Author: johayek
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Synology DiskStation DS716+ – 2-bay, Intel Celeron N3150, 64-bit, Quad Core 1.6 burst to 2.08 GHz
https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS716+ http://www.amazon.de/gp/offer-listing/B0176X81SG – just the bare box, no disks – currently (2015-12-13) for around EUR 480 https://www.cyberport.de/synology-diskstation-ds716plus-nas-system-2-bay-3F15-2EY_222.html – just the bare box, no disks – currently (2015-12-13) for around EUR 444 cyberport’s bundles with 2x6TB (WD, Seagate) disks are cheaper than the ones on amazon – currently (2015-12-13) for around EUR 950 CPU Model: Intel Celeron N3150 CPU Architecture:…
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my Friday evening movie: Woody Allen’s “Irrational Man” (2015)
Directed by Woody Allen. With Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Joe Stapleton. A tormented philosophy professor finds a will to live when he commits an existential act. Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3715320
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TV series: The Fall (2013)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294189 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_(TV_series) http://www.primewire.ag/watch-2739504-The-Fall-online-free – not to be published http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-fall-2013
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rounding numerical values: how to achieve “round half away from zero” with printf?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Floating-point_rounding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Round_half_away_from_zero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/printf_format_string http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Rounding.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/178539/how-do-you-round-a-floating-point-number-in-perl To be more precise: I actually mean “considering a given precision” of real numbers. In Germany (in a financial context at least) “round half away from zero” is being used. … Look at this – can you explain it?: $ perl -e ‘$h = 3272.505; printf “%.2f — %.10fn”,$h,$h;’ 3272.51 —…
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MKS Inc. AKA “Mortice Kern Systems” and their products
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKS_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKS_Integrity – an application lifecycle management platform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKS_Toolkit – a Unix-like software environment for Microsoft Windows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKS_X/Server – a commercial X11 server for Microsoft Windows MKS RCS, which was renamed to MKS Source Integrity in 1992
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the Jenkins “JobConfigHistory” plugin
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/JobConfigHistory+Plugin This plugin saves a copy of the configuration file of a job (config.xml) for every change made and of the system configuration (not activated by default). You can also see what changes have been made by which user if you configured a security policy.
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the Jenkins “Config File Provider” plugin — allows you to copy various similar configuration files to all your nodes — also adds the ability to edit those files through the Jenkins UI
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Config+File+Provider+Plugin Adds the ability to provide configuration files (i.e., settings.xml for maven, XML, groovy, custom files, etc.) loaded through the Jenkins UI which will be copied to the job’s workspace.
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how to end GNU’s “tail –follow” together with the termination of the utility that creates the file being watched?
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/tail-invocation.html GNU’s tail has a command line option for this: “–pid=…“. What a nice feature!!! I was just about to do implement “it” the usual way, when I came across the manual page and got aware of this feature. Used it, worked as expected. This is great! I actually needed it first in a Windows…
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the “Classic Shell / Start Menu” for use with Win8 and Win8.1
http://sourceforge.net/projects/classicshell/ http://www.classicshell.net/gallery/Start-Menu
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the Windows shortcuts for “minimize/maximize the focused window”
One reason less to use the mouse sitting like 30cm away from my keyboard … — I enjoy that. Update 2025-01-30: On German Windows 11 it is no longer “Alt+Space” but “Win+Alt+Space”. (But it is not working in every context.)