Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/15
I think that Compare Registry Settings is one of the most unknown features of Beyond Compare.
So if you are a Windows that fights with the Registry every now and then, this feature is for you.
Note it is in the Windows Pro Edition only: one more reason to buy a license (:
It has been there since Beyond Compare version 3.2, and for either side of the comparison supports:
- Your live registry
- The registry on a remote computer
- A .reg export file (locally or on an ftp server)
Use it to compare your registry against a backup, copy settings between PCs, and much more.
Note that comparing full registries can be slow, especially for remote registries as the registry transfer protocol of Windows is a bit chatty for the many small requests that Beyond Compare has to do.
The 2.5 minute introduction video is much better than the screenshot below, so go and watch it (:
–jeroen
via: Download Beyond Compare.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/13
Many sites giving your public IP address return a web page with a bloat of html. From the command-line, you are usually only interested in the IP-address itself. Few services return exactly that.
Below are command-line examples to provide the public IP address mostly from a *nix perspective. Usually you can get similar commands to work with Windows binaries for wget and Windows binaries for curl.
In the end, I’ve opted for commands in this format, as I think akamai will last longer than the other sites (but does not include an end-of-line in the http result hence the echo on Mac/*nix):
I’ve not tried aria2 yet, but might provide commands for that in the future.
These are the Linux permutations for akamai:
curl whatismyip.akamai.com && echo
curl ipv4.whatismyip.akamai.com && echo
curl ipv6.whatismyip.akamai.com && echo
curl ipv4.whatismyip.akamai.com && echo && curl ipv6.whatismyip.akamai.com && echo
The last two are convenient when you have both IPv4 and IPv6 configured on “the outside”.
You can replace curl with wget -q -O – (which outputs to stdout) for each command. You can even ommit the http:// (as that is the default protocol for both curl and wget).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/12
A long time ago I setup to post from Google+ to Twitter.
Somewhere close to spring 2015, that stopped with a G+ tweet about FireDAC which linked to my G+ post about it.
I could not find out however how I initiated that post forwarding, so I did some searching, then decided to go the IFTTT route: 10 Easy Steps To Automate Your Google Plus To Twitter Postings – Social Media Strategies & Techniques For Business Professionals.
The page does not allow you to select text or right click, but you can view the source (for instance in Chrome with view-source:http://www.garyhyman.com/10-easy-steps-to-automate-your-google-plus-to-twitter-postings/) so I’ll summarise:
- Note your Google+ numeric ID. For me these were 31 digits. Lets call it ####.
- Append the ID to http://gplus-to-rss.appspot.com/rss/ so you get http://gplus-to-rss.appspot.com/rss/####, then verify it indeed returns an RSS feed
- Login to ifttt.com (create an account first if you don’t have one), then create a new THIS source from the RSS feed icon.
- Select the link from 2. as source.
- Click on the THAT link, and select Twitter (you might need to enable IFTTT for Twitter).
- From the Twitter list, select “post a tweet”.
- Amend the text if needed (remember you only have 140 characters!), then press Create Action.
- Test (you might need to wait for about 15 minutes): indeed it worked as my G+ post got picked up by a tweet pointing to it about 15 minutes later.
Notes:
There are more complex schemes going through FeedBurner which I didn’t try yet:
Other alternatives I might try when IFTTT stops working:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/11
Some great blog entries to read:
And:
Finally:
All of the above are somehow related to the Superserver SYS-5028D-TNT4.
When looking at some pictures from the above posts, then an M1015 HBA should be perfect for ZFS (lots of results for ESXi M1015 HBA PCI VMDirectPath IO pass through, and they still seem to be the way to go for ZFS).
There might be a need for extra cooling; for some ideas: Cooling for m1015 Raid Card – [H]ard|Forum
Below are other ServerRAID OEM possibilities supporting 8 internal devices (chipset in parentheses) via:
12 Gbps adapters:
- EUR ~180: ServeRAID N2215 (SAS3008)
- EUR ~200: ServeRAID M5120 (SAS3008)
- ServeRAID M5210e (SAS3008)
6 Gbps adapters:
3 Gbps adapters:
- ServeRAID MR10i (SAS1078)
- ServeRAID BR10i (SAS1068e)
- ServeRAID BR10il v2 (SAS1068e)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/11
If I ever need to perform a COLD RESET of my HP CLJ9500, then these are the steps to follow, thanks sm00257 for posting them, same for the post by Kenneth Chan_2. Both quoted the service manual page 99.
You can choose to reset the HP JetDirect as well (either remove it so it won’t get reset or keep it in place to get it reset).
Cold reset
The cold reset clears all data from the printer memory and returns all of the defaults to the factory settings.
CAUTION Performing a cold reset resets the Jetdirect print server configuration. To avoid making changes to your network configuration, remove the HP Jetdirect print server before performing a cold reset.
Note The HP color LaserJet 9500mfp uses numeric buttons to accomplish the functions of the arrow and select buttons on the HP color LaserJet 9500 printer. On the MFP use the numeric button 3 as UPARROW, numeric button 5 as RETURN , numeric button 6 as TICK, and numeric button 9 as DOWNARROW on the MFP.
Note If possible, print a configuration page and menu map before performing a cold reset. This documents the current settings for later reference.
To perform a cold reset
- Turn off the printer, and then turn the printer on again.
- Press and hold TICK (the 6 button on the MFP) during the memory count.
- Continue to hold TICK (the 6 button on the MFP) until all three control panel lights illuminate steadily, and then release TICK (the 6 button on the MFP).
- When SELECT LANGUAGE appears on the control panel, press DOWNARROW (the 9 button on the MFP).
- COLD RESET appears.
- Press TICK (the 6 button on the MFP) while COLD RESET appears on the control panel. The cold reset is complete.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/10
While researching how to record analog PSTN call recording:
Via:
Edit 20250318: added Wayback/Archive archived links for the first three bullets above.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/09
Earlier I asked “Anyone knows an easy way to record PSTN calls at the line level?I’ve a problem with a PSTN device and want to listen in on what’s happening at the line…”
A few things I’ve found so far that should get me going:
–jeroen
Sources:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/09
Interesting:
During the last weeks I finally got my hands dirty with IPv6. A comment on my blog and an email informed me that my server (hosting this blog) is not reachable via IPv6, albeit it has an IPv6 address. That said, I tried to get that running and fell into several holes, due to firewalls, […]
Source: Fighting with IPv6 – There and back again
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