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Archive for February, 2024

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Many links about free modem/router choice and their configurations for the Dutch KPN internet/VoIP provider

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/19

I wrote this post because the xs4all->KPN transition was messy, especially on the VoIP side.

Emails and letters were incomplete lacking some essential information for manual configuration; 2nd line help desk did not return calls; pointers to where to find correct information were lacking.

This kind of is a catch all post with most of the links I found without much of their content so I can refer to them later when writing a more detailed post on how I did get VoIP to work.

So: for my link archive, almost all posts in Dutch.

Found posts

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In memory of Matthias Eißing (Embarcadero, formerly Borland/Inprise/Borland/CodeGear)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/16

Earlier today, I got the sad news that my friend Matthias Eißing suddenly passed away in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday.

Valentines day will never be the same.

Rest in Peace dear Matthias Eißing. Hope you will virtually keep drinking beer and keep the great conversations that made you so many friends going.

🕯️

[Wayback/Archive] Eine sehr traurige Nachricht – Delphi-PRAXiS

Mit einer Mischung aus blankem Entsetzen und großer Trauer muss ich Euch leider mitteilen, dass unser langjähriges Community-Mitglied Matthias Eißing in der Nacht zu Mittwoch plötzlich und völlig unerwartet verstorben ist.

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Helping others with is technical knowledge was what Matthias loved doing so much: in person (see [Wayback/Archive] Matthias Eißing – Entwickler Konferenz and [Wayback/Archive] Programm | EKON 27 – Die Entwickler Konferenz für Delphi & more), virtual (watch  [Wayback/Archive] Magdeburger Developer Days 2021 03.09.2021 – Matthias Eißing “Delphi Community Edition” – YouTube), individually (uncountable chat messages, phone and video calls, e-mails and in-company meetings), white papers / blog posts (like [Wayback/Archive] HighDPI Entwicklung unter Windows) and forum messages (just see the list at [Wayback/Archive] Delphi-PRAXiS – Ergebnis der Suchanfrage).

I had hoped to meet at EKON28 again, as our story goes back to the very first [Wayback/Archive] EKON – The Conference for Delphi & More in 1997 @ the Raunheim Astron Hotel Rhein-Main organised by Masoud Kamali ([Wayback/Archive] Massi Kamali (@MasoudMassi) / Twitter).

EKON was the first conference by Masoud/S&S. It and later conferences helped the Astron Hotels in the southern Frankfurter area (a few years Raunheim, Rüsselsheim and many years Mörfelden) grow a lot and it was the base were Matthias and a lot of other developers kept meeting up and started to know about each others personal lives as well.

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thuddevort on Twitter: “You can disable the extra confirmation under System > FRITZ!Box Users > Additional Confirmation”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/16

My ISP did auto-update the Fritz!Box, but did not send release-notes, so I was not aware this feature had been added eons ago:

[Wayback/Archive] thuddevort on Twitter: “@jpluimers @wijnands @b0rk @xs4all You can disable the extra confirmation under System > FRITZ!Box Users > Additional Confirmation”.

I know a second factor is better for security, but doing that on both sites at the same time when setting up LAN2LAN VPN is tough (Fritz!Box names this either “LAN-LAN coupling” or “VPN Connections between the FRITZ!Box and Other Networks”.

A better feature at the same configuration page is instead of disabling, enabling to confirm using apps like Google Authenticator and Authy:

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Web-Design user experience: if you replace actual characters with images or empty styled items you will exclude screen-readers and make visually impaired unhappy (and others too)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/15

So I was on a medical site trying to copy my prescriptions trying to copy them:

Before copying After copying
Image Image

In this case, the element that failed to copy was this:

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« The same people who say it’s too hard to write alt text are now suddenly “prompt engineers” who literally write alt text to generate images  » – Thomas Fuchs

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/14

As an alt-text advocate, I appreciate [Wayback/Archive] Thomas 🔭✨: “The same people who say it’s t…” – Hachyderm.io

The same people who say it’s too hard to write alt text are now suddenly “prompt engineers” who literally write alt text to generate images.

#inclusion #a11y #accessibility

In case you missed it, this is indeed a thing: Prompt engineer – Wikipedia.

--jeroen

Posted in accessibility (a11y), AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, ChatGPT, Development, GPT-3, HTML, Power User, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

For older Excel versions that do not have the =ISOWEEKNUM(date) function, use =WEEKNUM(date,21)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/14

Calculating an ISO-8601 based WEEKNUM

From [Wayback/Archive] ISOWEEKNUM Function – How to Get the Week Number in Excel:

  • If we are using an older version of MS Excel, we can use the function WEEKNUM. By default, the WEEKNUM function uses an arrangement where Week 1 begins on January 1, and Week 2 begins on the next Sunday (when the return_type argument is omitted, or supplied as 1).
    However, with MS Excel 2010 for Windows and MS Excel 2011 for Mac, we can generate an ISO week number using 21 as the return_type: =WEEKNUM(date,21).
  • There is no built-in worksheet function for ISO weeks before MS Excel 2010.

I tested that ISO-8601 week number calculation in with Excel 2011 on MacOS and Excel 2010 on Windows: the workaround works well for the dates mentioned in ISO week date – Wikipedia.

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Excel 2011/2010: Conditional formatting of TRUE / FALSE values in an Excel range

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/13

The conditional formatting feature in Excel is so cool!

If you use FALSE and TRUE expressions to check validity, you can easily make these red and green.

[Wayback/Archive] Conditional formatting of TRUE / FALSE values in an Excel 2010 range – Super User (thanks [Wayback/Archive] tbone for asking and [Wayback/Archive] digitxp for answering):

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Posted in Apple, Excel, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Office, Office 2010, Office 2011 for Mac, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »

The death of ESXi finally confirmed by Broadcom

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/12

Quite a few people already bumped into this the last two days (will add those links later), so today’s confirmation by Broadcom – who have a similar modus operandi as companies like Computer Associates and Symantec were and Idera is now – as of the ESXi death does not come as a surprise.

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Reminder that the Fritz!Box IKE error 0x1C is still barely documented: crucial places like the built-in help page point to non-existing URLs

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/12

A while ago, I had to redo all of the existing Fritz!Box LAN2LAN VPN connections.

It was a pain for many reasons, reminding me of the pain

This is why it was so painful:

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I want to look at 120 degree V dipole antennas to see if I can improve FM reception in the house

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/09

Query: [Wayback/Archive] dipole antenna 120 degrees – Google Search

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