Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/14
Steps: go directly to twitter.com/settings/autoplay, then ensure “Never” is checked, or
Or in screenshots:
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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):
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 by jpluimers on 2022/02/13
For my link archive: [Archive] Hoge Raad opent weg voor massaclaim woekerpolissen
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/11
You can still get foam and foil for your old keyboard switches:
This set of 105 count foam capacitive pads for repairing vintage KeyTronic and BTC keyboards with deteriorating foam pads. These are homemade in house and the 105 should cover what you need with a few extras for your convenience. These will work on keyboards for many different kinds of vintage computers. If it has a […]
Via:
–jeroen
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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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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
Luckily when asking around on Twitter:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/10
I will likely need some of these links in the future:
–jeroen
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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
in response to: kimono
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:
VMware Server (formerly VMware GSX Server) is a discontinued free-of-charge virtualization-software server suite developed and supplied by VMware, Inc.
2001
- ESX 1.0 (Elastic Sky X) & GSX 1.0 (Ground Storm X) released
- Workstation 3.0 released
The name ESX originated as an abbreviation of Elastic Sky X.
–jeroen
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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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