Interesting for instance for a pfSense router: [Wayback/Archive] PC Engines APU System Boards Feature AMD G-Series T40E APU, 3 Gigabit Ethernet Ports.
–jeroen
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Headless: PC Engines APU System Boards Feature AMD G-Series T40E APU, 3 Gigabit Ethernet Ports
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/10
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Read the new DropBox Terms of Service, and consider opting out of the new “Forced Arbitration” section (via: @Consumerist)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/26
If you use DropBox, you might want to consider to opt out from the new “Forced Arbitration” part of their revised Terms of Service.
This is why: Why You Should Opt Out Of Forced Arbitration, In 3 Sentences – Consumerist.
Or switch to copy.com which offers more storage, and not such a legal limitation in their ToS.
Though the 2 gigabyte Twitter promotion has ended, they do give you: Read the rest of this entry »
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Glasvezel / Fiber internet notes
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/09
Some links:
- XS4all Glasvezel – Internetproviders en Hosting – GoT.
- De eerste aansluiting in De Lingebuurt Elst.
- Een eigen router | netwerkje.com.
- Mikrotik configuraties – Helden van Nu – Internet.
- L4, 5*100 mbit, 1* PoE, 802.11bgn internal, AR9331@300 Mhz, 32MB: RouterBoard.com : RB951-2n.
- L4, 5*100 mbit, 1* PoE, 802.11bgn internal/option-external, USB, AR7241@400 Mhz, 32MB: RouterBoard.com : RB751U-2HnD.
- L4, 5*1 gigabit, 1* PoE, 802.11bgn internal, USB, AR9344@600 Mhz, 128MB: RouterBoard.com : RB951G-2HnD.
- L5, 5*1 gigabit, 5* 100 mbit, 1* PoE, 1*SFP cage, microUSB, Serial, 802.11bgn external, AR9344@600 Mhz, 128MB: RouterBoard.com : RB2011UAS-2HnD-IN.
- L5, 24*1 gigabit, 1*SFP cage, microUSB, Serial, 802.11bgn external, AR9344@600 Mhz, 128MB: RouterBoard.com : CRS125-24G-1S-2HnD-IN.
–jeroen
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“Hoogtes” waar ik gewoond heb / “Altitudes” of where I have been living
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/09
(English translation below)
Edit 20230510 – added new URLs after the AHN viewer moved from ahn.geodan.nl to new domains ahn.arcgisonline.nland www.ahn.nl.
Nederlands
Veel van Nederland ligt onder zeeniveau, inclusief de meeste plaatsen waar ik gewoond heb, maar ik wist nog niet hoe ver het van N.A.P. “zeeniveau” afweek.
Via toeval kwam ik er achter dat dit on-line heel makkelijk op postcode opvraagbaar is, met een URL als deze:
http://ahn.geodan.nl/ahn/viewer3/zoekpc.php?postcode=1060NPhttps://ahn.arcgisonline.nl/ahnviewer/?find=1060NP
Je krijgt dan een resultaat als dit:
Volgens AHN2 is de gemiddelde hoogte in postcodegebied 1060NP -1.8 m.
(Inmiddels – 2023 – geen tekst meer met gemiddelde hoogte, maar als je klikt op een locatie krijg je de gemeten hoogte aldaar)
Onderaan de postcodes waar het om gaat.
Vrijwel mijn hele leven was dus beneden zeeniveau, maar ik ben boven zeeniveau geboren (:
En als bonus: AHN Viewer en AHN [Wayback/Archive] AHN Viewer | AHN (snapt geen URL parameters) en [Wayback/Archive] AHN-viewer (snapt wel URL parameters, zie [Wayback/Archive] ahn.arcgisonline.nl/ahnviewer/Release_notes_versie_2_februari_2019.pdf).
Er is ook een postcodetool, maar die snapt geen URL parameters: [Wayback/Archive] Postcodetool
English
Most of The Netherlands is below sea level, including most of the places I lived, but I didn’t know how far from N.A.P. “sea level” that was.
