Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/21
Just in case I ever want to bind a BSKY handle to a domain name I own:
Via:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/26
Need to look into this further: [Wayback/Archive] Robust Links – Make Your Link Robust.
Likely running it on my blog requires JavaScript to be enabled which means going from the premium to the small business plan (at te time of writing from USD 8 to USD 25 per month: a 200+% increase).
Let’s first start with an example:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/06
When “Open” Dutch Fiber (ODF) builds a fiber network, the internet provider Odido (ex T-Mobile Netherlands) gets a year exclusive use of the infrastructure.
In practice that is longer (see below tweets why), and for me it might become almost 2 years after ODF announced they would start building the local fiber network in the area where I live: [Wayback/Archive] [Odido Glasvezel] Ervaringen & Discussie – Internet en hosting – GoT.
You really do not want Odido, as they do NOT support IPv6 (I have Does Odido (the old T-Mobile Netherlands) which took over Tweak Internet (they supported IPv6) already support IPv6? scheduled on that).
Currently Odido does a lot of colportage, even threatening that copper will be phased out – yeah, that is going to take years! – likely because their exclusivity period is about to end. Which is a reminder for me to check if other providers can already deliver over the ODF network.
Dates to remember:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/23
If I ever need old Geocities material then I should check back at oocities and other archival efforts as they have archived a truckload of it and (unlike the the Archive.org geocities arvhive) are indexed by public search engines.
Their archive home page is [Wayback/Archive] Geocities Archive Geocities Mirror / The 90s Archive (1990s 2000s nineties) / The Early web of which I quote a few bits:
- Special Thanks goes to all the editors and webmasters who made this project alive by updating their old links every day
from * geocities.com/*
to *.oocities.com/*
- oocities.com/org, geocities.ws, reocities.com, internetarchaeology.org, webcitation.org, deletedcity.net
Adding some domains from Yahoo! GeoCities: Archiving efforts – Wikipedia, these are publicly indexed archival sites that have parts of old Geocities content (part of which might be gone by the time you read this: web sites and their content become increasingly ephemeral):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/19
The [Wayback] Archive Today blog has not been updated for more than a year now*, and this looks to coincide with up-time issues.
Part of the inability to save pages in Archive.Today (or any of their other domains) or access them can have to do with DNS issues, actually confirmed by the linked Wikipedia article. There are many links on them, some are these reddit threads:
- Note the problem archiving the Archive Today blog into the Wayback Machine isn’t always successful. When trying around the moments that Archive Today could not archive pages, the Wayback Machine could not find the Archive Today blog in their DNS, see the the picture below.
The really cool thing is that during after the Internet Archive hack (and therefore Wayback Machine downtime), Archive Today held up pretty much OK, so not all is bad (:
Anyway Archive Today archival started to work again after some 4 hours of problems, and I got dragged into other work, so there was no chance to investigate further. Hopefully another day… or preferably: hopefully they stay up.
Query: [Wayback/Archive] archive today down – Google Suche
--jeroen

Wayback Machine archival: “Sorry
Cannot resolve host blog.archive.today.”
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/07
For my link archive:
Via [Wayback/Archive] Home: buriedbits which also brought wabarcbot to my attention:
@wabarc_bot: Snapshot webpages to Internet Archive, archive.today, Telegra.ph and IPFS.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/07
The people knowing about the really early Pascal history are a dying breed. So before I pass away (see the posts on my rectum cancer), let me post a few more links here that based on yesterday’s Trip down memory lane: book on p-Code based UCSD Pascal which I ended with:
I learned a few more things from [Wayback/Archive] What do you think about something like Pascal bytecode? (Page 2)
Here we go:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/06
Last week I wrote on File scoped namespaces – C# 10.0 draft specifications | Microsoft Learn, promising to write more on p-Code and UCSD Pascal. That’s now (:
I started with [Wayback/Archive] “java byte code” “ucsd” “p-code” – Google Search as I was looking for really old material on this (Java 1.0 versions became available in the 1994-1995 time frame, and a lot of material back then either did not make it to the World Wide Web (which slowly gained popularity around that time, see History of the World Wide Web) or has vanished due to link rot.
The cool thing is that many “new” people are not even aware of p-Code, as the 2019 thread [Wayback/Archive] What do you think about something like Pascal bytecode? shows.
I learned a thing or two from it as well, for instance that there has been a “recent” book on UCSD Pascal:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/05
Here are some of my blog posts on documenting using example domains and example IP-addresses or IP-ranges:
(I really wish that example.org and others would service SMTP with blackhole routing so one can also use it for bogus email addresses in documentation)
The blog posts above were incomplete (IPv6 was missing; IPv4 was not explained), so below are more links that do a better job based on a Tweet from [Wayback/Archive] Julia Evans (@b0rk).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/28
In the past, I used to modify /etc/sysconfig/named and add entries to the NAMED_CONF_INCLUDE_FILES setting, then run /usr/share/bind/createNamedConfInclude
to generate /etc/named.conf.include.
As of OpenSuSE 15.4, /usr/share/bind/createNamedConfInclude has become an empty file and NAMED_CONF_INCLUDE_FILES got removed and NAMED_INITIALIZE_SCRIPTS introduced.
So now I changed my playbooks to manually generate /etc/named.conf.include and include it form /etc/sysconfig/named.
Since I hardly perform these new installations, it took a few years for me to find out about this change. Upgrading existing systems somehow kept the generated file and included it.
Related links with quotes as it was hard to find out what changed and how to work around and I wasn’t the only one bump into issues:
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