Archive for the ‘Power User’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/24
Allerlei apparaten, ook bijvoorbeeld slimme meters en valbeveiliging voor ouderen of mensen met een handicap, hangen af van 2G en dat gaat binnenkort uit.
2G – voor velen meer bekend als GSM – werd in Nederland in 1994 geïntroduceerd (eerst als GSM 900 en later ook als GSM 1800) en was altijd een superbetrouwbaar netwerk. Het deed het vrijwel overal en dat ruim 30 jaar lang.
Als laatste provider in Nederland stopt KPN eind 2027 met 2G, dus er is nog ongeveer anderhalf jaar om te zorgen dat oude apparatuur vervangen wordt, of – voor het geval van auto’s – dat regels rond APK worden aangepast.
Haast is dus geboden.
[Wayback/Archive] ANWB slaat alarm over uitblijven oplossing stoppen met 2G netwerk | Kassa – YouTube
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/24
[Wayback/A] Screenshot of Pitfall II: Lost Caverns (Apple II, 1984) – MobyGames
Pitfall II: Lost Caverns (Apple II) screenshot:Title screen (this version has been cracked)
Memories of Apple II, ][e and //c.
There was quite a good crack-scene in The Netherlands with a well known name “The Redhead”.
Back then I didn’t know about the BBS systems involved:
- NEABBBS: 020-717666 (which was ran by Max Keizer and part of FidoNet)
- NABBS: 03200-28717 (which I could hardly find any other information about, the areacode was part of Lelystad)
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/23
Only do this when your G3 is broken beyond repair!
This particular example shows how to shoe-horn an Apple Silicon based Mac Mini into a the very first incarnation of an iMac: a classic iMac G3 case restoring both plastic, and using 3D printed mounts to ease assembly/disassembly.
Still cool as it is flexible so also allows for other Mac hardware like a Mac Studio.
The screen is a 14 inch 16:10 screen which is very expensive over here:
Video: [Wayback/Archive] I built a MODERN iMac… – YouTube
Query: [Wayback/Archive] mac studio in imac g3 3d print at DuckDuckGo
3D prints of a different project:
Likely a 4:3 OLED screen has less visible bezels.
--jeroen
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Posted in Apple, Apple Silicon, ARM Mac, Classic Macintosh, Development, Hardware Interfacing, iMac, Mac, MacMini, Power User | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/22
(This post too suffered from the WordPress.com missed schedule bug which has been unfixed since 2012)
[Wayback/Archive] LR: “warming myself on this post like a space heater…” – Gamedev Mastodon
[Wayback/Archive] Post by @jensfoell.de — Bluesky
Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
In other news today, in addition to the earlier leaked Anthropic AI model, Mythos got leaked as well – [Wayback/Archive] Dany :verified_gay:: “Ah yes, the almighty Mythos, …” – HSNL Social:
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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Development, Generative AI, LLM, Missed Schedule, Power User, Software Development, WordPress | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/21
Reminder to self: [Wayback/Archive] Hacker Hosting
HackerHosting biedt Hackers, die samenkomen in
hackerspaces, in
hotels en op
campings de mogelijkheid om te genieten van hoge kwaliteit hosting in Nederland, tegen een tarief waarvoor zelfs ‘kippenschuur-hosters’ en ‘brandgevaarlijke-datacenter-hosters’ het niet doen.
Via [Wayback/Archive] Angry Nerds 278 – Corrigendum – YouTube
--jeroern
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/21
This batch file works for modern Click-to-Run (sometimes called ClickToRun, Click2Run or C2R) based Office installations (note the odd lowercase microsoft shared which indeed is the actual directory name):
if exist "%CommonProgramFiles%\microsoft shared\ClickToRun\OfficeC2RClient.exe" (
"%CommonProgramFiles%\microsoft shared\ClickToRun\OfficeC2RClient.exe" /update user
) else (
echo could not find the Office Updater
)
This for sure does not work for MSI based Office 2013 and lower (which are updated through Windows Update anyway). Since I only have 2021 online (Click-to-Run) installs and higher to test with: those work fine.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/20
I have been writing about finding back invoices:
To this list, I can now add https://www.flickr.com/account which has a list of past orders including invoices for the Flickr membership (which get downloaded through Stripe so be sure to enable JavaScript for https://invoice.stripe.com too).
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/17
A while ago I wrote about Dashboard: Invoices – Proton Account.
From my link archive, here are the links to find back the invoices for Amazon prime membership fees:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/17
More than 10 years ago, I needed a MIME decode for Windows as I was developing some software which implemented S/MIME could sign automatically generated emails and verify incoming ones.
I wrote more about the latter part in Some notes on OpenSSL, S/MIME, email, various RFC standards and their relations.
Now finally the post about what I wanted to schedule for posting back then as well: my question looking for a [Wayback/Archive] MIME decoder for Windows – Super User:
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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, base64, Development, Encoding, Linux, MIME, Power User, Software Development, Windows, WSL Windows Subsystem for Linux | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/15
Most of the links from my blog get accompanied with Wayback or Archive.today links, but some don’t.
For those, I need to find a broken/404 link checker which I already hinted at in scr.im « Share your email in a safe way. Get less spam.
Some links that hopefully help me:
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Posted in Development, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, Power User, Software Development, TCP, Web Development | Leave a Comment »
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