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Archive for February 14th, 2025

Cleaning PlexWriters – Gammitin (Ben) 💾 on X: “@jpluimers Usually the trays are a little sticky on these: I take them apart, grease up the tray mechanism and any gears (use lithium grease), clean the laser with Isopropyl alcohol, clean all the connectors with WD40 contact cleaner, retro-bright the front – job done!”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/14

Back in the days, Plextor made a series of great PlexWriter CD and DVD/RW devices. This is how to get them working again:

[Wayback/Archive] Gammitin (Ben) 💾 on X: “@jpluimers Usually the trays are a little sticky on these: I take them apart, grease up the tray mechanism and any gears (use lithium grease), clean the laser with Isopropyl alcohol, clean all the connectors with WD40 contact cleaner, retro-bright the front – job done!” (retrobright thread further down this blog-post)

Via [Wayback/Archive] Gammitin (Ben) 💾 on X: “I’ve fully refurbished the Plextor PlexWriter on the bottom, inside and out, I need to get these other three sorted! 👍 💿📀📀📀”

[Wayback/Archive] GZEEApaXQAAB1Tz.jpg (1130×1200)

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Just released: the 2025 Annotated Edition of Mastering Delphi 5 by Marco Cantù

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/14

This just in: [Wayback/Archive] downloads.marcocantu.com/delphi5annotated.pdf

It has close to 200 annotations in some 300 pages plus a new preface, which is also at [Wayback/Archive] Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition

This brings the book current, but also showing how good Delphi is in backward compatibility.

Via:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Marco Cantù: “Blog post “Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition” at blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2025-fe…” — Bluesky
  2. [Wayback/Archive] marcocantu.com-Books

--jeroen

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Branch removal: cartoon by Mike Luckovinch on how dictators operate

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/14

Not limited to the current rise of far right dictators: a repetition of the steps taken a century ago: [Wayback/Archive] Branch removal – Mike Luckovich, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (actual link not visible in the EU because of GDPR: [Wayback] AJC GDPR Support)

Branch removal: Executive branch of a tree with chainsaw at the tip having cut of the legislative and judicial branches.

Branch removal: Executive branch of a tree with chainsaw at the tip having cut of the legislative and judicial branches.

Via

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Fun with Windows Containers – Popping Calc

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/14

Running Kubernetes containers on Windows means taking into account a different can of worms than running them on Linux.

For example [Wayback/Archive] Fun with Windows Containers – Popping Calc explains about the various isolation levels and privileges (through runAsUserName) and this helpful advice:

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Cloud, Containers, Docker, Infrastructure, Kubernetes (k8n), Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »