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Archive for 2019

Many flow strategies at GitLab Flow | GitLab

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/04

Many flow strategies: GitLab Flow | GitLab

After me doing some research on [WayBack] What your approach to branching tells me about the state of your agile transformation. | LinkedIn – Marjan Venema – Google+

–jeroen

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Why We Write Tickets – Hacker Noon

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/04

Should be on the wall for every development team around:

Why We Write Tickets

Shared with my team the other day in Slack …

Why we write tickets

  • So if we get sick, a teammate can help us out
  • To help us decompose our work into small pieces
  • As a placeholder for a real-life conversation
  • To keep track of how we resolved the issue
  • To make our standups effective
  • To point out dependencies
  • To reflect on the mix/makeup of our work during retros
  • Self-discipline.
  • Don’t take on too much.
  • Try to do one thing at a time

Why we DON’T write tickets

  • To track our time
  • To compete with other team members
  • To show managers we’re busy
  • To make managing people possible
  • To report status, or % complete
  • Because Jira is fun to use
  • External discipline

John CutlerFollow – Multiple hat-wearer. Product development nut. I love wrangling complex problems and answering the why with qual/quant data. May 4

Source: [WayBackWhy We Write Tickets – Hacker Noon

Via: [WayBack] Why We Write Tickets – Hacker Noon – Marjan Venema – Google+

–jeroen

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rvelthuis/BigNumbers: BigInteger, BigDecimal and BigRational for Delphi

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/04

Cool library: rvelthuis/BigNumbers: BigInteger, BigDecimal and BigRational for Delphi.

It has many Unit Tests written with DUnit.

Via: [WayBack] This is truly very cool project, if need to do math with pretty large numbers, check this out… – Tommi Prami – Google+

–jeroen

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Marantec | Deleting the code of hand transmitters (Multi-Bit) – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/03

  1. Put the the 3-wire program connector into the remote
  2. Hold a metal object to the 3 pins of the program connector to short them
  3. Push a button: Now that button has been cleared.
  4. Remote the metal object from the 3 pins of the program connector
  5. Push the same button: If it has been cleared, your gate/garage won’t move

–jeroen

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`ll header` in `martian source` is the Data Link Layer: 2 MAC addresses

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/03

The ll header field in a martian source message on linux is about the [WayBackEthernet frame – Wikipedia: Data Link Layer.

The first 6 hex digits are the source MAC address, the next are the destination MAC address:

May 10 08:59:24 linux kernel: IPv4: martian source 255.255.255.255 from 192.168.17.44, on dev eth1
May 10 08:59:24 linux kernel: ll header: 00000000: ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 0c 29 f7 0f fe 08 00 ........).....

In the above example:

  • Destination = MAC ff ff ff ff ff ff (broadcast, which corresponds with IPv4 target 255.255.255.255)
  • Source = MAC 00 0c 29 f7 0f fe (specific, which I could verify after checking out the machine having IPv4 192.168.17.44)
  • EtherType  08 00 (IPv4)

Some sources indicate it is a martian, as 255.255.255.255 is never a valid IP address, but [WayBack] Martian packet – Wikipedia: IPv4 disagrees.

References:

–jeroen

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keyboard – How to add a line break in a cell in Excel for Mac – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/03

What key combination do I have to press to create a line break in a cell in Excel for Mac 2011? The Windows combination of Alt+Enter does not work on the Mac.

Source: [WayBackkeyboard – How to add a line break in a cell in Excel for Mac – Ask Different

The answer depends on the Excel for Mac OS X version you are using.

Excel 2015 is simple (thanks esham): use Option+Enter.

In older Excel <= 2011 (thanks nwinkler), use Command+Option+Enter or Control+Option+Enter.

Some users report the also need the Fn key in addition to the above modifiers.

–jeroen

PS: Later I found out that [WayBack] Beckism.com: Use a linebreak in Excel on Mac also shows the Excel <= 2011 solution Control+Option+Return (note that Return is the same key as Enter).

Posted in Apple, Excel, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, macOS 10.12 Sierra, Office, Office 2011 for Mac, Power User | Leave a Comment »

svnrdump for dumping and loading remote svn repositories – twm’s blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/31

One day I will likely need svnrdump:

Since I keep forgetting what the tool is called and how to use it: svnrdump is a tool that can dump a remote svn repostory to a text file and also load that text file into a different remote svn repository…

Via: [WayBack] Since I keep forgetting what the tool is called and how to use it: svnrdump i…

–jeroen

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Determining the ESXi installation type (2014558) | VMware KB

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/31

Via [WayBackDetermining the ESXi installation type (2014558) | VMware KB

# esxcfg-info -e
boot type: visor-usb

That’s on my X10SRH-CF system which runs from USB.

Values you can get:

  • visor-pxe indicates a PXE deployment
  • visor-thin indicates an installable deployment
  • visor-usb indicates an embedded deployment

If your installation is visor-thin based (running from hard-disk), then you can convert it to visor-usb; the steps are at [WayBackvisor-thin & vsantraces – Hypervisor.fr (in French, but Google Translate is quite OK). It skips a few of the steps mentioned in [WayBack] How To Backup & Restore Free ESXi Host Configuration | virtuallyGhetto, so for saving your current config it’s best to follow these steps:

  1. Shutdown or suspend all VMs
  2. vim-cmd hostsvc/firmware/sync_config
  3. vim-cmd hostsvc/firmware/backup_config
  4. Copy the generated backup from /scratch/downloads (a UUID directory under it)to a safe location
  5. vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter
  6. shutdown
  7. Install the same ESXi version on a USB disk
  8. Boot from the USB disk
  9. copy the backup to /tmp/configBundle.tgz
  10. vim-cmd hostsvc/firmware/restore_config /tmp/configBundle.tgz
  11. reboot

–jeroen

via [WayBackHow to tell if ESXi is installed to SD card or local HDD? : vmware

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how to install OS remotly using Supermicro IPMI? – Server Fault

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/31

I wasn’t aware that IPMI more recent than 3.3 also supports virtual media, but in retrospect it’s very logical it does. When managing remote machines, you don’t walk up to it to switch physical media (:

Worked splendid on my X10SRH-CF based server, and even supports SMB based network shares.

The how-to is very simple, steps are for instance at these links:

Note: the for IPMI mounted ISO images, I found out that they will not work in UEFI mode and that you have to switch your BIOS back to LEGACY boot mode:

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Boek met tips voor ouders en broers/zussen die behandelbeslissingen moeten nemen voor een verstandelijk beperkt persoon

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/31

Ook voor brussen (boers/zussen):

De meeste ouders van een kind met een verstandelijke of meervoudige beperking komen meer dan eens voor een medische beslissing te staan voor hun kind. Wat kan en mag je als ouder/verzorger? Wat kan en mag een arts? Hoe ga je samen in gesprek en wat zegt de wet hierover? Hierover gaat het boek “Als je niet zelf kan beslissen”.

Source: [WayBack] Boek met tips voor ouders die behandelbeslissingen moeten nemen | BOSK

PDF: [WayBack] schouders.nl/…/beslissingen-boekje-2019-web.pdf

Via:

–jeroen

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