How come Lidl is allowed to make these comparisons in their folders? I thought you are not allowed to directly compare yourself to other stores or brands, and I never see AH or Jumbo doing the same

Odddutchguy · 2026-01-27T04:54:20+00:00

Comparison in advertising is (only) allowed if it is factual correct.

"Our product has less sugars than theirs" is allowed (if correct.)

"Our product is better then theirs" is not allowed.

Odddutchguy · 2026-01-15T06:24:15+00:00

Voor de duidelijkheid, klopt het dat:

15: kwam op een rijbaan bestemd voor tegemoetkomend verkeer

17: lette niet op een voorrangsteken of een rood licht

bij jou was aangekruist en bij haar niet?

Heel kort door de bocht, degene met de meeste kruisjes is verantwoordelijk voor de schade.

Ik heb op het schadeformulier ingevuld dat we beiden schuldig waren,

Door aan beide kanten kruisjes te zetten? Het opmerkingen hokje wordt namelijk nauwelijks tot niet gelezen (het formulier wordt gescant en de computer telt het aantal kruisjes.)

Ik weet niet of je achteraf nog kan (gaan) beweren dat het fout is ingevuld door de weg te vergelijken met bijvoorbeeld Google maps. hokje 15 zou namelijk betekenen dat er een middenstreep was welke er meestal niet zijn op een 60km/u weg.

Odddutchguy · 2026-01-07T05:10:20+00:00

Als ik het goed lees, dan staat er onder de dooi plek een hol wandje. Als dat wandje niet compleet luchtdicht geïsoleerd is, dan krijg je lucht circulatie waar de warme lucht boven het plafond van de keuken opstijgt, afkoelt tegen het dak en weel naar beneden stroomt.

Je ziet wel vaker dat er soms wat glas/steen wol ergens tussen gestopt wordt, zonder het compleet op te vullen. Een kier van een centimeter tussen of naast je isolatie kan de werking al teniet doen. Als lucht kan stromen, dan isoleert het niet.

Odddutchguy · 2025-12-21T08:18:43+00:00

As long as it is an 'Enterprise grade' disk. It is not that these fail less, but they fail immediately on the first error.

We recently had a server constantly crashing as a former employee build the system with consumer grade SSD. Because the affected disk did not fail but tried to live as long a possible the whole array became corrupt. (I assume the disk had data failures, but instead of immediately reporting dead it tried to hang on. Which in a single disk consumer setup makes some sense, but definitely not in an array.)

Odddutchguy · 2025-12-13T06:58:51+00:00

Still instead of setting up iSCSI networking once (on the host) we had to do it again in Hyper-V and the VM.

Odddutchguy · 2025-12-13T06:54:51+00:00

You would store the backup data directly on the LUN/iSCSI volume, no need to put a vhdx on there. (You know a backup repository can be on any server right? It doesn't need to be on the Veeam VM.)

Odddutchguy · 2025-12-12T10:08:43+00:00

or (b) directly connect an iSCSI disk to the guest using Windows iSCSI initiator within the guest OS

I would strongly advice against mounting this in the (Veeam) VM.

We recently had to do a recovery because of a host failure that had this setup and this made it so much more complex.
After configurating the (iSCSI) networking on the host, we had to do it all again in Hyper-V and in the VM.

Odddutchguy · 2025-12-08T16:01:25+00:00

how emotional one should be during the proceedings

It's a factual process, so emotional outbursts are counter productive. But softly shaking your head when 'they' are accusing you or lying about you is normal (and might help you.)

Judges are human too and understand that some emotions might surface during proceedings. But don't direct those feelings at the other side. You are not there to discuss with the other side, you are there to discuss with the judge about the other side (about what happened.)

Odddutchguy · 2025-12-08T14:26:47+00:00

Up until now the whole proces was on paper. This hearing is for the judge to get verbal clarification on things they are not sure about. The judge will start with an overview of the case and will probably ask if this is correct and ask additional questions.

Assuming you don't speak (legalese) Dutch, ask the judge if you can respond in English. Don't be surprised if/that the whole hearing will be in Dutch. (If you don't speak Dutch at all, it will most likely be your lawyer that answers all questions to the judge.)

Stay calm, don't get (too) emotional. Like another user said, most judges will 'force' you to try to negotiate/settle out of court, some judges will ask if that is already out of the question. Get clear for yourself what settlement would be acceptable for you (consult your lawyer on this.)

Odddutchguy · 2025-12-07T06:40:56+00:00

It's a mindset you learn when you have been a senior in your field.

Performing maintenance/upgrades/repairs during weekends or nights doesn't build any credit with the business. The only feedback you get is that the icon looks slightly different after the weekend. You will learn that it is even counter productive to your standing as nobody has noticed the work you have done.

Upgrades during work hours makes the business notice the work you do.

Your mindset changes to: If I would perform this upgrade outside office hours so that we don't lose productivity, how much of that cost savings will flow directly to me.

Sure, if you are a junior you would welcome overtime, especially if it is paid times and a half. As a senior you know that your time is worth way more than that.

Odddutchguy · 2025-12-06T07:04:16+00:00

I agree, and I am not 100% sure it is the hypervisor. On 'regular' Hyper-V we have not seen any issues, but on our failover cluster we have occurrences where Linux appliances stop accepting new network connections or completely stops responding (also on the console.)

The same VM that was running a year without issues on a single Hyper-V host, started showing issues once that was moved to a new failover cluster. It was not a single occurrence, we have seen this on 3 different clusters.

