Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/23
Printing on MacOS can be less Plug&Play than one hopes for.
For default printer drivers on MacOS for the same printer:
One solution for my OKI MC363 is to use the HP PCL driver and fake it as a HP Colour LaserJet 9500 (which provides a similar amount of memory, and colour duplex A4 printing):
Posted in Apple, Development, EPS/PostScript, Hardware, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MC342 printer/scanner, OKI C332, OKI MC363/MC363DNW, OKI Printers, Power User, Printers | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/16
IntelBurnTest is a wrapper around the [Wayback] Intel Linpack benchmark ([Wayback] Windows download) and still a great way to test CPUs.
From [Wayback/Archive.is] reddit – About Intel Burn Test… : overclocking:
“Pinhedd: “Both IBT and Prime95 are similar in that they stress floating point arithmetic and memory subsystems. They are different in that IBT uses Linpack (solving linear equations) while Prime95 calculates Mersene Primes.IBT is generally regarded as being far more aggressive in the short term, which makes it great for testing ultimate stability. IBT will easily drive load temps up to 20 degrees higher than Prime95, this is well known and is a defining feature of the program.Unfortunately, the Linpack benchmark was designed for supercomputers (hence the floating point part, for modeling continuous phenomenon) so it really pushes desktops to the limit, far beyond what any application will do. This means that IBT may fail on commercial CPUs that are running at stock settings simply because Intel doesn’t test them to that extent.
Too bad it is not open source and steadily at version 2.54, but then again, there is so little to maintain when the underlying tests basically do not change.
Posted in CPU, Hardware, Intel CPUs, Mainboards, MSI, Power User, Z77A-G43 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/10
Last month, I wrote
Hopefully the picture below is the board of a PCIe KVM board based on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 supporting Power over Ethernet (PoE). At least it seems to looking at the thread started by…
The thread was by Jeff Geerling on Twitter: “I plug computers into my computers…”.
Jeff followed up on this much sooner than I expected with [Wayback/Archive] Jeff Geerling on Twitter: “Hey look! That computer inside a computer thing is real now! It’s the PCIe version of the Blicube KVM: …”
Posted in Compute Module, Development, Ethernet, Hardware, Hardware Development, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Network-and-equipment, PiKVM / Pi-KVM, PoE - Power over Ethernet, Power User, Raspberry Pi, Wake-on-LAN (WoL) | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/02
A while ago I wrote about Stop 0x0000007B after converting an existing XP machine to a Virtual Machine (ESXi, Hyper-V, or other).
After this, the machine still had boot issues (a grey or black screen after boot, unless booted via Grub from a rescue CD).
The solution in retrospect was simple, but I only figured out after the fact what the solution had done.
Of course this gave me a facepalm moment, as back in the days, this was exactly the warning I gave everyone when installing Windows XP on ESXi anyway: use a SCSI buslogic based virtual disk, not an IDE or SATA virtual disk.
The reason is that Windows XP does not like the IDE/SATA disk that VMware provides. Windows Vista and up are less of a problem.
This is indeed what my practical solution did:
References:
…
did you create a IDE-based VM ?
That will not work – though it is offered as an option. Converter uses a bluff here
…
try again first – use Buslogic when asked for the controller.
If that does not work either try Converter 3.0.3 next
if that still fails post
boot.iniand a screenshot of diskmanagement of the XP-source…
SCSI was the answer.
Thanks.
…
–jeroen
Posted in ESXi6, ESXi6.5, ESXi6.7, Hardware, Power User, SAS/SATA, SCSI, Virtualization, VMware, VMware Converter, VMware ESXi, Windows, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/20
Hopefully the picture below is the board of a PCIe KVM board based on a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 supporting Power over Ethernet (PoE).
At least it seems to looking at the thread started by [Wayback/Archive] Jeff Geerling on Twitter: “I plug computers into my computers… “:
It would also very much match the below issue that Jeff raised:
Posted in Development, Ethernet, Hardware, Hardware Development, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Network-and-equipment, PiKVM / Pi-KVM, PoE - Power over Ethernet, Power User, Raspberry Pi | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/07
Long story short: in many countries, flight operators overload larger and larger portions of their country with excessive noise levels. Somehow they seem to circumvent regulations over and over again.
The Netherlands is no exception, having regulations based on noise “estimates” instead of measurements, and the measurements that are done being owned by the flight operators.
A while ago, the public started to do their own measurements, for instance by the Explane app which relies on the OpenSky Network for flight data.
Living near to an airport that has sleeping slots for their surrounding inhabitants (some 1.5 million plus people) of roughly 23:00-02:00 and 02:30-06:00) the public cost are ever increasing, especially with the planned opening of a new airport causing the split of the flight paths to affect some 5 million inhabitants, I decided to at least feed the OpenSky Network for better coverage of large parts of the sky around the first and second airport.
Explain related links:
OpenSky Network (as it is used by Explane) and required equipment:
Wikipedia:
Also of interest is ADS-B Exchange as it provides unfiltered data:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/06
some links for my link archive:
–jeroen
P400
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/04
If the CMOS battery of a Dell 9200 (DXP061) the BIOS looses all the settings and resets the timestamp to 2007-11-22 midnight.
Date timestamp is likely because that’s the date stamp of BIOS version 2.5.3 which is still the latest for both the Dimension 9200 and XPS 410 (which are identical: XPS was for the consumer market, Dimension for the business market, only a few options were different):
The manual at [Wayback] dimension-9200_owner’s manual_en-us.pdf mentions how to change the battery, but forgets to mention it is a CR2032.
Luckily [Wayback/Archive.is] How to Replace a CMOS (coin-cell) Battery on Your Dell Desktop | Dell US had that information.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/30
For my link archive as Ziggo is ditching the analog FM-signal rendering many devices inoperable in order to boost internet connectivity with a whopping 20 Mhz.
Switching to new hardware might as well give a much cheaper solution without Ziggo (need to check out at least NLZiet).
I wonder if Ziggo will really switch of the complete cable signal when ditching them, as I hear mixed information about that:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/30
For my link archive: [Wayback] Perkeep
Via [Wayback] bradfitz – Joining Tailscale: Simplifying Networking, Authentication, and Authorization (which has many interesting linkis, including [Archive.is] bradfitz/homelab: Brad’s homelab setup)
Perkeep (previously Camlistore, Content-Addressable Multi-Layer Indexed Storage) is a set of open-source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing, and synchronizing data.
–jeroen
Posted in Cloud, Hardware, Infrastructure, Network-and-equipment, Perkeep, Power User, Storage, Tailscale, VPN, Wireguard | Leave a Comment »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 