I agree: [WayBack] It’s so obvious I hadn’t thought about this.. – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+.
[WayBack] Reminder tip: Disable Wi-Fi during sleep to dramatically increase idle battery life on tablets and devices you don’t often use
–jeroen
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Reminder tip: Disable Wi-Fi during sleep to dramatically increase idle battery life on tablets and devices you don’t often use
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/08
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Vloerkleden l Tapijten l IKEA
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/04
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Bye, Bye, Google · Bogdan Popa
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/28
Interesting approach: saying good bye isn’t that hard if you do not share a lot things with other people through it.
[WayBack] Bye, Bye, Google · Bogdan Popa:
I spent this past weekend de-Google-ifying my life and, despite my expectations, it wasn’t too hard to do. I started by moving all of my websites off of Google App Engine and onto a dedicated box that I had already owned. That was straightforward enough. Next, I removed any Google Analytics snippets from each of them and replaced those with my own analytics server that I had built a while back (it doesn’t store any PII, only aggregate information (and very little of that, too)).
…
Via:
This might be a viable mail alternative: [WayBack] Reliable Email Provider, Inbox Email & Resource Center | inbox.com
Simplify your online communication with one login to secure email communication, organize conversations, and fine-tune archive searches.
Via: [WayBack] Thank you for following us! It’s been our pleasure to build a community with all of you. In the coming weeks, we’ll be closing this page. Please find us… – Google – Google+
PublicThank you for following us! It’s been our pleasure to build a community with all of you. In the coming weeks, we’ll be closing this page. Please find us here to stay connected:www.youtube.com/google
www.twitter.com/google
www.instagram.com/google
www.facebook.com/google
–jeroen
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Don’t complain about the multitude of “places”/services that your fav G+ers are going…
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/26
Great post: [WayBack] Don’t complain about the multitude of “places”/services that your fav G+ers are going and how that makes your life miserable. We all met here by acciden… – Jan Wildeboer – Google+:
Don’t complain about the multitude of “places”/services that your fav G+ers are going and how that makes your life miserable. We all met here by accident, had a good time, mostly. And now we move on.
There is no “one size fits all” replacement out there. Instead, look forward to meeting new people and old friends at whichever place you are going to.
Find me on Twitter, Mastodon and infrequently on Pluspora. Or maybe at a (hopefully open and distributed) new place that doesn’t even exist yet.
Gibst Du mir bitte Deine Mastodon-Adresse? :)
jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
[WayBack] OK, maybe Diaspora can become my “new home”, at least for sharing my blog posts and allowing comments. – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+
[WayBack] Diaspora API Dev Progress Report 30 by Open Source and Fediverse Advocate/Developer exploring longvetity and software from a 1st person point of view
–jeroen
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2018 Hard Drive Reliability Stats by Manufacturer and Model
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/11
We look at the hard drive failure rates for the data drive models in operation in our data centers in 2018 (now totaling over 750 petabytes and 100,000 drives). In addition, we’ll see how the new hard drive models we added during the year did, including our 12 TB HGST and 14 TB Toshiba drives.
Full article: [WayBack] 2018 Hard Drive Reliability Stats by Manufacturer and Model
Statistical data at [WayBack] Backblaze Hard Drive Stats: Hard Drive test data from the Backblaze data center. Backblaze is affordable, easy-to-use cloud storage.
Via [WayBack] 2018 Hard Drive Reliability Stats by Manufacturer and Model https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2018/ – DoorToDoorGeek “Stephen McLaughlin” – Google+
–jeroen
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Amsterdam Nieuw West: parkeren Osdorpplein en omgeving
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/11
[WayBack] Amsterdam Nieuw West
Vergelijking parkeertarieven:
AH XL AH XL Qpark Op straat *
(Klanten)
1 uur € 2,50 gratis gratis € 2,40
1,5 uur € 5,– gratis gratis € 3,60
2 uur € 5,– € 2,50 € 2,– € 4,80
2,5 uur € 7,50 € 5,– € 4,– € 6,–
3 uur € 7,50 € 5,– € 6,– € 7,20
4 uur € 10,– € 7,50 € 10,– € 9,60
24 uur € 25,– € 25,– € 25,– € 36,–
* sommige dagen/dagdelen zijn gratis
De conclusie is dat parkeergarage Osdorpplein van Qpark het meest goedkoop is, met name als je voor < 1,5 uur vrij bent om waar dan ook boodschappen op het Osdorpplein te gaan doen. Deze parkeergarage is ook geschikt voor bezoekers van de Meervaart. Het is mogelijk om 24/7 uit te rijden. Let wel op de inrijtijden
Een ander belangrijk verschil is het afrekenen per minuut of per uur. Bij de parkeergarages betaal je bij de AH XL per uur, bij Qpark per half uur en op straat per minuut.
