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 Discussion on question by Goga: How c…

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Tonny
Nov 13, 2024 08:45
@Huesmann I guess so. I'm no that familiar with condo's, but they appear to operate along the same lines as far as I can tell.
Tonny
Nov 13, 2024 08:45
@Huesmann In some countries in Europe it is not unusual to own an apartment in a larger complex. In most cases there is a owners association or something similar which sets standards for the whole complex, which usually includes limits on what you can do in renovations. (They also handle maintenance of common areas like hallways and elevators.) In most countries, passive membership of that association (and paying membership fees) is mandatory for all inhabitants of the complex. If you don't like their rules you will have to propose a change and convince the other home-owners to accept it.
 

 Discussion on question by Victor: How…

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Tonny
Feb 2, 2024 19:07
Uh... Bank draft. Meet at bank? That is so old-fashioned. If I need to make a large payment to someone else I just transfer the money from my bank-account straight to his using the bank-app on my phone. He checks his own account that it appears and the deal is done. On very high amounts (over 2500 euro) I may have to temporarily raise my daily transfer-limit, which I can do via the same bank-app (takes about 10 minutes to process). I haven't seen/used a bank-draft or cashier check in 30 years. They were completely phased out here some 20 years ago IIRC.
 

 Discussion on answer by alexg: Do cat…

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Tonny
Mar 30, 2023 20:47
@ChrisH No cat is really 100% hypo-allergenic, but Rexes and Sphinxes do get called that. I react to both but the reaction is so mild (if the exposure is limited) compared to my reaction to other cats that I can more or less ignore it. People with a heavy allergic response can still have a bad reaction to them. It varies greatly from person to person.
Tonny
Mar 30, 2023 20:47
@Steve I am allergic to cats myself and I agree with ChrisH. Physical contact isn't needed, but you need to get close to (and downwind from) a cat outdoors or enter a room that is frequented by cats. It mostly the hair and skin-particles that trigger the allergy. Some breeds of cats (short haired, little hair-shedding) are less problematic regarding allergies. E.g. the Devon Rex is usually not causing (major) issues. Friend of mine has one and I can spend several hours in its company (even pet it) with only a hardly noticeable light reaction. (I still wash my clothes afterwards to be safe.)
 

 Discussion on answer by Mokubai: If U…

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Tonny
Dec 1, 2022 20:54
@somega That discussion has been going on since the term "bus" was invented almost a century ago. There is a school of thought that says any connection (either point2point or multi-point) can be called a bus and the other school excludes point2point connections explicitly. It doesn't really matter in practice. You just go with the version that your colleagues (or teachers) want to hear.
 

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Tonny
Jun 15, 2022 16:13
@ChrisH Regular beer and lager is typically 4-5%, but special/craft beers go much higher. I'm Dutch but I live in shouting distance of the Belgian border. We have a lot of Belgian beers here and many of those are much stronger than lager. I actually prefer the high ABV beers and almost never drink lager. As for size: Typical serving size glass is either 0.25 or 0.33 L for any beer here. Sometimes 0.5 L for German Hefeweize if they serve it in the appropriate glass. On beer-tasting events you often see small glasses of 0.1 or 0.15, but those are not normal in cafe's, bars or restaurants.
Tonny
Jun 15, 2022 16:13
@ChrisH 9.6% strong for a beer... Sorry, but that is just the upper end of medium strength were I come from. 10% to 14% is pretty normal for a good triple or quadrupel. Above 14% its gets tricky as the alcohol level starts killing the yeast. With hardier special yeast strains specialty craft beers can get up as high as 18 or 19%. Above that you have "fortified beers" where a distilled spirit (often whiskey, wodka or gin) has been added, but those are more cocktails than true beers.
 

 Discussion on question by Abdullah Ib…

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Tonny
Jan 4, 2022 10:19
@BrianH I doubt that. While AmigaDOS used BCPL style strings (byte-array with the size byte at index 0, no terminating 0 in the string) in a lot of places it was written (AFAIK) in a mix of B, C and 68000 assembly. The BCPL style strings came from B (which inherited this data-type from BCPL), not directly from BCPL. They were even called B-strings in all the documentation.
 

