Reminder to self to check out how this move went: [WayBack] Why and how GitLab abandoned Microsoft Azure for Google Cloud | VentureBeat.
Via [WayBack] Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
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Archive for 2020
Why and how GitLab abandoned Microsoft Azure for Google Cloud | VentureBeat
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/22
Posted in Azure Cloud, Cloud, Containers, Development, DevOps, Docker, GCP Google Cloud Platform, Google Kubernetes Engine, Infrastructure, Kubernetes (k8n), Software Development | Leave a Comment »
GitHub – adaloveless/commonx: Delphi/Object Pascal Classes and Tools for just about everything and everyone.
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/21
Warning: I posted this without doing a proper copyright check on the linked github repository, and it looks like this library heavily copies code from copyrighted materials.
So better not use them, for one because they contain copyrighted material, and also because the copyrighted units are not current.
At least these units are Copyright by Embarcadero:
Androidapi.JNI.Environment.pas:4:{ Copyright(c) 2014 Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. } Better_JSON.pas:5:{ Copyright(c) 2016 Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. } Bluetoothcomponentthreaded.pas:4:{ Copyright(c) 2016 Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. } FMX.Better.Controls.pas:5:{ Copyright(c) 2011-2013 Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. } FMX.Better.ListBox.pas:5:{ Copyright(c) 2011-2013 Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. } Generics.Collections.Fixed.pas:5:{ Copyright(c) 1995-2014 Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. } HTTPClient_2019.pas:6:{ Copyright(c) 1995-2018 Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. } InetWinSocketReg.pas:5:{ Copyright(c) 1995-2012 Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. } pngimage_fmx.pas:5:{ Copyright(c) 1995-2014 Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. } SocketsEditor.pas:5:{ Copyright(c) 1995-2012 Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. }
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Git install tip for Windows installations: “”
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/21
When installing Git on Windows, you might want to change the default HTTPS transport back-end setting into “Use the Windows Secure Channel library” as it will use the Windows Certificate Stores for certificate validation. For Windows users, this allows for a more natural way to configure additional Root CS certificates (for instance the ones coming from Active Directory Domain Services).
If you later want to change this, then you can either re-run the installer, or perform these commands (based on the installer source):
To select the OpenSSL library:
config --system http.sslBackend opensslTo select the Windows Secure Channel library:
config --system http.sslBackend schannel
I do need to check out other ways of installing it (more on that in [WayBack] 5 Ways to Install Git on Windows · James Sturtevant), but for now I’m using the regular installer.
At first time install (subsequent installs will re-use the first-time install location without a way to overwrite them):
- If you run that “As Administrator”, then it will install for all users (64-bit in
C:\Program Files\Git, 32-bit inC:\Program Files (x86)\Git) - Otherwise in
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\Gitwhich usually is inC:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Programs\Git).
Note that the actually executables are inside a bin subdirectory of the installation path.
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Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs – Embedded in Academia
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/21
Good to remember both these:
[WayBack] Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs – Embedded in Academia which means when using a system, you subconsciously start behaving around it’s issues. This also happens when you the software you wrote the software for such a system: you hardly test the things that you broke.
- I think it is similar to Pavlov
- It happens with humans conditioning humans as well [WayBack] snopes.com: students train professor and of course in The Big Bang Theory where they are all conditioning the others.
- [WayBack] Chris’s Wiki :: blog/unix/The Legend Of Sync
The magic SysReq key on Linux systems running on PC-hardware allows you to sync/mount read-only/shutdown a system by keyboard (and many more options – see the Wikipedia list below). Do not forget to enable this as it is disabled by default. And remember that many laptops forego the SysReq key (as do Mac systems).
The order while holding Alt-SysReq down is S,U,B…
- [WayBack] Magic SysRq is REALLY neat! – Ars Technica OpenForum
- [WayBack] Linux Kernel Documentation :: sysrq.txt
- [WayBack] Magic SysRq key – Wikipedia
- [WayBack] sysrq.rst\admin-guide\Documentation – kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git – Linux kernel source tree
Both via [WayBack] Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
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🔎Julia Evans🔍 auf Twitter: “an amazing directory: /proc… “
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/20
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google chrome – How to hide the bookmark bar? – Super User
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/20
So I wondered why on some tabs, the bookmark bar would never disappear:
Chrome’s default new tab page (NTP) always shows a bookmark bar, even if you turn it off for other pages. You can however install browser extensions which replace the NTP, and the replacements do not automatically get the bookmarks bar (but can with some extra programming).
So for instance Google’s Earth View extension does not show bookmarks, whereas Pinterest’s now does.
