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Archive for August 14th, 2020

Copying photographic film with the Nikon D810 and a shoe box | Nikon Rumors

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/14

Cool idea:

Copying photographic film with the Nikon D810 and a shoe box by Anthony McKee (www.anthonymckee.com): While many photographers are keenly waiting for the new Nikon ES2 film digitising adapter set to arrive in stores, I have been making use of my own Nikon film copying kit that I put together a while ago using a Nikon

Source: [WayBackCopying photographic film with the Nikon D810 and a shoe box | Nikon Rumors

 

–jeroen

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Firewall whitelist for Windows Update

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/14

In the end, this list worked on a Fritz!Box, but I still do not know which other subdomains and protocols they silently let pass:

windowsupdate.microsoft.com
*.windowsupdate.microsoft.com
*.update.microsoft.com
*.windowsupdate.com
download.windowsupdate.com
download.microsoft.com
*.download.windowsupdate.com
test.stats.update.microsoft.com
ntservicepack.microsoft.com
update.microsoft.com
*.update.microsoft.com
*.download.microsoft.com
windowsupdate.com
wustat.windows.com
login.live.com
mp.microsoft.com
*.mp.microsoft.com
www.update.microsoft.com
support.microsoft.com
www.msftconnecttest.com

Some source materials:

–jeroen

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Why do so many of the small heatsinks use 3M 9448A Double Coated Tissue Tape?

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/08/14

I wonder why so many of the small heatsinks you can buy on for instance Amazon or ebay, use 3M 9448A Double Coated Tissue Tape.

The 3M 8805 Thermally Conductive Adhesive Transfer Tape is so much better (or the twice as thick 3M 8810 Thermally Conductive Adhesive Transfer Tape).

The first is for just sticking, the second for sticking and heat transfer:

Examples of the wrong stuff:

–jeroen

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