For my link archive: [Archive] Hoge Raad opent weg voor massaclaim woekerpolissen
–jeroen
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Foam and foil for your keyboard switches
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/11
You can still get foam and foil for your old keyboard switches:
- [Wayback] Foam and foil – Deskthority wiki
- [Wayback] Category:Foam and foil switches – Deskthority wiki
- [Wayback] 105 “Foam and Foil” Capacitive Pads for KeyTronic & BTC Keyboard Repair – TexElec
This set of 105 count foam capacitive pads for repairing vintage KeyTronic and BTC keyboards with deteriorating foam pads. These are homemade in house and the 105 should cover what you need with a few extras for your convenience. These will work on keyboards for many different kinds of vintage computers. If it has a […]
Via:
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Zet je rekeningnummer om naar IBAN met OpenIBAN.nl
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/11
Dit was de enige site die ik kon vinden waar je nog oude rekeningnummers naar nieuwe kon omzetten (inclusief bank-code).
[Wayback] Zet je rekeningnummer om naar IBAN met OpenIBAN.nl
Met deze webservice kun je gratis en snel je bankrekeningnummer omrekenen naar een IBAN. Een BIC of banknaam is niet nodig
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When high SEO ranking fails to give you a reliable result: IsItDownRightNow.com failed to detect the WayBack Machine outage
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/11
A high SEO ranking does not automatically indicate a reliable result.
When the WayBack Machine was down a while ago (it responded to traceroute UDP requests, but would not establish TCP connections on ports 80 and 443), the first Google hit for detecting down status (searching for [Archive.is] waybackmachine down – Google Search) failed miserably because it redirected web.archive.org (which fails) to http://www.archive.org (which succeeds):
IsIdDownRightNow failing to detect web.archive.org downtime
Luckily when asking around on Twitter:
- others were experiencing the same problem, not just in The Netherlands, but also in other countries
- after trying a few things, the WayBack machine got backup [Archive.is] before I could try cURL.
- I got pointed at www.uptrends.com/tools/uptime which correctly does check the right subdomain and shows it is down from many locations:
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Character set reencoding link archive
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/10
I will likely need some of these links in the future:
- [WayBack] Objective-C, Simple String input from Console? – Stack Overflow
- [WayBack] How do I determine file encoding in OSX? – Stack Overflow
- [WayBack] unicode – Best way to convert text files between character sets? – Stack Overflow
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ESXi: origin of the ESX and GSX names
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/10
Not sure how I bumped into the below info, as it was in one of the open tabs of a VM that I had not accessed for a long time.
Tracing back, the links can be found via Wikipedia.
Here is the post content from the 2005 thread [Archive.is] Wayback “Abbreviation ESX”:
VMware: Origin of ESX and GSX names
in response to: kimono
ESX = Elastic or Electric Sky
GSX = Ground Sky
early days west coast cali hippy advertising thinking from the boys in the states. They dont mean’t anything and the X was added for acromyn
Related:
- VMware Server – Wikipedia
VMware Server (formerly VMware GSX Server) is a discontinued free-of-charge virtualization-software server suite developed and supplied by VMware, Inc.
- [Archive.is] What does ESX stand for? – VMFAQ.com / Knowledgebase
- [Wayback] History of VMware » Welcome to vSphere-land!
2001
- ESX 1.0 (Elastic Sky X) & GSX 1.0 (Ground Storm X) released
- Workstation 3.0 released
- [Wayback] VMware ESX Server – Wikipedia
The name ESX originated as an abbreviation of Elastic Sky X.
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Legrand 7 824 94/96/97 documentation
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/10
Legrand 7 824 94/96/97 documentation I have found on-line:
- [Wayback] Forix – IP 2X Workstations product sheet: F01605EN-00.pdf
- [Wayback] 7 824 94/96/97 assembly instructions: LE04853AA.pdf
- [Wayback] LEGRAND – 7 824 97 Equipped workstation Forix – 4 x 2P+E German standard and 2 blanking plates (the Bulgarian prices in EUR are about half of what you pay in the Netherlands)
- LEGRAND Forix Opbouw wandcontactdoos (wcd) 6-voudig, 4x wcd + 2x blindplaat wit
- [Wayback] [Wayback] PDF
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In this day and age, web sites with delivery back-ends still have Unicode issues: at least @Woonveilig, @Medireva and @PostNL still have trouble
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/09
Nowadays, some 35 years after the first Unicode ideas got drafted and 30+ years after the Unicode Consortium saw the light, UTF-8 is served my more than 95% of the web as shown in yesterday’s post UTF-8 web adoption is huge, closing 100%, but only soured up since around 2006..
I mentioned this:
It means that nowadays there is a very small chance you will see mangled characters (what Japanese call mojibake) when you’re surfing the web.
Serving UTF8 does not mean no unicode problems.
Below are some issues that happened not too long ago and still happen. I have reported them to all parties involved through web-care, but no response whatsoever, and this is bad: Unicode support beyond basic ASCII for the below systems are still broken even for relatively simple non-ASCII characters based in diacritics decorating a standard ASCII character.
Yes, I know the realm of encoding and code pages is a mess, especially when handling data in multiple layers of an application stack. That’s why I wrote this post in the first place, and have a whole encoding category of blog posts plus a Mojibake subset.
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rsync backup of your ESXi box: How to make a statically linked rsync binary
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/09
As promised mid last year in “fixing” ESXi “rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22) at util2.c(106) [sender=3.1.2]”, I would follow up on building a static rsync for ESXi one day.
So below a few links on how to do this, roughly in the order I found them (most via [Wayback] vmware rsync “3.1.2” static – Google Search):
- [Wayback] How to make a statically linked Rsync Binary – neddix.com wiki. (on CentOS 3.9)
- [Wayback] Backup of ESXi Virtual Machines using Affa – SME Server (on CentOS 3.9)
- [Wayback] VMware ESXi 5.1 rsync 3.0.9 statically linked binary erstellen – bachmann-lan.de (on CentOS 3.9)
- [Wayback] rsync for vmware 5.5 – techinfo (on redhat (centos) 6.x)
- [Wayback] How to compile a statically linked rsync binary for ESXi
- [Wayback/Archive.is] noelmartinon/vmtools: Tools for VMware ESXi to use in ESXi (on CentOS 3.9)
Especially the last link has a great set of steps on how to build manually.
Boy I forgot how long ago CentOS 3.9 was: [Wayback] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 3.9 is released for i386 and x86_64 Read the rest of this entry »
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C# Effective way to find any file’s Encoding – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/02/09
Note: notepad cannot correctly guess the encoding, see the “old new thing”: [Wayback] Some files come up strange in Notepad | The Old New Thing (talking about ANSI a.k.a. Windows-1252, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-8, UTF-7 somewith and some without BOM as Notepad does not understand all permutations)
David Cumps discovered that certain text files come up strange in Notepad. The reason is that Notepad has to edit files in a variety of encodings, and when its back against the wall, sometimes it’s forced to guess.
[Wayback] C# Effective way to find any file’s Encoding – Stack Overflow shows how to detect various byte order marks in C#.
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