Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/26
My mentally retarded brother got himself the below puzzle below. It’s a tad too much complicate for his IQ of ~50 as his ability for relative time is very very limited, so he cannot make most transitions from “then” to “now.
Imagine how the petrol station might look today. The cars will have changed, the fuel will have increased in price, but what about other things? Imagine the differences, and the similarities, between then and now.This is the scene you have to puzzle.
Source: [WayBack] Wasgij Destiny 17 INT ‘Paying the Price! 1000pcs – Jumbo
Luckily, I found Wasgij destiny 17 – YouTube who had the solution image and mailed it to me.
Now my brother can finish his puzzle: he is so exited!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/26
Ever introduced an extra parameter on a method, tracked all its usages and made the compiler happy by providing a corresponding extra argument in all the calls of that method? Sure you have…
Things like that need a reminder: the joy of reflection and lambdas…
Very good train of thought (and solving!) at [WayBack] Head scratching with a TargetParameterCountException | Software on a String
By [WayBack] Marjan Venema – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/26
A cool set of YouTube videos by CWNE88:
The USB device used here is this one:
Tuner is AVerMedia AVerTV Volar Green
There are 2 models, but the good one uses firmware dvb-usb-it9135-02.fw The other one uses dvb-usb-af9035-02.fw but that didn’t seem to work as well and got hot. They look the same on the outside though.
ID 07ca:3835 AVerMedia Technologies, Inc. AVerTV Volar Green HD (A835B)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/25
Kristian Köhntopp:
Dear Lazyweb, years ago I turned on the Yule log visualiser in GPMAA, Settings, Labs. Current Google music has no Labs. So how do I turn on cover art?
…
Turns out, the Settings -> Labs switch exists in Desktop Google Music only, and does not (longer) exist in the App.
Sad.
via: [WayBack] Dear Lazyweb… how do I turn on cover art? – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
The setting is at https://play.google.com/music/listen?authuser&u=0#/accountsettings
More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYkyOaSNLb8
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/25
Great tool: [WayBack] htop – an interactive process viewer for Unix because it’s both interactive and supports a wide range of OSes: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Mac OS X.
Thanks to Warren Postma who suggested it in his comment at [WayBack] 18 Useful Commands to Get Hardware Information on Linux – Linuxslaves.
Note that on OS X you get this warning after brew install htop :
htop requires root privileges to correctly display all running processes,
so you will need to run `sudo htop`.
You should be certain that you trust any software you grant root privileges.
On Linux you don’t get this message as there you have the /proc file system providing enough information as explained at [WayBack] osx – Why does htop on Mac OS X require root privileges to see data for all processes, but on Linux it runs without root – Super User.
A workaround (involving the setuid bit) is at [WayBack] Running htop on Mac OS X needs root. Why?! | Blog | JoeNyland.me or by running visudo ensuring you don’t need a password for it at [WayBack] osx – htop isn’t returning CPU or memory usage!? – Super User
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/25
Merry Christmas:
Joe C. Hecht of Code4Sale, LLC is very proud to announce that the ÜberPDF™ SDK version 1.0 is now complete, is ready for public distribution, and will be made available for download in the next few days.
More details at [WayBack] The ÜberPDF™ SDK is DONE! – COMPLETE BUILD SYSTEM – 100% OPEN SOURCE – ALL PLATFORMS – ALL DEVELOPMENT TOOLS… – Joe C. Hecht – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/22
A kind of repeat of a 6 year old post, as by now this has much more information: [WayBack] hardware rec – When to stop using a hard drive? What rules/software apply? – Super User.
It is a continuation for another drive of my 2011 post hard drive – When to stop using a HDD? What rules/software apply?.
Basically I was unlucky receiving a brand new drive that appeared exceptionally slow and doing some ticking.
So I ran these on it:
–jeroen
Sorry for the “missed schedule”, but WordPress.com is acting up again:
Since I ran this machine on Windows and I didn’t have time to run locally, these are the tools I used:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/22
The SuperMicro X10SRI-F and X10SL7-F boards are very similar, so I was happy that [WayBack] SuperMicro X10SL7-F – Onboard LSI pointed out where the CPU fan was: it’s header FANA which isn’t exactly clear form the X10SRI-F motherboard PDF manual [WayBack]:
FANA is the CPU fan connector
(I connected my CPU fan to the closest fan connector and everything works like a charm, but I’m still curious).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/22
If saving a web-page on the WayBack machine throws you this error on any site:
Wayback Exception
An unknown exception has occurred. Unexpected Error
Then usually the cause is having too many cookies.
Clean your cookies for web.archive.org, then try again.
–jeroen
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