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512GB to 8TB for your M1: Mac Studio Storage Upgrade – Made EASY with Custom Parts – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/24

Video: [Wayback/Archive] Mac Studio Storage Upgrade – Made EASY with Custom Parts – YouTube

Tweets in [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @dosdude1 on Thread Reader App

  1. Just finished an awesome upgrade on an M1 Mac Studio, upgrading the stock 512GB of storage to its maximum of 8TB. Thanks to Gilles of Polysoft Services reverse-engineering and designing a custom storage module PCBs, I was able to perform the upgrade with ease!
  2. Be sure to check out my video of the complete upgrade process, found here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDFCurB3-0Q

The PCB are by [Wayback/Archive] Polysoft – centre de services à Tours/[WaybackSave/Archive] Gilles AUREJAC (@gillesaurejac) / X Hopefully, they will be available for sale soon.

Tweet images:

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Ends in a few hours: The Jordan Mechner Prince of Persia Challenge! | ThecePlay

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/15

Memories of the Apple ][ and //e past, though I won’t participate (my eye hand coordination is mediocre at best, so even completing a game will be a challenge:

[Wayback/Archive] The Jordan Mechner Prince of Persia Challenge! | ThecePlay

Via [Wayback/Archive] Jordan Mechner on X: “@sarsij @sujoygolan Hi, you can play 1990 @princeofpersia in your browser or in emulation via @internetarchive. Links are posted here (for @TwinGalaxies Prince of Persia challenge, with prizes–ends midnight tonight)”

More links:

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The Blast-RADIUS bomb logo reminded me of “Kaputt” in the original Castle Wolfenstein game

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/12

There is a Blast-RADIUS exploit that makes many uses of RADIUS vulnerable as they depend on MD5, and MD5 collisions have been sped up considerably. Basically only RADIUS TLS seems safe now.

The Blast-RADIUS logo on the right reminded me about using grenades in a game 40+ years old, so lets digress: Archive.org is such a great site, with for instance the original Apple ][ Manual of Castle Wolfenstein by MUSE Software (the manual is written in Super-Text which they also sold):

The PDF from [Archive] Instruction Manual: Castle Wolfenstein from Muse Software : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive is at

[Archive.org PDF view/Archive.is] archive.org/download/1982-castle-wolfenstein/1982-castle-wolfenstein.pdf

Screenshot

The trick in that game when entering a room full of SS-officers was to throw a grenade into a chest of grenades in the middle of that room, then quickly leaving the room, waiting a few seconds then re-entering that room.

Not many moves further, you would find the chest with the war plans and find the exit, then finish the game.

Back to Blast RADIUS

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Unprotect a Word Doc on Mac – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/22

Needed these (in retrospect) simple steps because someone made a form with so much whitespace under the fields on a document that had to be printed for a physical signatures that otherwise too many trees would die.

[Wayback/Archive] Unprotect a Word Doc on Mac – YouTube.

Via [Wayback/Archive] word 2011 macos unprotect document – Recherche Google.

  1. In the menu, choose “File” -> “Save As…”
  2. Click “Options…”
  3. Click “Show All”
  4. Click “Security”
  5. Click “Unprotect Document…”
  6. Click “OK”
  7. Click “Save”

–jeroen

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Be aware: do not skip MacOS full upgrades (as you might miss out crucial firmware updates)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/08

One of the odd things with Apple computers it that firmware updates are part of the MacOS updates.

From this Dutch thread:

[Wayback/Archive] WheelieNick on Twitter: “@jpluimers Welke firmware precies weet ik niet maar je moet er vanuit gaan als je naar iets wat boven high sierra staat wil gaan dat je altijd eerst naar high siërra moet. Niet van normaal siërra naar big sur bijvoorbeeld. Ik doe trouwens altijd tussenstappen, dus van high siërra naar”

I have bumped into this myself where I skipped an upgrade, then the Mac would not recognise certain media formatted with Apple File System – Wikipedia using intermediate versions of MacOS.

The intermediate versions of MacOS had introduced some firmware changes the newer MacOS version upgrade did not apply.

