Category Archives: In english

Better get a Danish- dictionary if you frequently visits my blog, but english posts will all be in this category.

DIY – repair of Sony Compact Disc Player CDP-XE200

Posted on 2025-08-03 by Uffe R. B. Andersen

Since – oh – probably a couple of years now, the household’s CD player has sat mostly unused, because it had trouble closing the disc tray. Until recently I could make it work by being patient and close the tray … Continue reading →

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Toshiba NAS N300 rehabilitation

Posted on 2025-02-09 by Uffe R. B. Andersen

A month ago I was whining over the apparent failure of one of my NAS grade hard disks, a Toshiba NAS N300. As I wrote then, before discarding the disk, it was subjected to a short SMART test, then a … Continue reading →

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Blocking DeepSeek on Palo Alto firewalls

Posted on 2025-02-06 by Uffe R. B. Andersen

Palo Alto Networks has yet to release an App-ID for the new Chinese AI, DeepSeek. Many administrators will probably like to block DeepSeek due its controversiality, and luckily Palo Alto Networks has other ways to achieve this end (Dann haben … Continue reading →

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Another one bites the dust

Posted on 2025-01-06 by Uffe R. B. Andersen

Saturday, January 4th., 17:32 CET, an e-mail arrived in my Inbox, sent from my TrueNAS server: No warning, whatsoever. Double checked my e-mails, looked in the TrueNAS alerts. Nothing. Apparently the disk just disappared out of the blue. Or is … Continue reading →

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Smokeping and FPing6 probe.

Posted on 2019-08-01 by Uffe R. B. Andersen

Recently I noticed that my Smokeping installation had a few empty graphs. It turned out to be all the IPv6 targets, like ipv6.google.com and www.facebook.com. I ping those targets mostly to keep track of changes in my IPv6 latency, as … Continue reading →

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New PGP Key

Posted on 2018-05-17 by Uffe R. B. Andersen

Following the recent Efail security issue with PGP and S/MIME, I noticed that my PGP Key was within a few months of expiry. So I have created a new one and published it to the PGP Public Key page. The … Continue reading →

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Upgrading Dell Dimension 9200 to Windows 10

Posted on 2015-09-02 by Uffe R. B. Andersen

The Dell Dimension 9200 is an old PC by all measures. I bought mine in January 2007 and it has served me well. The processor is the Intel® CoreTM2 CPU E6400 @ 2.13GHz, which was state-of-the-art at the time of … Continue reading →

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Stolen Canon camera equipment

Posted on 2014-09-20 by Uffe R. B. Andersen

The following Canon camera equipment was stolen from my house in Værløse, Denmark, on Thursday september 18th 2014: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, serial number: 2431424320 Battery grip BG-E6 Canon Speedlite 580EX II, s/n: 005640 Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM, … Continue reading →

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Mayhem malware

Posted on 2014-07-30 by Uffe R. B. Andersen

Interesting but also disturbing reading …

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What is Electricity?

Posted on 2014-06-11 by Uffe R. B. Andersen

Hilarious 🙂 Here is a simple experiment that will teach you an important electrical lesson: On a cool, dry day, scuff your feet along a carpet, then reach your hand into a friend’s mouth and touch one of his dental … Continue reading →

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