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Archive for August, 2016

bash – How can I convert tabs to spaces in every file of a directory? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/05

Kev:

Try the command line tool expand.

expand -t 4 input >output

Chrono Kitsune:

And for those systems that don’t use the GNU Core Utilities, you have a decent chance of expand being installed since it is standardized by The Open Group’s Single Unix Specification. See Issue 6, which is from 2001, though some updates were applied, hence the year of publication being 2004: expand

–jeroen

via bash – How can I convert tabs to spaces in every file of a directory? – Stack Overflow.

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, bash, bash, Development, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, SuSE Linux | Leave a Comment »

Frequent password changes are the enemy of security, FTC technologist says – via Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/03

Frequent password changes are the enemy of security, FTC technologist says

Source: Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

Since the 1980s I’ve been advocating the above opinion and I’m glad some people now agree with me.

If you ever hire or employ me and force such a regular password change policy upon me without allowing me to use a password manager that can communicate securely with the cloud (which means you don’t play TLS man-in-the-middle) then I will either:

  • create a password-change script that invalidates the password history you keep and re-use my really secure password of choice.
  • if that fails: add an incrementing value to a reasonably secure base password.

–jeroen

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Insentricity :: This Letter Quality Printer Is Now Fully Armed and Operational ::

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/03

Chris Osborn was finally able to open up his 1980s Smith Corona Memory Correct 400 Messenger and replace the fuse, enabling him to do letter quality printing over over the parallel port (and hopefully the serial port soon too).

Cool!

Sources:

–jeroen

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on code quality: Can we automate everything? | CommitStrip – Blog relating the daily life of web agencies developers

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/03

Repeated because it is the most important aspect of software development.

automating everything

automating everything

–jeroen

via: Can we automate everything? | CommitStrip – Blog relating the daily life of web agencies developers.

Posted in Agile, Code Quality, Development, Software Development, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »

TDD: all unit tests passed.

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/02

TDD via Dave Hulbert on Twitter: “Yay, all unit tests passing! http://t.co/ax2uxPsZqv”.

Dave Hulbert on Twitter:

Dave Hulbert on Twitter: “Yay, all unit tests passing! http://t.co/ax2uxPsZqv”.

 

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Remote VPN to Fritz!Box from Mac OS X: don’t forget to set your Group Name to be the same as the User Name

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/01

With en empty Group Name you get this:

No Group Name means no connection

No Group Name means no connection

The bad thing is: the Fritz!Box will not tell you this in any of the logs.

So don’t forget to set the Group Name to be the same as the Account Name in the ….:

Always enter the Group Name in the Authentication Settings

Always enter the Group Name in the Authentication Settings

Then you can successfully connect:

VPN connection succeeded!

VPN connection succeeded!

–jeroen

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Deleting Horizontal Lines From Word

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/01

Oh man, why didn’t they make a line object out of this…

But if you realize it is a bottom border, then deleting is easy:

The answer is something of a trick, as the horizontal line is not a line (or a graphic), it’s a bottom border.

–jeroen

via: Deleting Horizontal Lines From Word.

Posted in Office, Office 2007, Office 2010, Office 2013, Power User | Leave a Comment »