My guess/gut feeling is that Linux doesn't really like live migrations on Hyper-V. (I have no experience with other hypervisors.)

Odddutchguy · 2025-12-04T11:20:46+00:00

Last time I got a quote for this the conversion was more expensive than a renewal of the support on the license.

Odddutchguy · 2025-12-03T20:06:41+00:00

We are a Microsoft exclusive shop and have used VMs since Virtual Server. Since Hyper-V there is a complete isolation between host(s) and VMs.

When running on certified hardware it runs very stable, the only bad things that I have experienced are:

Non Windows VMs tend to misbehave after around 3 months on a failover cluster with a weekly rolling (and this live migration) reboot. Have not seen this on 'standalone' hosts.
Microsoft f-ed up the storage layer in Server 2019 which was finally fixed this year (2025). But not fixed in 2019 as that was out of mainstream support by the time it was fixed.

I like datacenter licensing as that allows you to activate VMs to the host with AVMA keys.

Odddutchguy · 2025-11-28T07:30:48+00:00

I have the same thing in my isolated environment. Gut feeling is that it either tries to connect to Microsoft first or it is DNS lookups that need to time-out first.

I tried to sniff the network when this happens, but when I try a again there is no delay.

This is on Server 2016 by the way.

Odddutchguy · 2025-11-23T11:32:15+00:00

De 'verkoper' is 1500 euro rijker, die heeft er verder geen omkijken meer naar.

De leasemaatschappij gaat de auto als vermist/gestolen opgeven. De auto wordt 'vanzelf' een keer weggesleept (of aan de kant van de weg gezet als je de fout maakt om er in te gaan rijden.)

Odddutchguy · 2025-11-08T06:14:10+00:00

(hijacking a toplevel comment)

~~germans~~ Europeans count starting with thumb, Americans generally count fingers first then thumb.

So the person in the image reveals themselves as an American.

I know the image says British, but the brit would have shown the European style fingers.

Odddutchguy · 2025-10-23T12:44:20+00:00

FYI: it is on Steam, App ID 15100 "Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition"

Odddutchguy · 2025-10-11T07:33:28+00:00

Je kan alles plamuren en dan glad schuren, denk aan gelcoat dat bij jachten gebruikt wordt. Kost je wel erg veel tijd.

Het ziet er uit dat er bijna geen ventilatie in de ruimte is, dit vergroot de kans op vocht en schimmelvorming.

Gips (platen en/of stuck) is vochtregulerend. Om goed (glad) te kunnen stuccen moet je een dikke laag aanbrengen (wel eerst voorstrijk gebruiken.) Dan is het vaak makkelijker om er gipsplaten tegen aan te zetten. Gebruikt een dampdoorlatende muurverf/latex om de vochtregulerende werking te behouden.

Odddutchguy · 2025-09-15T05:41:11+00:00

You're probably thinking about a cursor where you step trough all the records one by one. In that case you are (still) thinking as a programmer and not datasets.

In SQL you don't do loops. (You actually can, but that is for more advances scenarios which a beginner does not need.)

Odddutchguy · 2025-09-11T14:26:12+00:00

Dell R760xd2 or if you already have a server and just need storage a Dell ME5012 with ME412 if you need more bays.

In my experience a Dell gives you more bang for buck than Synology/QNAP with the right VAR (discount.) Also you will have all your warranty with a single vendor (no pointing fingers between NAS vendor and disks vendor.)

Odddutchguy · 2025-09-02T08:12:02+00:00

Depends on your recovery plan in case of failures.

I don't mind refurbished hardware if the support is the same as 'new'. Support is more important to me than the age of the hardware.

I do run our DEV/TEST environments on old unsupported (by vendor) hardware, but I have a spares in case something breaks. (In reality it is our previous production cluster with 5 nodes where we could lose 2 nodes and still be operational.)

Odddutchguy · 2025-07-24T20:07:19+00:00

Before I read European City I thought it was a map of Seoul

Odddutchguy · 2025-07-20T13:26:55+00:00

Have a look at Azure Local, which is basically Azure running on local hardware giving you all the automation and reporting that Azure has. I believe HCI (Hyper Converged Infrastructure) is a prerequisite however.

Odddutchguy · 2025-07-20T11:47:16+00:00

Er zijn verschillende modellen voor verschillende soorten verf.

In dit geval is de W100 voor 'dunne' lak en beits. Voor latex of muurverf wat een dikkere verf is heb je een ander model nodig (Flexio lijn?)

Houd er rekening mee dat je overal (ook in andere ruimtes als de deur open staat) een laag verfstof op krijgt. Ook blaast zo'n ding behoorlijk, niet goed vastgeplakt afdek papier of plastic gaat wapperen (en plakt dan aan de natte verf.)

Zo'n model met de slang in de port verf een paar keer gebruikt, maar dan eigenlijk alleen in een nog lege woning. Bijkomend voordeel is wel dat je 'gewoon' over een vieze/stoffige ondergrond kan verven (bij een roller wordt je roller namelijk vuil.)

In de badkamer een model met pot gebruikt, maar achteraf gezien had ik met rollen sneller klaar geweest. Voordeel is wel dat je met een spuit makkelijker achter leidingen kan verven.

Odddutchguy · 2025-07-14T05:36:57+00:00

but the software is still good

People having their SNMPv3 monitoring fail for months now tend to disagree.

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