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Archive for August, 2025

Figuring out the version of a GitLab instance

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/05

The easiest way to figure out the version number of a GitLab instance is to browse to the /help bage.

But be aware the version number only shows when you are signed in.

At the time of writing [Wayback/Archive] Help · GitLab (gitlab.com/help) showed this:

GitLab Enterprise Edition 15.7.0-pre ff1158094d6

The link showed [Wayback/Archive] Commits · ff1158094d6 · GitLab.org / GitLab · GitLab.

When nog logged on, the help page showed this:

GitLab Enterprise Edition

Via [Wayback/Archive] Markdown rendering of double indented lists fails (#33471) · Issues · GitLab.org / GitLab FOSS · GitLab.

Confirmed by [Wayback/Archive] How to check the version of GitLab? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Maxim).

–jeroen

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BMW E61 rear light water fix damage – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/04

One of my BMW E61 rear light fixtures leaked: [Wayback/Archive] BMW E61 rear light water fix damage – YouTube

[Wayback/Archive] Tail Light Leak…? | BMW M5 Forum and M6 Forums

Personally I’d start with new gaskets.

In my case, it was the light fixture itself leaking, not the gaskets, so either the work in the video is needed, or a second hand tail light.

Queries:

--jeroen

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Windows: editing the RLU list of vncviewer.exe

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/04

Every now and then you make a typo when accessing remote systems through UltraVNC  vncviewer.exe (I did the worst: thinking I had hit Enter to select the most recent connection, but typing a password instead).

I could not find settings in the registry, nor a vncviewer.ini file, so I used Process Monitor and filtered all events for the most recently started vncviewer.exe to figure out where it would store configuration files.

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Power User, VNC/Virtual_Network_Computing, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 | Leave a Comment »

WHY2025 Badge Case by Dynom | Download free STL model | Printables.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/02

If you are going to WHY2025, then you get an awesome badge.

Since the specs have been out for a while, now it’s time to find and 3D-print an enclosure for it.

A good start is this one:

https://www.printables.com/model/1372316-why2025-badge-case

jeroen

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Weigering monument te schrappen uit register toch appellabel besluit, ondanks ambtshalve bevoegdheid – Wieringa Advocaten

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/01

[Wayback/Archive] Weigering monument te schrappen uit register toch appellabel besluit, ondanks ambtshalve bevoegdheid – Wieringa Advocaten

De Afdeling vernietigt de uitspraak van de rechtbank en overweegt hiertoe als volgt. Volgens de Afdeling volgt uit de systematiek van de Awb dat indien een ambtshalve beslissing om het register te wijzigen een beschikking is, het verzoek van een belanghebbende om een zodanige beschikking te nemen een aanvraag is in de zin van artikel 1:3 van de Awb. De afwijzing van de aanvraag is hiermee ook een beschikking. De ambtshalve wijziging van het Rijksmonumentenregister is een ambtshalve besluit waartegen wel kan worden opgekomen bij de bestuursrechter. Als de afwijzing van een verzoek tot wijziging niet wordt aangemerkt als een besluit op een aanvraag, dan staat tegen de weigering alleen de gang naar de burgerlijke rechter open. Dit vindt de Afdeling onwenselijk.

--jeroen

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note to self: figure out which browser to use for MV2 (Manifest Version 2) plugins and how to (re)install them

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/01

Edit 20250802:

Migrating from Chrome to Edge was way easier than anticipated: it imported my account, bookmarks and my extensions automagically. With one exception (uBlock Origin), most of them were enabled too, apart from a few that Edge needed extra permission confirmation for and the ones that Chrome had disabled. All of these could be enabled/installed after installing uBlock Origin manually.

Then I had go to through the tedious process of re-signing in various accounts (like mail, blogging, social media, etc).

These things did not import automatically and needed manual adjustment:

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Some notes on testing locally modified chocolatey packages

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/01

A few notes after I helped updating [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | SetACL (Portable) 3.0.6.0 to version 3.1.2.0 and [Wayback/Archive] Updates glab from 1.22.0 to 1.24.1; fixes #2 by jpluimers · Pull Request #3 · corbob/ChocoPackages.

As the burden on maintainers (not just Chocolatey ones) is high, not all packages get updated soon after new underlying software versions arrive.

Which means the maintainers are often very happy when an occasional user helps and preferably sends in a pull request.

That brings me to the an important point IN DOCUMENTATION DO NOT LIMIT EXAMPELS TO ONLY ABBREVIATED PARAMETERS OR VERBS as that scares away occasional and novice users of your software.

Chocolatey documentation is no exception on this, hence this blog post meant for people other than maintaining chocolatey packages on a day to day base.

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