Just experienced this for the first time: Netsplit – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On Colloquy I had a lot of these:
… left the chat room. (*.net *.split)
Followed a few minutes later by a burst of
… joined the chat room.
–jeroen
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Gmane Alive! – Random Thoughts
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/14
Just found out that about a week ago this happened: Gmane Alive! – Random Thoughts [WayBack]
Wonderful! Thanks Lars for taking care of it so long, and thanks to the new team from Yomura Corporation for bringing it back alive!
I don’t use Gmane often, but when I do…
So after six weeks of cold turkey for many (The End of Gmane? – via: Random Thoughts) it’s back (:
If you don’t know what it is: Gmane – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [WayBack]
–jeroen
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Page2rss.com – died – anyone who knows alternatives?
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/10
It was fun while it lasted:
No SponsorsPage2rss.com currently does not have any sponsors for you.
Source: Page2rss.com
Anyone who has good alternatives for it?
–jeroen
PS: I’ll give this a try: PageMon.Net: The Page Monitor [pre-alpha]
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The End of Gmane? – via: Random Thoughts
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/12
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen at the end of July posted:
In 2002, I grew annoyed with not finding the obscure technical information I was looking for, so I started Gmane, the mailing list archive. All technical discussion took place on mailing lists those days, and archiving those were, at best, spotty and with horrible web interfaces.
The past few weeks, the Gmane machines (and more importantly, the company I work for, who are graciously hosting the servers) have been the target of a number of distributed denial of service attacks.
…
But I ask myself: Is this fun any more?
…
And now the DDoS stuff, which I have no idea why is happening, but I can only assume that somebody is angry about something.
…
I’m thinking about ending Gmane, at least as a web site. Perhaps continue running the SMTP-to-NNTP bridge? Perhaps not? I don’t want to make 20-30K mailing lists start having bouncing addresses, but I could just funnel all incoming mail to /dev/null, I guess…
…
I feel like I’m letting down a generation here. And despite what I rambled about in that paragraph up there, I’ve had many fun interactions with people because of Gmane. And lots and lots and lots of appreciative feedback over the years.
Later that day he posted a comment explaining a few more details.
Cutting things short: NNTP and MX work (for now), he is talking with parties for them to continue gmane, but for now the web-site is offline.
So I looked at which posts I had been using gmane links to correct them into linking to the Web Archive (a.k.a. WayBack machine) as much as possible. There were quite a few (even more than a simple Google search revealed) as shown in the list below.
Lesson learned
Counting how many of the gmane links were not at the WayBack machine I learned that for every blog post, I should links before posting them. Problem: I’ve scheduled about 400 posts and published some 3200, so that’s going to be a lot of edits.
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Work around G+ “403. That’s an error.” errors
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/08
I’m not yet sure what the exact cause is, but at irregular intervals when clicking on Google Plus links, they show as “403. That’s an error.”.
They appear both when I have multiple WAN connections or a single WAN connection, which leads me to suspect that G+ doesn’t cope well when
- you have a lot (dozens) of Google related pages open (Drive, Mail, Search, Documents, etc) as Google Plus is embedded in each of them
- you rapidly browse through your G+ backlog (the G+ counter is > 50 since you follow a lot of people/communities and you quickly do catch-up on them)
In a future post, I will explain how I created the workaround, but here it is:
Basically it translates links
- from https://ipv4.google.com/sorry/IndexRedirect?continue=https://plus.google.com/u/0/%2Bcodeproject/posts/FQCEnGxYGXi&q=CGMSBLzJ3TkY7vzttwUiGQDxp4NLeVHCwZCj8IDRjkFp5Wevt5na1f4qOmh0dHBzOi8vcGx1cy5nb29nbGUuY29tL3UvMC8rY29kZXByb2plY3QvcG9zdHMvRlFDRW5HeFlHWGk
- to https://plus.google.com/u/0/+codeproject/posts/FQCEnGxYGXi
The latter was the original link I clicked in the first place. The former what G+ comes up with.
After a while, G+ comes back to its senses and allows the latter links again, so the page allows you to parse the former then put them in a list like this:
One decoded URL per list-item.
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Hacking is Important — Medium
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/22
“We’re barbarians, not bureaucrats!”
Source: Hacking is Important — Medium
On hacking vs processes, being disruptive and how people think. Short stories about Borland, Apple, FaceBook and others.
–jeroen
via: Hacking is Important — Medium – David Berneda – Google+
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Copy.com replacement – which one to choose?
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/23
As copy.com will go down on 20160501 (about 6 weeks from now), I’m searching for alternatives.
These tables weren’t really useful when digging information for my use cases:
- Comparison of file hosting services – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Comparison of file synchronization software – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Use cases
This is how we use copy.com (where our installed machines have Windows, Mac OS X and Linux on them) now:
- Sync and share between our scanner VM, the various machines of my wife and me (using the different accounts for each user) and including off-site/in-cloud storage.
This holds for about 20 gigabytes of data and grows about 1.5-2 gigabytes per year. - Sync project documents between various business contacts and myself (the documents that aren’t part of versioning systems yet).
