Having cancer is not a fight or a battle, it is about having luck or misfortune

It has been a while after my last post about me having cancer. No, I am not giving up. But I am having the regular fear of the upcoming checks: did the metastases return, or do I have the luck to outlive some 30% of my peer group.

The last metastases surgery has been slightly more than a year ago. A year from now, that percentage hopefully will be 50% and slowly increase over time until about 90% in some 9 years from now.

At year’s end, I will know for sure.

Below are some links on, mostly Dutch but with English abstract, articles about the mental side of having cancer, or having survived it for now.

Ventoy – open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.

For my link archive:

• [Wayback/Archive] Ventoy
• GitHub:
  • Source: [Wayback/Archive] ventoy/Ventoy: A new bootable USB solution.
  • Releases: [Wayback/Archive] Releases · ventoy/Ventoy

How NOT to Measure Latency

According to @isotopp (Kristian Köhntopp ), this is one of the most important talks to watch regarding performance issues: [Wayback/Archive.is] How NOT to Measure Latency

Gil Tene provides an in-depth overview of Latency and Response Time Characterization, including proven methodologies for measuring, reporting, and investigating latencies, and overview of some common pitfalls encountered (far too often) in the field. Tene also covers specific considerations in garbage collected environments (such as Java).

It is on YouTube (embedded below the signature) as well, but the above link as synchronised slides plus video.

More places where you can get it:

• [Wayback/Archive.is] Slideshare: How NOT to Measure Latency
• Youtube: How NOT to Measure Latency

Via [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “… Dieser Talk ist einer der wichtigsten Talks überhaupt, wenn es um das debuggen von “Performance Problemen” oder SLOs geht.”

–jeroen

Field Tested Systems

Besides a cool portable spectrometer and software (written in Delphi), [WayBack] Field Tested Systems also has a really nice poster showing the spectrogram fingerprints of all the elements:

Via Delphi: 2 things to check when FMX/VCL units are inserted when you use VCL/FMX components (G+ post by Tom Field)

–jeroen

Gekleurd stopcontact met randaarde

Eerst vond ik [Wayback/Archive] Gekleurd stopcontact met randaarde en beschermingsafsluiters en van daaruit [Wayback/Archive] Rob Kalmeijer: Stopcontacten met niet alleen de (historisch) gangbare Nederlandse stopcontacten, maar meteen ook een heel mooie tabel die de algemeen aanvaarde toepassingen van de kleuren aangeeft:

210mm x 99mm Blank Label Template – Microsoft Word – EU30032

I tried archiving the page 210mm x 99mm Blank Label Template – Microsoft Word – EU30032 and the template http://templates.uk.onlinelabels.com/TemplateFile/eu30032-template/EU30032.doc, but that fails because that site refuses to be archived in the WayBack machine and Archive.is.

So here is a local copy of [WayBack] eu30032.doc.

Related (not tried yet):

• [WayBack] Labels A4, 210 x 99 mm, white, permanent adhesion
  

  Ref. no.	4664
  Format	210 x 99 mm
  Content	300 labels / 100 sheets
  Colour	white
  Printer type	Laser, Copy, Ink
  Adhesive characteristics	permanent
  Shape of corners	square
  Material	paper, matt
  Environment	PEFC-certified
  EAN	4008705046640
  PEFC certificate	[WayBack] Download now
  Printing template / Processing information	[WayBack] Download now

• [WayBack] Printing Template for Labels – 210 mm x 99 mm – 3 Rectangle Labels per A4 Sheet (Word/PDF) | Template For Labels
  

  Free Download Label Printing Template [WayBack]  Word Template [WayBack]  PDF Template

  There are 3 Rectangle Labels per page with each label being 210 mm wide and 99 mm high.There is a 0 mm gap between the label rows and 0 mm gap between the label columns to determine whether you can create your design with bleed or not. Whilst producing the design, due to printing restrictions on digital presses, you must consider that there is a 0 mm margin on both top and bottom of the sheet, and 0 mm margin on left and right hand side of the sheet. Please read your printer manual carefully as each printer has a printing tolerance of up to 2 mm. You must accommodate this tolerance by producing your design with enough bleed and/or leave enough gap between the label contents and the label cut line.

–jeroen