Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/27
Posted in Development, Hardware, Internet, IPv4, Network-and-equipment, Power User, Scripting, Software Development | Tagged: cyberwarrior, infosec, networkbasics, networks, networks4hackers, subnetting | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/12
Posted in 2FA/MFA, Authentication, Development, Hardware, Hardware Interfacing, Power User, Security, Software Development, U2F FIDO Security Keys, USB, USB | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/25
Now that Dell 3060 and 3070 Micro MFF have become available quite a bit cheaper than before, please note that both only support M.2 PCIe x2 (though the 3060 documentation indicates x4, the 3070 documentation correctly states x2).
This is a board electronics issue, as the chip-set does support x4.
The M.2 connector however is more versatile than I expected and does support a variety of M.2 keying of which not all “big connector” PCI-e or USB M.2 adapters support:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/21
I have a few Anker PowerCore+ 26,800 USB power banks of which one would not show the charger lights any more. This is how to reset these power banks (should also work with other Anker power banks).
Below is how to reset it; after that the charging indicator started functioning again:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/07
My Twitter thread from a while ago on the TEAC CA-200 IEM Dell card reader which I based on my own pictures and these searches:
Here we go (also threaded at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/23
A long time ago I asked about the manual for a Daryis ST-977 weather station, but got no response from the manufacturer or anyone else.
So about 9 months later the topic came back up and I did get some responses, most suggesting to use the SET button which I already tried earlier.
I retried and found out the button was both bouncing and needed to be held for a really long time (15+ seconds!) to even switch to “edit” mode.
With 4 AA batteries in the base it at least should survive a power outage and hopefully by now we have switched away from using daylight saving time in Europe so no time changes are needed in the future.
Later I found out the FCC was on the external sensor and could find back a manual of a similar model:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/09
I forgot where I got this video from: [Wayback/Archive] YouTube Archived: private Dell video about detecting non-POST issues like motherboard or memory failures
It came in useful researching beeping pattern combined an amber/orange blinking pattern on one of my 2018 Dell 3060 MFF machines.
TL;DR
NOTE: On any OptiPlex built since 2012 (that is, 7010/9010/9010 AIO), Dell has stopped using all beep codes except for the Memory Failure code. (1, 3, 2, or one beep, then three beeps, then two beeps.) If your computer was built after 2012 and is making any other beep code, contact technical support for further help.
I knew it already needed a new coin cell battery, but that was surely not the only problem with it, and what type of battery it was (TL;DR: CR2032 and likely longer lasting BR2023 will be compatible too).
Related videos and links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/05
It was about 2 years ago that Jilles reminded me I had a flight case with gadgets too.
Back when I assembled it in 2018, I had big plans for showing private “cloud” container experimentation and gadget stuff at conferences. Then 2019 kicked in with rectum cancer.
So it was good that he helped me motivating to get it working again, especially as the time around assembling it so much fun and working on it brought back those days.
Here are the pictures:
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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Cloud, Cloud Development, Containers, Debian, Development, Docker, GL-AR300M, GL.iNet, Hardware Development, Infrastructure, Kubernetes (k8n), Linux, openSuSE, Power User, Raspberry Pi, Raspbian, Software Development, SuSE Linux | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/30
The most recent Microsoft Power Toys version binds to Alt + Spacebar which indicates the Windows team has forgotten about the CUA (Common User Access) heritage.
[Wayback/Archive] PowerToys bring fun tweaks to Windows 10 and 11 • The Register
And that tells us something else, too: that none of the Microsoft developers involved in building and releasing this tool are old-style keyboard warriors, because since Windows 1.0 in 1985, Alt+space has been the keystroke to invoke the window-management menu. From Windows 2 onwards, the leftmost button on every Windows title bar even looked like a space bar, to remind you. So to maximize a window, it’s Alt+space, x; to minimize, Alt+space, n; to resize with the keyboard, Alt+space, s, and so on.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers @wiert@mastodon.social on X: “Stealing Alt+Space for a Power Toy, the Microsoft @Windows team has forgotten about its CUA heritage.”.
--jeroen
Posted in Hardware, IBM SAA CUA, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | Leave a Comment »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 