I am using the [Wayback/Archive] HomeSpot NFC-Enabled Bluetooth Audio Receiver for Sound System – HomeSpot Digital to connect my digital audio devices (laptop, smartphone, etc) to my analog amplifier.
Verdict: it is OK-ish.
Archive for July, 2024
Tested: HomeSpot NFC-Enabled Bluetooth Audio Receiver for Sound System
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/08
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HELP e60 bulb type | BMW-Driver.net Forums
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/05
To make sure my spare light bulb set is complete, the list from [Wayback/Archive] HELP e60 bulb type | BMW-Driver.net Forums (same for E61):
details for the E60 are
Dipped/Low Beam: H7 (499)
Main/High Beam: H7 (499)
Side/Parking Lamp: W5W (501) “THESE ARE YOUR ANGEL EYES”
Front Fog Lamp: HB4 9006
Front Indicator: PY21W
Tail Lamp: P21W
Rear Fog Lamp: P21W
Reversing Lamp: W16W
Rear Indicator: PY21W
Stop/Tail Lamp: P21W
Note to self: the indicator lamps (PY21W and W5W) are all orange.
Query: [Wayback/Archive] bmw e60 signal lights side bulb type – Google Search
--jeroen
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25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build – Michael Stapelberg (forget MikroTik for this)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/05
Two interesting posts on fast network routing:
- [Wayback/Archive] 25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build – Michael Stapelberg
- [Wayback/Archive] How I configured and then promptly returned a MikroTik CCR2004 router for Fiber7 (2021) – Michael Stapelberg
… I also ran into weird DNS slow-downs, which I didn’t fully diagnose. In Wireshark, it looked like my machine sent 2 DNS queries but received only 1 DNS result, and then waited for a timeout.
… Since I last used MikroTik in 2014 the software seems to have barely changed. I wish they finally implemented some table-stakes features like DNS resolution for DHCP hostnames
–jeroen
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Interesting thread on the usefulness of running a syslog server and being able to write to it
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/04
For my link archive:
- [Wayback/Archive] jilles.com 🔜 MCH2022 🏳️🌈 on Twitter: “My Ubiquity setup stopped working (again). This happens way to often in my opinion. I have setup a monitoring environment to debug the issues and consider it not reliable enough for the amount of money I spend on it.”
- [Wayback/Archive] Rick on Twitter: “@jilles_com Waar heb je problemen mee? En ik tijdelijk een syslog server draaien. Dan je kun je gemakkelijker de logs doorspitten (kiwi heeft een simpele gratis versie)”
- [Wayback/Archive] jilles.com on Twitter: “@RickvanSoest Ik draai een grafana setup met syslog, snmp ingest en een losse traceroute om uit te sluiten of het aan de provider of de hardware ligt.”
- [Wayback/Archive] jilles.com on Twitter: “@RickvanSoest Software upgrades die falen. In dit geval een PoE switch die op z’n gat lag. In dit geval iets dat met een reboot gefixt is. Maar in geval van de upgrade was het een compleet nieuwe configuratie.”
In todays cross-platform world, it pays if your tooling can send logging to syslog.
Though originating from the CP/M and SunOS background, I have done most of my professional development work in Windows back-ends and front-ends, so here are some links relevant to that:
- Via [Wayback/Archive] .net – how to write to kiwi syslog server log c# – Stack Overflow:
- [Wayback/Archive] Janik Vonrotz – Forward Windows event log entries to syslog server
- Via [Wayback/Archive] features [Ararat Synapse]:
- Edit 20240811: new location of this unit, Thanks [Wayback/Archive] Steven Kamradt!
[Wayback/Archive] delphi-synapse/slogsend.pas at master · dimmaq/delphi-synapse (note this is from an old fork , I have to dig for a more recent synapse git repository as their main repository is SVN based [Wayback/Archive] Ararat Synapse download | SourceForge.net)
[Wayback/Archive] synapse/slogsend.pas at master · geby/synapse · GitHub - [Wayback/Archive] slogsend
BSD SYSLOG protocol
Used RFC: RFC-3164
- Edit 20240811: new location of this unit, Thanks [Wayback/Archive] Steven Kamradt!
- Via [Wayback/Archive] Syslog & Windows Event Log Utilities – I made this – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]:
--jeroen
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Cool dphacks.com Raspberry #CM4 carrier board with Ethernet and NVME
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/03
Another thing to try: [Wayback/Archive] makerbymistake on Twitter: “Can’t help myself and have to post more pics of this thing. Cheers to @Raspberry_Pi for providing great documentation on how to make a #CM4 carrier board. Thanks to so many folks that shared their designs also. So many more ideas in my head, so little time.”
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FreeDOS turns 30 shortly after FreeBSD turns 31 • The Register
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/02
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In potentially multi-threaded .NET Console applications, ensure `Console.EnsureInitialized` gets called for at least output, and potentially for input
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/02
An interesting issue at [Wayback/Archive] Khalid ⚡️: “I just used #JetBrainsRider to find a deadlock scenario in #dotnet that I would not have guessed would deadlock. The Console needs to be initialized since the initialization uses a lock the first time. Using it in parallel tasks causes deadlocks. #dotnet This is excellent tooling!…” – Mastodon.
It boils down to a non-public Console.EnsureInitialized method being called from multiple threads causes deadlocks. So far, it looks it can only be called as part of referring to Console.In or Console.Out.
I could only find one potentially related bug, which is [Wayback/Archive] NativeRuntimeEventSource behaving poorly in conjunction with other providers · Issue #88011 · dotnet/runtime · GitHub and being worked on, for .NET 9 or later:
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Reminder to self: write a Bookmarklet that shortens YouTube URLs to the youtu.be ones
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/02
When sharing YouTube videos via the mobile apps, they are shortened using the youtu.be domain.
So this is a reminder to write a Bookmarklet based URL-shortener myself for this and extend it so it also understands the various YouTube URL parameters (like start time).
The transformation is documented:
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MSI installation error 1603 – Windows Server | Microsoft Learn
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/01
This happens a lot with apps that auto-update before package manager contain that update: [Wayback/Archive] MSI installation error 1603 – Windows Server | Microsoft Learn
Cause
You may receive this error message if any one of the following conditions is true:
- Windows Installer is attempting to install an app that is already installed on your PC.
- The folder that you are trying to install the Windows Installer package to is encrypted.
- The drive that contains the folder that you are trying to install the Windows Installer package to is accessed as a substitute drive.
- The SYSTEM account does not have Full Control permissions on the folder that you are trying to install the Windows Installer package to. You notice the error message because the Windows Installer service uses the SYSTEM account to install software.
Query: [Wayback/Archive] Exit code was ‘1603’ – Google Search
--jeroen
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Rode Kruis on Twitter: “#hittetip voor de komende dagen en de zomer. 👉 Zo herken je de symptomen van oververhitting:…”
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/01
Belangrijke tips voor het begin van oververhitting en wanneer je echt 112 moet bellen.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 