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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/06
The algorithm got me to the first video of this list: [Wayback/Archive] pierogi engineering – YouTube – search – hard drive
It’s similar to a longer second video that also does balancing using the gyroscopic effect of the moving platters.
Nice!
Video links:
Posted in 18650, Batteries, Development, Hardware, Hardware Development, HDD, Li-Ion, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/06
Everytime when installing a pfSense router from scratch, I seem to re-learn a few of the below quirks. So it was finally time to document them (:
Quite a few of my pfSense configurations are just doing routing between various networks, should not provide DHCP leases and do not always need or have a WAN connected (i.e. they are LAN-only).
Posted in Communications Development, Conference Topics, Conferences, Cyberchef, Development, DHCP, Encoding, Event, Hardware, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, MikroTik, Network-and-equipment, pfSense, Power User, routers, Software Development, SSH, TCP, TLS, UDP | Tagged: 8846 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/01/05
At the time of writing (during the Covid-19 Pandemic) the [Wayback/Archive] Product Comparison – GL.iNet contains the below products.
I got 3 of them (2 are variations of the same model) and their quality/price ratio is great, even with the prices that risen during the 2020-onwards global chip shortage.
Posted in Ethernet, GL-AR300M, GL.iNet, GL.iNET GL-SFT1200, Hardware, Network-and-equipment, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/26
TL;DR: avoid Digitus AC fans, but use DC case fans with built-in/external temperature controller plus 12V or USB-step-up power supply and optionally fan grilles/meshes.
A while ago, I bought a 7U shallow 19-inch rack cabinet to house some of our network equipment for the offices and other rooms at the top floor: [Wayback/Archive] DIGITUS Professional Network Wall Housing – Soho Wall Cabinet: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories
Since it was to be mounted in the boiler room, which is on the top floor under a flat roof, it would get warm so I wanted fans installed in it under or over the air vents in the housing (the cabinet is delivered as flat-pack with parts pictured below and requires about half an hour assembly time):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/26
Anxious to see how many routers have improved their algorithms to prevent Bufferfloat.
[Wayback/Archive] Bufferbloat, The Internet, And How To Fix It | Hackaday
The following YouTube videos in it are embedded below the blog signature:
Posted in Communications Development, Development, Internet protocol suite, LifeHacker, Network-and-equipment, Power User, routers, TCP, UDP | Tagged: bufferbloat, latency, jitter, WiFi, Linux, OpenWRT | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/25
This is actually the WireGuard package you can install on pfSense CE 2.5.2 and higher: [Wayback/Archive] rcmcdonald91/pfSense-pkg-WireGuard: This is a port of the original WireGuard UI bits as implemented by Netgate in pfSense 2.5.0 to a package suitable for rapid iteration and more frequent updating on future releases of pfSense.
Note that the source code mentions a lot of web-technologies but that is because the majority of the code is the pfSense plugin. Underneath it pulls the actual build from [Wayback/Archive] git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-freebsd/snapshot which is almost exclusively C code.
Like WireGuardNT on Windows, it uses a high performance kernel mode driver.
Some more links on it:
Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Event, git, GitHub, Hardware, Network-and-equipment, pfSense, Power User, routers, Software Development, Source Code Management, Tailscale | Tagged: 11281, 73 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/19
Since GL.iNET does not support site-to-site “Peer to Peer” OpenVPN (only “Remote Access” is supported) which is needed to route to/from the networks on both sides of the connection. the below did fail.
Below was what I hoped to function.
Some links that should get me started (though my situation is a tad more difficult, see below):
Posted in Ethernet, Firewall, Fritz!, Fritz!Box, GL-AR300M, GL.iNet, GL.iNET GL-SFT1200, Hardware, Infrastructure, Network-and-equipment, pfSense, routers | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/12
I wonder if this has changed over the last few years since this got published early 2023: [Wayback/Archive] Memory Bandwidth Per Core and Per Socket for Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC
While we are looking at bandwidth per core, the performance per core has increased by 2.5-3x over the past decade.
Posted in CPU, Hardware, Intel CPUs, Memory, Power User | Tagged: AI, HPC | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/09
For my link archive a router I bought a few years back: [Wayback/Archive] GL-SFT1200 Secure Wi-Fi Router On The Go – AC1200 Dual-Band Gigabit Wireless Internet Router | IPv6 | USB 2.0 | MU-MIMO | 128MB RAM | Repeater Bridge | Access Point-M Mode: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories
I needed it because from prior experience, I knew GL.iNEt can support a special Wireless Repeater mode where it still functions as a router (hiding the LAN/WLAN behind NAT)
Two physical drawbacks likely due to the portable nature:
the plastic RJ45 ports are slightly too wide which means that these keep falling out [Wayback/Archive] Inline® Dust cover, for RJ45 socket, color: green, 100pcs. Pack: Amazon.de: Electronics & PhotoOne firmware drawback: it shipped with v3.212 for which I could not find release notes. Luckily the firmware v3.215 I upgraded to had: [Wayback/Archive] Firmware v3.215 is released – Technical Support – GL.iNet.
Links to product and manuals (the paper manual are just two thin sheets, but the on-line documentation is OK; I was surprised WireGuard and Tor were supported!):
Posted in Communications Development, Development, DHCP, Ethernet, GL.iNet, GL.iNET GL-SFT1200, Hardware, Internet protocol suite, Network-and-equipment, Power User, routers, UDP, WiFi, Windows, WinSCP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/08
Want: [Wayback/Archive] Marijn Pool on Twitter: “Even een paar poortjes labelen dat ze niet gebruikt kunnen worden. Overkill? Neeee, gewoon mooi 😘 Gemaakt in de @maakplek”
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 