Not much data yet (100s of megabytes as most people tend to use DropBox for this even though Copy.com has the option of setting permissions) - Sync and share my BIN directory tree with tools where my own user has read/write permissions and other users have read-only permissions.
This holds for about 2 gigabytes of data. - Sync and share my installer directory (ISOs, MSIs, DMGs, etc) between my main Mac and Windows machines and various other ones.
This holds for about 40 gigabytes of data and grows faster than any of the others.
Dropbox doesn’t cut it for various reasons:
- It sucks at long filenames (especially on Windows).
- It won’t properly handle various encodings (like between Windows and Mac).
- Often it hangs on local-sync (although copy.com also does that, but less often).
What to choose?
On my shortlist to experiment with are Google Drive and Mega.nz, although it’s not clear if Mega.nz handles syncing well (Ken Logon thinks it looses data) and it’s security might not be good (although that’s a statement by Kim Dotcom who has stakes).
Any others? Or should I choose a mix of tooling?
Tencent/Weiyun might be useful for ISO images of installers (like the ISOs MSDN doesn’t have any more): Download Tencent/Weiyun 10TB cloud storage english language files
–jeroen
PS: later (20160402) via KPN stopt 1 augustus met cloudopslagdienst Up – IT Pro – Nieuws – Tweakers
- TransIP | STACK – Van jou: 1000GB gratis opslag (1TB free)
- TransIP | Big Storage – Tot 400TB Opslag Voor Je BladeVPS (VPS with 2TB for EUR 10/month)
- Jottacloud (free unlimited for personal use)
- hubiC: Online storage for all your files – hubiC.com (offers 10TB for EUR 50/year)
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It was fun while it lasted: Barracuda Copy – Copy End-of-Life
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/05
Copy had some advantages and disadvantages. For instance, it was better handling long file names, character encodings in filenames and a lot easier to configure over a CNTLM proxy than DropBox, but unlike DropBox didn’t keep history of changes.
Alas no more copy.com as of 20160501: [WayBack] Barracuda Copy – Copy End-of-Life.
They suggest using [WayBack] Mover with OneDrive as target: [WayBack] Barracuda Copy – Moving Your Data from Copy
Note that Mover has many more connectors, including cloud storage ones (Box, Copy, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive and Yandex.Disk are free):
[WayBack] Connectors • Mover: FTP, Dropbox, Box, GoogleDrive, Copy, Egnyte, Amazon S3, SharePoint, MySQL the list goes on!
For me it means it’s time to think about what kinds of cloud storage I want to use and how to share what data with others at which access level. As I’m already contemplating on how to use ZFS, I now have two storage concepts to think about.
–jeroen
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Posting from Google+ to Twitter: an #IFTTT recipe
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/12
A long time ago I setup to post from Google+ to Twitter.
Somewhere close to spring 2015, that stopped with a G+ tweet about FireDAC which linked to my G+ post about it.
I could not find out however how I initiated that post forwarding, so I did some searching, then decided to go the IFTTT route: 10 Easy Steps To Automate Your Google Plus To Twitter Postings – Social Media Strategies & Techniques For Business Professionals.
The page does not allow you to select text or right click, but you can view the source (for instance in Chrome with view-source:http://www.garyhyman.com/10-easy-steps-to-automate-your-google-plus-to-twitter-postings/) so I’ll summarise:
- Note your Google+ numeric ID. For me these were 31 digits. Lets call it ####.
- Append the ID to http://gplus-to-rss.appspot.com/rss/ so you get http://gplus-to-rss.appspot.com/rss/####, then verify it indeed returns an RSS feed
- Login to ifttt.com (create an account first if you don’t have one), then create a new THIS source from the RSS feed icon.
- Select the link from 2. as source.
- Click on the THAT link, and select Twitter (you might need to enable IFTTT for Twitter).
- From the Twitter list, select “post a tweet”.
- Amend the text if needed (remember you only have 140 characters!), then press Create Action.
- Test (you might need to wait for about 15 minutes): indeed it worked as my G+ post got picked up by a tweet pointing to it about 15 minutes later.
Notes:
- RSS feed http://gplus-to-rss.appspot.com/rss/109418621512564781181.
- I already used IFTTT so I didn’t need to create a new account.
There are more complex schemes going through FeedBurner which I didn’t try yet:
- How to auto-publish your Google+ posts to Twitter, Facebook and Myspace | BitShare – Internet Technology and Culture Blog.
- Elgan: How I publish from Google+ | Computerworld.
Other alternatives I might try when IFTTT stops working:
- Google Plus to Twitter w/ link to post by warthurton – IFTTT.
- Google+ to Twitter – ManageFlitter.
- How to update Twitter and Facebook with your Google+ posts.
- 3 Google+ Tools That Take Your Marketing to a New Level | Social Media Examiner.
- Post From Google+ » To Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and more….
- How To Connect Your Google Plus to Twitter – BuzzShift – Digital Strategy Agency.
–jeroen
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The size and distribution of the data over your Google Drive storage
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/10
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 