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New in box: Super Serial Card – Apple Computer

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/24

Still need to test this out, but I got a new in box “Super Serial Card – Apple Computer”

Details: Apple II serial cards – Wikipedia

Apple Computer’s Super Serial Card, sometimes abbreviated as “SSC”, is the most well known communication card made for the Apple II. Apple called it “Super” because it was able to function as both of Apple’s previous cards, the Apple II Communications Card for modem use and the Apple II Serial Interface Card for printer use. A jumper block was used to configure the card for each of the two modes. The card has a maximum speed of 19,200 bit/s and is compatible with both ROM revisions of the Apple II Serial Interface Card. Reliable communications at 9600 bit/s and higher required disabling of interrupts. The card can actually run at 115,200 bit/s as well, using undocumented register settings; but speeds between 19,200 and 115,200 are not possible using this technique. The Super Serial Card was released in 1981 and utilizes the MOS Technology 6551 ACIA serial communications chip.

Manual: [Wayback] a2_Super_Serial_Card_user’s_manual.pdf via [Wayback/Archive.is] Apple II Super Serial Card – Google Search

Image:

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Some links for filing reports on address fraud in The Netherlands

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/21

Related to my earlier post  Finding a new energy supplier as the old one terminated our contract without notifying us:

The reason is that Liander confirmed to us that the energy contract on our address had been changed to be on someone else’s name, but refused to tell us any of this:

  • per which date the contract was switched
  • new supplier
  • new customer

We followed up via our legal insurance to get this solved, after instructed by them to file reports through the above channels.

Related:

–jeroen

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Some JavaScript bookmarklets for WordPress published pages centered around navigation and IDs

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/20

Maintaining a blog takes considerable time, so I wrote a bit of JavaScript for the browser console and bookmarklets to help me navigate faster, especially from my published posts on wiert.me back to the WordPress editing environment.

I wrote this because a query like [Wayback/Archive] wordpress get id from post html – Google Search top hits only contain results that work within the WordPress environment itself, like for instance [Wayback/Archive] 14 Ways to Get Post ID in WordPress.

This blog post is long and contains a lot of information, so I have split it in quite a few sections.

Let’s get started:

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RIP Kevin Mitnick

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/20

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/kevin-mitnick-11371668

Also: fuck cancer.

—

Kevin Mitnick, 1963-2023

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Buitenlandse trein/vlieg reizen vanuit Nederland zijn duurder dan via Nederland of geboekt via het buitenland

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/19

Eigen ervaringen om veel goedkoper uit te zijn:

  1. Boek je treinreis via een buitenlandse treinmaatschappij (www.bahn.de/angebot voor als je reis door Duitsland gaat) soms in twee delen (het land in en het land uit) die op elkaar aansluiten.
  2. Boek je vliegreis (met name KLM) vanaf het buitenland via Schiphol en maak voor de extra dag ervoor/erna een uitstapje.

[Wayback/Archive] Dezelfde rit, dezelfde trein naar het buitenland, maar bij de NS ben je duurder uit | RTL Nieuws

De nieuwe next.bahn.de site ondersteunt voorlopig alleen de Duitse taal, maar op de bestaande bahn.de site kun je daarnaast terecht in Tsjechisch, Deens, Engels, Spaans, Frans, Italiaans, Nederlands, of Pools.

Gerelateerd (later wanneer Archive Today weer Tweets kan archiveren komen de linkjes met archieven):

20230805 – twitter linkjes toegevoegd en deze gerelateerde tweet [Wayback/Archive] Andrea on Twitter: “@palpeet @DavidEerdmans @FemkevanH Je kunt je internationale treintickets(ook vanuit Nederland) in de meeste gevallen veel goedkoper vinden dan in Nederland als je dezelfde reis via Duitse, Oostenrijkse of Hongaarse spoorwegen boekt. Hier bijvoorbeeld. Even wat zoektijd investeren loont👉”

[Wayback/Archive] Super Sparpreis Europa: Günstige Bahntickets hier buchen – DB

20230919 – meer wees er bewust van dat de DB punctualiteit niet die van Zwitserland is en geregeld slechter (ja dat kan!) dan die van de NS is.

[Wayback/Archive] Kris: “Das alte Logo vom DB Navigator…” – chaos.social

Das alte Logo vom DB Navigator, aber es steht auf dem Kopf: Der ICE sieht nun aus wie ein schreiendes Legomännchen.

–jeroen

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APC SmartUPS Battery Float Voltage Calibration

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/19

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] APC SmartUPS Battery Float Voltage Calibration

It is my understanding that older BackUPS units could be adjusted with a potentiometer on the board. Calibration of newer models, and the SmartUPS line is factory set in the unit’s micro-controller. APC is of no assistance with units that are out of warranty. I’ve recently found information of how to recalibrate the battery float voltage through reprogramming the battery gain, and some information about modifying the UPS hardware, described below. I can’t take credit for discovering methods demonstrated, but hope it will be useful to another to have a coherent description.

Via:

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The Death of Infosec Twitter | Cyentia Institute

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/18

https://www.cyentia.com/the-death-of-infosec-twitter/

Via

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Characters you need to escape in the Title of a WordPress post

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/18

I forgot to post this: [Wayback/Archive] Which characters need to be escaped in HTML? – Stack Overflow

If you’re inserting text content in your document in a location where text content is expected1, you typically only need to escape the same characters as you would in XML. Inside of an element, this just includes the entity escape ampersand & and the element delimiter less-than and greater-than signs < >:
& becomes &amp;
< becomes &lt;
> becomes &gt;

I didn’t quote further, as this bit is somehow important for WordPress posts. WordPress reminded me the hard way when initially these posts were wrongly titled:

Warning:

It also means the “Press This” bookmarklet always gets unescaped plain text wrong. Watch this when selecting text for blogging and check if the selected text actually got into your post fine.

Thanks [Wayback/Archive] Ahmet for asking the above question and [Wayback/Archive] Jeremy for answering it.

–jeroen

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@b0rk (Julia Evans): SPF & DKIM records

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/17

A nice zine by @b0rk (Julia Evans) [Wayback/Archive.is] SPF & DKIM records

And a few days later [Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “… looks like a really nice way to learn about SPF/DKIM (h/t @CubicleApril) you send it an email and it walks you through everything the receiver does to verify the email …” / Twitter which referred to

[Wayback/Archive] Learn and Test DMARC.

Related:

Via: [Archive] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “SPF & DKIM records …” / Twitter (the original got deleted as it had a [Archive] typo)

–jeroen

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Standaard formulier voor het oplossen van storingen

Posted by jpluimers on 2023/07/14

Oud, maar ik kon het origineel niet zo snel vinden.

[Archive] John on Twitter: “…” / Twitter

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