By coincidence, I found out that it is easy to find this relative altitude by Dutch poascal code with a URL like this:
http://ahn.geodan.nl/ahn/viewer3/zoekpc.php?postcode=1060NPhttps://ahn.arcgisonline.nl/ahnviewer/?find=1060NP
It will get you a result like this, where the last number indicates altitude:
Volgens AHN2 is de gemiddelde hoogte in postcodegebied 1060NP -1.8 m.
(By now – 2023 – no text with average altitude, but if you click you get the measured altitude value)
Below is a list of postal codes where I lived or where my post got delivered.
So I lived most of my life below sea level, but was born above it (:
As a bonus, I also found AHN Viewer and AHN [Wayback/Archive] AHN Viewer | AHN (does not allow URL parameters) and [Wayback/Archive] AHN-viewer (allows URL parameters, see [Wayback/Archive] ahn.arcgisonline.nl/ahnviewer/Release_notes_versie_2_februari_2019.pdf).
There is even a postal code tool, but it does not support URL parameters: [Wayback/Archive] Postcodetool
Postcodes / Postal codes
- [Wayback/Archive] AHN-viewer 1060NP
1060 NP(Amsterdam): -1.8 m. - [Wayback/Archive] AHN-viewer 1171JT
1171 JT(Badhoevedorp): -2.7 m. - [Wayback/Archive] AHN-viewer 1170AB
1170 AB(postadres Badhoevedorp): Er is geen locatie gevonden, de hoogte kan niet bepaald worden - [Wayback/Archive] AHN-viewer 2171BC
2171 BC(Sassenheim) : 1.2 m. - [Wayback/Archive] AHN-viewer 2171AG
2171 AG(postadres Sassenheim): 0.1 m. - [Wayback/Archive] AHN-viewer 2172XK
2172 XK(Sassenheim): -0.6 m. - [Wayback/Archive] AHN-viewer 2821BD
2821 BD(Stolwijk): -1.5 m. - [Wayback/Archive] AHN-viewer 5663CK
5663 CK(Geldrop): 19.8 m.
via:
- [Wayback] Hoogtemeter.
- [Wayback] AHN – website — Postcodetool.
- [Wayback] AHN – website — Homepage.
- AHN Viewer.
- [Wayback] AHN.
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On my research list: Hojoki: Make All Your Cloud Apps Work As One
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/05
On my research list: Hojoki: Make All Your Cloud Apps Work As One.
Should read the comments at Flotsam and Jetsam #70.
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Some cloud storage / online backup providers compared (DropBox, Sugarsync, Bitcasa, …)
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/31
I’ve been using a few cloud storage / online backup providers for a while on Mac and Windows now, with the primary goals of
- being able to sync data between machines
- having a backup online
Here are some pros/cons. Read the rest of this entry »
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Fake Internet Connectivity for your Lab (Tricking NCSI) – via: Canberra Premier Field Engineering
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/21
If you ever wondered why how in Windows – as of Vista – the NCIS (network connection status indicator) determines if you have a valid internet connection, it is pretty simple, as both these pages explain:
- What do Microsoft and NCSI have in common? | TechRepublic.
- Windows 7 Network Awareness: How Windows knows it has an internet connection « Super User Blog.
- Appendix K: Network Connectivity Status Indicator and Resulting Internet Communication in Windows Vista.
- Appendix H: Network Connectivity Status Indicator and Resulting Internet Communication in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
NCIS depends on the msftncis.com domain (link to the checks from IntoDNS) and is for supporting Network Awareness in applications.
The probing is done in this order: Read the rest of this entry »
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ASUS Wireless Router RT-N66U – General Log: full of “protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth0”
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/05
Not sure what happened, but my log appeared to be full of these messages:
Jun 5 12:46:56 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth0 Jun 5 12:47:02 kernel: printk: 61 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:02 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth0 Jun 5 12:47:06 kernel: printk: 132 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:06 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth0 Jun 5 12:47:11 kernel: printk: 544 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:11 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth1 Jun 5 12:47:17 kernel: printk: 163 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:17 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth0 Jun 5 12:47:21 kernel: printk: 115 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:21 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth1 Jun 5 12:47:26 kernel: printk: 275 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:26 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth0 Jun 5 12:47:31 kernel: printk: 644 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:31 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth1 Jun 5 12:47:36 kernel: printk: 866 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:36 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth1 Jun 5 12:47:41 kernel: printk: 750 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:41 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth0 Jun 5 12:47:46 kernel: printk: 665 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:46 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth1 Jun 5 12:47:51 kernel: printk: 766 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:51 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth1 Jun 5 12:47:56 kernel: printk: 625 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:47:56 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth1 Jun 5 12:48:01 kernel: printk: 782 messages suppressed. Jun 5 12:48:01 kernel: protocol 0000 is buggy, dev eth0
Note sure what caused it, but others have had it in the past as well.
