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Archive for the ‘Power User’ Category
BMW E61 rear light water fix damage – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/04
One of my BMW E61 rear light fixtures leaked: [Wayback/Archive] BMW E61 rear light water fix damage – YouTube
[Wayback/Archive] Tail Light Leak…? | BMW M5 Forum and M6 Forums
Personally I’d start with new gaskets.
In my case, it was the light fixture itself leaking, not the gaskets, so either the work in the video is needed, or a second hand tail light.
Queries:
- [Wayback/Archive] e61 tail light leaking – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] “E61” “tail light” leaking – Google Suche
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Windows: editing the RLU list of vncviewer.exe
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/04
Every now and then you make a typo when accessing remote systems through UltraVNC vncviewer.exe (I did the worst: thinking I had hit Enter to select the most recent connection, but typing a password instead).
I could not find settings in the registry, nor a vncviewer.ini file, so I used Process Monitor and filtered all events for the most recently started vncviewer.exe to figure out where it would store configuration files.
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Weigering monument te schrappen uit register toch appellabel besluit, ondanks ambtshalve bevoegdheid – Wieringa Advocaten
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/01
[Wayback/Archive] Weigering monument te schrappen uit register toch appellabel besluit, ondanks ambtshalve bevoegdheid – Wieringa Advocaten
De Afdeling vernietigt de uitspraak van de rechtbank en overweegt hiertoe als volgt. Volgens de Afdeling volgt uit de systematiek van de Awb dat indien een ambtshalve beslissing om het register te wijzigen een beschikking is, het verzoek van een belanghebbende om een zodanige beschikking te nemen een aanvraag is in de zin van artikel 1:3 van de Awb. De afwijzing van de aanvraag is hiermee ook een beschikking. De ambtshalve wijziging van het Rijksmonumentenregister is een ambtshalve besluit waartegen wel kan worden opgekomen bij de bestuursrechter. Als de afwijzing van een verzoek tot wijziging niet wordt aangemerkt als een besluit op een aanvraag, dan staat tegen de weigering alleen de gang naar de burgerlijke rechter open. Dit vindt de Afdeling onwenselijk.
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note to self: figure out which browser to use for MV2 (Manifest Version 2) plugins and how to (re)install them
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/01
Edit 20250802:
Migrating from Chrome to Edge was way easier than anticipated: it imported my account, bookmarks and my extensions automagically. With one exception (uBlock Origin), most of them were enabled too, apart from a few that Edge needed extra permission confirmation for and the ones that Chrome had disabled. All of these could be enabled/installed after installing uBlock Origin manually.
Then I had go to through the tedious process of re-signing in various accounts (like mail, blogging, social media, etc).
These things did not import automatically and needed manual adjustment:
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Some notes on testing locally modified chocolatey packages
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/01
A few notes after I helped updating [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | SetACL (Portable) 3.0.6.0 to version 3.1.2.0 and [Wayback/Archive] Updates glab from 1.22.0 to 1.24.1; fixes #2 by jpluimers · Pull Request #3 · corbob/ChocoPackages.
As the burden on maintainers (not just Chocolatey ones) is high, not all packages get updated soon after new underlying software versions arrive.
Which means the maintainers are often very happy when an occasional user helps and preferably sends in a pull request.
That brings me to the an important point IN DOCUMENTATION DO NOT LIMIT EXAMPELS TO ONLY ABBREVIATED PARAMETERS OR VERBS as that scares away occasional and novice users of your software.
Chocolatey documentation is no exception on this, hence this blog post meant for people other than maintaining chocolatey packages on a day to day base.
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command line – Why does a cURL request return a percent sign (%) with every request in ZSH? – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/31
I try to stay on the default shells of environments as much as possible, especially as that makes life easier when needing to work on an non-customised system.
Apple switched back from an ancient latest GPLv2 version 3.2 of bash (they regard newer GPLv3 as toxic to their revenue stream¹), introduced MIT-license based zsh and introduced a bash nag screen a few years ago forcing users to switch. Suppressing that message reliably is trickier than you might think².
After so many years of bash, I still stumble over things that zsh does differently: [Wayback/Archive] command line – Why does a cURL request return a percent sign (%) with every request in ZSH? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Travis and [Wayback/Archive] zaTricky) is a “feature” with a simple workaround for cURL:
This is a zsh feature that prints a percent-and-newline after a command completes if that command does not already include a newline at the end of its output. If zsh did not do this, you would either not ever notice the fact that the command didn’t print a newline – or you’d see zsh’s command prompt not start on the margin and think it was a bug in zsh.
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$ curl http://api.macvendors.com/0015c7 Cisco Systems, Inc% $ curl -w '\n' http://api.macvendors.com/0015c7 Cisco Systems, Inc…
Since the above example now writes a redirect messages (good bye HTTP, welcome HTTPS), and I very much dislike short command-line parameters, here is version with the long form of the [Wayback/Archive] curl -w or --write-out parameter :
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Kevlin Henney on “configuration is code” in his essay “Out of Control. An essay on paradigms, refactoring…”
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/31
For my link archive [Wayback/Archive] Out of Control. An essay on paradigms, refactoring… | by Kevlin Henney | Dec, 2020 | Medium.
Neither because Kevlin describes how to refactor a basic algorithm to convert Roman numerals into Hindu-Arabic numerals (in part by using the fact that an if statement can be considered a bounded case of a while loop), nor because he splits the resulting algorithm in coded data and coded statements, or because he mentions the [Wayback/Archive] Gilded Rose Kata but because well, you should just read it in full.
Remember though: Read the rest of this entry »
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Dennard scaling – Wikipedia: finally learned why since 20 years, maximum CPU frequency stagnated at about 4 Ghz
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/29
Since around 2005–2007 Dennard scaling appears to have broken down. As of 2016, transistor counts in integrated circuits are still growing, but the resulting improvements in performance are more gradual than the speed-ups resulting from significant frequency increases.[1][10] The primary reason cited for the breakdown is that at small sizes, current leakage poses greater challenges and also causes the chip to heat up, which creates a threat of thermal runaway and therefore further increases energy costs.[1][10] Since 2005, the clock frequency has stagnated at 4 GHz, and the power consumption per CPU at 100 W TDP.
Via [Wayback/Archive] What Happened to the Capacitors in 2002? – YouTube
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PowerShell: playing around with Get-PnpDevice filtering with -Class and -Status
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/29
I while ago I was playing around in PowerShell with Get-PnpDevice (which got introduced in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019):
[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “@jilles_com … this is the difference between only connected disks versus including ones that had been connected in the past.Output difference between Get-PnpDevice -Class DiskDrive -Status OK Get-PnpDevice -Class DiskDrive …” – Mastodon
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 