Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/03
Ugh, this new Google+ is killing me.I used to be able to click someone’s name in Google+ and then start a hangout with them by clicking the hangout icon… – Koushik Dutta (Koush) – Google+ has this nice comment:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/29
Should work in classic G+ stream too: “Restrict stream to single column layout on all screen sizes”
Source: Became used to the Material Design Google+ thingy but then comments…
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/26
Interesting reads:
–jeroen
via http://applehelpwriter.com/2016/08/29/discovering-how-dropbox-hacks-your-mac/ – Joe C. Hecht – Google+ [WayBack]
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/22
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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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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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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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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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
In a future post, I will explain how I created the workaround, but here it is:
Basically it translates links
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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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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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:
This is how we use copy.com (where our installed machines have Windows, Mac OS X and Linux on them) now:
Dropbox doesn’t cut it for various reasons:
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
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