Other symptoms:
- br0 network becoming slower and slower on download speed (but not on upload speed; in the end I had 0.5 megabit downstream and 5 megabit upstream)
- br0 ping times twice as high as normal (around 30 milliseconds on SpeedTest.net in stead of 15 milliseconds)
- WiFi (especially 2.4: eth1) becoming impossible to connect to from new connections
- packet drops
I thought they were caused because of me experimenting with a Fonera 2100A -> TomadoUSB experiment, especially since my FON access point was limited to 1 megabit.
But as soon as other users started to use the LAN, I got speed complaints about the slowness.
I’ve been running the ASUS RT-N66U in Firmware Version 3.0.0.4.260 with Operation Mode:Wireless router for quite a while now, but I also noticed that it had rebooted itself recently, as the was Uptime 0 days 20 hours when I started digging in the log.
The worst I got:
| Ping (milliseconds) | Down (megabit) | Up (megabit) | WiFi connection to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 0.4 | 0.9 | ASUS RT-N66U: 2.4 Ghz |
Time for a Reboot to see if it gets any better.
Later:
After a reboot the situation turned to normal:
| Ping (milliseconds) | Down (megabit) | Up (megabit) | WiFi connection to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 90 | 10 | ASUS RT-N66U: 2.4 Ghz |
| 17 | 9 | 8 | Fonera: MyPlace |
| 17 | 3 | 1 | Fonera: FON_AP |
| 15 | 2 | 0.6 | Wireless-N 3G Router |
| 15 | 1.5 | 0.7 | RT N66U TomatoUSB 2.4 Ghz |
–jeroen
via: ASUS Wireless Router RT-N66U – General Log.
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“same glue” dns: glue records
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/12
If you ever get “same glue” messages when checking your comains (a lot of sites fail this, see these intodns.com or viewdns.info searches), you might wonder what DNS glue is.
DNS glue is needed when you provide the NS and A records for a domain on a host within the domain itself.
From inside that domain, this works, but from the outside, nobody knows how to resolve servers in that domain.
You need to have the registrar of that domain put the glue A records for the nameservers, so from outside the domain, you can find the nameservers, and via the nameservers you can resolve other DNS entries in the domain.
A few more detailed explanations:
- Shane Madden explains this very well in his “What is a glue record?” answer on Server Fault
- The Wikipedia entryDNS Circular_dependencies_and_glue_records
- What Is A Glue Record – Domainmonster FAQ.
–jeroen
via:
- “same glue” dns – Google Search.
- dns – What is a glue record? – Server Fault.
- nameserver – DNS A vs NS record – Server Fault.
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So you thought Google TiSP (Toilet Internet Service Provider) was an April 1st joke? Not in The Netherlands…
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/02
If you thought the 2007 Welcome to Google TiSP (Toilet Internet Service Provider) and the Google TiSP ACTUAL Installation – YouTube formed a great April 1st joke, then you have miscounted the futurists.
Found out a while ago, that in The Netherlands, a variation of TiSP was used to provide internet through the sewage system:
- July 18th, 2012, in the province Friesland, a glas fiber cable was put through the sewer system:
Frisian: Glêsfezelkabel troch rioel | Omrop Fryslân – Alle dagen nij!.
Dutch: Glasvezelkabel door riool | Omrop Fryslân – Alle dagen nij!. - Late 2012, plans were revealed to connect a few farms to glassfiber using the sewing system in early 2013:
Twents dorp krijgt glasvezel via het riool | IT Pro | Tweakers.
The Belgians and Germans seem to favour the water pipes over the sewer though:
- Binnenkort internet via de waterleiding? – nieuws – Datanews.be – Datanews.be.
- Bonn utility tests fibre installation through waterpipes – Telecompaper.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 