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Archive for January, 2014
PDFreaders.org – Get a Free Software PDF reader!
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/27
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Downloading https urls from the commandline through cURL for Windows
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/27
Lately I moved more and more away from wget, mainly because out of the box, wget (and also aria2, which I like for the bittorrent support) handle https downloads so badly: you need to manually setup your CA store on each and every installed system.
Not so with cURL, especially not on Windows any more, as “recently” (that is: since the last time I examined it, which is over a year ago now), there is a new kid in town: cURL for Windows: a Windows Installer for the Web Transfer Tool.
You don’t even need to download the installer. Grabbing the stuff from the bin directory in the zip download is enough: it contains a prepackaged CA certificate set that works splendid.
So now downloading https://dl.google.com/update2/installers/ChromeStandaloneSetup.exe to the current directory is as simple as Read the rest of this entry »
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Backblaze Blog » What Hard Drive Should I Buy?
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/27
Interesting, that the former Hitachi drives (now owned by Toshiba) seem to perform best: Backblaze Blog » What Hard Drive Should I Buy?.
–jeroen
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Portable USB or battery powered WiFi routers
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/27
A few links so I won’t forget them; I own the first since 2010, the others look interesting too.
- Wireless 3G-N1 Broadband Router
– sold under various brands: DealExtreme, 7links (through Amazon.DE), Monoprice (through Amazon.COM)
– Connects to LAN then broadcasts as router or Access Point to WiFi SSID
– Connects to WiFi then forwards to LAN
– Connects to 3G USB stick then broadcasts as routes through LAN and WiFi SSD
– Make sure you configure through LAN, as that is more stable than configuring through WiFi
– PDF Manual
– downloads - Eminent EM4610 WiFi Travel Reader especially for your Apple Devices – Eminent.
– Powered by battery, charged through micro USB
– Connects to WiFi then broadcasts as router on a separate WiFi SSID
– Connects to LAN, then broadcasts as router on a WiFi SSID
– Battery powered (charge through Micro USB)
– Connect USB storage stick or SD card for storage
– Dutch review at Deel je betaalde WiFi met al je gadgets – Lifehacking.
– PDF Manual - TP-Link TL-WR702N 150Mbps Wireless N Nano Router 802.11b/g/n
– sold for instance through Amazon.COM and Amazon.DE and from China.
– Supports AP, Router, Client, Bridge and Repeater operation modes
– PDF Manual
– downloads - The WR-703N can be had for uner USD 25 (cheaper than Raspberry Pi and about as fast) and runs OpenWRT nicely.
- TP-Link TL-MR3020 Portable 3G/3.75G Wireless-LAN Router
– sold for instance through Amazon.COM and Amazon.DE
– Supports 3G Router, Travel Router (AP), WISP Client Router, Supports AP, Router, Client, Bridge and Repeater operation modes
– interesting mod: Sebastian Mauer – Google+ – Finished my little #WeekendProject The result is a TP-Link MR3020….
– PDF Manual
– downloads - TP-Link MR13U.
- Has a 10.000 mAh battery!
- Does 150 megabit max speed
- Costs less than USD 50.
- TP-Link TL-MR10U.
- Has a 2600 mAh battery
- Does 150 megabit max speed
- Costs less than USD 25.
- TP-Link MR11U.
- Has a 1000 mAh battery!
- Does 150 megabit max speed
- Could not find a really cheap one.
- TP-Link MR12U.
- Has a 5200 mAh battery!
- Does 150 megabit max speed
- Costs less than USD 45.
- TP-Link MR3040.
- Has a 2000 mAh battery!
- Does 150 megabit max speed
- Costs less than USD 35.
–jeroen
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openSUSE 12.x: today the same system would not plain “reboot” either (was: “A plain `halt` will not shutdown)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/26
A long time ago I wrote about openSUSE 12.x: “A plain halt will not shutdown the system properly.” « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
Well, today, for the very first time, a plain “reboot” didn’t work on this system either showing the same symptom as the “halt”: it would shutdown all services, but not perform an ACPI power cycle.
Luckily the system is still on ESXi, so I could reboot using the ESXi vSphere client.
–jeroen
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Sendmail: Redirecting domain based mail to multiple addresses: virtusertable and aliases file
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/26
When doing virtual sendmail hosting, in the domain based virtusertable file, you setup a domain based alias to point to a local alias:
foo.and.bar@example.org foo.and.bar
In the local aliases file, you setup a local alias to redirect to multiple addresses (or other aliases redirecting features):
foo.and.bar: foo@example.org, bar@example.org
–jeroen
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When yast2 in another session didn’t fully terminate…
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/26
Sometimes you get this when starting yast2:
System management is locked by the application with pid #### (@@@@@@).
Close this application before trying again.
This means another yast2 process with pid #### and name @@@@@@ is active, or hasn’t shut down properly.
@@@@@@ usually equals /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base or /usr/sbin/packagekitd.
First, view what the process is about by issusing this ps command that shows you a bit more context around the single pid ####: Read the rest of this entry »
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terminal emulator – What is making my cursor ‘randomly’ disappear? (via: Unix & Linux Stack Exchange)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/26
Annoying issue when suddenly the cursor on your OpenSUSE terminal session is gone, but the fix is simple run <a href="http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_reset.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reset</a>:
it’s possible that your TTY has been mangled by some other program you’ve run. Try running reset and then clear (or ctrl-L) to initialize your terminal.
–jeroen
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How to Keep Alive SSH Sessions (getting rid of the “Write failed: Broken pipe”)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/25
Getting rid of the dreaded “Write failed: Broken pipe”.
Note the difference of ServerAliveInterval/ServerAliveCountMax and ClientAliveInterval/ClientAliveCountMax.
For Mac, Linux and CygWin: Read the rest of this entry »
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7za in the OS X Terminal on your Mac
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/25
On both Windows and OS X, I use 7zip a lot. Usually the GUI versions (currently 7z920 on Windows and Keka 1.0.4 on OS X).
But for some purposes (for instance: compressing .lnk files) the 7za command-line version is a must (it has lots of options).
Note that the Windows 7za command-line version is 32-bit.
If you handle really large files on Windows, you might want to use the 64-bit 7z.exe that is in `%ProgramFiles%\7-Zip\7z.exe`.
There are a few ways to install the 7za console version on a Mac so you can access 7za from the Terminal in OS X. Read the rest of this entry »
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