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Some notes on getting CrystalDiskMark portable on Chocolatey

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/03

I needed the portable version of [Wayback/Archive] CrystalDiskMark on Chocolatey (unlike the [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | CrystalDiskMark (Install) package). Luckily I found the auto-update package [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | CrystalDiskInfo (Portable) and knew both that CrystalDiskMark is from the same author as CrystalDiskInfo, and that their code is on GitHub like the Chocolatey package.

Given I had a the below chocolatey-packages/automatic/crystaldiskinfo.portable as a template, I asked the CrystalDiskInfo (Portable) package maintainer if they were willing to maintain CrystalDiskMark (portable) as well and was glad the response was “yes”: [Wayback/Archive] Portabe CrystalDiskMark similar to the current CrystalDiskInfo? · Issue #159 · mkevenaar/chocolatey-packages

So for my link-archive:

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Posted in .NET, Chocolatey, CommandLine, Development, Lightweight markup language, MarkDown, Power User, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development, Windows | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

Revisited: Bookmarklet to save a page both in the WayBack machine and Archive.is (ending on the latter to solve a reCAPTCHA)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/02

Quite a I while ago, I wrote Bookmarklet to save a page both in the WayBack machine and Archive.is (ending on the latter to solve a reCAPTCHA).

The bookmarklet has been very stable, but as of a week or so I need to press the Enter key for it to actually archive.

The reason is that Archive.is, also known as Archive Today, introduced a new URL parameter for auto-starting the archive of an URL.

The old one looked like this: https://archive.is/submit/?run=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Ffeed%2Fhistory%2Fcomment_history

The new one like this: https://archive.is/submit/?anyway=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Ffeed%2Fhistory%2Fcomment_history&submitid=auT7eAltRDxCOGSjdoRMhu3H9d91VEFlvjVztfvNU8XO0ccAhji5DvTyqQew6rfm

The new submitid URL 40 character base64 parameter is being checked in the back end. One way of obtaining one by loading https://archive.is/ then wait for it’s completion and grab it from there.

The alternative is to wait for the submit page to fully load, then find the “save” button via its HTML <input type="submit" value="save"> and press it.

So that’s on the todo list for the updated Bookmarklet of the above blog post.

For now, I just have to press the Enter key for each archived page, I wonder how long that will last (:

Oh: to get the “do you want to save the page again” URL you will have to know the canonical URL first, as that ID is in the again URL, see the bold bits here:

  1. https://archive.is/c6d09
  2. https://archive.is/c6d09/again?url=https://www.youtube.com/feed/history/comment_history

--jeroen

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Mystery boxen – Retourtjes.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/01

Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] Mystery boxen – Retourtjes.com

Via [WaybackSave/Archive] Lia🌈❤ on X: “Kocht voor weinig een pakket ongeclaimde pakketjes… kon net door de deur🤣 merendeel is niet interessant voor mij (gereedschap, opladers, cartridges) maar ook leuke zooi (waterkan, stickers, knutselspul). Er zitten ook mystery items in, oftewel “ik heb geen idee wat het is”.” / X

Related:

--jeroen

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gsudo (sudo for windows)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/01

Not that long ago, I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] Home | gsudo (sudo for windows)

I wish I had bumped into this much longer ago (:

Source at [Wayback/Archive] gerardog/gsudo: Sudo for Windows.

One installer package (there are others like winget and scoop on the documentation site): [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | gsudo – a sudo for windows.

Via [Wayback/Archive] windows – How can I auto-elevate my batch file, so that it requests from UAC administrator rights if required? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Gerardo Grignoli)

Edit 20250901 (thanks [Wayback/Archive] mterwoord (Matthijs ter Woord) · GitHub):

Windows 11 has a built-in sudo which has different semantics, and is disabled by default.

Enabling Windows 11 sudo

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Belastingaangifte 2024 met Excel gratis downloaden | Computer Idee

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/30

Let op:

  1. deze Excel spreadsheets werken alleen correct op Windows en Engelse of Nederlandse taal-/regioinstellingen. Op MacOS en OpenOffice kan het zijn dat ze niet behoorlijk werken
  2. inloggen op Mijn Belastingdienst vandaag lukt vaak niet of is heel traag en dan kom je uit op [Wayback/Archive] U kunt nu niet inloggen op Mijn Belastingdienst

    Mijn Belastingdienst is tijdelijk niet bereikbaar. Dit komt doordat het maximale aantal mensen is ingelogd. Wij vragen u om later terug te komen. Onze excuses voor het ongemak.

    of daar na inlogpoging met de melding:

    Er is een technische fout opgetreden. U bent automatisch uitgelogd. Probeer later nog een keer in te loggen. Of bel de Belastingtelefoon 0800 - 0543. Neemt u contact op met de Belastingdienst over deze foutmelding? De volgende gegevens kunnen helpen bij het opsporen van de oorzaak: Foutcode: 96762438 Tijdstip van melding: 30 augustus 2025 om 14:32

    Er is een technische fout opgetreden. U bent automatisch uitgelogd.
    Probeer later nog een keer in te loggen. Of bel de Belastingtelefoon 0800 – 0543.

