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Default Samsung TV network names are too long (:

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/02

On [WayBack] Default Samsung TV network names are too long (: – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+, [WayBack] Wolfgang Rupprecht – Google+ had a great comment:

Samsung needs to have some more experienced engineers in their TV group. The whole internet interaction is a mess. The thing that annoys me is that the TV’s claim their name is “localhost” when they ask for a DHCP address. They also have a half dozen undocumented ports open to the network and no way for the user to disable those mis-features.

–jeroen

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How to factory reset the OnePlus 2 – AndroidPIT

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/02

The software based reset worked perfectly for me: [WayBack]How to factory reset the OnePlus 2 – AndroidPIT

–jeroen

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homecomputerlab » Cisco 2511-RJ remote access terminal server

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/03/02

Relics from the serial communications history are still in use today: [WayBack] homecomputerlab » Cisco 2511-RJ remote access terminal server

–jeroen

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Rebooting Apple TV 4k and 4

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/28

Every now and then, when an Apple TV falls asleep with an app running, it wakes up without the app showing actual content on HDMI.

I’ve seen this quite a lot with the NPOStart app, but other apps suffer from this as well.

It happens more often with an Apple TV 4k than with an Apple TV4.

When this happens, the TV thinks there is no HDMI device connected to that source any more.

The solution is to reboot the Apple TV without active screen output:

If the remote refuses to connect, then you have to pull the plug and reinsert it; either the power or HDMI plug will do.

Luckily this workaround I did not have to reboot my TV, as the only two ways to do that is to pull/reinsert the power plug, or to perform a [WayBack] How do I perform a Factory Data Reset on my Smart TV? | Samsung Support Australia.

–jeroen

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Identifying a Raspberry Pi visually or by the cpuinfo

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/28

Two links that help me identify the Raspberry Pi devices from my collection (which misses quite a few, but is too extensive to get them all right in the blink of an eye):

–jeroen

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R Notes for Professionals book

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/28

One day I will likely need R, so here is the [WayBack] R Notes for Professionals book.

The R Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack Overflow. Text content is released under Creative Commons BY-SA.

It is a [WayBack] PDF download.

Via: [WayBack] R Notes for Professionals: a free 400+ pages book compiled from Stack Overflow Documentation released under Creative Commons BY-SA… – ThisIsWhyICode – Google+

–jeroen

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GitHub – mgedmin/check-manifest: Tool to check the completeness of MANIFEST.in for Python packages

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/27

I will need thi sone day: [WayBack] GitHub – mgedmin/check-manifest: Tool to check the completeness of MANIFEST.in for Python packages

Are you a Python developer? Have you uploaded packages to the Python Package Index? Have you accidentally uploaded broken packages with some files missing? If so, check-manifest is for you.

Via: [WayBack] check-manifest: a tool to check the completeness of MANIFEST.in for Python packages  – ThisIsWhyICode – Google+

–jeroen

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What are the size restrictions for the VCL controls like TPanel and TPaintBox…

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/27

Via [WayBack] What are the size restrictions for the VCL controls like TPanel and TPaintBox.? Are they documented anywhere? I’m talking about placing these on a TScro… – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+:

Some Windows messages use the LPARAM to carry width and height, which allows only 16 bit for each.

So 32k-1 (or decimal 32767) is the maximum size of a GDI based visual element in Windows.

–jeroen

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Redirect Detective – A Free Tool To Trace Where Redirects End Up

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/27

Cool tool, but be aware it does aJavaScript:xmlhttpPost from , so your data can be logged [WayBack] Redirect Detective – A Free Tool To Trace Where Redirects End Up.

For http://www.xs4all.nl/~jp, it shows these redirects (where in bold I’ve listed the changes):

Oh and it runs this call: JavaScript:xmlhttpPost("/linkdetect.px")?word=www.xs4all.nl%2F%7Ejp from [WayBack] redirectdetective.com/ajax.js.

Note that this shows more redirects than the plain http ones, so wget from [WayBack] wget – How do I display all URLs in a redirect chain? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange shows this:

$ wget http://www.xs4all.nl/~jp 2>&1 | grep Location:
Location: https://www.xs4all.nl/~jp [following]
Location: https://jp.home.xs4all.nl/ [following]

–jeroen

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emulation – How to safely remove/uninstall Android Virtual Device .img files added by Visual Studio Emulator for Android – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/26

Me at [WayBack] emulation – How to safely remove/uninstall Android Virtual Device .img files added by Visual Studio Emulator for Android – Stack Overflow:

Since after uninstalling the “Visual Studio Emulator for Android” component, you cannot get to the “AVD Manager” any more, you have to manually delete this directory:

%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudioEmulator

This works for both Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2015.

In addition, you might want to run “AppWiz.cpl“, then remove “Android SDK Tools”, which is also not automatically removed by the Visual Studio installer (at least not in Visual Studio 2015).

This will get rid of the multi-gigabyte folder %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Android\android-sdk\

If you still need Android emulation, read these:

–jeroen

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