What you need to know when adding an AMS HT to your Bambu Lab X1C
04/07/25 16:57 Filed in: 3D Printing | Management
Bambu Lab brought 3d printing from tinkering into the consumer space. Their once flagship X1 Carbon made point and click on desk manufacturing a reality for many users.
My past interactions with their technical support have been great, however, whenever I try to explain that I did not get quite enough or correct information from their website the experience is a bit less enlightening.
I recently updated my X1C with 2 AMS HT units, unfortunately, Bambu Lab were not clear in what is required and after a few rounds of helpful suggestions to their customer service, I doubt that I got my message through. This may be a case of being so versed in your own product that you can't see why people understand your explanation.
The take home message is that while we all think our explanations are clear and concise they may not be sufficient.
PS. I had a truly excellent support experience from 3dPrinterGear.com.au who express posted the missing part so I managed to get up and running less that 24 hours later. Read More...
My past interactions with their technical support have been great, however, whenever I try to explain that I did not get quite enough or correct information from their website the experience is a bit less enlightening.
I recently updated my X1C with 2 AMS HT units, unfortunately, Bambu Lab were not clear in what is required and after a few rounds of helpful suggestions to their customer service, I doubt that I got my message through. This may be a case of being so versed in your own product that you can't see why people understand your explanation.
The take home message is that while we all think our explanations are clear and concise they may not be sufficient.
PS. I had a truly excellent support experience from 3dPrinterGear.com.au who express posted the missing part so I managed to get up and running less that 24 hours later. Read More...
Stax SRM-252S and iFi iPower2
09/06/25 14:37 Filed in: Audio
This article is a sort of community service announcement to clearly say that the iFi iPower2 works with the SRM-252S - at least for me. Something that was rather hard to find clearly spelled out elsewhere.
Why is this a data point anyone should care about?
After all it is just a 12V power supply and a device that accepts 12V.
It turns out that the SRM-252S does not work well with arbitrary power supplies and the iFi one is a lot more expensive than others (5 to 10 times the price). The cheaper linear alternatives are getting rare and the common switch modes sometimes work and sometimes don't and you can't tell from the spec sheet.
Sometimes satisfying an electrical load goes beyond meeting peak power demand and correct voltage and polarity. Read More...
Almost good news on the CVE front
17/04/25 10:28 Filed in: Security
Apparently the funding to Mitre that pays for maintaining the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) https://www.cve.org nearly ended.
The good news is that
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The good news is that
- it got a last minute 11 month extension; and,
- a group of concerned people on the board had a non-profit ready to go if it wasn''t funded
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Kubernetes Ingress on Microk8s
27/03/25 11:51 Filed in: Systems Administation
There is a CVE (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1974) pointing out a serious bug in Nginx based Kubernetes Ingress (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/131009). While the Microk8s crowd get their snaps sorted there is a work around. Read More...
Windows App
12/03/25 16:22 Filed in: Mac OS X
Microsoft has been promising to update Microsoft Remote Desktop for MacOS for years. It is finally here and renamed Windows App. But changing the name of an application has security implications in OS X. If you can't save you updated connection information after the update then you need to make some changes in the keychain. Read More...