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GLS-Info: Tijdsvensters 1060NP

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/22

For my link archive: the GLS delivery schedules for postal code 1060NP.

[WayBack] GLS-Info: Tijdvensters 1060NP

Actuele tijdvensters voor postcode 1060NP

Maandag tussen 12:30 en 15:30
Dinsdag tussen 12:30 en 15:30
Woensdag tussen 12:30 en 15:30
Donderdag tussen 12:30 en 15:30
Vrijdag tussen 12:30 en 15:30

Tracking and tracing examples:

API: [WayBack] GitHub – dbojdo/gls-tracking: GLS Tracking API

–jeroen

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WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram are down (:

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/19

[Archive.is] Whatsapp down or not working? Live status, problems and outages. | Downdetector


[Archive.is] Facebook down? Current problems and status. | Downdetector

[Archive.is] Instagram down? Current status and problems | Downdetector

 

–jeroen

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flush deferred messages in mail queue – SysAdmin Tips

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/19

[WayBack] flush deferred messages in mail queue – SysAdmin Tips

In Exim:

# exim -qff

In Postfix:

# postfix flush

In Sendmail:

# sendmail -OTimeout.hoststatus=0m -q -v

–jeroen

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Helping the WayBack ArchiveTeam team: running their Warrior virtual appliance on ESXi

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/19

The [WayBack] Archiveteam helps the WayBack machine with feeding new content.

You can help that team by running one or more “warrior” virtual machine instances. The VM is distributed as a virtual appliance in an ova file according to the Open Virtualization Format.

That format sounds more generic than it actually is, so the (at the time of writing) archiveteam-warrior-v3-20171013.ova file at [WayBack] Index of /downloads/warrior3/ was created for VirtualBox.X

This meant running it on VMware ESXi or VMware vSphere takes a few steps for patching it, then uploading it to your VMware host.

Since I might want to run the appliance on multiple places or multiple instances, I wanted to have a ready-to-go solution, I created a git repository with both the patch instructions and the update at [WayBack] wiert.me / public / ova / archiveteam-warrior-v3-20171013.ESXi · GitLab.

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Posted in ArchiveTeamWarrior, Cloud, Containers, Docker, Infrastructure, Internet, InternetArchive, Kubernetes (k8n), Power User, WayBack machine | Leave a Comment »

Manage two WoonVeilig or egardia systems from one smartphone / Twee WoonVeilig systemen beheren vanaf 1 telefoon

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/19

A while ago, I suggested to WoonVeilig that it would be really great if you could manage multiple of their alarm systems from one smartphone without the need to re-logon.

Use cases for managing two security systems are like:

  • managing home and office security systems
  • managing your own security system, and that of a family member in need
  • managing the systems of both your permanent and vacation home

Right now, this is not possible from the WoonVeilig app, but there is a little trick to manage 2 systems from one phone.

This tricks works because the WoonVeilig system is developed by Egardia and both [WayBack] WoonVeilig and [WayBack] Egardia use the same back-end, despite their management sites being slightly different:

This also means that if you want to fiddle with the systems, searching for egardia will get you far more results than for woonveilig.

So the trick is to install two apps, and use different credentials for each app. This allows you to manage two security systems at once:

Notes:

  • in both apps, you can use userid and password woonveiligdemo , or egardia7 to get into a demo environment
  • the WoonVeilig app is only in Dutch
  • the Egardia app allows you to switch languages (English/Dutch/German/French)
  • there are no apps supporting just English, German or French

–jeroen

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ESP32-CAM Surveillance Camera (Home Assistant Compatible) – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/18

Cool little camera.

Absolutely not HD, but comes in very handy for instance when monitoring things from a remote location.

More at [WayBack] ESP32-CAM Video Streaming Web Server (works with Home Assistant) | Random Nerd Tutorials

Build an IP Surveillance Camera with the ESP32-CAM board. The ESP32 Camera hosts a video streaming web server that integrates with Home Assistant or in any browser.

–jeroen

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Image upscaling: waifu2x tool (open source)

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/18

Originally created for anime upscaling, the waifu2x algorithm works very well for photos, logos and text.

It is open source too!

More information:

 

–jeroen

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delphi – Invalid floating point operation calling Trunc() – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/18

I bumped into [WayBack] delphi – Invalid floating point operation calling Trunc() – Stack Overflow, while searching for what might have tests like these fail:

TValueRecordTests.Int64_Through_Value_Container_via_Currency_Intermediate_Is_Identity_Operation(9223372036854775807) = 9223372036854775807
EInvalidOp with message 'Invalid floating point operation'

In the end, it reproduced with a much more simple test case class of which the first three fail (EInvalidOp with message 'Invalid floating point operation'), but the last three succeed.

Lesson learned:

  • High(Int64) stored in Currency or Double, will not Trunc back to their original value.
  • Low(Int64) stored in Currency will not Trunc back to their original value.
  • Testing boundary conditions is nice, but be sure what your boundary conditions are in the first place.

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Threaded Inserts in 3D Prints – How strong are they? – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/17

They are much stronger than plastic threads, no matter how you create the plastic threads.

To make them even stronger, add shell thickness to the thread locations, either globally or by using modifier meshes. Modifier meshes work way better in Cura than in Slic3r.

–jeroen

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(mostly ASCII) List of emoticons – Wikipedia

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/17

Most searches for “ASCII emoticons” get you Unicode ones:

Luckily most are ASCII in List of emoticons – Wikipedia.

There are also shortcodes, which do not visually represent an emoji, but usually get translated to the image or Unicode character.

A few lists on them:

–jeroen

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