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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/06
A while ago, I got reminded of the [Source:/Archive] 1984 RULES OF NETNEWS DEBATING at We are ALL Rich Rosen… that was posted in Newsgroups: net.flame, net.jokes (which had many ROT13 jokes) back more than 40 years ago by the (in)famous – depending on your point of view – Rich Rosen on his site [Wayback/Archive] neurozen.com – Rich Rosen’s web site (which is in a subfolder, I think because of humour, see [Wayback/Archive] Apache Tomcat/7.0.62 – Error report – this Apache Tomcat version 7 is has been end-of-life since the end of March 2021 :).
I regard is as both fun and insightful, fun for instance as all rules are rated “RULE #1”, and insightful for instance as this is a great quote for on a T-shirt:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/06
[Wayback/Archive] memory spy
It is universal for most other programming languages too as explained in [Wayback/Archive] New playground: memory spy
why is it useful to look at C?
You might be wondering – I don’t write C! Why should I care how C programs represent variables in memory?
In this playground I’m mostly interested in showing people how integers and floats are represented. And low-level languages generally all represent integers and floats in the same way – a 32-bit unsigned int is going to be the same in C, C++, Rust, Go, Swift, etc. The exact name of the type is different, but the representation is the same.
In higher-level languages like Python it’s a little different, but under the hood a float in Python contains a C double, so the C representation is still pretty relevant.
Via
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/05
20260805: edits as since scheduling, some links suffered link rot and a new tool appeared.
For my link archive because – for offline usage – sometimes Windows XP is still useful to run tools that have never been made compatible with less ancient hardware/software combinations.
The xp_activate32.exe mentioned below emulates the phone-activation response and is the important bit for me as I can re-use existing Windows XP license keys that I already have.
The WindowsXPKg generates new Windows XP license keys.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/04
I forgot to schedule this post, but it was great news: a 50+ year old Unix V4 tape that was discovered in November 25 and digitally restored in December 25.
This was a big step forward in restoring the History of Unix.
There was a lot of coverage, but I think this thread was was the coolest part. It starts at [Wayback/Archive] Rob Ricci: “While cleaning a storage room,…” – discuss.systems.
An archive of the tape is now at for instance UNIX V4 tape from University of Utah (raw) : Computer History Museum : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Not just the tape was found back, also the 1974 letter accompanying it: Letter to Martin Newell on UNIX delivery to University of Utah : Ken Thompson : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
If you want to play around with it yourself, then try [Wayback/Archive] UNIX v4 (1973) – Vintage Terminals (which I found through the thread I mentioned above).
Two of the many articles that covered the recovery (pun intended):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/30
Ever since introduction of the IfThen functions introduced in Delphi Delphi 2007 in both the Math and StrUtils units (see WayBack radstudio2007 HUpdate4 EN delphivclwin32.pdf ¹), I have been telling people that these do not perform lazy evaluation of the then and else parts which the if/then/else statement provides.
The newly introduced if/then/else ternary conditional operator in Delphi 13 ² (of which I am not a fan, not even of the generic workaround³) – despite the unlucky number – luckily also provides lazy evaluation of the then and else parts.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/29
I wanted to detect the programming language of some code I wasn’t sure what it was written in.
A quick search found [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – yoeo/guesslang: Detect the programming language of a source code
Apps powered by Guesslang
Microsoft Visual Studio Code, automatic language detection
That was cool, as I always have vscode installed.
Query: [Wayback/Archive] detect programming language of source code at DuckDuckGo
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/28
This post originally appeared on [Wayback/Archive] PowerShell Get-WinEvent XML Madness: Getting details from event logs – GoateePFE – Archived, but due to link rot got lost including the images. I restored this post from the Wayback Machine archived version including the comments so the content gets re-indexed in search engines as this was one of the few posts detailing how to filter and extract XML from Windows Event logs using PowerShell.
I needed this content for a future blog post that is going to appear in a day or so: Some links on getting the most recent defragmentation time of a Windows volume
Queries:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/27
This is way easier than I thought (but you need Raspberry Pi 5 or it will be dead slow on earlier models): [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – Botspot/bvm: Windows 11 Virtual Machine on ARM Linux
And yes, there are other write-ups for doing this, but this repository is so much easier and reliable than the others.
Did not test it outside of Raspbian yet, so not sure on which other distributions it runs. It will likely run on more plainDebian, but my guess is that Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE and others will be out.
Oh: better use NVMe instead of MicroSD for speed too.
Via:
--jeroen
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