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Computer people are hereby banned from naming software projects ever again.

I bought a smart power plug for €6,49 at the Action today.

Continue reading for the good story behind the Karl-Marx-Stadt magnet.

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These kind of commands command are useful if you want it now and not any later time, unless you explicitly run the command.

Yesterday I saw on the Dutch second hand website Marktplaats a new listing for a Microsoft Touch.

I bought a second hand Cisco IR829 in a thrift store for 25€ without a power supply.

When talking about scalability in the context of software, it is always about being able to handle more: users, data, network traffic, etcetera.

I was nerdsniped by some post on StackExchange that claimed it is impossible to disable HTTPS for a single hostname if you have other HTTPS hosts on that server.

One my favorite computers ever manufactured is the Canon Notejet, manufacted by the Canon subsidiary Canon Computer Systems, Inc. in a collaboration with IBM.

This is a rather short article, but I hope it will be useful to someone who is Googling their problem.

Setting up a virtual machine (VM) on Linux using open source software is the standard way of doing things, but on macOS it usually involves VMware Fusion or Boot Camp.

I got a second hand IBM ThinkPad 365XD from Marktplaats, the local version of eBay in The Netherlands.

Since Karsten Nohl and his colleagues from SRLabs has presented the attack he named “BadUSB” back in July 2014, I’ve seen some media reports about those attacks in the wild.

In recent years, partly due to the so called “Snowden effect”, a lot of sites have added HTTPS support, while most of them even made it mandatory.

I got an old analog Bang & Olufsen phone with a quite nice 80s design.

This page is just a dump of some information and work in progress.

I disassembled a so called “next-generation firewall” which has been produced by the Swedish company Clavister.

I regularily mount disk images on some machine, but I always forget the sequence of commands.

Note, this guide only works on the following ThinkPad models: 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2613, 2623, 2637 The ThinkPad T60 contains a PCI whitelist in the BIOS firmware that restricts the usage of WiFi cards to those that were a…

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TL;DR Linux works, default GPU is slow, Broadcom accelerator support has been dropped from various apps, kernel driver is maintained out-of-tree Note that only the first generation of the Apple TV is known to run Linux.

It seems that networking equipment vendors have some tradition of using display connectors for other purposes.

Hardware I’m not an expert on Sun hardware, and the online availbable documentation is somewhat sparse.

There are a lot of historical ARM architecture versions, but this article focuses on ARMv6 and newer.

My dad got a Doogee S60 Lite which has an annoying Power Saving Mode app installed that turns agressive power saving on after a while, even though power saving is manually disabled within the app.

Recently, I bought a ThinkPad 240 for my collection of old ThinkPads.

When using the HDMI input on this display, the maximum resolution is 1920x1080, although the panel supports 2560x1440 with 60Hz through DisplayPort.

Currently, attempts are being made to encrypt the DNS traffic end users are sending to their resolvers.