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Some notes on receiving ADS-B signals and feeding them to the OpenSky Network and other flight tracker

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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XP adding USB and parallel port printer driver for Olympus Camedia P-400 Digital Color Photo Printer

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/06

some links for my link archive:

–jeroen

P400

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Dell 9200 (DXP061) CMOS battery update

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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Ziggo gooit ook analoog FM-signaal eruit: Televisie kijken zonder traditioneel abonnement? Dit zijn de opties – Kassa – BNNVARA

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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Perkeep lets you permanently keep your stuff, for life.

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)

–jeroen

Posted in Cloud, Hardware, Infrastructure, Network-and-equipment, Perkeep, Power User, Storage, Tailscale, VPN, Wireguard | Leave a Comment »

Some links on Tailscale / Wiregard

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/29

For my link archive:

Related: [Wayback] Using Tailscale on Windows to network more easily with WSL2 and Visual Studio Code – Scott Hanselman’s Blog

–jeroen

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MSI Z77A-G43 support and downloads

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/24

For my link archive: [Wayback] MSI Z77A-G43 support and downloads

Note that Windows 10 does not seem to need additional drivers, even Wake-on-LAN works with the stock Windows 10 drivers (but does require two BIOS settings and three Windows driver settings, see [Wayback] Wake-on-LAN (WoL) | MSI HQ User-to-User FAQ.

Max processor information based on the below links.

  • Max processor that supports VT-d (for virtualisation), but no manual overclocking: i7 3770.
  • Max processor that supports manual overclocking, but not VT-d: i7 3770K

From:

Via: [Wayback] MSI Z77A-G43 – Kenmerken – Tweakers

–jeroen

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Wake-on-LAN (WoL) | MSI HQ User-to-User FAQ

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/23

[Wayback] msi hq user-to-user faq: wake on lan (wol) by Author Ruudt Swaanen on 3 May, 2017, paraphrased by me:

  1. In the BIOS:
    1. Under “Settings -> Advanced -> Power Management Setup”, disable the option “EuP 2013” (my mainboard) or “ERP Ready”.

      Disabling this function will keep the LAN port enabled when the system is put to Sleep (S3) or in Shutdown (S5) mode.

      Enabling this function will use less power (see [Wayback] What is EuP 2013? | Overclock.net)

    2. Under  “Settings -> Wake Up Event Setup”, enable the option “Resume By PCI or PCI-E Device” (my mainboard) or “Resume by LAN”.
  2. In the Windows 10 Control Panel, (control.exe) with an Administrator elevation token):
    1. In the “Power Options” Control Panel applet (powercfg.cpl), under “Choose what the power buttons do”, disable the option “Turn on fast startup (recommended)”.

      On many MSI based machines, the option “Turn on fast startup (recommended)” interferes with Wake-on-LAN.

    2. In the “Device Manager” (devmgmt.msc), under your network adapter change these options (the naming slightly differs per vendor/model; below is for generic Realtek PCIe GBE):
      1. On the “Power Management” tab, enable these options:
        • “Allow this device to wake the computer”
        • “Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer”
      2. On the “Advanced” tab, enable these options:
        • “Wake on Magic Packet”
        • “Wake on pattern match”
      3. On the “Advanced” tab, set this value:
        • “WOL & Shutdown Link Speed” is “10 Mbps First”

Now test in these global Power States:

  • S5 “soft off” (the state where there is a power cord connected, but none of the fans spin)
  • S4 “hibernating” (if you have turned that on in the power options)
  • S3 “sleeping”

This worked well for S3 and S5 (but not S4) on my MSI Z77A-G43 based Windows 10 PC and only required stock network driver for the “Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller” shown in the Device Manager (devmgmt.msc) and you can find on [Wayback] Microsoft Update Catalog: Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller Driver.

For more Wake on LAN blog posts, including how to initiate a Wake-on-LAN request, see the category Wake-on-LAN (WoL).

–jeroen

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“Using Tailscale on Windows to network more easily with WSL2 and Visual Studio Code”

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/23

“Using Tailscale on Windows to network more easily with WSL2 and Visual Studio Code”

Points to [Wayback] Using Tailscale on Windows to network more easily with WSL2 and Visual Studio Code – Scott Hanselman’s Blog

 

Related:

–jeroen

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Wake-on LAN over tailscale VPN

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/22

Hey macOS desktop in the basement, thanks for going to sleep while I was in the middle of typing at you via SSH.

Maybe that should be a signal not to sleep, eh?

$ sudo wakeonlan ac:87:a3:19:7e:81
Sending magic packet to 255.255.255.255:9 with

Well, at least that works.

Related:

–jeroen

 

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