 Discussion on question by Ionică Biză…

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Tonny
Dec 16, 2021 15:01
@Willeke Don't have to tell me that. In The Netherlands I probably see more foreign trucks than Dutch ones each day. Problem is that due to international traffic agreements between most countries road-legal cars from one country are allowed on others countries roads even if their regulations (e.g. allowed height) are not quite the same. (International transport would be really complicated otherwise.) So if your own country allows a 5 meter truck on the road you can drive it to a neighboring country that has 4 meter as limit. But it is on the driver not to get into trouble under a low bridge.
Tonny
Dec 16, 2021 15:01
@Willeke That is just the load that is too high. All Dutch registered vehicles (and I'm fairly sure the same applies to at least Germany, Belgium and France) are required to be less than 4 meters high for the vehicle itself. Higher is possible for specialty vehicles, but requires a special permit which is granted on a per vehicle basis. Without the permit they are not road-legal. That doesn't stop foreigners driving into these countries with over-size vehicles obviously. Or drivers ignoring maximum overhead signs.
 

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Tonny
Nov 12, 2021 14:29
@toto_tico IFAIK you can't parallelize AES256. What I have done in the past: For the source tree generate a file-list of all files starting with "a" or "A" -> run that list through tar/gz -> transmit -> unpack, repeat for "b", "B" then "c", "C" , etc. Depending on your filename logic another split might be more beneficial. Or you just generate the whole file-list and split in batches of 100.000 or 200.000 filenames. Most compression tools accept a text-file with list of files as a parameter which makes this fairly easy to script.
Tonny
Nov 12, 2021 14:29
@toto_tico Thank you for clarifying that. It was far from clear to me. If AES256 is mandated and non-negotiable your only option will be find an alternative compression/decompression format that does allow for parallel decompress, but, given the nature of encryption (which is typically down over the whole archive, so can't be split) I seriously doubt any exist. Or split in batches that you manually run in parallel on decompress as I already mentioned.
Tonny
Nov 12, 2021 14:29
@toto_tico I think you misinterpreted my first line about which disk was encrypted. As for complexity: Not encrypting the archive in the first place would be the least complexity. (Just copying the files using RSYNC over SSH is even less complexity but given the amount of small files would be even slower and not really an option.)
Tonny
Nov 12, 2021 14:29
If encryption during transfer is your main concern (you say that the target disk is unencrypted) why are you encrypting the archive? Your SSH connection is encrypted anyway and probably with better encryption than AES256. Just archiving, copying the archive over, and unpacking it on the other side will give you more choice of archive formats and possibly one that can do multithread decrompress. Other option is to divide the source folder-tree in several sub-sets. Archive each subset separately and unpack them in parallel. (And you can start unpacking the 1st while the 2nd is still copying.)
 

 Discussion on question by Obie 2.0: I…

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Tonny
May 4, 2021 20:12
@Woj I agree that the term is pretty meaningless. I just responded to phoog's apparent disbelieve that a non-native could be good enough that locals can't tell the difference. My wife spend 10 weeks in Dublin and nobody there had any inkling that she wasn't Irish herself. She had to show her passport several times to convince people that she was Dutch.
Tonny
May 4, 2021 20:12
@phoog My wife is Dutch with Frysian as second "native language". Her English, French and German are native level, including several regional accents between which she can switch at will (especially in English, she can fool locals in Irish English, posh British English, Cockney and some US dialects:Alabama, LA, New York). Works as a professional translator/interpreter. Send her 8 weeks somewhere and she comes back with a basic ability to speak the language. That is how she learned decent (not native) Italian, Spanish and Portugese. She can also do basic Russian.
 

 Discussion on answer by Philipp: Why …

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Tonny
Feb 24, 2021 00:45
By Disney logic their copyrights will last 'forever' (and they try very hard to convince the rest of the universe of that), so why bother adding a year on it. In Disney's view that year doesn't matter at all.
 

 Discussion on question by KidACrimson…

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Tonny
May 16, 2020 17:24
Is the working machine Windows 10 as well ? And are they Home or Pro version ?
 

 Discussion on answer by Fanatique: Wh…

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Tonny
Jun 21, 2019 17:21
Why SCSI ? Because a lot of things are using the SCSI command-set on top of a non-SCSI bus: ATAPI, SATA, USB and even many parallel port devices (like zip-drives and many parallel scanners) all use the SCSI command set and the mass-storage devices attached that way can be handled by the SCSI-Disk (sd) kernel-drivers.
 

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Tonny
Jul 2, 2018 17:40
@Abigail The derailed train didn't "flip over" The carriages landed on their side. 12 passengers. 6 uninjured, 4 with minor injuries (cuts and bruises) treated on the spot, 2 taken to hospital (one broke both legs, the other a broken arm). Train hit the vehicle with approx. 107 Km/h.
 

