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Identity Crisis | Apple II Programs: Susan Kare’s “Happy Mac” on an Apple II

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/04

The re-imagined iconinc Happy Mac by Suzan Kare on the computer she got before even becoming employee #10 at Apple in 1982 [Wayback/Archive] Identity Crisis | Apple II Programs

Identity Crisis

Via [Wayback/Archive] Short Programs | Apple II Programs “Susan Kare’s “Happy Mac” on an Apple II”

At age 70, Susan is still alive and kicking, and even around on Twitter as [Wayback/Archive] Susan Kare (@SusanKare).

Inspired by a search because of [Wayback/Archive] Ron’s Computer Videos 🧍‍♂️🖥️ 📼 on X: “I wonder if Susan knew that Steve used her desk?”:

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What to do when suddenly some or many .nupkg became zero length and Chocolatey thinks none of them are installed?

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/04

A few years back I suddenly had almost all my .nupkg files that Chocolatey uses to track installed software become zero sized.

So I posted a question at [Wayback/Archive] Need help restoring .nupkg files having zero size · Discussion #2765 · chocolatey/choco which got this answer:

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Brush up on your knowledge of the elements with this Chrome Experiment, an interactive Periodic Table by Sarath Saleem: goo-gl/HJ9O31 #fridayfun

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/03

[Wayback/Archive] https://plus.google.com/+Chrome/posts/AgtEDd7ngEJ “Brush up on your knowledge of the elements with this Chrome Experiment, an interactive Periodic Table by Sarath Saleem: goo-gl/HJ9O31 #fridayfun”

This reminded me so much about the atom spin tables I wrote some Turbo Pascal code for in the late 1980s to help a university professor. Maybe one day, I will find that code back.

(note: I expanded the actual googl link because Google URL Shortener was killed in 2019 with links stopping to work in 2025, see [Wayback/Archive] Google Graveyard – Killed by Google)

The links:

--jeroen

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Kugane/winget: A Winget script to automatically install predefined programs and MS Store apps. Includes automatic update and cleanup job

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/03

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Kugane/winget: A Winget script to automatically install predefined programs and MS Store apps. Includes automatic update and cleanup job

–jeroen

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Tekenencefalitis (TBE) | RIVM

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/02

[Wayback/Archive] Tekenencefalitis (TBE) | RIVM

Er is een vaccin dat voor 95% bescherming geeft. Mensen die lange tijd verblijven in gebieden waar tekenencefalitis veel voorkomt, kunnen zich laten vaccineren. Dit wordt bijvoorbeeld aangeraden voor verblijf in delen van Midden- en Oost-Europa. Op de website van de Landelijke Coördinatie Reizigersadvisering staat vermeld in welke landen/gebieden vaccinatie geadviseerd wordt. Vooralsnog is er geen reden om in Nederland te vaccineren.
Ook het zo snel mogelijk verwijderen van een teek verkleint de kans op infectie, hoewel het virus al snel na de beet wordt overgebracht. Een snelle verwijdering kan deze ziekte dus niet altijd voorkomen, maar verkleint ook de kans op andere ziekten die door teken overgebracht kunnen worden, zoals de ziekte van Lyme. Tekenbeten kunnen voorkomen worden door beschermende kleding te dragen en de onbedekte huid in te smeren met een middel dat DEET (diethyltoluamide) diethyltoluamide bevat. Deze maatregelen geven geen 100% bescherming, waardoor tekenbeetcontrole altijd nodig is na verblijf in het groen. Het is belangrijk om een teek zo snel mogelijk te verwijderen. Op de pagina Verwijderen van een teek lees je hoe je dit het best kunt doen.

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Gevaarlijke tekenziekte rukt op: Helmi kreeg hersenontsteking | RTL.nl

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I wonder if east-west facing vertical bi-facial solar panels are now more used often as they are just as efficient as south facing standard units

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/02

Two years back there was the below quoted interesting German twitter thread.

Hopefully by now more bi-facial installations are used as they are just as efficient but take up less ground space.

There are now two maximum peaks in the morning and evening, which makes them relatively more productive outside the summer periods thereby more evenly spreading energy production over the year.

I think that last bit is especially important.

–jeroen

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Grady Booch on X: “Public pressure works!” – Grace Hopper lectures finally digitized and make public

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/31

Earlier this week NSA posted something I didn’t expect them to get done this soon, not even after all the public pressure about it mid last month (see for instance [Wayback/Archive] Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release it • MuckRock):

The were published as 2 YouTube videos(embedded videos below the blog post signature):

  1. 49 minutes [Wayback/Archive] Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982) – YouTube
  2. 41 minutes [Wayback/Archive] Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part Two, 1982) – YouTube

More historic lectures at NSA: [Wayback/Archive] National Security Agency/Central Security Service > Helpful Links > NSA FOIA > Declassification & Transparency Initiatives > Historical Releases

Grace Hopper explaining the length of a nanosecond is mentioned in my blog post One second code: Do YOU know how much your computer can do in a second?.

Via:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Rob Joyce on X: “@jpluimers …”
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Grady Booch on X: “Public pressure works! …”
  3. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “When the NSA is too lazy to call the Computer History Museum, Internet Archive or Smithsonian for help digitising the Grace Hopper 1982 landmark lecture AMPEX 1-inch video tapes:”

    [Wayback/Archive] lproven: “Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release it buff.ly/4cJWiUA Intelligence agency claims it “no longer has the ability to view” 1982 recording …” – Vivaldi Social

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With the newest PowerToys version, the Microsoft teams shows they forgot about their CUA heritage

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/30

The most recent Microsoft Power Toys version binds to Alt + Spacebar which indicates the Windows team has forgotten about the CUA (Common User Access) heritage.

[Wayback/Archive] PowerToys bring fun tweaks to Windows 10 and 11 • The Register

And that tells us something else, too: that none of the Microsoft developers involved in building and releasing this tool are old-style keyboard warriors, because since Windows 1.0 in 1985, Alt+space has been the keystroke to invoke the window-management menu. From Windows 2 onwards, the leftmost button on every Windows title bar even looked like a space bar, to remind you. So to maximize a window, it’s Alt+space, x; to minimize, Alt+space, n; to resize with the keyboard, Alt+space, s, and so on.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “Stealing Alt+Space for a Power Toy, the Microsoft @Windows team has forgotten about its CUA heritage.”.

--jeroen

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Learning from others: how they use diagrams and notes while debugging (via b0rk – Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/30

A while ago there was this interesting question [Wayback/Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “do you draw diagrams on paper when debugging? what do they look like? I’d love to see examples if anyone is willing to share” that sparked quite a few diagrams I am still learning from.

Some thumbnails are below, but be sure to read them in the responses to the above tweet in full.

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SQL SERVER – How to get historical deadlock Information from System Health Extended Events? – SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/29

A friend of mine needed to figure out SQL Server deadlocks a while ago.

I hadn’t been doing stuff like this for quite some time, but remembered that unlike old SQL Server days, it had become relatively easy.

These links show you how:

Query:

[Wayback/Archive] sql server find deadlock history – Google Search

--jeroen

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