Archive for 2016
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/05
The Windows 10 installation does not warn you about it but the Fast Startup in Windows 10 will fail with many video cards and display drivers. This happens a lot on older hardware which somehow Microsoft thinks deserves to be auto-upgraded to Windows 10.
Usually you will see this when – after a previous shutdown – you boot and you get a black screen with a mouse cursor.
If you wait long enough, the machine will go to sleep and if you un-sleep it by pressing the spacebar most of the times everything will be fine.
The actual solution that works most of the time is to disable Fast Startup as described in Fast Startup – Turn On or Off in Windows 10 – Windows 10 Forums.
Sometimes there are other solutions which you can see in the below video.
–jeroen
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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.
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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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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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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/01
With en empty Group Name you get this:
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
Then you can successfully connect:
VPN connection succeeded!
–jeroen
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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.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/29
One day I’m going to need this: Make A Bootable Windows 10 USB Install Stick On Linux With WinUSB Fork ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog
So I’m glad WinUSB (which hadn’t been maintained for a long time) got forked on github by slaka.
Since my day-to-day unix-like system is OS X, I’d love a good working solution there too which means I probably need to investigate a bit along these lines:
- Using diskpart in a Windows VM (which is kind of backwards):
- Using Disk Utility and UEFI (only works for Windows 8 and up):
- Using Boot Camp Assistant and a modified Info.plist (which for El Capitan needs some extra work):
–jeroen
via: Make A Bootable Windows 10 USB Install Stick On Linux With WinUSB Fork WebUpd8 – Google+ / DoorToDoorGeek “Stephen McLaughlin” – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/29
sponge, a great *nix tool part of moreutils:
sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file
Now need to figure out how to get it on Tumbleweed; maybe http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/23781842/dir/opensuse/com/moreutils-0.48-1.1.i586.rpm.html
–jeroen
via: moreutils.
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