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Archive for March, 2026

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Decoding HTML encoded source to XML text

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/03

For Some links on getting the most recent defragmentation time of a Windows volume I needed to copy back and forth some XML code back and forth between my ARM MacBook Pro to a remote Windows machine accessing via the Microsoft Windows App (the app formerly known as Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac).

The problem with that is the copying would lose line breaks, which for XML meaning is no problem, but for human understandability while editing the XML in the Event View query dialog was.

So I decided to go to the “Code” view in my Classic WordPress editor (did I ever tell you much I dislike – especially the accessibility of – the not so new but still haughty named Gutenberg editor?), copied the HTML encoded form and wanted to convert it to unencoded XML text.

Well, here I got to naming confusion land, on which I will talk further below, but first two of the potential solutions:

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Posted in Cyberchef, Development, Encoding, HTML, Mojibake, Software Development, URL Encoding, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Why octal is important (via @jpluimers on Twitter: “@b0rk @jilles_com Acids vs bases.”)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/03

A few years back I tweeted [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on Twitter: “@b0rk @jilles_com Acids vs bases.”

Ph scale of acids vs bases.

It was a kind of tongue-in-cheek reaction (with a way better picture below) to a very valuable post by b0rk (Julia Evans) on both Twitter and Mastodon [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans on Twitter: “bases” / [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans: “bases title: bases # we usually…” – Mastodon for two reasons:

  1. There are various interpretations of bases
  2. Octal is very important to educate as errors introduced by its support are hard to spot even if you do know about octal.

Back to Julia’s post:

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, 68k, 8086, Assembly Language, bash, bash, C, C++, Chemistry, Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, EPS/PostScript, Event, Haskell, History, Java, Java Platform, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Jon Skeet, LifeHacker, Mathematics, PDP-11, Perl, PHP, Power User, Python, science, Scripting, Software Development, x86 | Leave a Comment »

Why does every book come from the same country? – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/02

On the history of ISBN and their representation in EAN codes: [Wayback/Archive] Why does every book come from the same country? – YouTube.

TL;DR: EAN unique country codes (now GS1 country codes) 978 and 979 are Bookland.

--jeroen

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Changing default page view in Adobe Acrobat

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/02

Being so used to open PDF files using MacOS Preview – which remembers the last view settings and re-applies that when opening a new document, it took me a while to figure out that in both Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader (formerly Acrobat Reader) you have to set it in the preferences using Ctrl-K as explained in [Wayback/Archive] Changing default page view in Adobe Acrobat

When you open a PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader, the default page view may not be to your liking. For example, it may show a full page when you really need to see part of a page in full width.

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To change these settings follow the steps below.

  1. Edit, Preferences (or Control-K).
  2. Choose Page Display in the Categories section.
  3. In the Default Layout and Zoom section (top of page), change the Page Layout and Zoom selections to your preference. “100%” and “Fit Page” are most commonly used in the Zoom selection.
  4. Click OK to save your settings.

Contrary to the above, the defaults for both my Acrobat Reader both the “Paye Layout” and “Zoom” settings were “Automatic”. I just changed the “Page Layout” to “Two-Up” and am much happier now (:

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#ColonCancerAwarenessMonth – Please use the back entrance for the lecture “Alarm in the colon” – Für den Vortrag „Alarm im Darm” bitte Hintereingang benutzen AOK – #Darmkrebsmonat #Darmkankermaand

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/01

Colonoscopy humor: [Wayback/Archive] G0BtrUFWkAA41LM.jpg:orig (550×385)

Für den Vortrag „Alarm im Darm

Für den Vortrag „Alarm im Darm” bitte Hintereingang benutzen

Via: [WaybackSave/Archive] Daemon Resurrected on X: “@ChristelHanauer …”

Queries:

Lecture example: [Wayback/Archive] Medizin vor Ort: Alarm im Darm | Klinikverbund Südwest

--jeroen

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