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BMW DIY Poor Radio Reception Repair, AM and FM, E46 3-Series and Other Models | Bavarian Autosport Blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/01

I need to fix this on my own 320i touring: [WayBack] BMW DIY Poor Radio Reception Repair, AM and FM, E46 3-Series and Other Models | Bavarian Autosport Blog.

Basically it’s using DeoxIT on all contacts having to do with the AM/FM antenna signals.

I already have a DeoxIT pen so that should work fine.

For the Touring version, the below picture should help. I got it from [WayBack] www.unofficialbmw.com/images/e46.pdf via [WayBack] Unofficial BMW: E46

More links:

–jeroen

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When Windows removes the registry key that solves HighDPI problems for older applications

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/01

I write about this registry key before: Applications that scale badely on High-DPI Displays: How to Stop the Madness – via: SQLServerCentral « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

It seems that there is a bad Windows habit: [WayBack] I just love it when Windows decides to remove registry entries I’ve added and screws up something I fixed for them. – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+

–jeroen


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\SideBySide]
"PreferExternalManifest"=dword:00000001

view raw

PreferExternalManifest.reg

hosted with ❤ by GitHub

 

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A Case Study in Not Being A Jerk in Open Source – Kevlin Henney – Google+

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/28

Comments on [WayBack] A Case Study in Not Being A Jerk in Open Source – Kevlin Henney – Google+:

  • Kevin Powick+1
    Ever notice that a lot of the people that can make big things happen can also be jerks sometimes? Torvalds, Gates, Ellison, Jobs, McNealy, Musk.
  • Jeroen Wiert Pluimers

    +Kevin Powick yup. Maybe we need to learn to live with it.

    At the current client I explained the teams that sometimes I do stupid things, both in code and in communications, and I expect them to tell me about them, just like I am telling them they do stupid things. Of course making compliments both ways work in a similar fashion.

    We Dutch are accustomed to make compliments, so I am trying to break them out of the “Doe maar gewoon, dat is al gek genoeg”, as they already create very good stuff, but both they and I are convinced together we can take that to a next level.

    Last week I did my first “Jeroen’s demo hour” showing stuff that happened in their development cycle over the last two weeks.

    Somewhere in the first third was “look here: you see artifacts of some re-use by copy actions; it can be dangerous, just look at this obscure unnoticed bug. I need to watch myself, because sometimes I do this too”, and in the final 10 minutes while demoing some C# code – which is new to them – “look at this variable: it has the wrong name because I copy-pasted it, so if you review my code, just let me know how had this is”.

Maybe time to include some code review examples in a conference session topic…

Some ideas at The 10 commandments of navigating code reviews | TechBeacon

–jeroen

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On my research list: ZNC – advanced IRC bouncer

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/28

ZNC, an advanced IRC bouncer that is left connected so an IRC client can disconnect/reconnect without losing the chat session. Feel free to update pages which you think are improvable and don’t hesitate to ask for help.

Overview network scheme.png
Znc-0.99-black.png

You can find us in #znc on freenode.

Source: [WayBack] ZNC

Background:

–jeroen

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Notes on recording audio calls from a Fritz!Box and playing back those captures calls

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/28

A while ago, I documented some links for In case I ever need to record calls on my Fritz!Box devices.

By now, I’ve done a bit more investigation: I’ve enabled the call monitor, did some port scans, installed domoticz and got deeper into fritzcap.

Oh and I got packet capturing to work too: Fritz!Box – capture network packets in Wireshark format or ISDN in dtrace format.

A small recap so I don’t forget what I did and what the effects were.

Enabling CallMonitor

[WayBack] Fritzbox – Domoticz showed how to enable the CallMonitor option in your Fritz!Box

  • Dial #96*5* to enable (response “CallMonitor On”)
  • Dial #96*4* to disable (response “CallMonitor Off”)
  • It seems not possible to ask for the current state (enabled/disabled)
  • After it is enabled, the TCP port 1012 on your Fritz!Box is available for tools like [WayBack] Domoticz and fritzcap.

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On my todo list: experiment with having multiple sendmail queue directories under /var/spool/mqueue

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/27

Right now my sendmail configuration handling my domains have one queue directory /var/spool/mqueue which means that each round of the queue processing handles all the outgoing mail in succession.

This is getting less OK because of the increased mail volume over time both on mail that gets in and needs to be forwarded and mail that needs to be bounced for various reasons like SPAM.

So below are some links helping me to sort out various things including having multiple queues (as then each round can handle each queue in parallel).

The default sendmail configuration is one mail queue and I hope to find out for what reason that is.

Background info:

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Samsung C27F390FHU Zwart – Kenmerken – Tweakers

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/25

Bumped into a place where the only external monitor was a [WayBack] Samsung C27F390FHU Zwart – Kenmerken – Tweakers

Dislike because:

  • only 1920×1080 at 27 inch
  • only HDMI and analog inputs
  • cannot adjust height, so as a dual screen with a 15 inch MacBook it is meh
  • the curve distorts horizontal lines in a way your eyes will not compensate for

Images from [WayBack] Samsung C27F390 27-Inch Curved LED Monitor – HDMI, VGA: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories below the fold.

Higher resolutions – not just 4K – have been readily available since before this monitor was introduced march 2016 [WayBack] Samsung unveils new CF591 and CF390 curved monitors

Related:

–jeroen

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If you have trouble getting an screen mirror from Samsung S7 Edge to Chromecast 2 to work: reboot phone

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/25

A friend of mine tried to get screen mirror (now called “Smart View”) from a Samsung S7 Edge to a Chromecast 2 working, but the connection would time out each try (but not when casting regular content using the Google Home app): try rebooting your S7 Edge.

Got that reboot tip and renamed functionality thanks to the somewhat related [WayBack] Galaxy S7: How to Screen Mirror to any Samsung Smart TV:

In order to connect (screen mirror) you Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge to your Samsung smart TV you need to swipe down to open your notification area, then on the top right click that little down arrow then select “smart view”. Previous Galaxy phones called it screen mirror, not sure why Samsung changed the name in the S7.

Got the renamed functionality via the video below.

–jeroen

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Unicode spaces

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/25

For my link archive:

Via: [WyBack] Are there blank characters in unicode that have the same widths as period, comma and digits? – Lars Fosdal – Google+

Answer: no, though better fonts have period, comma, colon, semicolon and other punctuations the same width as the punctuation space.

The use-case:

Lars Fosdal
I wanted right justified text without having to do custom positioning/drawing – where the decimal zero is white space.

F.x. here 12 instead of 12.0

9.5
11.6
12 <– #$2008 and #$2007
13.4

I.e. PunctuationSpace and FigureSpace

I don’t want to deal with positioning/rendering since it happens inside a third party component.

–jeroen

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Dashcam Viewer – By Earthshine Software

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/24

Cool piece of software that allows you to view front and rear cameras in one view: [WayBack] Dashcam Viewer – By Earthshine Software:

Picture-in-picture front and rear camera displays for 2-channel dashcams ✔ ✔
Swappable front and rear camera views for 2-channel dashcams ✔ ✔

The free version is limited to play 5 files in succession (which is about 15 minutes).

–jeroen

 

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