Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/23
C.G.P. Grey just released a new video: Holland versus The Netherlands:
I love almost all hist videos at
my first encounter to his work was a similar video about the U.K., G.B, England, and a whole lot more:
While watching that I thought “someone should make a video about Holland, The Netherlands and the Dutch Kingdom”. Good to see he just did (:
Still on my wish list: a video on Europe, Schengen, The European Union and the Euro.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/21
Interesting; is on my research list to see if the installation process gets easier and more standardized.
SQL Server FineBuild Introduction
FineBuild provides 1-click install and best-practice configuration of SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008, and SQL Server 2005.
–jeroen
via: SQL Server FineBuild.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/20
If you want to learn F#, start at this SO question:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/19
Must read: why you want temporal compatibility.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/19
I knew that 2>&1 was needed to redirect both stderr and stdout, but for piping, it cannot be at the end of the line. This works in the categories shown at the bottom of the post.
Rob van der Woude again to the rescue in redirection:
(4) Redirecting both standard output and standard error to the same file or device is done by adding
2>&1to the command line. This will only work in OS/2 and NT, not in MS-DOS.
Where you put2>&1is rather critical. It will only do what it is supposed to do when placed at the end of the command line (as Jennie Walker pointed out to me) or right before the next pipe (|).
Example: batch file that checks if a few NarrowCast machines are indeed on-line and logged on with the right user.
It uses PsLoggedOn to verify who is logged on, and Explorer to show a hidden share.
The pipe is needed to verify there is indeed a domain user logged on.
@echo off for %%m in (Machine1 Machine2 Machine3) do call :show %%m goto :pause :show echo %1 %~dp0PsLoggedOn -L \\%1 2>&1 | find /I "MYDOMAIN\" start explorer /e,\\%1\NarrowCast$ goto :end :pause pause :end
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/18
Wow, Perl turned 25 today, it seems my first use was like yesterday!
–jeroen
via: The First Twenty-Five Years – The Perl Foundation.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/18
As of December 3rd, 2012, a WordPress.com blog stat page (https://wordpress.com/#!/my-stats/) now shows unique visitors in addition to total views.
The hint for each bar even does the views per visitor math (seems to average around 1.25 views per visitor on this blog, will update this when a longer period has passed).
The Your Unique Visitors from the Blog at WordPress.com explains some more details.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/18
Ever since .NET 1 there has been no built-in way to create a file including all its parent directories.
Hence small FileHelper class far below.
The fundament of the class is this CreateUnderlyingDirectory method, that uses System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName to obtain the parent directory of a path, and then System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory to create it (and any parent directories) if needed.
public static void CreateUnderlyingDirectory(string path)
{
string directoryPath = Path.GetDirectoryName(path);
Directory.CreateDirectory(directoryPath); // NOP if it exists, will create all parent directories if not
}
A few helper methods get you a StreamWriter either empty/appended, or always empty Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/17
Interesting, when I browse to https://twitter.com/settings/account, there is no option to download all my past tweets yet so obviously I’m not on the beta.
Are you?
–jeroen
via: Twitter has started rolling out the option to download all your tweets – The Next Web.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/17
Interesting: namebench – Open-source DNS Benchmark Utility – Google Project Hosting.
It runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, comes with a GUI and a console version.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 