Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/15
I have been contemplating on pfSense hardware as there has been a large shortage on that market especially for having more than 2 ports (similar to for instance Mikrotik PoE router unavailability).
If by now I have not found any, I might want to revisit [Wayback/Archive] Gowin R86S mini PC offers 2.5GbE and 10GbE networking for $310 and up – CNX Software has 3 RJ45 ports and 2 SFP+ cages.
They found it via this 4 page review:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/15
For my link archive to remotely administer some Intel 3060 Micro machines: [Wayback/Archive] Steps to enable remote control of a computer with Intel® AMT using MeshCommander
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/14
Amazon shows how not to return an HTTP 500 (Internal Server Error) result page: a page with content 500, but result HTTP 200 (OK).
[Wayback] https://www.amazon.de/errors/500
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/14
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] MQSystems – Home Page:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/13
[Wayback/Archive] GS305E | Easy Smart Managed Essentials Switch | NETGEAR Support which can do many-to-one port mirroring.
This is a newer and cheaper hardware revision than the:
Via [Wayback/Archive] Everyone Should Have One of These – EASY Packet Capture! – YouTube who explains very well why you need a switch that can do port-mirroring, then recommends the GS105E but forgets to mention:
Related:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/13
Often after having taught a topic for decades, somebody rephrases it in a beautiful concise way:
[Wayback Comment Only What the Code Cannot Say | by Kevlin Henney | Medium
Kevlin has the same two quotes I have included teaching software quality for a long time:
In The Elements of Programming Style, Kernighan and Plauger note thatA comment is of zero (or negative) value if it is wrong.Instead of writing apologies and apologia, follow Kernighan and Plauger’s advice from the 1970s:Don’t comment bad code — rewrite it.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/12
I missed this back then, so here is a reminder: [Wayback/Archive] Toru Iwatani shows his original drafts for Pac-Man : gaming
Of course these had a big red stamp on them marking them classified. The detailed game experience and sprite transformations in just a few pages really shows how great Toru Iwatani was.
Images were posted first on [Wayback/Archive] Toru Iwatani shows his original drafts for Pac-Man – Imgur:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/12
I needed this download-file.bat a while ago, but forgot how I found out.
It’s in this gist too: [Wayback/Archive] Quick batch file hack to download a file calling PowerShell to do the heavy lifting.
Here we go: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/11
I’m vintage, so I have some old machinery but also want to be able to run old software on newer hardware.
TL;DR: Since Apple Silicon (which is based on ARM) uses Intel Emulation for regular Mac binary programs, VMware Fusion# on Mac M* series cannot run Intel based operating systems, after some research there basically were these options:
Since virtual 8086 mode is not available on non-x86-based processors (more specifically, MIPS, DEC Alpha, and PowerPC) NTVDM is instead implemented as a full emulator in these versions of NT, using code licensed from Insignia’s SoftPC. Up to Windows NT 3.51, only 80286 emulation is available. With Windows NT 4.0, 486 emulation was added.
NTVDM is not included with 64-bit versions of Windows or ARM32 based versions such as Windows RT or Windows 10 IoT Core. The last version of Windows to include the component is Windows 10, as Windows 11 dropped support for 32-bit processors.
Links: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/11
I tried finding older versions of [Wayback/Archive] 160767437_1614740178716498_1088211482313253900_n.jpg (667×960) from Facebook: Crappy Electrical jokes and Puns. 1,666 likes · 9 talking about this. Just for fun (20210315), especially as the web-site of the ultimate source seems to have died: [Wayback/Archive] Kill The Neighbours, the game that doesn’t hurt – free online puzzle game
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