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Memory Bandwidth Per Core and Per Socket for Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC

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.

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GL.iNet 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

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

  • It is USB-C powered (the power brick delivers 3A at 5V, but in reality it uses far less).
  • Mode and reset buttons are behind the antenna (see picture below).
  • It is specced as AC1200, but that’s just theoretical a number.
  • It came with EU and UK plug.

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)

connection method

Two physical drawbacks likely due to the portable nature:

  1. 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 & Photo
  2. no holes in the base to hang it to a wall

One 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!):

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Unpatched ethernet markers for your patch panel by Marijn Pool on Twitter at @maakplek

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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Emergency power resets on Lenovo, HP, Dell, and Acer laptops – The Old New Thing

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/05

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Emergency power resets on Lenovo, HP, Dell, and Acer laptops – The Old New Thing

Links from the article (archived in case of link rot)

--jeroen

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Badger 2040 – Badger + Accessory Kit – Pimoroni

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/02

An image of Badger 2040Want: [Wayback/Archive] Badger 2040 – Badger + Accessory Kit – Pimoroni

A hackable, programmable badge with E Ink® display, powered by Raspberry Pi RP2040.

Via

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Is this the ultimate XKCD “Dependency” derivative?

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/29

xkcd modern digital infrastructure torn down by a satisfied looking cat

Besides the August 2025 XKCD infrastructure dependency inspired cartoon on the right, the more recent and great [Wayback/Archive] XCKD: Dependency derivative below is a monumental piece as it combines the recent:

  • fiber outage of the Internet Archive
  • DoS of Cloudflare by itself
  • AWS us-east-1 dependencies outage
  • Crowdstrike DoS of Windows machines
  • framework-du-jour mentality in the JavaScript world
  • many more¹

Image [Wayback/Archive] 36247840bf294a9d.png (1080×1389) from [Wayback/Archive] xyla 🐀🪇: “someone pls alt text this shit…” – buy shitpost cheap:

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Posted in *nix, Amazon.com/.de/.fr/.uk/..., AWS Amazon Web Services, C, CDN (Content Delivery Network), Cloud, Cloudflare, cURL, Development, Fun, Hardware, Infrastructure, ISP, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Network-and-equipment, Node.js, npm, Power User, Rust, Scripting, Software Development, Web Development | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

Interesting; Meshtastic

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/27

ImageOn my list of hardware/software to experiment with is [Wayback/Archive] Meshtastic:

An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices

Via [Wayback/Archive] @jilles_com@infosec.exchange on Twitter: “Will be taking to meshtastic.org Lora 433MHz modules to @hotelhacker. Might be cool if more people could bring some to setup a larger mesh and play with them. amzn.eu/d/aCgULy4

Products:

For both boards, this holds:

1. The Meshtastic program is not pre-installed on this product. If you need to install, please check the steps:

github.com/geeksville/Meshtastic-Android/blob/master/README.md

github.com/meshtastic/meshtastic-device/releases

2. If GPS does not work, the following situations may occur:

Install the Meshtastic firmware before and now reset the GPS when you switch to another firmware.

Reset steps: github.com/Xinyuan-LilyGO/LilyGo-LoRa-Series/tree/master/firmware/GPS_%20reset_test

3. If GPS is weak indoors, it can be used outdoors

4. The GPS antenna is not installed stably, you can check if the interface is attached to the GPS antenna

Related:

–jeroen

Posted in Development, Hardware, Hardware Development, Hardware Interfacing, IoT Internet of Things, LoRa - Long Range wireless communications network, Network-and-equipment, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Do WiFi-cables (German: WLAN-Kabel) exist?

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/21

There is this German joke about “WLAN-Kabel” (WiFi-cable) ** that goes with (Germans mocking about Internet and technology still being uncharted territory*).

Yes, they do!

There is [Wayback/Archive] IWLAN RCoax Cable | Industrial Wireless LAN | Siemens Global:

* Neuland

See:

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Posted in Hardware, LifeHacker, Mastodon, Power User, SocialMedia, Twitter, Uncategorized, WiFi | Tagged: , , , | Leave a Comment »

Naming devices and animals

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/18

Via [Wayback/Archive] Diederik Jekel on Twitter: “@CaAl @michielveenstra Mijn montage PC’s voor video-editing heette Edit Piaf, Chiel Montage en Antje Montero. Kwam in brainstorm naar boven met mijn maatje Jon.”:

  • Video-editing equipment:

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My geigercounter (thanks Dinsdale for doing almost all the work!)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/31

Thanks [Wayback/Archive] Dinsdale. – D💉ane ديانا дiане Blijf thuis ⭕️🇺🇦 (@Dinsdal85174312) / Twitter for all the effort (solder, 3D-print, assemble) to get it to work!

Documentation links:

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