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Archive for October 4th, 2024

Deze week weer in de aanbieding: Floralys 3-laags toiletpapier XXL – Lidl

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/04

21[Wayback/Archive] 3-laags toiletpapier XXL – Lidl 20 rollen van 200 vel voor EUR 6.49.

Met een verbruik van een rol per dag is dat hier een handige koop.

--jeroen

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Some links on LaunchTM.exe, as I had been unaware Windows can use it to launch TaskMgr.exe

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/04

A while ago I learned that since Windows 8, sometimes it uses LaunchTM.exe (which is not even on Wikipedia) to start TaskMgr.exe.

I could find little information about the why, so here are some links with information on when LaunchTM.exe is used (which is confusing) and what command-line parameters TaskMgr.exe can get (also confusing as the order of parameters matter):

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By Jack Rhysider: if you’re in IT, I highly encourage you to write a blog. Here are 17 reasons why you should be blogging.πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/04

I quote the last tweets in the series starting withΒ [Wayback/Archive] Jack Rhysider on Twitter: “If you’re in IT, I highly encourage you to write a blog. Here are 17 reasons why you should be blogging. πŸ§΅πŸ‘‡”

1…17.

So to recap. By blogging you will become a better writer and communicator, learn the concepts better, open new opportunities, have a fantastic notebook for self reference, maybe make money, become appreciated by more people, and show off your IT skills.

So how do you get started? Try these: WordPress, Jekyll, Ghost, Hugo, Medium, Wix, Squarespace. I really don’t care what you use. Just jump in and start blogging. You can always move everything to a different place later. Good luck and I hope to see some new bloggers from this.

and a few ones that came up in the responses:

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