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GitHub – PascalCorpsman/FPC_DOOM: FPC Port of DOOM

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/03

Indeed: DOOM in Pascal. Not Delphi: Free Pascal.

Repository: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – PascalCorpsman/FPC_DOOM: FPC Port of DOOM

It is based on [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – fabiangreffrath/crispy-doom: Crispy Doom is a limit-removing enhanced-resolution Doom source port based on Chocolate Doom..

Hopefully, this summer I can play around with it a bit.

Via [Wayback/Archive] International Pascal Congress on X: “DOOM in Pascal!! 😍👏👏 Do you want to play or compile it? 😉 #Pascal #ObjectPascal …”.

--jeroen

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Charging the Battery on Your Ring Video Doorbell 2 – Ring Help

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/30

Your Ring Video Doorbell 2 is charged using a common micro-USB cable (an orange one is included in your Ring box). The micro-USB cable can be plugged into any USB power source such as a computer. Your Ring Video Doorbell 2 will take around five to 10 hours to fully charge depending on whether the USB cable is plugged into a USB port or into a wall outlet.

[Wayback/Archive] Charging the Battery on Your Ring Video Doorbell 2 – Ring Help

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Posted in Hardware, IoT Internet of Things, Network-and-equipment, Power User, Ring Doorbell/Chime (Amazon), Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Uit 2023 (toen gemist) Nieuwe FM- en DAB-indeling landelijke commerciële radiostations van start | Nieuwsbericht | Rijksoverheid.nl

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/27

In 2023 waren we druk bezig met voorbereidingen om te verhuizen, dus toen dit gemist [Wayback/Archive] Nieuwe FM- en DAB-indeling landelijke commerciële radiostations van start | Nieuwsbericht | Rijksoverheid.nl

Het bevat een tabel van de FM-frequenties voor de Nederlandse commerciële radiostations.

  • Sky Radio, 101 FM en DAB+
  • Radio 10, onder andere 103.0/103.2 FM en DAB+ (was: Radio Veronica)
  • Qmusic, 100.4 FM/100.7 FM en DAB+
  • BNR, onder andere 91.3/100.1 FM en DAB+
  • Radio Veronica, onder andere 91,1/95.2 FM en DAB+ (was: SLAM!)
  • Radio 538, 102 FM en DAB+
  • JOE, onder andere 103.8/104.1 FM en DAB+ (was: Radio 10)
  • Radio4All, onder andere 90.5/90.7 FM en DAB+ (was: Sublime)
  • 100% NL, onder andere 104.4/104.6 FM en DAB+

En ja: we luisteren radio hier voornamelijk via FM omdat die – in tegenstelling tot internet streams – het beter doen, en de uitstekende apparatuur uit de jaren 90 hier nog steeds prima functioneert.

--jeroen

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Scoop buckets by Github score | scoop-directory

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/27

Interesting gamification of the Scoop installer buckets: [Wayback/Archive] Scoop buckets by Github score | scoop-directory

It is an overview of various buckets you could add to [Wayback/Archive] ScoopInstaller/Scoop: A command-line installer for Windows. sorted by GitHub stars.

–jeroen

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Colorline Hirtshals departure/arrival times (boarding 1 hour before departure) to/from Kristiansand and Larvik

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/26

Somehow initially hard to find, so lets document this (these dates were obtained on 20250625, but changing the dates does not seem so change the times):

Notes:

  1. Embarcation is 60 minutes before departure. Be on time!
  2. Book through their Norwegian site: it gets you more discount.

--jeroen

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Robust Links – Make Your Link Robust: automagically amend them with archived versions

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/26

Need to look into this further: [Wayback/Archive] Robust Links – Make Your Link Robust.

Likely running it on my blog requires JavaScript to be enabled which means going from the premium to the small business plan (at te time of writing from USD 8 to USD 25 per month: a 200+% increase).

Let’s first start with an example:

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GitHub: finding the oldest commit on large repositories

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/25

The manual process of getting back to the earliest commit of a GitHub repository is easy for small repositories, but for a large one it is very tedious.

TL;DR: there are various ways, but the easiest was the INIT Bookmarklet below.

Note: 2 weeks before the scheduled post made it to the front of the queue, I got a report¹ that it started to fail. Here it still works.

It’s hard to debug because of the functional programming approach taken.

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Centurion Deuren: Gebruikers- & Installatiehandleiding KS-Serie (70 – 100)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/23

Will need this: [Wayback/Archive] Centurion Deuren: Gebruikers- & Installatiehandleiding KS-Serie (70 – 100) [Wayback PDF View/PDF View]

The problem is that a combination of the buttons of the Centurion remote controls failing more frequently plus that the remote control are unable to teach their code to new universtal remote controls that we still had from our previous home which used a Marantec door.

Universal remote controls are supposed to be compatible with both Centurion and Marantec remote controls.

What I want to figure out is if I can initiate one new remote control from the door opening mechanism, then have that teach other new remote controls.

Hopefully this is the right manual for the model we have (the model number is not visible from below, so need to verify that from a location difficult to look from above).

Fingers crossed.

Related links (the quest):

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On-line PC part compatibility checker: Pick parts

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/23

If I ever want to build a PC again, this site helps me assemble the parts and check their compatibility: [Wayback/Archive] Pick parts. Build your PC. Compare and share. – PCPartPicker

Of course it is not a 100% coverage or guarantee, but it will you a lot of hints when on-line configuring a system.

This is the system a friend was configuring and I was quite positively surprised:

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Posted in CPU, Hardware, HDD, M.2/NGFF, Mainboards, Memory, PC PSU, PCIe/PCI-e/PCI Express, Power User, PSU, SAS/SATA, SCSI, SSD, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »

Technics SL-DD33 turntable notes

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/20

I need to service a [Wayback/Archive] Technics SL-DD 33 | hifi-wiki.com turntable which I acquired, so here are some links, from hopefully most important to least important, as there were various problems with it (lowering the tone arm didn’t work well and there was some wow/flutter):

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