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Archive for April, 2021

West Side Story: Percussionist’s Perspective – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/05

So you thought percussion was easy? Try repeating Joe Martone playing parts of West Side Story:

–jeroen

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Print Friendly & PDF

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/02

I bumped into [WayBack] Print Friendly & PDF: Make a Printer Friendly & PDF version of any webpage.

Though Chrome has built-in PDF output support, often web sites render like a mess with it.

Hopefully the above site makes better PDFs in those cases.

I will try to use it for those, and get back if it works.

Via:

 

–jeroen

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Do we have songs with Triangelist? 😁🤘 | Metal Amino

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/02

[WayBack] Do we have songs with Triangelist? 😁🤘 | Metal Amino

Via:

–jeroen

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The tale of [SSH into ESXi 6.7 box resulting in “debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEXDH_REPLY”, delay and after entering password “Permission denied, please try again.”]

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/02

A similar ESXi 6.5 box worked well to ssh into, but on ESXi 6.7 it failed:

SSH into ESXi 6.7 box resulting in “debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEXDH_REPLY“, delay and after entering password “Permission denied, please try again.

I had a hard time figuring out why: Login with the same user+password on the web user interface, DCUI and console shell work fine (see [WayBack] Enable SSH on VMware ESXi 6.x – VirtuBytes).

Searches that led me to EBCAK:

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Posted in ESXi6.5, ESXi6.7, Hardware, IPMI, Mainboards, Power User, PowerCLI, SuperMicro, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »

Czarkuberneteski on Twitter: “rm -fr / Deletes all french files from the linux server.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/01

rm -fr /

Deletes all french files from the linux server.

Source: [WayBack] Czarkuberneteski on Twitter: “rm -fr / Deletes all french files from the linux server.”

–jeroen

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Exit Vim 2 Win

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/01

[WayBack] Exit Vim 2 Win shows the use of vim.js for a challenge.

Source code at [WayBack] GitHub – idoco/exit-vim-2-win: Exiting vim eventually

–jeroen

Posted in Apri1st, Development, Fun, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Ship Your Enemies Glitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/01

If you’re out of prank ideas: [WayBackShip Your Enemies Glitter

Prank your Friends and Enemies. Let us send them some stupid glitter that is guaranteed to go everywhere. You don’t have to move a muscle. Just tell us their address, write a funny note, and leave the rest up to the pros. Prank on Demand!<

Via:

–jeroen

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