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YouTube Archived: private Dell video about detecting non-POST issues like motherboard or memory failures

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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Twitter: getting a tweet video URL

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 in Bookmarklet, Development, Power User, Python, Scripting, SocialMedia, Software Development, Web Browsers, YouTube, youtube-dl | Leave a Comment »

Iconography of the X Window System: The Boot Stipple | matttproud.com (blog)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/06

https://proud.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/768/011/579/353/261/small/b76295db1a6e025d.png

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):

matttproud.com/blog/posts/x-wi

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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MokupiPogisho👁️ on Twitter: “How to find hidden cameras in AirBnB 👁”

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/06

[Wayback/Archive] MokupiPogisho👁️ on Twitter: “How to find hidden cameras in AirBnB 👁 “ quoted a TikTok movie that basically both that a lot of devices can contain very tiny cameras and how to find many of them in a reliable way:

[Wayback/Archive] https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1475152238213484555/pu/vid/320×5…

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Shadow IT has entered the chat – got caught running scripts again : sysadmin

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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I’m not the only one storing tech gadgets in flight cases (:

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 »

Identity Crisis | Apple II Programs: Susan Kare’s “Happy Mac” on an Apple II

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/04

The re-imagined iconinc Happy Mac by Suzan Kare on the computer she got before even becoming employee #10 at Apple in 1982 [Wayback/Archive] Identity Crisis | Apple II Programs

Identity Crisis

Via [Wayback/Archive] Short Programs | Apple II Programs “Susan Kare’s “Happy Mac” on an Apple II”

At age 70, Susan is still alive and kicking, and even around on Twitter as [Wayback/Archive] Susan Kare (@SusanKare).

Inspired by a search because of [Wayback/Archive] Ron’s Computer Videos 🧍‍♂️🖥️ 📼 on X: “I wonder if Susan knew that Steve used her desk?”:

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What to do when suddenly some or many .nupkg became zero length and Chocolatey thinks none of them are installed?

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/04

A few years back I suddenly had almost all my .nupkg files that Chocolatey uses to track installed software become zero sized.

So I posted a question at [Wayback/Archive] Need help restoring .nupkg files having zero size · Discussion #2765 · chocolatey/choco which got this answer:

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Brush up on your knowledge of the elements with this Chrome Experiment, an interactive Periodic Table by Sarath Saleem: goo-gl/HJ9O31 #fridayfun

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/03

[Wayback/Archive] https://plus.google.com/+Chrome/posts/AgtEDd7ngEJ “Brush up on your knowledge of the elements with this Chrome Experiment, an interactive Periodic Table by Sarath Saleem: goo-gl/HJ9O31 #fridayfun”

This reminded me so much about the atom spin tables I wrote some Turbo Pascal code for in the late 1980s to help a university professor. Maybe one day, I will find that code back.

(note: I expanded the actual googl link because Google URL Shortener was killed in 2019 with links stopping to work in 2025, see [Wayback/Archive] Google Graveyard – Killed by Google)

The links:

--jeroen

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Kugane/winget: A Winget script to automatically install predefined programs and MS Store apps. Includes automatic update and cleanup job

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/03

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Kugane/winget: A Winget script to automatically install predefined programs and MS Store apps. Includes automatic update and cleanup job

–jeroen

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