Maybe not try this at home: McCollough effect – Wikipedia, as it can lasts for weeks or months.
–jeroen
McCollough effect – Wikipedia
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/12
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Inside a self-testing emergency exit sign. – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/12
I might to get a few of these for home.
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Treegonometry: Maths students have the solution for decorating the perfect Christmas tree – Latest – News – The University of Sheffield
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/12
A live calculator at [WayBack] Treegonometry: Maths students have the solution for decorating the perfect Christmas tree – Latest – News – The University of Sheffield
Via: [WayBack] 🎅🏻 Victor Hopman 🎄 on Twitter: “Gratis Kersttip, op deze site kun je exact uitrekenen hoeveel kerstballen en slingers je voor je boom nodig hebt, op basis van een wiskundige formule: https://t.co/RJwNby1SlP”
–jeroen
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Two steps to ensure a family member Skype account is not discoverable
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/09
For a family member, I needed a Skype account not to be discoverable. This is a two-part process:
- Online part:
- Go to https://secure.skype.com/portal/profile,
- Logon,
- Click “Profie settings” (make the browser window narrower to make that tab visible),
- Uncheck “Appear in search results an suggestions”,
- Logon to Skype in Windows/Mac/Linux
- Old Skype versions (~ 7.x or older)
- In the menu, go to Tools > Options > Privacy Settings
- Check the “Only allow messages from people on my contact list” box
- Click the “Save” button
- Newer Skype Versions (8.x or newer)
- In the menu, go to Preferences > Manage ho people find you on Skype
- Uncheck “Appear in search results and suggestions”
- Old Skype versions (~ 7.x or older)
I figured out the first part myself, the initial bit of the second part came from [WayBack] Problem in Discoverability – Microsoft Community, which made me discover the final bit of the second part and the links [WayBack] How do I opt out of being visible in the Skype public search directory on mobile? | Skype Support and [WayBack] How to hide my profile from search in Skype? – Super User.
In the first part, I also unchecked all the other boxes:
–jeroen
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The alphabet, in alphabetical order, in various languages – The Old New Thing
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/09
I had to lough so loud when I bumped into this [WayBack] The alphabet, in alphabetical order, in various languages – The Old New Thing.
I got there because I wanted a few examples of languages having more than 26 ASCII letters in their alphabet.
Basically all non English languages (:
–jeroen
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7 Free Windows Password Recovery Tools
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/09
So when another friend for the umpteeth time asks me to find their Windows password: [WayBack] 7 Free Windows Password Recovery Tools (June 2018)
Windows password recovery tools are used to recover Windows log on passwords. Here are the 7 best free Windows password recovery and cracking tools.
–jeroen
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Delphi icons to distinguish various Delphi versions
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/08
When installing many Delphi versions, all have similar icons. So I asked this a while ago: [WayBack] I remember someone creating version specific icons for Delphi a while ago (around XE4 era I think), but cannot find them any more. Anyone who can prov… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+.
Luckily Achim Kalwa responded quickly with a set of icons he designed and put them up at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VoYeMmsr6FYgoe9EkR-psrV7aPO7Gv-v
Hopefully by now I have had time to edit them for more Delphi versions (he had them for Delphi XE7 until 10.2 Tokyo).
Delphi XE2 and lower icons seem to be at [Archive.is] Delphi versions and icons, mortenbs.com
–jeroen
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Configure IntelliSense (SQL Server Management Studio) | Microsoft Docs
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/08
Not sure why, but all of a sudden, SSMS did not code-complete any table or column names any more.
This shows where that setting is [WayBack] Configure IntelliSense (SQL Server Management Studio) | Microsoft Docs.
The odd thing: updating to a more fresh 17.x version solved the problem all by itself.
Anyway, you can change the settings under the section “All Languages”, “Transact-SQL” or “XML”, each in the “General” sub-section:
–jeroen
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Some free test SOAP web service endpoint sites
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/08
In the past, [WayBack] WebserviceX.NET used to be a great reference for publicly accessible SOAP web-services. Nowadays their listing contains ~2K of entries marked as DISCONTINUED in [WayBack] WebserviceX.NET API catalogue.
So below are a few sites mentioning web-services that have worked for me. No guarantee however they still work (:
- [WayBack] Public Open Web Services
- [WayBack] Calculator Web Service
- [WayBack] Do you know of any free SOAP webservices (for tutorial purpose) – Stack Overflow
- [WayBack] Examples of public SOAP web services – jansipke.nl
Maybe I’m going to provide something myself.
- [WayBack] Best way to create a simple python web service – Stack Overflow
- [WayBack] Welcome | Werkzeug (The Python WSGI Utility Library)
- [WayBack] Welcome to web.py! (web.py)
–jeroen
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UTC is Enough for Everyone, Right?
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/07
A very long read, worth every minute: [WayBack] UTC is Enough for Everyone, Right? on Programming with dates, times, and timezones is hard. But here’s some help.
It covers a truckload of topics, like the history of time, the use of time zones, storing and transmitting time, user experience (like displaying and entering time), events, duration and much more.
Via: [WayBack] UTC is enough for everyone… right? If you have some time on your hands, you might find this rather long article quite interesting and, possibly, entertaining… – Kevin Powick – Google+
–jeroen
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