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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/01
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Linkjes over huurverhoging
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/31
Voor mijn link archief:
- [Wayback/Archive] Welke regels gelden er voor een huurverhoging? | Rijksoverheid.nl
- [Wayback/Archive] Wat is de maximale huurverhoging in 2021? | Rijksoverheid.nl
- [Wayback/Archive] Huurverhoging vrije sector in 2022 maximaal 3,3% | Nieuwsbericht | Rijksoverheid.nl
Via:
- [Wayback/Archive] huurverhoging vrije sector 2021 – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] huurverhoging vrije sector 2022 – Google Search
–jeroen
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PDF24 Creator – Wikipedia
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/30
Just in case I ever need more features than the built-in PDF creator in Windows: PDF24 Creator – Wikipedia
PDF24 is free for commercial use and offers these features that the Windows built-in PDF support lacks:
- Merge multiple PDF into one file
- Rotating, extracting, inserting pages
- Integrated preview for PDF editing
- PDF encryption, decryption and signing
- Change PDF information (author, title, etc.)
- Compress and shrink PDF files
- Add a watermark or stamp a PDF file
- Combine pages with a digital paper
- Convert to and from PDF
- Multiple PDF printers for different purposes since 7.7.0
- Full featured and lightweight PDF reader since version 8.7.0
- TesseractΒ OCR engine since version 8.8.0
- Blackening of PDF files since version 10.0.0
Via [Wayback/Archive.is] Software-update: doPDF 10.8.127 – Computer – Downloads – Tweakers (which mentions it does not need GhostScript)
–jeroen
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A twitter call to say nice things about technology sparked interesting threads
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/27
A while ago [Archive.is] Adam Jacob on Twitter: “Let’s say nice things about technology today. I’ll start. If it wasn’t for @lkanies and @puppetize, there is no way we would have been able to adapt as an industry to the rise of the cloud. Quote tweet me with your own.” sparked some interesting threads.
First posts are below; click on them to see the full threads.
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Windows: shutdown or reboot while preserving most of the running apps has been possible since…
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/26
Vista!
Shutting down or rebooting Windows allowing existing applications to reopen
Windows Vista introduced the /g switch in shutdown.exe and was unchanged in Windows 7:
/g Shutdown and restart the computer. After the system is rebooted, restart any registered applications.
I never noticed it until Windows 10 which began actively use it when applying system updates: then suddenly many of the previously running applications would reopen during startup.
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OpenSSH scp has defaulted to the SFTP protocol for some 9 months now
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/25
Since I will be bitten by this someday, here the september 2021 observation that [Wayback] By default, scp(1) now uses SFTP protocol.
The original scp/rcp protocol remains available via the -O flag.
It refers to the august 2021 announcement in the [Wayback] OpenSSH: Release Notes – OpenSSH 8.7/8.7p1 (2021-08-20) that scp supported SFTP (like the sftp tool) and that it would become default soon:
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version control – Migrate from bitbucket to GitLab – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/24
For my link archive: [Wayback] version control – Migrate from bitbucket to GitLab – Stack Overflow
Documentation: [Wayback] Import your project from Bitbucket Cloud to GitLab | GitLab
–jeroen
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MacOS: default PCL printer driver only allows monochrome (black&white/grayscale); default PostScript allows colour
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/23
Printing on MacOS can be less Plug&Play than one hopes for.
For default printer drivers on MacOS for the same printer:
- Postscript allows colour and monochrome (black & white / grayscale)
- PCL only allows monochrome (black & white / grayscale)
One solution for my OKI MC363 is to use the HP PCL driver and fake it as a HP Colour LaserJet 9500 (which provides a similar amount of memory, and colour duplex A4 printing):
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Windows 8.1: default Windows Explorer to open “This PC” instead of “Libraries” without duplicating the taskbar icon
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/20
Every now and then you revisit old Windows versions. It seems a fact of life.
If course those lack more recent features, one of which is the default View with which Windows Explorer starts.
In Windows 10 you can switch it between “This PC” and “Quick Access”. Not so with Windows 8.1.
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To make Twitter a better place for visually impaired: please do without those fancy Unicode letters in your account and messages – Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2022 – #a11y
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/19
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day, so it is a good day to write about a Twitter bot that tries to coerce people in having more accessible Twitter names and messages.
I knew I made a bookmark ofΒ [Wayback/Archive] Jacques Favreau on Twitter: “@Conundrum9999 @asciiArtHelpBot will make a little video of reading these things if anybody wants to try it out on a tweet.”
But when searching for it earlier this month, I could not find it (see below how in the end I did find it back).
The tweet was part of a thread that started with this tweet which very well describes why you should refrain from using fancy characters in Tweets or Twitter names:
[Wayback/Archive] Katie Mixtochtli – read my pinned – use alt text on Twitter: “Why you should avoid symbols and nonstandard letters in your twitter name if you want to be screen reader friendly: #DisabilityTwitter #disabilityinclusion Read on to see how “πππππ€ – Κ·Κ°α΅Κ³α΅ β±Λ’ α΅Κ°α΅ α΅Κ³α΅α΅α΅Λ’α΅ – βπ£π π©π₯π π liked your reply” sounds to me ππΌ”
The thread contains the long text you get when a screen reader reads that tweet. A video of that is below, and I saved the thread atΒ [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @Conundrum9999 on Thread Reader App:
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