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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/13
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Some notes on PCIe based KVM over IP and splitting video (as modern KVM over IP do not seem to do passthrough) for remote out-of-band management
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/13
The notes are based on the NanoKVM PCIe as that is what I wanted to set-up on a Windows 11 compatible PC that could be remotely managed for someone not savvy enough to do that themselves. They had an old Supermicro based PC with IPMI which kind of does IPKVM when using the embedded video hardware, but back when I wrote this early 2025 – the year Windows 10 would become end-of-life – it was:
- a nightmare to figure out which Supermicro mainboards were Windows 11 compatible
- remote IPMI tooling ¹ was a pain to get working (the most important one is IPMIView which requires Java and even with Java installed would have issues connecting to various generations of IPMI)
- newer KVM tooling has way better
- user experience than classic ones like IPMI and iDRAC
- features like for instance WireGuard support which makes for way less network configuration
- open source software (for at least NanoKVM I mention here, but also for Pi-KVM which has the drawback of also requiring a Raspberry Pi)
Since none of the modern remote KVM hardware tooling seems to be able to do passthrough video, the solution I researched for was to split the outgoing video signal (either Displayport or HDMI), then optionally convert Displayport to HDMI and finally route that HDMI into the remote KVM hardware.
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When your M.2 card is too small: Kris on Twitter
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/13
Why I try to get long M.2 cards: [Wayback/Archive] Kris on Twitter: “…”
A more proper solution:
https://www.printables.com/model/369386-m2-ngff-2230-to-2260-adapter
–jeroen
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dutch-sepa-iso20022/camt.053.001.02.xsd at master · jasperkrijgsman/dutch-sepa-iso20022
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/12
Just in case I ever need to work with the CAMT.053 XML format for bank statements: [Wayback/Archive] dutch-sepa-iso20022/camt.053.001.02.xsd at master · jasperkrijgsman/dutch-sepa-iso20022
It is part of the repository [Wayback/Archive] jasperkrijgsman/dutch-sepa-iso20022: SEPA PAIN.001.001.003.
Via (which has more links to how various banks interpret these rules: yes, as usual they have different interpretations of standards) [Wayback/Archive] “urn:iso:std:iso:20022:tech:xsd:camt.053.001.02” – Google Search
Related:
–jeroen
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Unix/MacOS: “rm: illegal option — b” or how to remove files that have their name starting with a minus sign.
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/11
I had to remove all text files including a -bar.txt from the current directory using bash, so I automatically typed rm *txt resulting in this nice error:
rm: illegal option -- b usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ... unlink file
When there was just a file named -foo.txt in the directory, the error became more interesting:
rm: illegal option -- o usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ... unlink file
Then it struck me: rm is one of those old tools where you can smack all options together. Read the rest of this entry »
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MacOS and Windows: sorting – Simple to enter Unicode character that would sort after Z in most cases? – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/10
TL;DR: There is no simple character that works on both MacOS and Windows.
[Wayback/Archive] sorting – Simple to enter Unicode character that would sort after Z in most cases? – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] sorin and [Wayback/Archive] degenerate):
A
On Windows, none of these options work because they all sort before
A.A solution I ended up using is an Arabic character:
ٴ This folder comes after
zin windows
According to [Wayback/Archive] What Unicode character is this ?, the above mentioned character is U+0674 : ARABIC LETTER HIGH HAMZA.
Note that on Windows the ٴ character displays at the start of the filename, but on MacOS in Finder it ends up behind the extension (as Arabic script is right-to-left) and is very hard to remove. On the MacOS Terminal it ends up on the left and is easy to modify.
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Solving OKI Errors while printing “544: Invalid Y C”, “545: Invalid M C”, “546: Invalid C C”, “547: Invalid K C”, or “544:Y Invalid C”, “545: M Invalid C”, “546: C Invalid C”, “547: K Invalid C”
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/09
If any of the below OKI error codes occur during printing then first re-seat (unlock, then lock) the corresponding toner cartridge.
When the error reoccurs, then wear a mask (toner spills can be dangerous to your lungs), then: unlock the toner cartridge, remove it, vacuum away any of the toner spill in the printer and on the cartridge, reinsert it and lock it.
The cause is a mechanical issue that happens both when only using original OKI toner cartridges and OEM or third party ones: wear of the parts over time will spill more and more toner causing the locked cartridge detection to cause a faulty result due to excessive spilled toner build-up.
For me this mostly happens on the colour cartridges and far less often on the black cartridge.
Error code list for the message at [Wayback/Archive] Troubleshooting | OKI “Check Toner Cartridge. Improper Lock Lever Position. Error: 544, 545, 546, 547”:
- 544: Yellow (abbreviated as Y)
- 545: Magenta (abbreviated as M)
- 546: Cyan (abbreviated as C)
- 547: Black (abbreviated as K, but sometimes as B)
On the above page self the solution lists as
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Installing Poppler on Windows via Chocolatey, which includes pdfimages for lossless extraction of images from PDF files
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/09
At the time of writing there was an almost 3 year old [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | Poppler 0.89.0 version so I filed the issue [Wayback/Archive] poppler 23.03 has been out for a few weeks, can you please update the build? · Issue #88 · chtof/chocolatey-packages mentioning [Wayback/Archive] Pull requests · oschwartz10612/poppler-windows
Poppler 23.03.0
Since that did not get really solved, I finally found out that after installing scoop, then scoop install poppler did work and installed version 23.08.0 (which I documented in [Wayback/Archive] Poppler version out of date · Issue #75 · chtof/chocolatey-packages installs from the most recent [Wayback/Archive] Releases · oschwartz10612/poppler-windows).
A very different approach is to install Poppler inside Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) as explained in [Wayback/Archive] Poppler On Windows. Python, PDFs, and Window’s Subsytem for… | by Matthew Earl Miller | Towards Data Science.
I needed Poppler (or actually the Windows equivalent of poppler-utils) of two reasons:
- I wanted to experiment with
pdftotextas it has these very compelling command-line switches. - I needed to export images for which
pdfimagesis the poppler tool to go.
pdftotext
Let’s start with qoutes from [Wayback/Archive] pdftotext: Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter (version 3.03) | poppler-utils Commands | Man Pages | ManKier:
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Solved: CPU Xeon E5-1620 v.4 does not allow Windows 11 upgrade – HP Support Community – 8645349
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/06
I might need this: [Wayback/Archive] Solved: CPU Xeon E5-1620 v.4 does not allow Windows 11 upgrade – HP Support Community – 8645349
You don’t download the ISO file to a USB stick.
You download it to your PC and use the free Rufus utility that I zipped up and attached in that discussion link I posted to transfer the ISO file to a DVD so that it is bootable.
You have to use the version I attached 3.18 because the newer Rufus versions removed the W11 hardware check bypass hack.
Try it again in the morning when you are ‘bright eyed and bushy tailed’ as we say in the USA.:
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HelgaDulfer on Twitter: “@zorgenzo Probeer form op te slaan en dan met Adobe Fill&Sign in vullen en ondertekenen; vervolgens kun je ingevulde exempl. mailen of weer opslaan” / Twitter
Posted by jpluimers on 2026/03/06
[Wayback/Archive] HelgaDulfer on Twitter: “@zorgenzo Probeer form op te slaan en dan met Adobe Fill&Sign in vullen en ondertekenen; vervolgens kun je ingevulde exempl. mailen of weer opslaan”
I took a quick look, but the mobile Fill & Sign apps on Android and iOS are even harder to use for filling out forms than using Acrobat Reader on PC or MacOS Preview.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 