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SCANSNAP iX100 SCANNER REPAIR MANUAL – PFU Ricoh Store

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/28

Ordered because all of a sudden, my scanner would only charge over USB, but not connect to any computer any more over USB (likekly because the Micro-USB connector on the mainboard was broken which is odd after just a few 100 inserts which is odd as it should last 10k+ cycles according to USB hardware – Wikipedia) [WaybackSave/Archive] SCANSNAP iX100 SCANNER REPAIR MANUAL – PFU Ricoh Store.

It costs only USB 0.00, so I hope they will send it outside of the USA.

When ordering, you have to agree with these:

When I don’t receive the manual, hopefully the translated version of this video will be of help: [WaybackSave/Archive] Reparación Scanner Fujitsu ScanSnap – Puerto De Carga Micro USB – YouTube -> Fujitsu ScanSnap Scanner Repair – Micro USB Charging Port – YouTube.

Como me pasa muchas veces esto grabe este video. Me piden que repare algo que ya intentaron reparar de la manera incorrecta.

->

As this happens to me many times, I recorded this video. I am asked to repair something that they already tried to repair incorrectly.

Queries:

--jeroen

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Eric Reinhart on Twitter: “Yes, there is no intrinsic meaning or purpose in your life. This is difficult; it’s also the reason there’s possibility for you. The task of living is to invent meaning and purpose, and then invent it again. It’s work. Much of the time it’s painful. Sometimes, it’s also joy. 3/”/ Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/28

Food for thought: [Wayback/Archive] Eric Reinhart on Twitter: “Yes, there is no intrinsic meaning or purpose in your life. This is difficult; it’s also the reason there’s possibility for you. The task of living is to invent meaning and purpose, and then invent it again. It’s work. Much of the time it’s painful. Sometimes, it’s also joy. 3/”

The full thread is at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @_Eric_Reinhart on Thread Reader App.

–jeroen

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Some links on 12V ~18Ah UPS replacement batteries

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/27

The cells for the APC RBC7 and RBC55 UPS battery packs are all the same: 12V varying from 17Ah to 22Ah, has M5 leads for mounting the cables, and dimensions of ~76.5 * 181.5 * 167.5 mm

These cells are collectively named UB12180 but searching that term will get you prices that are not far from the APC ones, and APC wants to charge you an arm and a leg for them (around EUR 75 per cell).

Searching for the individual cell capacity will get you better offers.

Related blog posts:

Some links for finding them; maybe around Black Friday (it’s in a few days: 2024-11-29) I can really good deals:

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IPv4 subnet/CIDR table from OccupytheWeb on Twitter: “Network Basics for Hackers: Subnetting, Subnet Masks and CIDR Notation …”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/27

I wrote about programs and scripts doing IPv4 subnet calculation, but sometimes it is easier to have a table at hand, so here is the one I found at [Wayback/Archive] OccupytheWeb on Twitter: “Network Basics for Hackers: Subnetting, Subnet Masks and CIDR Notation #networks #networkbasics #subnetting #infosec #networks4hackers #cyberwarrior #cyberwarrior #networkbasics #networkbasics subnet”

Notes:

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Jeffrey | JKCTech on X: “Dit is echt 1 van de aller mooiste edge cases voor een licht sensor die ik ooit heb gezien… https://t.co/wkm8ztbHI9” / X

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/26

[Wayback/Archive] Jeffrey | JKCTech on X: “Dit is echt 1 van de aller mooiste edge cases voor een licht sensor die ik ooit heb gezien… “

It references a movie by Dutch humor site (often on the wrong side of humor) Dumpert:

[Wayback/Archive] DUMPERT – Ambulance naast lichtsensor flat =

which they also put on YouTube: [Wayback/Archive] Ambulance + lichtsensor = flatrave! #shorts – YouTube.

It teaches to adjust the light sensors so they don’t kick in turning the light off too soon after it gets dark.

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Dan Hon on Twitter: “repost for posterity” (agile pitfalls)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/26

[Wayback/Archive] Dan Hon on Twitter: “repost for posterity”

–jeroen

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For the USA, the TRS-80 PC-1 was the “The Trash Computer That Became Your Phone”; the rest of the world could enjoy the hardware identical Sharp PC-1210/1211/1212 years earlier

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/25

Earlier this year, I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] The Trash Computer That Became Your Phone – YouTube which discusses the Tandy  TRS-80 Pocket Computer PC-1, . The video includes a lot of history about Tandy Corporation, Charles Tandy and Radio Shack including quite a few bits I didn’t know yet.

It was part of the Tandy Pocket Computer, and succeeded by the Z80 powered TRS-80 Pocket Computer PC-2 (which was actually a rebadged Sharp PC-1500).

The TRS-80 Pocket Computer PC-1 itself was also a rebadged Pocket Computer, this time a Sharp PC-1211 powered by a duo of 4-bit CPUs so totally incompatible with the PC-2. Actually none of the Tandy Pocket Computer line were compatible with each other (nor with the desktop TRS-80 which itself was incompatible TRS-80 Color Computer). With the PC-4 and on Tandy even switched to Casio as manufacturer, then back to Sharp for the final PC-8.

Anyway: this video was a trip down memory lane and reliving my 2012 blog post The calculators that got me into programming (via: calculators : Algorithms for the masses – julian m bucknall), and I was glad that by now there are more videos covering the calculator I started with, for instance via [Wayback/Archive] sharp pc-1211 – YouTube:

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Hopefully this has made it into a set by now: LEGO IDEAS – This Is Fine

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/25

Often it can take a long time for first getting 100 votes, then via milestones 1000, 5000, 10000 and a long review phase to become an actual set.

Hopefully by now [Wayback/Archive] LEGO IDEAS – This Is Fine has become a set or at least someone used Bricklink Studio designer and uploaded the model or instructions.

Edit 20241125:

Nope, LEGO decided they didn’t want to make money of this set as communicated in their [Wayback/Archive] LEGO IDEAS – This Is Fine: Official LEGO Comments

Unfortunately, the LEGO Review Board has decided that we will not produce this project as a set.

But others did:

Looking at the price difference between these two, LEGO could have made quite a bit of money.

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Not just on a new tab: MacOS chrome crashes when command + shift + i is pressed on a new tab [333424895] – Chromium

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/23

April 2024 this bug was reported: [Wayback/Archive] chrome crashes when command + shift + i is pressed on a new tab [333424895] – Chromium

That one was fixed, but it looks shortcuts like Command (⌘) + Shift + I still break Chrome when used on a tab pointing to a web-site.

Hopefully the original fix at [Wayback/Archive] Fix crash in sharing menu (5449679) · Gerrit Code Review will help people fixing the standing issue as well.

Related (I plan to file a bug report when the number of my open tabs is closer to zero from the current 200+):

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GHP1989 to WHY2025: Dutch hacker camps from the past and the future – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/22

A long, since 1989, tradition is the Quadrennial Dutch hacker convention.

A nice video summarising all of them is at [Wayback/Archive] GHP1989 to WHY2025: Dutch hacker camps from the past and the future – YouTube

The upcoming [Wayback/Archive] WHY2025 hacker camp convention is covered starting at 44:42.

--jeroen

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