Archive for the ‘Power User’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/09
I forgot where I got this video from: [Wayback/Archive] YouTube Archived: private Dell video about detecting non-POST issues like motherboard or memory failures
It came in useful researching beeping pattern combined an amber/orange blinking pattern on one of my 2018 Dell 3060 MFF machines.
TL;DR
NOTE: On any OptiPlex built since 2012 (that is, 7010/9010/9010 AIO), Dell has stopped using all beep codes except for the Memory Failure code. (1, 3, 2, or one beep, then three beeps, then two beeps.) If your computer was built after 2012 and is making any other beep code, contact technical support for further help.
I knew it already needed a new coin cell battery, but that was surely not the only problem with it, and what type of battery it was (TL;DR: CR2032 and likely longer lasting BR2023 will be compatible too).
Related videos and links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/09
For my link archive (as I wish this could be part of a Bookmarklet): the --get-url option of youtube-dl gets you the video URL of a Tweet
# youtube-dl --get-url https://twitter.com/Gert_van_Dijk/status/1548997307017871362
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1548997270577840133/pu/vid/320x320/C20GFtInFGjBiY9k.mp4?tag=12
Via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/06
The X Windows System starting up with the seminal stipple on the root window and the X_cursor on the pointer.
Oh, the days of /etc/X11/XF86Config frustration (:
Nevertheless, a good tribute to the X Window System, the successor of the W Window System on V Operating System (not to be confused with System V), that turned 40 in June 2024 is [Wayback/Archive] Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple | matttproud.com (blog).
Via [Wayback/Archive] mtp: “To celebrate the X Window Syst…” – proud.social (image on the right of that post):
To celebrate the X Window System’s 40th birthday, I did a deep dive on something about it: the iconography of its boot-up stipple (that gray pattern you first see as the X Server starts up):
https://matttproud.com/blog/posts/x-window-system-boot-stipple.html
Did you know the stipple has a name, age, and cultural significance to the ecosystem? I’ll share my personal history with it. What’s yours?
#XWindowSystem #UNIX
#History #RetroComputing
(Later forks replaced XF86Config with xorg.conf).
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/05
Shadow IT has entered the chat
Many companies have hardly any idea how many scripts are being used by their people to get the chores of day to day work done.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/05
It was about 2 years ago that Jilles reminded me I had a flight case with gadgets too.
Back when I assembled it in 2018, I had big plans for showing private “cloud” container experimentation and gadget stuff at conferences. Then 2019 kicked in with rectum cancer.
So it was good that he helped me motivating to get it working again, especially as the time around assembling it so much fun and working on it brought back those days.
Here are the pictures:
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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Cloud, Cloud Development, Containers, Debian, Development, Docker, GL-AR300M, GL.iNet, Hardware Development, Infrastructure, Kubernetes (k8n), Linux, openSuSE, Power User, Raspberry Pi, Raspbian, Software Development, SuSE Linux | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/02
[Wayback/Archive] Tekenencefalitis (TBE) | RIVM
Er is een vaccin dat voor 95% bescherming geeft. Mensen die lange tijd verblijven in gebieden waar tekenencefalitis veel voorkomt, kunnen zich laten vaccineren. Dit wordt bijvoorbeeld aangeraden voor verblijf in delen van Midden- en Oost-Europa. Op de website van de Landelijke Coördinatie Reizigersadvisering staat vermeld in welke landen/gebieden vaccinatie geadviseerd wordt. Vooralsnog is er geen reden om in Nederland te vaccineren.
Ook het zo snel mogelijk verwijderen van een teek verkleint de kans op infectie, hoewel het virus al snel na de beet wordt overgebracht. Een snelle verwijdering kan deze ziekte dus niet altijd voorkomen, maar verkleint ook de kans op andere ziekten die door teken overgebracht kunnen worden, zoals de ziekte van Lyme. Tekenbeten kunnen voorkomen worden door beschermende kleding te dragen en de onbedekte huid in te smeren met een middel dat DEET (diethyltoluamide) diethyltoluamide bevat. Deze maatregelen geven geen 100% bescherming, waardoor
tekenbeetcontrole altijd nodig is na verblijf in het groen. Het is belangrijk om een teek zo snel mogelijk te verwijderen. Op de pagina
Verwijderen van een teek lees je hoe je dit het best kunt doen.
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Gevaarlijke tekenziekte rukt op: Helmi kreeg hersenontsteking | RTL.nl
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/02
Two years back there was the below quoted interesting German twitter thread.
Hopefully by now more bi-facial installations are used as they are just as efficient but take up less ground space.
There are now two maximum peaks in the morning and evening, which makes them relatively more productive outside the summer periods thereby more evenly spreading energy production over the year.
I think that last bit is especially important.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 