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SSDs that are HUGE: when will they actually be there? And how much would they cost?

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/14

Close to X-mas, so doing some dreaming of unaffordable things (:

In august, this 2.5 device was sort of announced: PM1633a: a Samsumg 16TB (nah: 15.36TB) SSD.

No news ever since, so I wonder when will they get to the market and how much they would cost.

Just like I’m wondering about a Retina MacBook Pro with 2TB of SSD storage and more than 32 GB RAM (:

–jeroen

Posted in Hardware, Power User, SSD | Leave a Comment »

Reminder to self: SKU numbers for the ThinkPad UltraNav USB keyboards with horizontal Enter key and 6 rows of keys

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/14

IBM/Lenovo stopped producing ThinkPad UltraNav keyboards with 7 rows of keys a while ago. It stopped me from buying ThinkPad machines (together with the screen issues), but I still use the external USB UltraNav keyboards which are harder and harder to get.

So here some SKU/FRU/PN/EAN that seem to have a horizontal enter key and US layout.

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, ThinkPad, UltraNav keyboards | Leave a Comment »

/etc/netconfig conflict

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/13

Hmm:

Detected 1 file conflict:

File /etc/netconfig
  from install of
     libtirpc3-1.0.1-1.1.x86_64 (Main Repository (OSS))
  conflicts with file from install of
     libtirpc1-0.2.5-1.1.x86_64 (openSUSE-20150508-0)

File conflicts happen when two packages attempt to install files with the same name but different contents. If you continue, conflicting files will be replaced losing the previous content.

Changes: go figure (:

revue:/etc # diff netconfig.201507191158 netconfig
13,14d12
< udp6       tpi_clts      v     inet6    udp     -       -
 udp6       tpi_clts      v     inet6    udp     -       -
> tcp6       tpi_cots_ord  v     inet6    tcp     -       -

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, SuSE Linux | Leave a Comment »

This week, some ideas to debug and monitor your 6502-based system.

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/12

Interesting links to some sites explaining how to build the hardware side, including PCB design and creation: This week, some ideas to debug and monitor your 6502-based system.

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Windows: Some links around SeBatchLogonRight (Logon as Batch job)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/11

I will need this one day when doing some migration of jobs written as cmd scripts that are now ran occasionally by end-users into a scheduled fashion.

–jeroen

via: “Logon as batch job” script – Google Search

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 | Leave a Comment »

SMS cards: The technology inside IBM’s 1960s mainframes

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/11

When SMS means Standard Module System.

Pure Geek Porn, for instance this triple AND gate:

triple AND gate with germanium transistors and diodes

triple AND gate with germanium transistors and diodes

Thanks Jan Wildeboer for sharing this.

–jeroen

via: SMS cards: The technology inside IBM’s 1960s mainframes.

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In remembrance of Felipe Rodriquez

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/10

Felipe makes a few appearances in this great _Unauthorized Access_ documentary by Annaliza Savage 1994.

Memorable moments:

  1. Intro about the initial small size of Hack-Tick.
  2. The start of the Hack-Tick ISP in The Netherlands, which originally started with UUCP and later grew into one of the most important general ISPs with a very keen focus in privacy: xs4all.
  3. Hacking at the End of the Universe congress.

Most of the “in memories” were in Dutch, but one of the few English ones says it all: [Wayback] D U T C H F E L L O W S — In memory of Felipe Rodriquez.

Karin Spaink (friend of Felipe, also suffering from MS) wrote [Wayback] Felipe Rodriguez has died.

A few of the Dutch articles that impressed me very much (some obituaries, some on the internet history in The Netherlands):

–jeroen

The full video:

Slightly longer but with a worse audio quality:

 

Posted in About, History, Internet, Personal | 1 Comment »

The size and distribution of the data over your Google Drive storage

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/10

Drive storage is at https://www.google.com/settings/storage

–jeroen

Posted in G+: GooglePlus, GMail, Google, GoogleDrive, Power User, SocialMedia | Leave a Comment »

Continua CI: viewing events (errors) for a certain repository #continuaci @FinalBuilder

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/09

Somehow this isn’t linked logically from the UI, so here are two sets of steps to get there:

From the “Event log”

  1. Go to the “Event Log” page on your Continua CI server; for my server that is https://continuaci.pluimers.com/administration/events.
  2. Click on any repository name (in my case DUnitX) and note the GUID at the end of the URL: https://continuaci.pluimers.com/administration/ci/repositories/index/94c6f27d-20a4-4f53-a81c-94f863db248d
  3. Append index and that GUID to the first URL: https://continuaci.pluimers.com/administration/events/index/94c6f27d-20a4-4f53-a81c-94f863db248d

From the “Source Repositories”

  1. Go to the “Source Repositories” URL on your Continua CI server; for my server that is https://continuaci.pluimers.com/administration/ci/repositories
  2. Click on the word “Error” or red cross (sometimes you can click only one of them) in front of any failing repository: https://continuaci.pluimers.com/administration/events/index/94c6f27d-20a4-4f53-a81c-94f863db248d

The second has the drawback that you can only see events for repositories that are currently in error, not any repository that has ever been in error.

So maybe I was doing something stupid and maybe there is a far easier way, but these work (:

–jeroen

Posted in Continua CI, Continuous Integration, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

The coding love – When I read and refactor code of another developer

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/09

Thanks Stefan Glienke for this picture:

When I read and refactor code of another developer

When I read and refactor code of another developer

–jeroen

via: The coding love – When I read and refactor code of another developer.

Posted in .NET, About, Delphi, Development, Software Development | 1 Comment »

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