Thanks deltab for answering this at [WayBack] google chrome – How to hide the bookmark bar? – Super User
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Eject USB drives / eject command – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/20
I always thought than an umount /dev/sdX# for all partitions on /dev/sdX was enough for USB devices to be ejected, but there are three commands that (on most systems) actually power down USB drives (or USB to SD card adapters):
udisks --detach /dev/sdX(requires theudiskspackage which is obsolete)eject /dev/sdXseems not to be enough on some systems; it is part of theutil-linuxpackageudisksctl power-off -b /dev/sdXis equivalent to theudiskscommand; it is part of theudisks2package.
These will ensure that the disk is not part of the fdisk --list output any more.
The opposite of these is sg_start, which is from the sg3_utils package.
Source: [WayBack] Eject USB drives / eject command – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
On MacOS, you can use diskutil eject /Volumes/<LABEL> (source: answer by efesaid on [WayBack] Eject USB drives / eject command – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange)
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Colorectal Cancer: Stages | Cancer.Net
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/18
For my link archive:
- [WayBack] Colorectal Cancer: Stages | Cancer.Net.
- TNM staging system – Wikipedia
- [Wayback] Pathology Outlines – Staging-carcinoma: Colon tumor – Pathologic TNM staging of colorectal carcinoma (AJCC 8th edition)
- [Wayback] The Radiology Assistant : Rectal Cancer MR staging (with lots of imagery describing the various parts of the stages)
- [Wayback] ColonSmall.pdf: American Joint Committee on Cancer: Colon and Rectum Cancer Staging
These explain the below stagings.
- cT3N1Mx:
- c: stage determined before treatment
- T3: tumor invades through the muscularis propria into the pericolorectal tissues
- N1: regional lymph node metastasis suspicious in 1-3 lymph nodes
- Mx: could not be evaluated for distant metastasis
- cT3bN1Mx:
- c: stage determined before treatment
- T3b: 1-5 mm extension beyond muscularis propria
- N1: regional lymph node metastasis suspicious in 1-3 lymph nodes
- Mx: could not be evaluated for distant metastasis
- cT3N1M0:
- c: stage determined before treatment
- T3: tumor invades through the muscularis propria into the pericolorectal tissues
- N1: regional lymph node metastasis suspicious in 1-3 lymph nodes
- M0: no distant metastasis
- cT3bN1M0:
- c: stage determined before treatment
- T3b: 1-5 mm extension beyond muscularis propria
- N1: regional lymph node metastasis suspicious in 1-3 lymph nodes
- M0: no distant metastasis
- cT3bN1:
- c: stage determined before treatment
- T3b: 1-5 mm extension beyond muscularis propria
- N1: regional lymph node metastasis suspicious in 1-3 lymph nodes
- ypT2N1a:
- yp: stage determined after chemotherapy (y) and histopathologic (p), in this case also after surgeries of both tumor and metastases
- T2: size of tumor
- N1a: regional lymph node metastasis present in 1 lymph node
- No M means no metastasis detectable
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EU-Hof haalt streep door Privacy Shield en blokkeert datatransfers naar VS – IT Pro – Nieuws – Tweakers
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/18
For my link archive a good article and nice discussion thread:
Privacy Shield, het data-uitwisselingsverdrag tussen de EU en de VS, is van tafel. Volgens het Hof is het strijdig met de GDPR. De ‘standaard contractuele clausules’ blijven wel bestaan, maar door de surveillance in de VS wordt ook dat instrument voor de datadoorgiften een lastig verhaal.
[WayBack/Archive.is] EU-Hof haalt streep door Privacy Shield en blokkeert datatransfers naar VS – IT Pro – Nieuws – Tweakers
[WayBack/Archive.is] Wie toestemming onder de AVG vraagt, snapt de AVG niet (of heeft een nieuwsbrief) – Ius Mentis
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linux – ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host (not using hosts.deny) – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/17
I had this one day connecting to a guest:
debug3: send packet: type 20
debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
Connection closed by 192.168.71.81 port 22
The cause was indeed a heavily overloaded box that would not respond in time to any actual data sent over network requests, but would accept the initial TCP connection.
Logging on the console also failed, but the memory and CPU usage on the wrapping host was out of the roof.
The only solution was to soft power-cycle the guest.
Very similar to:
You can also have a host who’s memory is so badly fragmented that it can’t allocate a page a contiguous memory to fork the process for hosting an SSH session.
In such a case, you can get either of the messages:
ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peeror:
Connection closed by aaa.bbb.ccc.ddddepending on how far the host gets before it bails out.
If memory fragmenting is the apparent cause, the solution is to access the server via other means and to restart some of the pertinent services. I have found Apache and MySQL to be the culprit on VM’s since VM’s don’t have a swap partition. Failing that, reboot the host.
Via: [WayBack] linux – ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host (not using hosts.deny) – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 