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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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Character set reencoding link archive

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/10

I will likely need some of these links in the future:

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, Development, Encoding, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Software Development, Unicode | Leave a Comment »

ESXi: origin of the ESX and GSX names

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/10

Not sure how I bumped into the below info, as it was in one of the open tabs of a VM that I had not accessed for a long time.

Tracing back, the links can be found via Wikipedia.

Here is the post content from the 2005 thread [Archive.is] Wayback “Abbreviation ESX”:

VMware: Origin of ESX and GSX names

VMware: Origin of ESX and GSX names

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535 posts since
Apr 2, 2004
2. Aug 10, 2005 6:22 AM  in response to: kimono

Re: Abbreviation ESX

ESX = Elastic or Electric Sky

GSX = Ground Sky

early days west coast cali hippy advertising thinking from the boys in the states. They dont mean’t anything and the X was added for acromyn 

Related:

–jeroen

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Legrand 7 824 94/96/97 documentation

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/10

Legrand 7 824 94/96/97 documentation I have found on-line:

--jeroen

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rsync backup of your ESXi box: How to make a statically linked rsync binary

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/09

As promised mid last year in “fixing” ESXi “rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util2.c(106) [sender=3.1.2]”, I would follow up on building a static rsync for ESXi one day.

So below a few links on how to do this, roughly in the order I found them (most via [Wayback] vmware rsync “3.1.2” static – Google Search):

Especially the last link has a great set of steps on how to build manually.

Boy I forgot how long ago CentOS 3.9 was: [Wayback] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 3.9 is released for i386 and x86_64 Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, CentOS, Development, Linux, Power User, RedHat, Software Development | 2 Comments »

ESXi: on my list to try VIC (VMware Infrastructure Client you say? Née vSphere Integrated Containers Engine)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/08

On my research list: [Wayback] ESXi Host with No vCenter Server · VMware vSphere Integrated Containers 1.4 Documentation: Deploy a Virtual Container Host to an ESXi Host with No vCenter Server.

It is a small guide on [Wayback] vmware/vic: vSphere Integrated Containers Engine is a container runtime for vSphere.

vSphere Integrated Containers Engine (VIC Engine) is a container runtime for vSphere, allowing developers familiar with Docker to develop in containers and deploy them alongside traditional VM-based workloads on vSphere clusters, and allowing for these workloads to be managed through the vSphere UI in a way familiar to existing vSphere admins.

Given my virtualisation infrastructure is ESXi based, I need to contemplate on this, as there are basically two choices for me:

  • Install a docker host as a VM on the ESXi host and go all the way docker (which needs a very good thought on how many resources to allocate to the docker host)
  • Go the VIC way

Food for thought!

–jeroen

Posted in ESXi6, ESXi6.5, ESXi6.7, ESXi7, Power User, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »

ThinkPad T440p Touchpad Swap: Installing Correct Drivers – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/08

[Wayback/Archive.is] ThinkPad T440p Touchpad Swap: Installing Correct Drivers – YouTube

One of the most common upgrades for any Haswell (xx40) series ThinkPad is to replace the awful button-less touchpad (sometimes referred to as the ClunkPad) with a T450 touchpad that has the proper buttons for TrackPoint users. However, getting the buttons to work properly on xx40 hardware can be tricky – particularly if you are running Windows 10. In this video you will see how to get drivers installed that will allow you to use the TrackPoint as if this were a T450! As always thanks for watching! Some of the guides I used for this video:

I have edited the link so they show forum post titles, added way-back links, and added some crucial information:

Via [Archive.is] ThinkPads Old and New | Facebook

–jeroen

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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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