 Discussion on answer by phoog: US cit…

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Tonny
Apr 14, 2018 18:42
@phoog Most immigration entry points in the USA have no readers for european bio-metric passports. (They were supposed to get them around 2010 but apparently the roll-out is very slow.) Mine was manually looked at at LAX in 2014 and there was not a reader in sight. (It didn't get any closer than about 2 feet from anything that could have been a reader when the immigration officer had it in her hands. 2 feet is too far away to reliably read the RFID chip that holds the bio-metric data. I have worked for the firm that makes these RFID chips, so I know their limits.)
Tonny
Apr 14, 2018 18:42
@phoog I travelled to USA on ESTA from the Netherlands in 2010, 2011 and 2014. My colleague went last year, my other colleague leaves in a few days. None of us have been fingerprinted. Granted we have bio-metric passports with 2 fingerprints stored in them, but that info isn't shared with the USA (at least not officially...). And in my case I got that passport only in 2013. The one used for 2010/2011 travel didn't have bio-metrics at all. The only fingerprints I have ever supplied to anyone was for that passport in 2013. Prints may be required for some, but AFAIK not for Dutch travellers.
Tonny
Apr 14, 2018 18:42
Since when does VWP/Esta require fingerprints ? AFAIK this isn't a requirement for Europeans traveling on VWP to USA. Is this specific to Japan?
 

 Discussion on question by iFlo: How t…

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Tonny
Mar 15, 2018 20:25
@mickburkejnr I totally agree. I'm probably 15 KG over what is considered normal for someone my size. But I can go up the stairs for 10 floors in our office building without needing a breather and while talking on my cellphone. Most people can't.
Tonny
Mar 15, 2018 20:25
The GR20 in 2 weeks is really pushing it. 16-18 days is considered normal. I have done it twice (both directions). First time in 16 days and 2nd in 17 (had to sit out a day with bad weather. You don't want to be on those ridges in a thunderstorm). I wouldn't dream of tackling this one with any person that is inexperienced. Should have done at least several hikes of more than a week in mountain terrain.
 

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Tonny
Feb 7, 2018 15:18
@CallumBradbury That was my line of thought too. I like the whole concept of this, but there seems to be a lot of wiggle room for "cheating" or "gaming the system". But of course that can provide plenty of nice plot-hooks.
Tonny
Feb 7, 2018 15:18
@CallumBradbury Or a shaman that starts very young. I presume the power could grow with him ?
Tonny
Feb 7, 2018 15:18
Does killing a very young animal count ? Do you still get the full benefit? Eagle still in the nest before it can fly. Wolf-puppy (after killing the parents normally). Bear-cub (After killing the mother by normal means).
 

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Tonny
Aug 27, 2017 18:22
@DrEval Even if there is no personal information the account can be used to impersonate the poster. We are talking Germany here. Such practice is illegal in Germany. Shared usage by multiple persons should be on a special resource-account and who has access to that account must be documented. I know this because I'm in IT for a German company myself. The rule-book on this sort of thing is substantial. Privacy protection laws in Germany are about the strictest in the world.
 

 Discussion on question by Steven Vasc…

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Tonny
May 5, 2017 11:59
I'm looking at this using FireFox on Windows 10 and it renders correctly for me. Apparently there are more variables involved than just OS and browser.
 

