generic TLD servers.
In my case a brain-dead TP-Link switch.
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.008 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'c.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.008 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'd.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.008 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'e.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.008 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'f.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.008 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'g.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.009 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'h.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.009 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'i.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.009 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'j.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.009 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'k.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.009 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'l.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
04-Dec-2016 13:05:48.009 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving 'm.gtld-servers.net/AAAA/IN': 2001:500:127::30#53
...
04-Dec-2016 13:24:13.500 lame-servers: network unreachable resolving './NS/IN': 2001:500:2f::f#53
A temporary solution is to run bind named.d in -4 mode (see examples for RHEL, CENTOS and OpenSuSE in the links below), but the actual solution is to get IPv6 working properly.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 