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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/28
Watch the most interesting past episodes and Linux tips from Hak5 during your summer holiday, then make sure you follow them.
Oh, and I need to find out of there are European resellers of their shop.
–jeroen
via: Episodes | Technolust since 2005Technolust since 2005.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/28
When the webmail doesn’t do what I want, I fall back on mutt on the Linux command line prompt.
It is an immensely strong and stable text based mail client, but – beyond the basics – has a steep learning curve.
In fact it is so stable, that the CVS repository rarely gets commits
So below a few notes that I used to clean up truckloads of mail.
For me the most powerful combination of steps is this:
Once you have tagged the desired messages, you can use thetag-prefixoperator, which is the;(semicolon) key by default. When thetag-prefixoperator is used, the next operation will be applied to all tagged messages if that operation can be used in that manner.
A few more details are below. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in *nix, Cygwin, Linux, Power User | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/27
Once every while you come across a post that is so good, you add another feed to your RSS list. This time I added Su-Shee’s posts,
Quote from: A constant source of confusion: Simplicity.
what is it really about all this simplicity stuff
It is a post about IT development. Teams. Platforms. Tools. Frameworks. Etc.
Striking a balance to keep things simple enough to be manageable is always key and her examples are just great!
–jeroen
via: A constant source of confusion: Simplicity.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/27
Once every while PowerShelll users get an error like this:
PS C:\bin> . .\DownloadedScript.ps1 . : File C:\bin\DownloadedScript.ps1 cannot be loaded. The file C:\bin\DownloadedScript.ps1 is not digitally signed. The script will not execute on the system. For more information, see about_Execution_Policies at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=135170. At line:1 char:3 + . .\DownloadedScript.ps1 + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : SecurityError: (:) [], PSSecurityException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : UnauthorizedAccess PS C:\bin>
I recently had it too, but was surprised this happened as I took the steps in my previous blog posts on this topic: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/27
log4net configuration can be a tad intimidating at first.
When you do not want to log all levels, and the levels you want to log are not noncontinuous, then you can combine the LevelMatchFilter with a DenyAllFilter.
The filter classes in the log4net do not provide much help on this, but the filters section in the log4net manual is better.
This StackOverflow question has a very nice answer explaining it: Discarding several log levels within a range with log4net.
–jeroen
via: Discarding several log levels within a range with log4net – Stack Overflow.
Posted in .NET, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, C#, C# 2.0, C# 3.0, C# 4.0, C# 5.0, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/26
Need to put some research in this, as I have the idea that under some circumstances embedding Office interop assemblies not always works.
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, Development, Office PIA, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/25
This [WayBack] SvnBridge – Use TortoiseSVN with Team Foundation Server – View Discussion shows you how to setup SvnBridge with TFS 2012 and IIS 7.5.
20170517: a fork is at https://github.com/andim2/SvnBridge
[WayBack] SvnBridge on CodePlex.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/24
A while ago, I had to connect to secure data over PPTP.
It reminded me of this post from about a year ago: via Divide and Conquer: Cracking MS-CHAPv2 with a 100% success rate (now archived at the wayback machine).
Their main point:
MS-CHAPv2 can be cracked within less than a day (and that time will only get less).
Their short conclusion “basically PPTP is dead, and IPSEC-PSK is worse” leads to the recommendation:
This leaves either an OpenVPN configuration, or IPSEC in certificate rather than PSK mode.
Longer quote: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in IPSec, Network-and-equipment, Power User, PPTP, Security, VPN | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/24
When Spotlight on my MacBook Air that runs OS X Lion didn’t show any results from the file system any more, I tried a lot of options, but only the final one worked: reboot:
MacBookAir:/ SuperUser$ sudo mdutil -i off
Password:
MacBookAir:/ SuperUser$ ls -al /
MacBookAir:/ SuperUser$ sudo rm -R /.Spotlight-V100
MacBookAir:/ SuperUser$ sudo mdutil -E /
/:
No index.
MacBookAir:/ SuperUser$ sudo mdutil -i on /
/:
Error: unable to perform operation. (-400)
No index.
MacBookAir:/ SuperUser$ sudo mdutil -i on -E /
/:
Error: unable to perform operation. (-400)
No index.
MacBookAir:/ SuperUser$ sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
com.apple.metadata.mds: Already loaded
MacBookAir:/ SuperUser$ sudo mdutil -as
/:
No index.
/.MobileBackups:
No index.
/Volumes/Firefox:
Indexing disabled.
/Volumes/MobileBackups:
Index is read-only.
/Volumes/MobileBackups/Backups.backupdb:
Index is read-only.
/Volumes/Opera:
Indexing disabled.
MacBookAir:/ SuperUser$ reboot
It was only later that I found out maybe a simpeler solution would have worked: kill all of the mdworker processes like this:
MacBookAir:/ SuperUser$ sudo killall -9 mdworker
–jeroen
Spotlight refuses to be enabled on Lion – Super User.
Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook-Air, Power User, SpotLight | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/21
If you ever wondered why how in Windows – as of Vista – the NCIS (network connection status indicator) determines if you have a valid internet connection, it is pretty simple, as both these pages explain:
NCIS depends on the msftncis.com domain (link to the checks from IntoDNS) and is for supporting Network Awareness in applications.
The probing is done in this order: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Captive Portal, DNS, Internet, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista | Leave a Comment »
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