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Philosophy of management

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/14

“Philosophy of Management” quote by “Clarence Francis”

“You can buy a man’s time, you can buy a man’s physical presence at a certain place, you can even buy a measured number of skilled muscular motions per hour or day.
But you cannot buy enthusiasm, you cannot buy initiative, you cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.”
— Clarence Francis, Chairman of General Foods

I still think this is a very important quote, as it emphasises the philosophical difference between buy and earn.

Even the top managers or self employed people should show these aspects, despite not having an organisational manager above them: in those cases they earn it for themselves to be a better person.

Some argue that these values are intrinsic. That is true, however expressing those values does not just happen. It needs attention.

It is about people after all.

–jeroen

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Disable a resource hog: no more auto-play of Twitter videos (web settings, works for mobile too)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/14

Steps: go directly to twitter.com/settings/autoplay, then ensure “Never” is checked, or

  1. Click on “More”,
  2. Click on “Settings and privacy”,
  3. Click on “Accessibility, display and languages”,
  4. Click on “Data usage”,
  5. Click on “Autoplay”,
  6. Ensure “Never” is checked.

Or in screenshots:

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Foam and foil for your keyboard switches

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/11

You can still get foam and foil for your old keyboard switches:

Via:

–jeroen

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Zet je rekeningnummer om naar IBAN met OpenIBAN.nl

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/11

Dit was de enige site die ik kon vinden waar je nog oude rekeningnummers naar nieuwe kon omzetten (inclusief bank-code).

[Wayback] Zet je rekeningnummer om naar IBAN met OpenIBAN.nl

Met deze webservice kun je gratis en snel je bankrekeningnummer omrekenen naar een IBAN. Een BIC of banknaam is niet nodig

–jeroen

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When high SEO ranking fails to give you a reliable result: IsItDownRightNow.com failed to detect the WayBack Machine outage

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/11

A high SEO ranking does not automatically indicate a reliable result.

When the WayBack Machine was down a while ago (it responded to traceroute UDP requests, but would not establish TCP connections on ports 80 and 443), the first Google hit for detecting down status (searching for [Archive.is] waybackmachine down – Google Search) failed miserably because it redirected web.archive.org (which fails) to http://www.archive.org (which succeeds):

IsIdDownRightNow failing to detect web.archive.org downtime

IsIdDownRightNow failing to detect web.archive.org downtime

Luckily when asking around on Twitter:

  • others were experiencing the same problem, not just in The Netherlands, but also in other countries
  • after trying a few things, the WayBack machine got backup [Archive.is] before I could try cURL.
  • I got pointed at www.uptrends.com/tools/uptime which correctly does check the right subdomain and shows it is down from many locations:

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MP3 to CD: How to write an Audio CD from music files using ImgBurn – Guides – ImgBurn Support Forum

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/07

I wasn’t aware that ImgBurn had an automatic audio format converter using the Windows built-in audio filters. It means you can use MP3 files and other formats than 16-bit PCM WAV files to burn CD’s. ImgBurn will automagically use the Windows filters to convert the audio files to 16-bit PCM audio during burning.

Steps are at [Archive.is] How to write an Audio CD from music files using ImgBurn – Guides – ImgBurn Support Forum.

Basically it comes down to this:

  1. Create a new CUE file
  2. Add your audio files to the list
  3. Save the CUE file

Burning an audio CD from it is simple:

  1. Select the CUE file as source image
  2. Select the CD/DVD writer drive
  3. Burn

The last also works for tuples of CUE/BIN or CUE/IMG files, so complements Writing an audio CD as ISO image is a no-no: the closest you get is a .CUE file that links to either WAV files or a BIN/IMG image « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

–jeroen

 

 

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Dividend ING : een volledig en actueel overzicht | dividendinfo.nl

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/07

Dividend ING 2020 | ex-dividend en betaaldatum, actueel dividendnieuws, beursagenda en een taxatie van het dividend 2021 en 2022 van het aandeel ING

