Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/26
Oh yes, someone finally did it!
Insult your co-workers with snarky O RLY parody book covers!
Source:
via: O RLY Cover Generator: Create parodies of the iconic O’Reilly book covers
URL example:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/26
One of the things you cannot do in XSD, is have string enumerations contain both a key and a value.
But there is a little appinfo trick inside annotation that you can user under some circumstances, for instance when you interpret the XSD:
| <xs:simpleType name="event_result"> | |
| <xs:restriction base="xs:string"> | |
| <xs:enumeration value="101"> | |
| <xsd:annotation><xsd:appinfo>Syntax error</xsd:appinfo></xsd:annotation> | |
| </xs:enumeration> | |
| <xs:enumeration value="102"> | |
| <xsd:annotation><xsd:appinfo>Illegal operation</xsd:appinfo></xsd:annotation> | |
| </xs:enumeration> | |
| <xs:enumeration value="103"> | |
| <xsd:annotation><xsd:appinfo>Service not available</xsd:appinfo></xsd:annotation> | |
| </xs:enumeration> | |
| </xs:restriction> | |
| </xs:simpleType> |
appinfo is the application counterpart of documentation: both can contain any xml, but appinfo is aimed at machines, whereas documentation is aimed at humans.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/25
I remember this happening when I was almost starting the studies at University: the Netherlands getting their country code top-level domain in 1986: at first mostly universities and research institutions were getting their .nl domains.
Today 30 years ago .nl came into existence and the first research institution domain here was cwi.nl (the research institution for math and informatics) as it handled the registrations (for years Piet Beertema did that, even before he hooked CWI to NFSnet in 1988).
This was the era of uucp – way before the web – which handled a lot of the mail traffic, but not the only one as back-then my HLERUL5.bitnet email address wasn’t even tied to the .nl dmain back then: it ran over DECnet based Mail-11 software. So it took a few more years before I got a .nl email address that the university and one of the reasons I still use a jeroenp account on many systems, for instance a few more years later when I got jeroenp@dragons.nest.nl at home.
This was way after the first commercial companies got their .nl toplevel domains, for instance and.nl was registered very early on (and Jos Horsmeier was very active).
So: happy birthday .nl and a bit thank you for all the people involved in getting .nl into existence.
–jeroen
Source: .nl – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/25
For one of my USB backup drives, Time Machine was stuck showing “Preparing Backup”.
tmutil (which has a lot of undocumented parameters) helped me out.
tmutil status would not show any change for hours either:
retinambpro1tb:~ root# tmutil status
Backup session status:
{
BackupPhase = ThinningPreBackup;
ClientID = "com.apple.backupd";
DateOfStateChange = "2015-05-04 19:27:31 +0000";
DestinationID = "01AE12C7-1D3E-469E-BE7E-32DA30F0030E";
DestinationMountPoint = "/Volumes/Elements2TB1";
Percent = "-1";
Running = 1;
Stopping = 0;
}
...
retinambpro1tb:~ root# tmutil status
Backup session status:
{
BackupPhase = ThinningPreBackup;
ClientID = "com.apple.backupd";
DateOfStateChange = "2015-05-04 21:13:28 +0000";
DestinationID = "01AE12C7-1D3E-469E-BE7E-32DA30F0030E";
DestinationMountPoint = "/Volumes/Elements2TB1";
Percent = "-1";
Running = 1;
Stopping = 0;
}
So I:
ls -al /Volumes/Elements2TB1/Backups.backupdb/`scutil --get ComputerName`/*.inProgresssudo su -)And it indeed made progress and finished:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/25
Now that pfSense 2.3 is out some videos:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/22
Conclusion:
–jeroen
Source: Anyone that installed D10.1 had the new installation dialogs that Embarcadero…
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/22
GridPP – providing computing and storage facilities for grid computing in the UK – has published 3 nice articles on their use of ZFS on Linux and comparison against hardware RAID:
Thanks Marcus Ebert for sharing these.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/22
“We’re barbarians, not bureaucrats!”
Source: Hacking is Important — Medium
On hacking vs processes, being disruptive and how people think. Short stories about Borland, Apple, FaceBook and others.
–jeroen
via: Hacking is Important — Medium – David Berneda – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/22
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“In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it.Whereas in the American system, the answer to “How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?” is “Go fuck yourself,” because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.
–jeroen
via A Brit Abroad – In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one….
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/21
Thanks Daniel Jackson for posting (the DocWiki hasn’t been update yet):
Version Conditional: VER310
Product Version: 24
Package Version: 240
IDE Version: 18.0
Compiler Version: 31
Source: I had expected Embarcadero would have updated the documentation to reflect the…
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 