Interesting Power over Ethernet (PoE) capable router: [WayBack] Netgear Prosafe GS110TP – Tweakers
About the same price as [WayBack] Amazon.com: Netgear Prosafe GS110TP
–jeroen
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Netgear Prosafe GS110TP – Tweakers
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/24
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Using an Fritzbox as DECT-Repeater – PC-WELT
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/03
I totally forgot it was possible to usie an old Fritz!Box to act as a DECT repeater:
Um die Abdeckung von DECT für mobile Festnetztelefone zu verbessern, lässt sich eine ältere Fritzbox verwenden.
Source: [WayBack] Ältere Fritzbox als DECT-Repeater verwenden – PC-WELT
Via: [WayBack] Bludau Media – Google+
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homecomputerlab » Cisco 2511-RJ remote access terminal server
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/02
Relics from the serial communications history are still in use today: [WayBack] homecomputerlab » Cisco 2511-RJ remote access terminal server
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Tomato by shibby – upgrade procedure and cfg backup | LinksysInfo.org
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/24
Reminder to self: [WayBack] Tomato by shibby – upgrade procedure and cfg backup | LinksysInfo.org:
I keep a text file with the changes I’ve made after a fresh install and I keep the file updated as I make changes.
Re-configuring the router after that takes a bit of time, but it is not that bad. Toastman’s method (here) noted above as well as the methods described here and here can also be used, but I haven’t tried them.
which references:
- [WayBack] Using QOS – Tutorial and discussion | Page 3 | LinksysInfo.org
You need to save a file somewhere on or off the router, with the following command from the command line.nvram export –set >config.txt
This outputs the complete setup in useable text form, each line beginning with “nvram set”. This means it’s ready to input to the router without having to add the “nvram set” to every line. You could do this by ssh or telnet.
NOTE – you can only restore the whole config file to the original router. To configure a different router you need to cherry pick the important lines (see below)
e.g.
nvram set clkfreq=480,240,120
nvram set wl0_country=AU
nvram set wan_domain=freewifi
nvram commit - [WayBack] Tomato RAF Releases | Page 18 | LinksysInfo.org
save off the results of nvram export –quote, ie:
Code:
nvram export –quote > nvram_clean
after erasing, then subsequent changes are easy to find later with:
Code:
nvram export –quote | grep -Fvf nvram_clean
While not quite as readable or cut and paste friedly as –set, –quote is script friendly with the advantage that all entries are always a single line. - [WayBack] I’ve created a command-line NVRAM cfg file parser | LinksysInfo.org
Decodes Tomato cfg files into JSON so they can be changed and compared against other backups. Encodes JSON-formatted Tomato cfg key/value pairs into the Tomato cfg format.
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Solved: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay – The Spotify Community
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/17
[WayBack] Solved: Stuttering Audio Streaming To Apple TV Via AirPlay – The Spotify Community:
Try to disable Wifi multimedia (WMM) from your router’s WLAN settings
For my Tomato USB it was easy as described by [WayBack] Installing AirPlay on Tomato – 2017 Edition [StartupCTO]:
disabling WMM in Tomato. (Advanced Settings → Wireless).
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XW6600 WOL – stopped working on Windows 10 – my trusty APC PDU to the rescue
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/17
A long time ago I wrote in Mac/PC: sending Wake-on-LAN (WOL) packets « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff “I’ve succesfully woken up these machines: HP XW6600 running ESXi 5.1 ThinkPad W701U running Windows 7”.
The XW6600 have now been demoted to Windows 10 machines that I only need every now and then, so most of the time they are shutdown.
However, with the installation of Windows 10 however, they stopped reacting to WOL (Wake on LAN).
Per web-search results, I’ve tried all the permutations of the below settings to no avail.
Luckily, my trusty APC PDU AP7921 (and little sister AP7920) helped out: when setting the “Reboot Duration” to 30 seconds or more (so the power fully drains), it can be rebooted.
Note that since I bought these a long time ago, they have been replaced by these:
- AP7920 Rack PDU, Switched, 1U, 12A/208V, 10A/230V, (8)C13
- AP7921 Rack PDU, Switched, 1U, 16A, 208/230V, (8)C13
Firmwares:
- [WayBack] AP7xxx Switched & Metered Rack Power Distribution Unit Firmware Revision 3.7.4 AOS 3.9.0 – APC – Jordan
- [WayBack]Switched & Metered Rack Power Distribution Unit Firmware Revision 3.9.2 – APC – Jordan
Power usage:
- an XW66000 with 32 gigabytes of RAM and one hard disk takes between 0.6-1.2 Ampère of current, which at 230 Volt is 140-275 Watt.
