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You will need win32com, install via pip into a win32 python instance, 3.11-32 is good.

you will have to use a win32 python, testing was done on python 3.11-32

Download this

https://archive.org/details/flextalk

I've tested on Win10 64

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#create as ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/21-vban-rnnoise-filter.conf
context.modules = [
  { name = libpipewire-module-filter-chain
    flags = [ ifexists, nofail ]
    args = {
      node.name        = "RNNOISEMONO"
      node.description = "RNNOISEMONO"
      media.class      = "Audio/Filter"

      audio.rate       = 48000

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Needs: screen, pipewire, JACK, pw-jack, vban_receptor does not use fifo buffers or pipes or other old stuff, just audio in from vban and audio out to local pipewire sinks. I have used this for mic passthrough from windows to a linux OBS streaming setup without issue.

15/08/2025: improved, mono mode. in voicemeeter you're gonna want to set 48000hz 24 bit PCM and 1 channel, default stream name is rawmic

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you will need MPV and Pipewire for this to work.

this has 44khz -> 48khz conversion by default since linux these days defaults to 48khz

I wrote this with the assistance of chatgpt 4o to try and get a nice easy way to pull some royalty free stream music into OBS

it defaults to a famous lofi study beats stream, but it also saves settings when changed.

starting it creates pipewire devices and starts up the stream

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#switch to WY60 from VT100 mode, required for following command
echo -en '\x1b[42h' > /dev/ttyS0

#SET TIME IN WY60 MODE, expects HHMM in 24HR format
CURRENTTIME=`date +%H%M`
echo -en '\x1bc8'${CURRENTTIME} > /dev/ttyS0

#switch to VT100 from WY60, ready for end user interaction with time set!
echo -en '\x1b~;' > /dev/ttyS0

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Scott Forestall was forced out over the Apple Maps Launch Fiasco and right after he departed we got iOS 8 APFS, Mac OS Sierra and all the issues that came with that.
They forced out all the engineers who cared about quality for brown nosing political shits who care more about pronouns and ideology like "agile" than they do good products.

Johnny Ive's departure was spun as a good thing, but the truth is, he probably couldn't stand the way the company was behaving anymore.

Apple's former airport engineers got sick of how the company was operating and formed Ubiquiti

Apple's former laptop hardware engineers formed the company Framework

Tim Cook isn't all that talented and he is running on the fumes of a CEO dead for 10 years now and the generic garbage that a chinese firm, Quanta Comptuer, produces for Apple.

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#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: pufferd
# Required-Start:       $syslog $local_fs $network
# Required-Stop:        $syslog $local_fs $network
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: pufferd daemon service
# Forcing a CoC on Users is traditionally known as "rape"
# SystemD sucks. Transfats are unhealthy for you.

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Disclaimer: I in no way encourage the violation of Apple's sofware licences.
My instructions are hardware agnostic and therefore cannot be interpreted as an attempt to do so.

You will need: 
1. an intel or universal mac os Tiger installer, personally, I found great success with the 10.4.7 and 10.4.10 installers for various 2007 models.
2. efi32-srvr.rom, I'm not providing links, google it.
3. ESXi installed and unlocked with ESXi-Unlocker

Clover Wizard and Mactracker are great tools for figuring this stuff out in terms of what hardware and what OS versions are compatible,
most Tiger install disks apart from a few shipped with checks to see what model mac you're running and only install on "compatible" machines.

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Apple Software Update Server - Hosting older and newer updates
Tested on Sierra Server, 10.12.6


sudo chflags nouchg /Library/Server/Software\ Update/Config/swupd.conf
sudo nano /Library/Server/Software\ Update/Config/swupd.conf
Modify Rewrite rules near bottom of file to look like this:

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Darwin/8
    RewriteRule ^/index\.sucatalog$ http://%{HTTP_HOST}/cgi-bin/SoftwareUpdateServerGetCatalog?/index.sucatalog

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I've tried the following configuration on ESXi up to 6.5.0 Update 2 (Build 10719125)
Beware the Adaptec, you can trick their support software into working
with older cards by torturing your whitebox with various old vibs...

But you will NEVER get Maxview Storage Manager to work! NEVER!
Be grateful for ARCCONF, it's all you're getting, Adaptec sucks.

I personally have a ASR-51245, running the latest BIOS available, 18948.
The 5805, 5405, 6405, 6805, etc... should all in theory work with this combo, but if you have a 6 series card, you will have working maxview anyway.
So the trick here is using just the right versions of the drivers, cim providers and arcconf to get this to work, bear with me.