    Neemt u contact op met de Belastingdienst over deze foutmelding? De volgende gegevens kunnen helpen bij het opsporen van de oorzaak:

    • Foutcode: 96762438
    • Tijdstip van melding: 30 augustus 2025 om 14:32

    [Wayback/Archive] 483877656-3984fa77-7838-4c92-ae50-fa530cf77255.png (1070×224)

    of na inloggen deze melding:

    Let op! Probleem Mijn Belastingdienst Door een technische storing gaat het inzenden van aangiftes niet altijd goed. Bij het inzenden kan er een technische fout optreden. We werken aan een oplossing. Excuses voor het ongemak.

    Let op!
    Probleem Mijn Belastingdienst
    Door een technische storing gaat het inzenden van aangiftes niet altijd goed. Bij het inzenden kan er een technische fout optreden. We werken aan een oplossing. Excuses voor het ongemak.

    [Wayback/Archive] 483878240-0c9e5c63-98aa-4d19-bde1-f53a56f082a3.png (810×111)

Met dank aan het commentaar van Leon onder mijn blog-post Belastingaangifte 2023 met Excel gratis downloaden | Computer Idee is hier op de valreep de versie voor aangifte 2024:

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Veel gebruikte afkortingen in de oogzorg

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/29

Had ik nodig om de brief van de oogarts te kunnen ontcijferen (:

[Wayback/Archive] www.optometrie.nl/serverspecific/default/images/File/Richtlijnen/Afkortingenoogzorg131104.pdf

Queries:

--jeroen

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Crowdsignal Dashboard – Polls, Surveys & more plugin for WordPress

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/29

Reminder to self: check if the WordPress.com classic editor is still alive and still supports adding Crowdsignal (formerly Polldaddy) polls (Crowdsignal is part of Automattic, the WordPress.com parent company).

From [Wayback/Archive] Crowdsignal Dashboard – Polls, Surveys & more plugin for WordPress (I made the areas that are important to me in bold):

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Segoe Fluent Icons font – Windows apps | Microsoft Learn

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/28

For modern scaleable UI applications, it helps a lot when one has a consistently designed scalable icon set with icons having the same dimensions and features.

In more than just one sense, designing and developing such sets is a lot like developing and designing scaleable fonts. It is not surprising that by now many of these are available as fonts.

Ons of them is [Wayback/Archive] Segoe Fluent Icons font – Windows apps | Microsoft Learn which on the page has the complete list: an impressive one indeed and as such a leap from the old dingbat fonts like Zapf Dingbats fonts (yes, I am more than ITC Zapf Dingbats old; most glyphs ended up in the Dingbats (Unicode block) in 1991), Wingdings from Microsoft Windows 3.1 on, Wingdings 2 and Wingdings 3 in Microsoft Office versions until Office 2010, and the – now part of Core fonts for the web – Webdings as of Internet Explore 4.

Those old fonts only had small sets of icons – usually no more than 230, some just dozens – and Segoe Fluent Icons has a huge set of icons.

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“Everybody should have an obsession with Lisp-like language at least once in their life” @KevlinHenney

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/27

The tweet [WaybackSave/Archive] Jakub Kočí on X: “”Everybody should have an obsession with Lisp-like language at least once in their life” @KevlinHenney I’m glad that I had one with Clojure.” mentioned a great talk:

[Wayback/Archive] The Past, Present & Future of Programming Languages • Kevlin Henney • GOTO 2024 – YouTube

The quote brought instant memories to my early computing days that I had almost forgotten: the muMATH (the muMATH-80 version on Apple II) computer algebra system which was based on muLISP (the German muLISP page has more detailed information), a LISP dialect.

In retrospect, I was way too young to really grasp LISP which was way harder than just using the muMATH wrapper. But it was also my first encounter to reasoning systems, or what we now collectively would call AI systems as back in the 70s there was a strong LISP connection to artificial intelligence . Do not confuse muMath with MuMath-Code however, that is a different LLM beast: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – youweihao-tal/MuMath-Code

So hopefully I will have a chance to revisit LISP with a LISP-like language one day, maybe even using the discontinued muMATH-83 on MS-DOS (also named “Microsoft LISP“), maybe even the (also discontinued) Derive 6.1 for Windows which is also based on muLISP, or even Clojure itself.

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Only a few years back I learned that CrystalDiskMark is using Microsoft MIT-licensed diskspd for the actual measurements

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/25

I was looking for a way to measure Windows disk performance from the console as I was used to using the [Wayback/Archive] CrystalDiskMark GUI measurement tool.

So I was glad to learn a few years back at the end of 2022 that [Wayback/Archive] CrystalDiskMark 8.0.4c is based on [Wayback/Archive] DISKSPD 2.0.21a. Which back then was an older version as [Wayback/Archive] DISKSPD 2.1 had been released fall 2021.

I found this out via [Wayback/Archive] Performance benchmarking with CrystalDiskMark on Nutanix: Read the rest of this entry »

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