Archive for 2017
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/03
Conditions are very, very good right now for easy, top-quality, final ingestion of original commercial Apple II Software and if you know people sitting on a pile of it or even if you have a small handful of boxes, please get in touch with me to arrange the disks to be imaged. apple@textfiles.com.
For example, piles and piles of educational software has returned from potential oblivion, because it’s about the preservation, not the title. Wonderfully done works are being brought back to life and are playable on the Internet Archive.
In other words: if you have or know someone who has disks with original, uncracked software that cannot be copied easily, let the team at the WayBack machine know as they have the resources that can help preserve that software.
–jeroen
Source: [WayBack] Please Help Us Track Down Apple II Collections « ASCII by Jason Scott
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/01
Still sooo funny many O Rly fake book covers. Here’s just one of them:
http://imgur.com/gallery/jXAza
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/01
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/31
Reminder to self: see if I have memory for a friends Acer Aspire M3900 system:
- Maximum Memory 8GB
- Memory Slots 4 (4 banks of 1)
- non-removable base memory 0MB
- CPU options: Intel Pentium Processor
- Chipset: Intel G43 Chipset
- HD Bus: SATA 3.5 inch
- Memory Speed options: PC3-10666 DDR3-1333 240pin SDRAM
- DIMMSpecial notes:
- Mfgr’s System p/n’s: PT.SEEE2.xxx; PT.SF602.xxx; PT.SFK02.xxx
- Modules must be ordered and installed in pairs for Dual Channel mode.
- Maximum configurations require a 64-bit operating system.
via: [WayBack] Acer Aspire M3900 (AM3900-xxx) Memory
this should get me a rough idea on pricing: [WayBack] Geheugen intern – Producten vergelijken – Tweakers – DDR3 1.333 Ghz 2Gb modules
It has an NVidia GForce 315 based video card, so it should be able to drive 1920×1080 just fine despite being from 2010. Note to self: drivers will not be updated; latest are from december 2016
That combined video combined with a E5700 Pentium Dual-Core processor should make it excellent for home work and card gaming:
The drive isn’t very fast, but is good enough for now: [WayBack] Western Digital WD Green WD10EARS 1TB 5400 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5″ Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive – Newegg.com
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/31
In addition to my post about Mac OS X: restarting Google Drive when it shows a spinning wheel, restarting a hanging Tunnelblick is even easier:
killall Tunnelblick
open -a Tunnelblick
–jeroen
Posted in Apple, bash, Development, iMac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/31
Via falconhunter “Voor langere ritten is een electrische auto wel degelijk een probleem want ‘t aantal oplaadpunten in de EU is een lachertje.Ik rij met mijn Tesla regelmatig van Amsterdam naar Berlijn. Lukt allemaal best hoor. en ik denk dat jij geen ervaring hebt en niet weet hoeveel laadmogelijkheden er zijn. Op de route naar Berlijn staan er 31 in mijn navigation system. Niet allemaal snelladers maar op dit moment meer dan genoeg. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=z8zu7Vqr8anA.ke1npfrDkN7M Daarnaast, openbare snellaadstations gebruik je alleen als je inderdaad een keer ver weg moet, 95% van de mensen laadt gewoon thuis.”
I’ve added zoom level (z) and centre (ll) parameters to make the map easier viewable:
–jeroen
Sources:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/30
I tried to power both Raspberry B+ and Raspberry 2 B devices via the USB ports of both a Fritz!Box 7490 and Fritz!Box 7360.
At first this works, but the Raspberry B+ devices over time would become unstable: not being able to ping and/or boot.
So below are some links on power requirements and powering Raspberry Pi A, B, A+, B+, 2B and zero.
Fazit/TL;DR: use an external power supply when available.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/30
Some links that helped me getting FTDI USB serial communication to Raspberry Pi systems going:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/29
Marco Cantú posted the below solution when ActiveX is missing in your File -> New dialog which I’ve paraphrased:
OK, you can try this.
- Close RAD Studio/Delphi.
- Open the registry editor.
- Under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER, open the Known IDE Packages\Delphi — that is something like HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Embarcadero\BDS\18.0\Known IDE Packages\Delphi —
- Search for the
delphicompro240.bpl, entry
- Edit it: remove the
__ (double-underscore) pre-pended to the value (Untitled). In other word, change “__(Untitled)” into “(Untitled)“.
- Close registry editor.
- Open the IDE.
I ran it it recently and was glad this worked.
–jeroen
Source: Hey! I have a new Delphi :)…Great! And what to do now with my favorite…
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