On the reverse engineering of an early Pokemon Go apk, the protocol it uses and some more interesting findings: Unbundling Pokémon Go — Applidium
–jeroen
Archive for 2016
Unbundling Pokémon Go — Applidium
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Can some recommend a good tool to build MSI package? I use Inno Setup…
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/30
For my G+ Link archive:
Can some recommend a good tool to build MSI package?I use Inno Setup but only to build EXE file.Thanks, – Chris Z. – Google+
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When AQTime thinks it’s running during install and aborts installation
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/29
I had this warning (which is actually an error: you cannot continue as pressing OK would get you the same warning over and over again) during AQTime installation a while ago:
--------------------------- WARNING ! --------------------------- Setup has detected AQtime running on your computer. You must close the application and press OK to continue. Press Cancel to abort installation. --------------------------- OK Cancel ---------------------------
Back then:
- I was Administrator
- The Installer download was from http://downloads.smartbear.com/AQtime.exe
- The embedded version was 8.50.1720
It did successfully extract the AQtime.msi before bailing out
The fix (from SmartBear support) was remarkably simple, so I was surprised I could not find it online:
If your downloaded, saved AQtime installation package is named AQtime.exe, rename it: (ex: AQtime850.exe and you should then be able to complete the installation process.
So basically renaming AQTime.exe into AQTime850.exe allowed it to install.
–jeroen
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james-atkinson/speedcomplainer: A python app that will test your internet connection and then complain to your service provider (and log to a data store if you’d like)
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/29
It can auto-tweet your status to an ISP.
via:
- I set up my Raspberry Pi to automatically tweet at Comcast Xfinity whenever my internet speeds drop significantly below what I pay for
- +Reddit user AlekseyP in singlehandedly ruining the Twitter life of broadband provider #Comcast with their ‘Complaining Raspberry Pi’. – Raspberry Pi – Google+
–jeroej
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Disable TR-069 on a Fritz!Box and check if that was succesful – translated from a post by Hartmut Goebel
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/29
Just in case you got scared by the TR-064 hack and likely causality to the German Telekom ISP outage yesterday as some modems expose TR-064 via the TR-069 WAN access, here is how to disable TR-069 in your Fritz!Box: [WayBack] TR-069 auf Fritzbox ausschalten und Ergebnis prüfen — Hartmut Goebel · CISSP, CSSLP · Berater für Information-Security-Management
Note that for Fritz!Box the TR-069 implementation is not as bad as some Speedport devices used by Telekom, but you might want to consider turning TR-069 off:
If you trust yourself to keep the Fritz!Box firmware *and* settings up-to-date better than your ISP does, below are the translated steps.
Steps to disable TR-069 on a Fritz!Box router
- Activate
telnetdon your Fritz!Box via a connected phone by dialing#96*7* - Connect to your Fritz!Box over telnet at using
telnet fritz.boxor instead offritz.box., use the IP-address of your Fritz!Box device- the password is the same as the password in the Fritz!Box web interface
- Disable TR-069 by typing this command:
ctlmgr_ctl w tr069 settings/enabled 0 - Verify the TR-069 is off by looking at configuration file with this command:
cat /var/flash/tr069.cfg- Check that at the start there is a line with
enabled = no
- Check that at the start there is a line with
- Disable
telnetdon your Fritz!Box via a connected by by dialing#96*8*
Note that even without a phone you can enable/disable
telnetd as described by [WayBack] FRITZ!Box VoIP password extraction –jeroen
References:
- [WayBack] Spekulation: Angriffe auf TR069 mit shell co… | Forum – heise online
- [WayBack] TR069 -> NTP -> Binary Injection … via [WayBack] TR069 -> NTP -> Binary Injection … – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
- [WayBack] Eir D1000 Wireless Router – WAN Side Remote Command Injection (Metasploit). Remote exploit for Linux_MIPS platform.
- [WayBack] ‘Mirai bots’ cyber-blitz 1m German broadband routers – and your ISP could be next • The Register
- [WayBack] Störung Internet Zugang – behind this non-descriptive title are updates for Speedport routers used by German Telekom ISP provider
- [WayBack] A few words to the current DSL router disaster We brought this onto ourselves… via [WayBack] A few words to the current DSL router disaster … – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+ original at [WayBack] A few words to the current DSL router disaster We brought this onto ourselves.The problem is due to laziness. It is not caused by technological difficulties… – Martin Seeger – Google+
- [WayBack] Newly discovered router flaw being hammered by in-the-wild attacks | Ars Technica
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The curse of the Project.res file.
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/29
A long time ago, Lars Fosdal wrote this on the Delphi G+ group:
It really is beyond me why there is no Project.rc file which includes
- Project.version.rc
- Project.icon.rc
- Project.themes.rc
- Project.manifest.xml
- and so forth.
That way, the .res file would be a compile-time thing (or even a thing of the past) – and the resource linker would assemble the various bits from their individual sources.
It has been an issue forever. Vincent Parrett correctly commented that if you clean out too much out of the Project.res file, the IDE gets confused:
The only thing it is used for is version info and the mainicon (the IDE gets confused if don’t do that).
In my own experience, this isn’t the case for all Delphi versions, but I forgot which versions suffer and which don’t. I think the IDE theming issue omitting the Application word in the .dpr is related.
Like many of the G+ commenters, I’ve switched to script based resources for my own projects a long time ago. That’s also the reason why I forgot: this approach just works for any Delphi version.
This post is a reminder to self to see if the IDE has finally refrained from doing Project.res handling itself.
