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Archive for September, 2024

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Identity Crisis | Apple II Programs: Susan Kare’s “Happy Mac” on an Apple II

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/04

The re-imagined iconinc Happy Mac by Suzan Kare on the computer she got before even becoming employee #10 at Apple in 1982 [Wayback/Archive] Identity Crisis | Apple II Programs

Identity Crisis

Via [Wayback/Archive] Short Programs | Apple II Programs “Susan Kare’s “Happy Mac” on an Apple II”

At age 70, Susan is still alive and kicking, and even around on Twitter as [Wayback/Archive] Susan Kare (@SusanKare).

Inspired by a search because of [Wayback/Archive] Ron’s Computer Videos 🧍‍♂️🖥️ 📼 on X: “I wonder if Susan knew that Steve used her desk?”:

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What to do when suddenly some or many .nupkg became zero length and Chocolatey thinks none of them are installed?

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/04

A few years back I suddenly had almost all my .nupkg files that Chocolatey uses to track installed software become zero sized.

So I posted a question at [Wayback/Archive] Need help restoring .nupkg files having zero size · Discussion #2765 · chocolatey/choco which got this answer:

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Brush up on your knowledge of the elements with this Chrome Experiment, an interactive Periodic Table by Sarath Saleem: goo-gl/HJ9O31 #fridayfun

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/03

[Wayback/Archive] https://plus.google.com/+Chrome/posts/AgtEDd7ngEJ “Brush up on your knowledge of the elements with this Chrome Experiment, an interactive Periodic Table by Sarath Saleem: goo-gl/HJ9O31 ”

This reminded me so much about the atom spin tables I wrote some Turbo Pascal code for in the late 1980s to help a university professor. Maybe one day, I will find that code back.

(note: I expanded the actual googl link because Google URL Shortener was killed in 2019 with links stopping to work in 2025, see [Wayback/Archive] Google Graveyard – Killed by Google)

The links:

--jeroen

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Kugane/winget: A Winget script to automatically install predefined programs and MS Store apps. Includes automatic update and cleanup job

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/03

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Kugane/winget: A Winget script to automatically install predefined programs and MS Store apps. Includes automatic update and cleanup job

–jeroen

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Tekenencefalitis (TBE) | RIVM

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/02

[Wayback/Archive] Tekenencefalitis (TBE) | RIVM

Er is een vaccin dat voor 95% bescherming geeft. Mensen die lange tijd verblijven in gebieden waar tekenencefalitis veel voorkomt, kunnen zich laten vaccineren. Dit wordt bijvoorbeeld aangeraden voor verblijf in delen van Midden- en Oost-Europa. Op de website van de Landelijke Coördinatie Reizigersadvisering staat vermeld in welke landen/gebieden vaccinatie geadviseerd wordt. Vooralsnog is er geen reden om in Nederland te vaccineren.
Ook het zo snel mogelijk verwijderen van een teek verkleint de kans op infectie, hoewel het virus al snel na de beet wordt overgebracht. Een snelle verwijdering kan deze ziekte dus niet altijd voorkomen, maar verkleint ook de kans op andere ziekten die door teken overgebracht kunnen worden, zoals de ziekte van Lyme. Tekenbeten kunnen voorkomen worden door beschermende kleding te dragen en de onbedekte huid in te smeren met een middel dat DEET (diethyltoluamide) diethyltoluamide bevat. Deze maatregelen geven geen 100% bescherming, waardoor tekenbeetcontrole altijd nodig is na verblijf in het groen. Het is belangrijk om een teek zo snel mogelijk te verwijderen. Op de pagina Verwijderen van een teek lees je hoe je dit het best kunt doen.

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Gevaarlijke tekenziekte rukt op: Helmi kreeg hersenontsteking | RTL.nl

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I wonder if east-west facing vertical bi-facial solar panels are now more used often as they are just as efficient as south facing standard units

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/02

Two years back there was the below quoted interesting German twitter thread.

Hopefully by now more bi-facial installations are used as they are just as efficient but take up less ground space.

There are now two maximum peaks in the morning and evening, which makes them relatively more productive outside the summer periods thereby more evenly spreading energy production over the year.

I think that last bit is especially important.

–jeroen

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