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Pentium to Powerhouse! Dell 3070 Micro Transformation: how to upgrade the CPU, RAM and Storage – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/21

Didn’t know these CPUs were user-replaceable:

[Wayback/Archive] Pentium to Powerhouse! Dell 3070 Micro Transformation: how to upgrade the CPU, RAM and Storage – YouTube

--jeroen

Posted in Dell Optiplex 3060/5060/7060 Micro, Hardware, Power User | Leave a Comment »

BMW E61 Trunk Leak – Sunroof Drain Failure – 2004-2010 5 Series Wagon

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/21

Use this guide only as a last resort: [Wayback/Archive] BMW E61 Trunk Leak – Sunroof Drain Failure – 2004-2010 5 Series Wagon.

Try first to remove any debris from the drains from the panoramic sunroof/moonroof side or remove the valve with grommet at the lowest end. Some YouTube video’s explain how to do that.

It looks like a sunroof often has front drain holes clogged and a panoramaroof often the back drain holes; where it leaks depends how your car is tilted while parked.

You might want to move the electronics that are in the well under the spare wheel to the left hand side of the trunk.

Furthermore, the electric cabling on the E61 that runs underneath the hinges of the trunk and trunk window mechanisms tend to break over time causing all kinds of electrical issues.

A list related to those first:

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Posted in cars, E61 530xd touring, LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »

How I Setup My Mac – Liam Beeton

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/18

Inspiration: [Wayback/Archive] How I Setup My Mac – Liam Beeton

Via

--jeroen

Posted in Apple, Apple Silicon, ARM Mac, M1 Mac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, macOS 14 Sonoma, Power User | Leave a Comment »

H3/H2 Net Card – ODROID – wonder how well pfSense supports it

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/18

I wonder how well [Wayback/Archive] H3/H2 Net Card – ODROID is supported by pfSense. It is an M.2 based PCIe network card that adds 4 ethernet ports of 2.5 gigabit each to an ODROID H2 or H3 series (so you have 6 ports total), ideal for some hefty router.

Pictures (from the above link) of the board, cases and mainboard below.

But first: Realtek NICs is not vendor supported on FreeBSD (which pfSense and OPNsense are based on).

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Posted in *nix, BSD, Ethernet, FreeBSD, Hardware, Network-and-equipment, pfSense, Power User, routers | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

VSoft Technologies – Vincent Parrett on “Code Signing with USB Tokens”

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/17

It has been quite a while since I had to do code signing, but sooner or later that will change. When that happens, I need to re-read these:

--jeroen

PS:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Post by @guidoleenders.emp.invantive.com — Bluesky (by running this in the cloud)
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Post by @guidoleenders.emp.invantive.com — Bluesky )by running this on a Raspberry Pi)

Posted in Development, Software Development, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »

A signal of the future WebAssembly/emscripten is giving us: a database served on a static web page

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/17

From a quite a while back; apparently it ended up in the drafts in stead of the blog queue:

[Wayback/Archive] Ian Miell on Twitter: “A signal of the future WebAssembly/emscripten is giving us: a database served on a static web page: … The possibilities are dizzying. Also, I’ve thought for a while that if I had to put money on it, SQLite will outlast every other database out there.”

The combination of Emscripten and WebAssembly is cool as it allows you to run C/C++ based code in most Web Browsers at near-native speed (though the standard is open and can just as easily outside that realm).

[Wayback/Archive] Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages – (or any static file hoster) – phiresky’s blog:

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Posted in Assembly Language, Database Development, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Scripting, Software Development, SQLite, Web Development, WebAssembly | Leave a Comment »

Delphi “array of const” to “varargs” – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/16

Just in case I ever think “oh, I might try want to go the Variadic function arguments way in Delphi” again, I must remember “maybe not a good idea” and re-read these posts:

Note that this example, despite the description indicates it is, it is actually not varargs by array of const (which requires using TVarRec as under the hood it is an open array of TVarRec): [Wayback/Archive] How to create functions that can accept variable number of parameters such as Format().

Then some Free Pascal links, which is different from, but also similar to Delphi:

Queries:

--jeroen

Posted in .NET, C, C#, Delphi, Development, FreePascal, Pascal, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

DEF CON 30 – stacksmashing – The Hitchhacker’s Guide to iPhone Lightning and JTAG Hacking – YouTube (using Raspberry Pi Zero and hand modified lightning extension cable)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/16

From a few years back when Lightning debugging cables were either expensive, hard or not to get at all: [Wayback/Archive] DEF CON 30 – stacksmashing – The Hitchhacker’s Guide to iPhone Lightning and JTAG Hacking – YouTube.

Basically it is a Raspberry Pi Zero with adapted firmware connected to half a lightning extension cable.

A textual description (I wish it was linked from the above video) is at [Wayback/Archive] stacksmashing – The hitchhacker’s guide to iPhone Lightning & JTAG hacking – DEF CON Forums, which in turn refers to:

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Posted in Development, Hardware Development, iOS, iPhone, Power User, Red team, Security | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

git config: list all variables and their default values – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/15

Empirically, these are show the same behaviour where “command 2″and “command 3″are documented, but still present a lot as the only solution in blog posts and help sites:

git config commands
command 1: list command 2: --list command 3: -l what config is shown
git config list --local git config --list --local git config -l --local --local config for current repository
git config list --global git config --list --global git config -l --global --global config for the current user
git config list --system git config --list --system git config -l --system --system config for all users
git config list git config --list git config -l all 3 levels of config combined, for convenience
without telling which configuration setting is on which level

Based on [Wayback/Archive] git config: list all variables and their default values – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] Matteo Meil): Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Software Development, Source Code Management, Versioning | Leave a Comment »

Rephrasing error messages into heulpful messages

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/15

The problem with error messages is that they just displays errors as a fact without providing the user of future steps.

Offer them with a helpful, actionable message instead.

Not just for people with a visual impairment, I added readable text to the image below.

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Posted in accessibility (a11y), Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, Software Development, Usability, User Experience (ux) | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

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