 Discussion on question by raddevon: C…

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Tonny
Mar 31, 2017 05:32
Wow... PSU problems are a pain. Very hard to trace. Usually BSOD's or video-glitches are the only indicator you get. Sometimes a harddisk will log errors in the EventLog. Or the system goes BSOD when trying to burn a DVD. But the NIC acting up... I have been troubleshooting computers for nearly 30 years, but this a first for me.
Tonny
Mar 31, 2017 05:32
@raddevon Gigabit NIC's don't need a cross-over. They are always auto-MDIX meaning they will do cross-over automatically if needed. With 100 Mb/s NIC's some are auto-MDIX, most are not. And even if they are it is not guaranteed to work. So if one (or both) of the PC's is 100 Mb/s, you have to use a cross-over cable AND configure both PC's manually to use 100 Mb/s, full-duplex.
Tonny
Mar 31, 2017 05:32
I'm at my wits end on this one. You tried a different NIC, new motherboard (RMA), fresh Windows install (twice: Hirens and the fresh Win7). By process of elimination that means it is nearly impossible that the problem is in the PC itself. That leaves the router or the cabling. You swapped the cables. Did you do the ip ping test with 2 PC directly connected and static IP addresses on both PC's ? If that works we can definitively rule out the PC itself.
Tonny
Mar 31, 2017 05:32
@Forza Using a static address and pinging between machines (not the router) doesn't work either. That sort of excludes the router from the problem. On second thought... The build-in switch in the router might be flaky. Cleanest test would be to connect 2 PC's directly together, give them both a static IP and do the ping-test. That really excludes the router and it's build-in switch.
Tonny
Mar 31, 2017 05:32
@raddevon That second route print looks perfectly normal. The first one has that odd metric value and the persistent route that shouldn't be there (even though it isn't supposed to make a difference). Could you do a "route -f" command on the problem machine, reboot and then make a new route print ?
Tonny
Mar 31, 2017 05:32
@EliadTech Oops. I shouldn't post when I've got the flu. I'm not thinking straight.
Tonny
Mar 31, 2017 05:32
@EliadTech Very strange... The route print output looks technically OK. (The metric values are a bit weird though. Normally the primary adapter gets metric 10. But that shouldn't make any difference in this case.) I'm starting to think that your on-board LAN card is flaky with traffic coming through only intermittently. A damaged transceiver (that is the analog circuit between the chip itself and the RJ45 jack) might just cause such behavior, without Windows realizing there is a problem. Setting the line-speed manually to fixed values (e.g 100 instead of auto) might improve things.
Tonny
Mar 31, 2017 05:32
Please give that a try. I'm very curious if in that case the PC can ping/be pinged by others and/or by the router itself.
Tonny
Mar 31, 2017 05:32
I didn't mean an IP outside of the range your router normally supplies. I meant an arbitrary IP belonging to your LAN, which doesn't conflict with any IP address already use by other devices. So subnet, and default gateway are the same as on any other device in your LAN. Just the IP itself is one that your router normally wouldn't give out, but still in the same network. (E.g Say the router handles network 192.168.1.* and normally supplies 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.199 through DHCP then you could pick 192.168.1.30). IF you use an IP outside the range (like 192.168.2.30) ping won't work anyway
Tonny
Mar 31, 2017 05:32
@raddevon Good/Yes, just uncheck it/The last point is VERY interesting. If you manually configure a valid IP can you connect to the other local computers even if you can't reach the router? Can other computers reach the problem one ? If you change the ip-address to another address that is normally not used in your local LAN is that also blocked ?
Tonny
Mar 31, 2017 05:32
Weird... Couple of more things to try: Make sure the DNS is set to DHCP too (it looks like DNS is epxlicitly set in the IP options of the PC). 2nd: Disable IPv6 on the PC. 3rd: Is you network stable if you configure the PC manually to a fixed ip-address ?
 

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Tonny
Mar 16, 2017 05:24
@SusanW Didn't know that rhyme. And measuring jam by weight sounds very odd for me. I would simply count in jars (big or small), never mind the actual volume or weight :-)
Tonny
Mar 16, 2017 05:24
@Izkata If 100% accuracy isn't needed: 4" = 10cm, 3'4" = 40" = 1 meter. 11 yards = 10 meters. Pretty easy to do in your head without having to bother with the awkward 2.54 cm/inch. You will only be 1.6% off.
 

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Tonny
Oct 23, 2016 18:21
@Fiksdal That link is blocked in large parts of the world due to copyright issues.
 

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Tonny
Jul 27, 2016 20:53
@NathanielFord You are right (I recently reread the books), but I'm fairly certain Terminus Est is really a sword. Two-handed, fairly long (about 1.75 meter ?) and described as a single blade, a handwidth, slightly wider near the stump point. The liquid metal is most likely NOT mercury. I agree on that. It is not meant to be a fighting weapon, but purely as an executioners-blade to behead people.
 

 Discussion on answer by Cody Gray: Wh…

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Tonny
Jun 18, 2016 07:26
@chue For Windows itself it is reasonably OK now. Either high-contrast or by using the dark theme (which was improved a bit with the changes in the latest builds). But the main issue remains Office 2010 and later that ignore ALL Windows color-settings and is hard-coded to use a mainly white color-scheme. Most of it (certainly the parts that matter) aren't user-configurable.
Tonny
Jun 18, 2016 07:26
@CodyGray Oh yes. You took the words right of my mouth. This little article should be required reading for the entire Microsoft UI team. For people like me with difficulty in separating low-contrast colors Windows 8/Office 2007 and later are a real usability problem. Light pastel hues on a bright white background, No visible separator lines between UI components. And it isn't just me: I had at least a dozen firends and relatives that asked me how to block the Windows 10 "upgrade" or how to revert to WIndows 7 after the upgrade. Windows 10 is just unusable to them.
 

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Tonny
May 27, 2016 02:14
@ratchetfreak Base-60 is just as old as base 10. Goes back as far as the ancient Sumerians. 60 is particularly attractive nice because it has so many easy divisors (2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15,20,30). In fact even today that is the basis for still having 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes per hour and we divide circles in 360 degrees.
 

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Tonny
Mar 23, 2016 23:27
Please, don't ever use "handle" in the same sentence as "American style car". Seeing them together makes my head hurt :-)