–jeroen
Source: The curse of the Project.res file…
Some related posts:
- Howdy all. Is it possible to get the IDE to build .res files from a RC file,… (fails in .dpk files)
- twm’s homepage – dzPrepBuild for Delphi (English)
- IDE theming issue omitting the Application word in the .dpr
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Delphi F12 Debug Hotkey for Windows 8.1 and 10 | Andy’s Blog and Tools
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/28
Yes. Yes. Yeesssss!
- [Archive.is] Delphi F12 Debug Hotkey for Windows 8.1 and 10 | Andy’s Blog and Tools
- [Archive.is] Unsupported Tools | Andy’s Blog and Tools
- [Arvhive.is] actual download at DelphiF12HotKeySupport.7z
- [WayBack] Debuggen unter D6/Win7 64 – Programmierwerkzeuge – Sonstige Programmierung – Entwickler-Ecke
It solves [WayBack] debugging – F12 not working in Delphi debugger on Windows 7/8 – Stack Overflow
Due to robots.txt the site cannot be archived in the WayBack machine, so I’m keeping a local copy of any http://andy.jgknet.de/blog/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=* files.
This is how I installed the extracted DelphiF12HotKeySupport.dll:
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Google drawing AI – My first “Quick, Draw!” attempt – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/28
Can a neural network learn to recognize doodles? See how well it does with your drawings and help teach it, just by playing.
Source: Quick, Draw!
On the right is my first “Quick, Draw!” attempt.
Too bad the canoe didn’t work out; parrot and firetruck are pretty hard with either a mouse or a trackpad.
Source: [WayBack] My first Quick Draw attempt – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
Other A.I. Experiments (g.co/aiexperiments):
- Giorgio Cam – A.I. Experiments
- Quick, Draw! – A.I. Experiments
- The Infinite Drum Machine – A.I. Experiments
- Thing Translator – A.I. Experiments
- Bird Sounds – A.I. Experiments
- A.I. Duet – A.I. Experiments
- Visualizing High-Dimensional Space – A.I. Experiments
- What Neural Networks See – A.I. Experiments
- Submit your experiment – A.I. Experiments
–jeroen
Via:
- [WayBack] Google is going to become very, very good at recognizing dicks. Because Humanity. – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+
- [WayBack] This Google-powered AI can identify your terrible doodles – The Verge
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APC UPS battery replacement for Smart-UPS 1500 (SUA1500) and XL 3000 (SUA3000XLT): batteries RBC7 and RBC55
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/28
On the right and bottom how the APC SmartUPS 1500 looked before cleaning. Despite APC claims of being non-spillable, lead acid batteries do eventually leak. APC just doesn’t tell you when (they say there is some fine print about replacing them, but hey – if the UPS doesn’t complain about capacity loss…).
Like I mentioned in my first post about the leaking, I cleaned the inside with sodium bicarbonate (easily to get – even in The Netherlands – as “baking soda” or “zuiveringszout” in most grocery shops. “zuiveringszout” is the same but much cheaper).
So after cleaning, you need to assemble a new battery pack and reinstall it. The RBC7 stock battery packs from APC are very expensive and since warranty expired on the UPS and APC batteries leaks anyway, it is much cheaper to re-assemble your own battery pack from a pair of UB12180 batteries. The same holds for the RBC55 (which are just basically two pairs of assembled UB12180 batteries). The decoding of these battery numbers are fairly easy: 12V holding 18.0 Ah of charge. Different battery manufacturers use different battery size nomenclature usually with a similar structure.
Disassembling and re-assembling the packs is fairly easy. Be sure to do this carefully: replacement sets of the APC battery connector wiring harness and fuse will set you back another USD/EUR 15-20 excluding shipping.
The below youtube videos are much clearer on this than any picture series I could have made, plus a series of Tweets figuring out the correct fuses to use.
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xyzzy, Relay Conferencing before IRC even existed
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/11/28
A while ago, I remembered xyzzy by David Bolen: a VAX/VMS program for the BITNET Relay conference system on BITNET/EARN. Yes, relay chat before IRC. Even ELIZA did operate as a chatbot on BITNET Relay.
I was part of it from the late 80s until the early 90s and vividly remember the chat rooms where at one time you could have smart people from all around the world participating: Asia, Middle East, Europe, North America and other regions.
All people had one thing in common: an enthusiastic vibe as they had immediately recognised what the benefits of near instant feedback were. World Wide before you had the WWW. It was addictive too (:
The most important Dutch relay node was HEARN which was named unlike the HNYKUN patterns at the University in Nijmegen (now Radboud Universiteit, but previously known as Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen hence the KUN in the HNYKUN pattern).
I had an account at HLERUL52 (chemistry department) at first, then later at HLERUL5 as well (computer technology department). Only later I got an SMTP email address [Wayback/Archive] jeroenp@rulfc1.leidenuniv.nl.
Anyway: based on the list of Bitnet/Earn links and connections below, you’d think you could plot a route. The example is between me and a cyber friends who – in 1992 – I finally met in real life:
- Jeroen Pluimers <PCHPAPL@HLERUL52> / <PLUIMERS@HLERUL5> ([Wayback/Archive] and [Wayback/Archive])
- Peter Sawatzki <FE617@DHAFEU11> / <IN307@DHAFEU11> ([Wayback/Archive] and [Wayback/Archive])
But that table is not the only one, the actual routing tables were generated from [Wayback/Archive/Google] LINKSWT files (see below), which means that HEARN and DEARN had a direct connection collapsing the (expensive) transatlantic steps 3..5 into one.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 