Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/13
Thanks Ilya Grigorik for sharing this a long while ago:
TCP and the lower bound of web performance… is a must watch talk on plumbing, history, and people behind TCP. Awesome.
–jeroen
via: TCP and the lower bound of web performance… is a must watch talk on plumbing,….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/11
On my list of mono-spaced programmer fonts to try (and see how it compares to my beloved [Wayback] Lucida Console):
[Wayback] fantasque-sans – A font family with a great monospaced variant for programmers (yes I know it was called Comic Sans Neue Mono, but don’t extend your Comic Sans hatred there).
Source: [Wayback] Fantasque Sans Mono:
Fantasque Sans Mono: A programming font, designed with functionality in mind, and with some wibbly-wobbly handwriting-like fuzziness that makes it unassumingly cool. Development hosted on Github: [Wayback] https://github.com/belluzj/fantasque-sans OFL (SIL Open Font License). Category: Monospaced
Via: Ein Font für Ruby on Rails-Entwickler: Comic Sans Neue Mono – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
Another font on that list is [Wayback/Archive.is] Hack where I have to do a bit work on fiddling with line spacing.
These are for my TODO:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/10
Checking for Updates until the first of never…
I already re-installed a few of the VMs from scratch (re-licensing and such) but to no avail.
So I’m wondering: does Microsoft hate Windows 7 users this much?
Microsoft keeps refreshing KB3172605 (July 2016 update rollup for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1).
I’ve seen at least 3 different versions that I needed in the same number of occasions of updating Windows 7 x64 VMs that usually are off-line (I use them every few weeks to do some testing).
Each and every time the situation is the same:
The only thing that consistently solves this is reliably:
wuauserv in Task Manager)"checking for installed updates" for like 30 minutes, but if you forget to stop the Windows Update service, the .MSU install will be stuck on "checking for installed updates" foreverYou need to re-apply to a more recent Windows Update client each and every time this happens taking a few hours of your time.
After a fresh boot, I tried https://download.microsoft.com/download/A/A/8/AA842D3A-D5B0-4307-89F1-3485D88A1853/Windows8-RT-KB2937636-x64.msu via How to update the Windows Update Agent to the latest version but it shows [WayBack] “The update is not applicable to your computer”
–jeroen
via: Windows 7 SP1 Windows Update stuck checking for updates – Super User [WayBack]
See also:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/10
Really interesting stuff: ttystudio. It allows to record an apng or gif of a terminal session (so it should work on headless systems).
Anyone knowing alternatives for OpenSuSE and Mac OS X?
(Cockos Incorporated | LICEcap might cut it on Mac OS X, but not on headless systems so GNOME/byzanz doesn’t cut it either)
Sources:
Handy as well:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/10
Sometimes you don’t recognize how easy it is until you see it:
Add a column that is of type date with value =FLOOR(A2,1) .Then Insert -> Pivot Table. Then drag the date column on the right into the Rows box, and also drag it into values box. Done.
Thanks David d C e Freitas!
via How to group by date in excel? – Super User.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/07
I’m a fan of sdelete, but the most recent v2.0 update seems – released alongside SysInternals support for nano server – to be a lot slower than the v1.61 version:
I have the same problem with Sdelete on my SSD.The resource monitor showed v.2 writing the disk at approx 40Mb p/swhile v.1.61 at 1,300 Mb p/s SDelete v.2.0 is faulty (shows 100% all the time) and dead slow, don’t use it.Google v.1.61 , it works just fine.
Source: SDelete hangs at 100% – Sysinternals Forums [WayBack]
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/07
The most recent versions of Joe don’t even build from stock in OS X any more and there are no direct installers for them.
But there are two most recent older versions that have installers, and a formula recent brew based HomeBrew installation:
After experimenting for a while without brew preferring the first over second, I’ve installed the the third as:
Before making a choice, you might want to consider reading about joe versions in JOE – Joe’s own editor / … /NEWS.md.
Having a background partially in the Linux world, I tried building joe from source on my Mac following the steps at JOE – Joe’s own editor / Discussion / joe-editor-general:Mac binary for 3.3 does not run on OS/X 10.8. It failed because the Mercurial 3.8 branch required automake and autoconf which are not available on just a Mac + Xcode. So I’m happy that others have bit the bullet and make a good HomeBrew build.
What makes HomeBrew so great is that it is based on a fully versioned git/ruby combination, allows for multiple Python versions, allows for binaries through bintray served bottles and has zillions (well, thousands) of installable formulae, all versioned.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/05
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/03
From a while ago: a Norwegian (left) and German (right) thermometer. In dialect. Because.
Anyone having more of these in other dialects?
Sources:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/30
So I won’t forget:
SSD BareMetal cloud servers, Simple and flexible pricing, enjoy a predictable cloud pricing model
Source: Pricing BareMetal | Scaleway
They are based in France and host both ARM and x86 servers at very competitive prices.
At the time of writing the cheapest bare metal x86 server has 8 GB or RAM, 4 cores and 50 gigabyte SSD storage at EUR 12/month. VPS are even more affordable. 50 gigabyte extra is EUR 1/month.
Via: C2: Insanely Affordable x86-64 Servers
And: Günstige dedicated server – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
–jeroen
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