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Shadow IT has entered the chat – got caught running scripts again : sysadmin
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/05
Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Power User, PowerShell, Python, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »
I’m not the only one storing tech gadgets in flight cases (:
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/05
It was about 2 years ago that Jilles reminded me I had a flight case with gadgets too.
Back when I assembled it in 2018, I had big plans for showing private “cloud” container experimentation and gadget stuff at conferences. Then 2019 kicked in with rectum cancer.
So it was good that he helped me motivating to get it working again, especially as the time around assembling it so much fun and working on it brought back those days.
Here are the pictures:
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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Cloud, Cloud Development, Containers, Debian, Development, Docker, GL-AR300M, GL.iNet, Hardware Development, Infrastructure, Kubernetes (k8n), Linux, openSuSE, Power User, Raspberry Pi, Raspbian, Software Development, SuSE Linux | Leave a Comment »
Identity Crisis | Apple II Programs: Susan Kare’s “Happy Mac” on an Apple II
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/04
The re-imagined iconinc Happy Mac by Suzan Kare on the computer she got before even becoming employee #10 at Apple in 1982 [Wayback/Archive] Identity Crisis | Apple II Programs
Via [Wayback/Archive] Short Programs | Apple II Programs “Susan Kare’s “Happy Mac” on an Apple II”
At age 70, Susan is still alive and kicking, and even around on Twitter as [Wayback/Archive] Susan Kare (@SusanKare).
Inspired by a search because of [Wayback/Archive] Ron’s Computer Videos 🧍♂️🖥️ 📼 on X: “I wonder if Susan knew that Steve used her desk?”:
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What to do when suddenly some or many .nupkg became zero length and Chocolatey thinks none of them are installed?
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/04
A few years back I suddenly had almost all my .nupkg files that Chocolatey uses to track installed software become zero sized.
So I posted a question at [Wayback/Archive] Need help restoring .nupkg files having zero size · Discussion #2765 · chocolatey/choco which got this answer:
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Tekenencefalitis (TBE) | RIVM
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/02
[Wayback/Archive] Tekenencefalitis (TBE) | RIVM
Er is een vaccin dat voor 95% bescherming geeft. Mensen die lange tijd verblijven in gebieden waar tekenencefalitis veel voorkomt, kunnen zich laten vaccineren. Dit wordt bijvoorbeeld aangeraden voor verblijf in delen van Midden- en Oost-Europa. Op de website van de Landelijke Coördinatie Reizigersadvisering staat vermeld in welke landen/gebieden vaccinatie geadviseerd wordt. Vooralsnog is er geen reden om in Nederland te vaccineren.Ook het zo snel mogelijk verwijderen van een teek verkleint de kans op infectie, hoewel het virus al snel na de beet wordt overgebracht. Een snelle verwijdering kan deze ziekte dus niet altijd voorkomen, maar verkleint ook de kans op andere ziekten die door teken overgebracht kunnen worden, zoals de ziekte van Lyme. Tekenbeten kunnen voorkomen worden door beschermende kleding te dragen en de onbedekte huid in te smeren met een middel dat DEET (diethyltoluamide) diethyltoluamide bevat. Deze maatregelen geven geen 100% bescherming, waardoor tekenbeetcontrole altijd nodig is na verblijf in het groen. Het is belangrijk om een teek zo snel mogelijk te verwijderen. Op de pagina Verwijderen van een teek lees je hoe je dit het best kunt doen.
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Gevaarlijke tekenziekte rukt op: Helmi kreeg hersenontsteking | RTL.nl
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I wonder if east-west facing vertical bi-facial solar panels are now more used often as they are just as efficient as south facing standard units
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/02
Two years back there was the below quoted interesting German twitter thread.
Hopefully by now more bi-facial installations are used as they are just as efficient but take up less ground space.
There are now two maximum peaks in the morning and evening, which makes them relatively more productive outside the summer periods thereby more evenly spreading energy production over the year.
I think that last bit is especially important.
–jeroen
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With the newest PowerToys version, the Microsoft teams shows they forgot about their CUA heritage
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/30
The most recent Microsoft Power Toys version binds to Alt + Spacebar which indicates the Windows team has forgotten about the CUA (Common User Access) heritage.
[Wayback/Archive] PowerToys bring fun tweaks to Windows 10 and 11 • The Register
And that tells us something else, too: that none of the Microsoft developers involved in building and releasing this tool are old-style keyboard warriors, because since Windows 1.0 in 1985,
Alt+spacehas been the keystroke to invoke the window-management menu. From Windows 2 onwards, the leftmost button on every Windows title bar even looked like a space bar, to remind you. So to maximize a window, it’sAlt+space,x; to minimize,Alt+space,n; to resize with the keyboard,Alt+space,s, and so on.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “Stealing Alt+Space for a Power Toy, the Microsoft @Windows team has forgotten about its CUA heritage.”.
--jeroen
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Learning from others: how they use diagrams and notes while debugging (via b0rk – Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/30
A while ago there was this interesting question [Wayback/Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “do you draw diagrams on paper when debugging? what do they look like? I’d love to see examples if anyone is willing to share” that sparked quite a few diagrams I am still learning from.
Some thumbnails are below, but be sure to read them in the responses to the above tweet in full.
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Cool nginx playground by b0rk (Julia Evans)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/28
This is a really cool interactive [Wayback/Archive] nginx playground!
It starts with a default nginx configuration which you can edit and spins up a docker container for each run showing the results of that configuration.
How cool is that to learn how nginx works (:
This is how I found out about it:
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Revisited: Bookmarklet for Archive.is to navivate to the canonical link
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/27
I put the proper Bookmarklet wrapper around the functions from Bookmarklet for Archive.is to navivate to the canonical link (because especially Firefox needs them):
An immediately invoked function that returns no value or an expression preceded by the
voidoperator will prevent the browser from attempting to parse the result of the evaluation as a snippet of HTML markup:javascript:(function(){ //Statements returning a non-undefined type, e.g. assignments })();
It means they now have become these:
-
Archive.is: navigate canonical URL
javascript:(function(){location=document.querySelector('link[rel="canonical"]')?.href})(); -
Archive.is: prompt canonical URL
javascript:(function(){prompt("Anchor",document.querySelector('link[rel="canonical"]')?.href)})();
--jeroen
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Posted in archive.is / archive.today, Archiving, Bookmarklet, Chrome, Development, Firefox, Internet, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 