De parkeergarage AH XL is goedkooop voor klanten die in minder dan 1,5 uur boodschappen doen bij de AH XL en mogelijk ook nog even snel het Osdorpplein willen gaan bezoeken.
–jeroen
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The company as a social engine – The Isoblog.
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/06
Food for thought about work: [WayBack] The company as a social engine – The Isoblog.
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] The company as a social engine… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
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If the downloading PDF reports (like bank statements) from the new ABN AMRO on-line banking environment fails: try the old environment
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/04
Great set of steps from ABN AMRO to get into the old on-line banking environment that usually works if the new one fails downloading PDF reports:
- [WayBack] ABN AMRO on Twitter: “Goedemiddag Jeroen, bedankt voor je vraag. Wij verwachten dat het na het weekend opgelost is, maar zou je het op de manier willen proberen?
– Ga naar Zelf regelen
– Klik op Mijn producten beheren
(1/2) ^Maykel” - [WayBack] ABN AMRO on Twitter: ”
– Klik op Opties bij een van de rekeningen
– Klik op Downloaden afschriften.
– De oude download-omgeving opent,
via deze omgeving is het mogelijk om Afschriften te downloaden. (2/2) ^Maykel”
Note that outages like these are not reported at [Archive.is] Storingen – ABN AMRO – beschikbaarheid.
Related:
- [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “Is al bekend wanneer de storing rondom het downloaden van afschriften en dergelijke bij @ABNAMRO weer werkt?… “
- [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “Top! Oude omgeving kan alles downloaden: rekeningafschriften, kosten, jaaroverzichten. Dank @ABNAMRO ! Hou die oude omgeving gaarne nog even in de lucht (: De truc is dus klikken op “Mijn producten beheren”, die brengt je naar de oude omgeving. CC @RuiterSnuiter”
- [WayBack] Roel on Twitter: «@ABNAMRO Sinds gisteren al, Na inloggen, de melding: Storing: Door een storing kunt u op dit moment uw documenten niet downloaden. Onze excuses voor het ongemak. Waarom staat er dan Op www.abnamro.nl/nl/prive/internet-en-mobiel/storingen staat dat er geen storing is?»
- [WayBack] ABN AMRO on Twitter: “Het klopt dat afschriften tijdelijk niet gedownload kunnen worden. Op de pagina waar je naar linkt vermelden we storingen wanneer Internet Bankieren geheel niet werkt. ^Jesper”
- [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “Downloaden is een dienst, dus ik verwacht daar op www.abnamro.nl/nl/prive/internet-en-mobiel/storingen zeker een melding van.… “
–jeroen
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Local Guides Connect – Help Desk – Local Guides Connect
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/01
Reminder to self: Local Guides Nederland moved their [WayBack] G+ community over to [WayBack] Local Guides Connect – Help Desk – Local Guides Connect which is part of [WayBack] Local Guides Connect and powered by [WayBack] Powered by Lithium | Lithium.
Since that is not part of any other social media platform I subscribe to, I will likely only see new stuff when I actively go to that place: hopefully that is more than once a year.
–jeroen
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Google’s Phishing Quiz shows why Google AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is a bad idea
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/25
This week, Google introduced the [WayBack] Phishing Quiz, a series of questions to see how good you spot phishing emails.
It is a perfect example on why Google AMP is a bad idea: it makes it easier to write phishing mail targeting Google users.
One of the questions is about a password change email seemingly from Google with a link by Google.
The link is really deceptive, as it:
- uses Google AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) which are hosted directly through a root path on the Google main domain: the URL starts with https://google.com/amp
- Especially on mobile, Google accelerates a lot of things through Google AMP, so a link on mobile that looks like this might be legit
This will deceive a lot of people as they are trained to look at the main domain to assess authenticity: google.com
That combined with an email domain that also looks being from Google (with so many real word top-level domains, many would not be surprised getting email from no-reply@google.support)
Just look at the below screenshot to see how deceptively this trick is.
Solution
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 