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Archive for February, 2022

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Archive.is is more like a thread unroll service than an archival service

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/14

An interesting take a while ago on [Wayback] Archive.is blog — People often compare various features of…

People often compare various features of archive.is to those of archive.org being mistaken by name similarity (and recently added “save a page” function to archive.org).

This project is different in at least two respects:

  1. We have no goal to save the entire Internet. Only manually submitted pages which may be deleted/altered soon. We are about 100x smaller than archive.org in the storage space (700TB vs. 70PB) and expenses (X,000 $/mo vs. X00,000 $/mo).
  2. The pages are not saved in their network form. Archive.today launches real browsers (not even headless) and tries to load lazy images, unroll folded content, login into accounts if prompted with login form, remove “subscribe our maillist” modals, … So archive.today is not suitable for making notarized or digitally signed snapshots.

It would be more correct to compare it with other thread unrollers.

The RSS feed of blog.archive.today is at blog.archive.today/rss

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Posted in archive.is / archive.today, Bookmarklet, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, Internet, InternetArchive, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

Philosophy of management

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/14

“Philosophy of Management” quote by “Clarence Francis”

“You can buy a man’s time, you can buy a man’s physical presence at a certain place, you can even buy a measured number of skilled muscular motions per hour or day.
But you cannot buy enthusiasm, you cannot buy initiative, you cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.”
— Clarence Francis, Chairman of General Foods

I still think this is a very important quote, as it emphasises the philosophical difference between buy and earn.

Even the top managers or self employed people should show these aspects, despite not having an organisational manager above them: in those cases they earn it for themselves to be a better person.

Some argue that these values are intrinsic. That is true, however expressing those values does not just happen. It needs attention.

It is about people after all.

–jeroen

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Disable a resource hog: no more auto-play of Twitter videos (web settings, works for mobile too)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/14

Steps: go directly to twitter.com/settings/autoplay, then ensure “Never” is checked, or

  1. Click on “More”,
  2. Click on “Settings and privacy”,
  3. Click on “Accessibility, display and languages”,
  4. Click on “Data usage”,
  5. Click on “Autoplay”,
  6. Ensure “Never” is checked.

Or in screenshots:

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Happy 20th Anniversary, .NET!

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/13

I almost missed this: [Wayback/Archive] Happy 20th Anniversary, .NET! – .NET Blog.

Given I am still recovering from the long period of cancer treatments, I am glad that Beth Massi reminded me (a “thank you” is below the signature):

https://twitter.com/BethMassi/status/1492893829535514634

To keep the story about myself short: currently I am cancer free, long term (i.e. 10 years) looks dim, but my mental focus has recovered and I am getting joy again doing technical stuff. I am still working on the increasing my mental and physical endurance, so real work is not yet possible but unlike half a year ago, I am confident I will be able to eventually.

Back to the .NET story (as I have learned when to conserve energy): I kept track of Anders Hejlsberg ever since Turbo Pascal 1.0 on CP/M (see The calculators that got me into programming (via: calculators : Algorithms for the masses – julian m bucknall)) and when after the Visual J++ lawsuits things a first got a bit too silent to my liking.

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Posted in .NET, .NET 1.x, About, Conferences, DevDays09, Development, Event, History, Pascal, Personal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, Visual J++ | Leave a Comment »

FD: Hoge Raad opent weg voor massaclaim woekerpolissen

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/13

For my link archive: [Archive] Hoge Raad opent weg voor massaclaim woekerpolissen

–jeroen

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Foam and foil for your keyboard switches

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/11

You can still get foam and foil for your old keyboard switches:

Via:

–jeroen

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Zet je rekeningnummer om naar IBAN met OpenIBAN.nl

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/11

Dit was de enige site die ik kon vinden waar je nog oude rekeningnummers naar nieuwe kon omzetten (inclusief bank-code).

[Wayback] Zet je rekeningnummer om naar IBAN met OpenIBAN.nl

Met deze webservice kun je gratis en snel je bankrekeningnummer omrekenen naar een IBAN. Een BIC of banknaam is niet nodig

–jeroen

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When high SEO ranking fails to give you a reliable result: IsItDownRightNow.com failed to detect the WayBack Machine outage

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/11

A high SEO ranking does not automatically indicate a reliable result.

When the WayBack Machine was down a while ago (it responded to traceroute UDP requests, but would not establish TCP connections on ports 80 and 443), the first Google hit for detecting down status (searching for [Archive.is] waybackmachine down – Google Search) failed miserably because it redirected web.archive.org (which fails) to http://www.archive.org (which succeeds):

IsIdDownRightNow failing to detect web.archive.org downtime

IsIdDownRightNow failing to detect web.archive.org downtime

Luckily when asking around on Twitter:

  • others were experiencing the same problem, not just in The Netherlands, but also in other countries
  • after trying a few things, the WayBack machine got backup [Archive.is] before I could try cURL.
  • I got pointed at www.uptrends.com/tools/uptime which correctly does check the right subdomain and shows it is down from many locations:

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Character set reencoding link archive

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/10

I will likely need some of these links in the future:

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, Development, Encoding, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Software Development, Unicode | Leave a Comment »

ESXi: origin of the ESX and GSX names

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/10

Not sure how I bumped into the below info, as it was in one of the open tabs of a VM that I had not accessed for a long time.

Tracing back, the links can be found via Wikipedia.

Here is the post content from the 2005 thread [Archive.is] Wayback “Abbreviation ESX”:

VMware: Origin of ESX and GSX names

VMware: Origin of ESX and GSX names

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STS

535 posts since
Apr 2, 2004
2. Aug 10, 2005 6:22 AM  in response to: kimono

Re: Abbreviation ESX

ESX = Elastic or Electric Sky

GSX = Ground Sky

early days west coast cali hippy advertising thinking from the boys in the states. They dont mean’t anything and the X was added for acromyn 

Related:

–jeroen

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