- over one day that is between 3.4 and 6.6 kWh
Settings tried
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How Douglas Engelbart Invented the Future | Innovation | Smithsonian
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/15
Two decades before the personal computer, a shy engineer unveiled the tools that would drive the tech revolution
Don’t read this as a historic piece, but as the potential we are still going to experience what was not just sketched by a true visionary in 1968, but also demonstrated back then: [Archive.is] How Douglas Engelbart Invented the Future | Innovation | Smithsonian.
I am including one of the pictures below by Christie Hemm Klok that shows how far Engelbart was ahead of his time: not his initial invention of an input device (the mouse) “chord” kind.
After that, read about his 1968 presentation: The Mother of All Demos – Wikipedia
Finally, watch the video below, well worth watching the more than one and a half hours.
–jeroen
Via:
- [WayBack] Alan Cox – Google+: Resharing because it’s a great piece and it would be a shame if Douglas Englebart got overlooked…
- [WayBack] Ken Harbit (Pogi) – Google+: How Douglas Engelbart Invented the Future
- [WayBack] Wow, what a time to be alive… Oh wait Watch “The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)” on YouTube – DoorToDoorGeek “Stephen McLaughlin” – Google+
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Node-RED
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/11
Node-RED is a programming tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.It provides a browser-based editor that makes it easy to wire together flows using the wide range of nodes in the palette that can be deployed to its runtime in a single-click.
Seems one of the ways to automate our home: [WayBack] Node-RED, as it supports many input and output methods with all kinds of nodes between them:
input output inject debug catch status link link mqtt mqtt http http response websocket websocket tcp tcp udp udp serial serial
It is based on node.js, seems to need PM2 for running as a service, so I need to first figure out how well it runs on OpenSuSE (with more details than this gist).
After that I need to figure out how to version your configurations using git and document as it looks like the configurations sources are stored in JSON format [WayBack].
For resources:
- StackOverflow node-red tag
- Github node-red repositories
- nodered documentation to:
- get started (including Installation, Running, Adding non-stock Nodes, Upgrading, Creating your first and second flow, running on Docker / Windows)
- running on a device (Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone Black, Android) which needs extra device specific modules to hardware inputs/outputs
- communicating with a device (Arduino)
- running in the cloud (IBM Bluemix, SenseTecnic FRED, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure)
- user guide (including Configuration, Security, Logging, Command-line Admin, Writing Functions, Embedding into an existing app)
- cookbook (with many flows covering Basics, HTTP and MQTT)
- creating nodes (with a wall of information: Creating your first node, JavaScript File, HTML File, Storing Context, Node properties, Node credentials, Node appearance, Node status, Configuration nodes, Help style guide, Packaging, Internationalisation)
- flows (hundreds of them)
- get started (including Installation, Running, Adding non-stock Nodes, Upgrading, Creating your first and second flow, running on Docker / Windows)
Code is published as JSON, but I wish more examples also showed the visual representation.
Via: [WayBack] Now I can go to bed :-) Added node-red [1] to my setup and thanks to node-red-contrib-ui [2] (replaced by node-red-dashboard [3]) I can now generate ni… – Jan Wildeboer – Google+ who also provided the large screenshot below.
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Forticlient “the user might login in another computer”, never found the cause
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/25
Could only find one reference using “the user might login in another computer” – Google Search, who also could not find out why this error happened:
When trying to log in on FortiClient, I get an error message that says, “the user might login in another computer” I assume that could mean that I’m logged in on another machine elsewhere? I could not find any information confirming that.
[WayBack] Error Message | Fortinet Technical Discussion Forums
So I reached out to Fortinet, the makers of Forticlient:
[WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “@Fortinet what could cause this? Searching for the message “The user might login in another computer” did not get me any further: https://t.co/Bl4KoWJ7IB FortiClient 6.6.1.723 on MacOS High Sierra.…”
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For my link archive: IPVoid.com
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/25
Nice landing page to check various aspects of IP addresses: [WayBack] ipvoid.com:
We offer a vast range of IP address tools to discover details about IP addresses. IP smtp blacklist check, whois lookup, dns lookup, ping, and more!
I irregularly use them to check out blacklist issues (yes, sometimes 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 and even 9.9.9.9 appear on blacklists).
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