Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/20
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/20
I have been using rsync for years now to sync directories around on VMware ESXi systems with great success.
Usually when upgrading to new physical machines, I synced the things to migrate to a big disk, then physically mounted that disk in a new machine.
Not this time: because of an unscheduled event I had to bring up the target machine in a different place before I could assemble the data on the big disk.
But since there was a network tunnel between the networks of both ESXi machines, I wanted to transfer over ssh: a thing I had done numerous times between various Linux and unix machines.
The cool thing is that rsync supports remote connections over ssh out of the box. Between ESXi machines, I bumped into this error though:
sh: rsync: not found rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.2] Command exited with non-zero status 12
The last three lines are collateral of the first line, which I queried [Wayback/Archive] “sh: rsync: not found” – Google Search. Further below I will go deeper into the rabbit-hole I took, but the actual solution was to Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/19
For my mentally retarded brother, I bought this clock:
[Wayback/Archive] SINOIDEAS Digital Alarm Clock, Digital Calendar, Dementia Clock for Seniors with Custom Reminders: Amazon.de: Home & Kitchen
Compelling mandatory features:
Via this quest:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/19
Ik vergelijk hier alleen PostNL en DHL omdat die het dichtst bij mij in de buurt zitten.
DHL heeft voorkeur voor pakketpunt en rekende op het moment van schrijven (zomer 2023) EUR 0,50 (envelop/brievenbuspakje) of EUR 1,00 (pakket) meer voor levering aan huis.
PostNL heeft voorkeur voor levering aan huis en geeft EUR 0,50 (onafhankelijk van soort zending) korting bij aflevering bij pakketpunt.
Voor levering aan huis was DHL in alle gevallen goedkoper dan PostNL:
Kosten voor levering aan huis
in EUR inclusief BTW
bij on-line bestellen/afrekenenWat DHL PostNL Envelop <= 500g 3,45 4,15 Brievenbuspakje <= 2kg 3,95 4,15 Pakket <= 10kg 5,95 6,95 Pakket <= 20kg (DLH) <=23kg (PostNL) 9,95 13,20
Verder heeft DHL bij pakketten (dus niet envelop/brievenbuspakje) nog toeslagen voor “niet bij de buren” (EUR 0,95) en verzekeren (EUR 2,50).
PostNL kent toeslagen voor verzekeren (EUR 4,60 voor brievenbuspakje, EUR 1,95 voor pakket <= 10kg , EUR 2,00 voor pakket <= 23kg)
Bestellen kun je hier; DHL biedt Nederlands en Engels, PostNL naast Nederlands en Engels ook nog Frans:
Meer informatie via deze sites:
Queries:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/16
The colour of a directions layer in Google My Maps is always blue.
You cannot change it in that layer, despite it being a long standing feature request: [WaybackSave/Archive] how can i use a different line color on each layer for my bike routes? – Google Maps Community
If you are creating Directions layers on My Maps it is not possible to change the color of the lines. It is a often requested feature but so far Google has not implemented it.
There is however w workaround answered in [Wayback/Archive] mymaps – How to change the road color in Google My Maps – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Ben for asking and [Wayback/Archive] Richard de Ree for answering):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/16
Each time I get confused about the various x in PCIe slots, this comes in useful: [Wayback/Archive] PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) | On the Motherboard | Pearson IT Certification
TABLE 3.7 PCIe versions
PCIe version Speed (per lane per direction) 1.0 2.5GT/s (gigatransfers per second) or 250MB/s 2.0 5GT/s or 500MB/s 3.0 8GT/s or 1GB/s 4.0 16GT/s or 2GB/s
Note that
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/15
Some links on Supermicro IPMI SSL because of SSL_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_VERSION which can either mean your SuperMicro motherboard is too old to include newer TLS versions (X9 series and older motherboards; first try to upgrade firmware and BIOS; check supported TLS with [Wayback/Archive] /bin/bash based SSL/TLS tester: testssl.sh), or you misconfigured custom TLS certificates.
Some links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/14
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/14
In january this year, there was the [Wayback/Archive] BlueSCSI Ultra & Ultra Wide Announcement – BlueSCSI.
This post is a reminder to check for EU availability in order to upgrade some of my retro equipment later on.
Via:
Joe’s Computer Museum @museumjoe.bsky.socialRinging in the new year with a great addition to the BlueSCSI family: Introducing BlueSCSI Ultra!
Joe’s Computer Museum@MuseumJoe@oldbytes.space
Have you heard about BlueSCSI Ultra? It’s the SCSI device emulator to have for your more modern vintage machines.
Faster performance, works in more machines, audio CD abilities and more.
Check it out! https://bluescsi.com/ultra
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/13
On my list of tools to try one day: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – lanl/poppler-science: pdf to text with per-character OCR and (some) rich text awareness · GitHub.
It has an overhauled pdftotext that adds OCR to the regular poppler version.
This is useful when you cannot remove DRM or password from a PDF and regular poppler pdftohtml -nodrm as a poor man’s alternative fails and you do not want to go the [Wayback/Archive] Unlock PDF files. Remove PDF password route.
My prior blog posts having poppler information:
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