[Wayback] Dividend ING : een volledig en actueel overzicht | dividendinfo.nl

[Wayback] Beursblik: Kepler voorziet hoog dividendrendement ING in 2021

–jeroen

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de ‘heilige graal mythe’ van het online ondernemen bestaat niet: alles on-line via social media is vaak niet de beste weg

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/07

Interessante draad:

[Archive.is] Eefje Verhagen on Twitter: “🧵over de ‘heilige graal mythe’ van het online ondernemen #1 Dat het wel heel gemakkelijk is om enkel kritiek te spuien vanaf de zijlijn kreeg ik gisteren te horen. Dat zou inderdaad wat zijn zeg. Mooi moment om even uit te leggen waar het me wél om gaat. 1/”

Dit werkt meestal niet:

Veel volgers op social media leiden naar heel veel inschrijvingen op je e-mail lijst die je door een salesfunnel leidt waardoor heel veel mensen iets, dat je zo gemakkelijk mogelijk met minimale dagelijkse bemoeienis kunt leveren, bij je kopen.

Organiseer je daarnaast events (vaak verkapte salespitches), hang je lekker rond op Ibiza, heb je meerdere inkomensstromen, een team en maak je zelf onderdeel uit van een mastermind groep á een investering van €50.000,- per jaar?

Ding, ding, ding!

Dit wordt vaak gepropageerd door een coaching pyramide, ofwel een multi-level marketing scam.

Voor on-line geldt net als in het echte leven: vind je eigen kracht en buit die uit.

Eefje heeft daar goede voorbeelden van is geen coach, maar iemand met veldcompetentie.

Voorbeelden:

–jeroen

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Creating shortcut URLs for hangout conversations with specific people: the GAIA ID

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/04

GAIA is the Google Accounts and ID Administration system, and the GAIA ID is the identifier to uniquely refer to an account on the Google platform.

With the GAIA ID, you can construct a Hangouts URL that identifies a discussion with that person.

Getting the GAIA ID for a user on hangouts

In the past, people Google Plus to obtain the GAIA ID. When searching to get the GAIA ID, most results use this method, but it does not work any more as Google Plus was shut down for personal use in April 2019.

To get your own GAIA ID, the easiest method is to follow the steps in [Wayback] Create direct link to Google Hangouts chat – Web Applications Stack Exchange:

The easiest way I know of right now to find Gaia ID is actually to go to get.google.com/albumarchive and the 21 numbers that reveal itself once you go to Album Archive will be your own and you can use it.

Once you get the id, it easy to create your hangout link.

https://hangouts.google.com/chat/person/[Gaia ID]

where [Gaia Id] = 1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (21 digits)

To get the GAIA ID from someone you had a hangouts conversation with [Wayback] How To Find The Google ID (Gaia ID) Of An Email, And The User’s Google Maps Reviews And Public Albums – Webint Master:

The easiest way to find the user’s GAIA ID is through the Hangouts web-app. enter https://hangouts.google.com/ and create a New Conversation in the contact area on the left.

Paste the email address you want to explore to the search bar. You’ll get the user card on Hangouts.

Right-click on the user’s card, and select Inspect. It will open you the developer tools of the site on the right.

Look for hovercard-oid (make sure the email you searched appears under it after hovercard-email) and copy the 21-digits ID.

Constructing the Hangouts URL with a GAIA ID

Now that you have the GAIA ID, you can construct the hangouts URL, for instance https://hangouts.google.com/?action=chat&pi=1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for GAIA ID 1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

The https://hangouts.google.com/chat/person/1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mentioned above will redirect you to https://hangouts.google.com/?action=chat&pi=1xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

–jeroen

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Here is the #OSINT At Home playlist of free videos to learn more about Open Source Intelligence

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/04

[Archive.is] Benjamin Strick on Twitter: “Hi. I regularly get asked for free training sessions & workshops and love sharing research skills, so I’ve made these tutorials on YouTube with more coming. I hope it helps. Here is the #OSINT At Home playlist: https://t.co/faJEPGT1j0 This video is a snippet of the content ✌️… https://t.co/t1Ec5UrkN8”

–jeroen

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