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Old xs4all stuff

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/29

In the past xs4all.nl had a shell server. In the shell you had a WWW directory which was the route of your personal web-site.

For instance, I had a file there in ~jp/WWW/route/route.html which was served at:

Almost 25 years after KPN bought xs4all, it switched off the shell servers and these links, so I was glad with this warning [Wayback/Archive] Koen de Jonge on Twitter: “Morgen stopt #kpn4all met het aanbieden van shellaccess. Wij willen dat met #Protagio ook gaan aanbieden. Wil je ook #shellacces houden, kijk dan snel op: … #eerlijkecloud”

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SCANSNAP iX100 SCANNER REPAIR MANUAL – PFU Ricoh Store

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/28

Ordered because all of a sudden, my scanner would only charge over USB, but not connect to any computer any more over USB (likekly because the Micro-USB connector on the mainboard was broken which is odd after just a few 100 inserts which is odd as it should last 10k+ cycles according to USB hardware – Wikipedia) [WaybackSave/Archive] SCANSNAP iX100 SCANNER REPAIR MANUAL – PFU Ricoh Store.

It costs only USB 0.00, so I hope they will send it outside of the USA.

When ordering, you have to agree with these:

When I don’t receive the manual, hopefully the translated version of this video will be of help: [WaybackSave/Archive] Reparación Scanner Fujitsu ScanSnap – Puerto De Carga Micro USB – YouTube -> Fujitsu ScanSnap Scanner Repair – Micro USB Charging Port – YouTube.

Como me pasa muchas veces esto grabe este video. Me piden que repare algo que ya intentaron reparar de la manera incorrecta.

->

As this happens to me many times, I recorded this video. I am asked to repair something that they already tried to repair incorrectly.

Queries:

--jeroen

Posted in Development, Fujitsu ScanSnap, Hardware, Hardware Development, ix100, Power User, Scanners | Leave a Comment »

Eric Reinhart on Twitter: “Yes, there is no intrinsic meaning or purpose in your life. This is difficult; it’s also the reason there’s possibility for you. The task of living is to invent meaning and purpose, and then invent it again. It’s work. Much of the time it’s painful. Sometimes, it’s also joy. 3/”/ Twitter

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/28

Food for thought: [Wayback/Archive] Eric Reinhart on Twitter: “Yes, there is no intrinsic meaning or purpose in your life. This is difficult; it’s also the reason there’s possibility for you. The task of living is to invent meaning and purpose, and then invent it again. It’s work. Much of the time it’s painful. Sometimes, it’s also joy. 3/”

The full thread is at [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @_Eric_Reinhart on Thread Reader App.

–jeroen

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Some links on 12V ~18Ah UPS replacement batteries

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/27

The cells for the APC RBC7 and RBC55 UPS battery packs are all the same: 12V varying from 17Ah to 22Ah, has M5 leads for mounting the cables, and dimensions of ~76.5 * 181.5 * 167.5 mm

These cells are collectively named UB12180 but searching that term will get you prices that are not far from the APC ones, and APC wants to charge you an arm and a leg for them (around EUR 75 per cell).

Searching for the individual cell capacity will get you better offers.

Related blog posts:

Some links for finding them; maybe around Black Friday (it’s in a few days: 2024-11-29) I can really good deals:

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IPv4 subnet/CIDR table from OccupytheWeb on Twitter: “Network Basics for Hackers: Subnetting, Subnet Masks and CIDR Notation …”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/27

I wrote about programs and scripts doing IPv4 subnet calculation, but sometimes it is easier to have a table at hand, so here is the one I found at [Wayback/Archive] OccupytheWeb on Twitter: “Network Basics for Hackers: Subnetting, Subnet Masks and CIDR Notation #networks #networkbasics #subnetting #infosec #networks4hackers #cyberwarrior #cyberwarrior #networkbasics #networkbasics subnet”

Notes:

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Hopefully this has made it into a set by now: LEGO IDEAS – This Is Fine

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/25

Often it can take a long time for first getting 100 votes, then via milestones 1000, 5000, 10000 and a long review phase to become an actual set.

Hopefully by now [Wayback/Archive] LEGO IDEAS – This Is Fine has become a set or at least someone used Bricklink Studio designer and uploaded the model or instructions.

Edit 20241125:

Nope, LEGO decided they didn’t want to make money of this set as communicated in their [Wayback/Archive] LEGO IDEAS – This Is Fine: Official LEGO Comments

Unfortunately, the LEGO Review Board has decided that we will not produce this project as a set.

But others did:

Looking at the price difference between these two, LEGO could have made quite a bit of money.

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Not just on a new tab: MacOS chrome crashes when command + shift + i is pressed on a new tab [333424895] – Chromium

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/23

April 2024 this bug was reported: [Wayback/Archive] chrome crashes when command + shift + i is pressed on a new tab [333424895] – Chromium

That one was fixed, but it looks shortcuts like Command (⌘) + Shift + I still break Chrome when used on a tab pointing to a web-site.

Hopefully the original fix at [Wayback/Archive] Fix crash in sharing menu (5449679) · Gerrit Code Review will help people fixing the standing issue as well.

Related (I plan to file a bug report when the number of my open tabs is closer to zero from the current 200+):

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GHP1989 to WHY2025: Dutch hacker camps from the past and the future – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/22

A long, since 1989, tradition is the Quadrennial Dutch hacker convention.

A nice video summarising all of them is at [Wayback/Archive] GHP1989 to WHY2025: Dutch hacker camps from the past and the future – YouTube

The upcoming [Wayback/Archive] WHY2025 hacker camp convention is covered starting at 44:42.

--jeroen

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Reminder to self: write Bookmarklet to assemble URL for Amazon Shipping ID

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/21

Example URL: [Wayback/Archive] track.amazon.com/tracking/NL2017506177

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Amazon Shipping

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GitHub – ggerganov/whisper.cpp: Port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C/C++

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/20

For future experimentation transcribing voice conversations: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – ggerganov/whisper.cpp: Port of OpenAI’s Whisper model in C/C++

Whisper (speech recognition system) usually runs in the cloud (someone else’s computers, often rentable for a substantial monthly sum).

Via

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “Wat is een goede tool voor transcriptie van Nederlandse tekst voor hobbymatig gebruik?…” – Mastodon
  2. [Wayback/Archive] bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺: “@wiert whisper.cpp als je handig bent…” – Fosstodon

Now hopefully Whisper works well with the Dutch language…

I later realised Jeff Geerling mentioned Whisper a while ago as well:

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