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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/10
Legrand 7 824 94/96/97 documentation I have found on-line:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/09
Nowadays, some 35 years after the first Unicode ideas got drafted and 30+ years after the Unicode Consortium saw the light, UTF-8 is served my more than 95% of the web as shown in yesterday’s post UTF-8 web adoption is huge, closing 100%, but only soured up since around 2006..
I mentioned this:
It means that nowadays there is a very small chance you will see mangled characters (what Japanese call mojibake) when you’re surfing the web.
Below are some issues that happened not too long ago and still happen. I have reported them to all parties involved through web-care, but no response whatsoever, and this is bad: Unicode support beyond basic ASCII for the below systems are still broken even for relatively simple non-ASCII characters based in diacritics decorating a standard ASCII character.
Yes, I know the realm of encoding and code pages is a mess, especially when handling data in multiple layers of an application stack. That’s why I wrote this post in the first place, and have a whole encoding category of blog posts plus a Mojibake subset.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/09
As promised mid last year in “fixing” ESXi “rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util2.c(106) [sender=3.1.2]”, I would follow up on building a static rsync for ESXi one day.
So below a few links on how to do this, roughly in the order I found them (most via [Wayback] vmware rsync “3.1.2” static – Google Search):
Especially the last link has a great set of steps on how to build manually.
Boy I forgot how long ago CentOS 3.9 was: [Wayback] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 3.9 is released for i386 and x86_64 Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/09
Note: notepad cannot correctly guess the encoding, see the “old new thing”: [Wayback] Some files come up strange in Notepad | The Old New Thing (talking about ANSI a.k.a. Windows-1252, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-8, UTF-7 somewith and some without BOM as Notepad does not understand all permutations)
David Cumps discovered that certain text files come up strange in Notepad. The reason is that Notepad has to edit files in a variety of encodings, and when its back against the wall, sometimes it’s forced to guess.
[Wayback] C# Effective way to find any file’s Encoding – Stack Overflow shows how to detect various byte order marks in C#.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/08
As a precursor to a post tomorrow showing that serving UTF8 does not mean organisations go without unicode problems, first some statistics.
The first Unicode ideas got drafted some 30 years ago in 1987. In 1991, more than 30 years ago, the Unicode Consortium saw the light. Nowadays more than 95% percent of the web-pages (close to 100% when you include plain ASCII) is served using the UTF-8 encoding.
It means that nowadays there is a very small chance you
will see mangled characters (what Japanese call mojibake) when you’re surfing the web.
Some nice graphs of unicode growth are at these locations are at these locations:
I think especially important are 2008 (when UTF-8 had outgrown all other individual encodings) and slightly after 2010, when UTF-8 alone covered more than 50% of the pages served. These exclude ASCII-only pages. Adding those would make the figures even larger.
Historical yearly trends in the usage statistics of character encodings for websites, June 2021
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/08
On my research list: [Wayback] ESXi Host with No vCenter Server · VMware vSphere Integrated Containers 1.4 Documentation: Deploy a Virtual Container Host to an ESXi Host with No vCenter Server.
It is a small guide on [Wayback] vmware/vic: vSphere Integrated Containers Engine is a container runtime for vSphere.
vSphere Integrated Containers Engine (VIC Engine) is a container runtime for vSphere, allowing developers familiar with Docker to develop in containers and deploy them alongside traditional VM-based workloads on vSphere clusters, and allowing for these workloads to be managed through the vSphere UI in a way familiar to existing vSphere admins.
Given my virtualisation infrastructure is ESXi based, I need to contemplate on this, as there are basically two choices for me:
Food for thought!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/08
[Wayback/Archive.is] ThinkPad T440p Touchpad Swap: Installing Correct Drivers – YouTube
One of the most common upgrades for any Haswell (xx40) series ThinkPad is to replace the awful button-less touchpad (sometimes referred to as the ClunkPad) with a T450 touchpad that has the proper buttons for TrackPoint users. However, getting the buttons to work properly on xx40 hardware can be tricky – particularly if you are running Windows 10. In this video you will see how to get drivers installed that will allow you to use the TrackPoint as if this were a T450! As always thanks for watching! Some of the guides I used for this video:
I have edited the link so they show forum post titles, added way-back links, and added some crucial information:
PLEASE NOTE:
BEFORE YOU PUT IN THE NEW TOUCHPAD, INSTALL SOME EXTRA BUMPERS/RUBBERS ALONG THE TOP OF THE LID, LEFT AND RIGHT OF THE WEBCAM.
THESE SHOULD BE ABOUT TWICE AS THICK/HIGH AS THE SMALL BUMPERS THAT ARE THERE ALREADY.
Recommended size ~WxH: ~6 x 2 mm or ~1/4 x 5/64 inch.
PLACE THEM IMMEDIATELY LEFT AND RIGHT OF THE EXISTING BUMPERS.
FAILURE TO DO SO WILL RESULT IN SCRATCH MARKS ON THE SCREEN FROM THE NEW BUTTONS!
Via [Archive.is] ThinkPads Old and New | Facebook
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/07
I wasn’t aware that ImgBurn had an automatic audio format converter using the Windows built-in audio filters. It means you can use MP3 files and other formats than 16-bit PCM WAV files to burn CD’s. ImgBurn will automagically use the Windows filters to convert the audio files to 16-bit PCM audio during burning.
Steps are at [Archive.is] How to write an Audio CD from music files using ImgBurn – Guides – ImgBurn Support Forum.
Basically it comes down to this:
Burning an audio CD from it is simple:
The last also works for tuples of CUE/BIN or CUE/IMG files, so complements Writing an audio CD as ISO image is a no-no: the closest you get is a .CUE file that links to either WAV files or a BIN/IMG image « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/07
Dividend ING 2020 | ex-dividend en betaaldatum, actueel dividendnieuws, beursagenda en een taxatie van het dividend 2021 en 2022 van het aandeel ING
[Wayback] Dividend ING : een volledig en actueel overzicht | dividendinfo.nl
[Wayback] Beursblik: Kepler voorziet hoog dividendrendement ING in 2021
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/07
Interessante draad:
[Archive.is] Eefje Verhagen on Twitter: “🧵over de ‘heilige graal mythe’ van het online ondernemen #1 Dat het wel heel gemakkelijk is om enkel kritiek te spuien vanaf de zijlijn kreeg ik gisteren te horen. Dat zou inderdaad wat zijn zeg. Mooi moment om even uit te leggen waar het me wél om gaat. 1/”
Dit werkt meestal niet:
Veel volgers op social media leiden naar heel veel inschrijvingen op je e-mail lijst die je door een salesfunnel leidt waardoor heel veel mensen iets, dat je zo gemakkelijk mogelijk met minimale dagelijkse bemoeienis kunt leveren, bij je kopen.
Organiseer je daarnaast events (vaak verkapte salespitches), hang je lekker rond op Ibiza, heb je meerdere inkomensstromen, een team en maak je zelf onderdeel uit van een mastermind groep á een investering van €50.000,- per jaar?
Ding, ding, ding!
Dit wordt vaak gepropageerd door een coaching pyramide, ofwel een multi-level marketing scam.
Voor on-line geldt net als in het echte leven: vind je eigen kracht en buit die uit.
Eefje heeft daar goede voorbeelden van is geen coach, maar iemand met veldcompetentie.
Voorbeelden:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 