–jeroen

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ApplesSoft BASIC code which includes assembly language: Twitter bot AppleIIBot could run it!

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/20

This was a trip down memory lane where I was totally unaware that you could embed 6502 assembly language inside AppleSoft BASIC code.

It turns you can, and even better: the Twitter bot named AppleIIBot could execute it too!

Though I bumped into AppleIIBot during winter 2021, I published the BBC equivalent last week (see BBC trip down memory lane – 8bitkick/BBCMicroBot: Runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator) as that one got released earlier.

For the moment it is down because Elon blew up Twitter and shut down on 2022-11-05, but hopefully – like the BBC equivalent – it will resurface on a Mastodon instance somewhere in the future.

Luckily all old Tweets with code and rendering are still there, though you need a Twitter account to view them: Elon broke the feature of anonymous access seeing all messages in a thread.

Below the signature are the full Tweets that led me into it; the texts are these:

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Excel 2011/2010: Conditional formatting of TRUE / FALSE values in an Excel range

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/13

The conditional formatting feature in Excel is so cool!

If you use FALSE and TRUE expressions to check validity, you can easily make these red and green.

[Wayback/Archive] Conditional formatting of TRUE / FALSE values in an Excel 2010 range – Super User (thanks [Wayback/Archive] tbone for asking and [Wayback/Archive] digitxp for answering):

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Preventing to eject/unmount a MacOS drive (opposite of figuring out what prevents the unmount)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/01

Not long after Figuring out which processes are preventing to eject/unmount my MacOS Time Machine backup USB drive, I wanted to do the opposite: prevent /Volumes/Sandisk1TB from being ejected, as this is the “built-in” MicroSD card I use to store large or infrequently used files on (ISO and other disk images, drivers, hardware and software documentation, stuff to be installed on a fresh machine).

The opposite is straightforward: have a process keep at least one handle open on the Volume as per [Wayback] macos – How do I not accidentally eject external drives? – Ask Different (thanks [Wayback] kLy, [Wayback] dan and [Wayback] gerlos):

If your important external drive is mounted on the following mount point:

/Volumes/important_disk

Then you can protect it against an accidental removal by locking this mount point as opened. For this one very simple method consists in opening Terminal and doing this basic command:

$ cd /Volumes/important_disk

To get rid of this locking, you might type within the same Terminal window:

$ cd /

or you might as well just close this Terminal window ($ exit, or ⌃+D, or ⌘+W).

…

An even more elegant way to do it is open a screen session (just type screen in Terminal) and open the mount point from that session. This way you can even close Terminal, since the session will keep running in the background, until you reattach it and stop it (so there’s no need to keep a window open if you don’t need it). I guess you can even create an Automator action for it. For tips on screen see: [Wayback] kinnetica.com/2011/05/29/using-screen-on-mac-os-x

–jeroen

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Hopefully the stream capture will become available on YouTube: Insanely Great – CHM – The Apple Mac at 40

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/26

The drawback of evening live USA broadcasts is that most of Europe and Africa are asleep.

The Americas, Asia and Australia are awake, so I get it that [Wayback/Archive] Insanely Great – CHM – The Apple Mac at 40 was streamed live at 04:00 UTC at [Wayback/Archive] Computer History Museum – YouTube: live.

Hopefully the capture will be available soon.

Not holding my breath though as not response whatsoever from the moderator when I asked for it.

Via [Wayback/Archive] David Pogue on X: “40 years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh. Tonight, I’m hosting an astonishing event that reunites many of its creators: Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld, Susan Kare, Steve Capps, Bruce Horn, Guy Kawasaki, many more. Free livestream at 7 pm PT:”.

--jeroen.

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Print large PDF in Preview over several pages… – Apple Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/12/22

Summary of [Wayback/Archive] Print large PDF in Preview over several pages… – Apple Community:

  • Preview cannot
  • Acrobat Reader (formerly Adobe Reader) can; it is called “Poster” (also on Windows)

Via [Wayback/Archive] macos print pdf scaled over two pages – Google Search.

–jeroen

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