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Archive for 2017
1998 called, it want its code back – Anything Goes – CommitStrip
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/28
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rsync z-lib compression segmentation fault? WTF!
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/27
Not sure why without the -z compression switch this succeeds:
# rsync -avloz /var/lib/named/master/ /etc/named/master/ sending incremental file list pluimers.com Segmentation fault (core dumped) # rsync -avlo /var/lib/named/master/ /etc/named/master/ sending incremental file list pluimers.com pluimers.com.20161231 pluimers.com~ sent 10,495 bytes received 74 bytes 21,138.00 bytes/sec total size is 132,231 speedup is 12.51 # rsync -avloz /var/lib/named/master/ /etc/named/master/ sending incremental file list sent 1,547 bytes received 13 bytes 3,120.00 bytes/sec total size is 132,231 speedup is 84.76
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] rsync(1) – Linux man page
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There is a way to convert ‘array of const’ (open array) to TValue: Asbjørn Heid found one.
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/27
Brilliant solution by Asbjørn Heid:
So the solution I came up with is to use the observation that the “array of const” is “array of TVarRec”, and that “array of TVarRec” is passed as as two arguments: a pointer to the data and the length of the array (or rather, the highest index in the array).
Source: Is there a way to convert ‘array of const’ (open array) to TValue? For example,… [WayBack]
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SMS sending with Mikrotik RouterOS and a capabable USB device
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/27
Some links that were useful getting the SMS sending stuff to work.
The documentation is clear on what to do to send/receive SMS:
But it is unclear what USB hardware does work, so here are some links:
- 22 | November | 2012 | Syed Jahanzaib Personal Blog to Share Knowledge ! which is based on a Teltonika ModemUSB/E12 UM1400 device that is kind of hard to get in my place.
- Huawei E1752 USB modem seems to work unless you also use it to maintain a data connection at the same time: Send sms over GPRS connection – MikroTik RouterOS
- Teltonika ModemUSB/H7.2 U3G150 also works: Option Globetrotter HSDPA USB Modem – MikroTik Wiki
- This needs some fiddling: Huawei E3131 – Disabling HiLink and turning into a dialup modem. | Exploits of a Cyber Rroma
You can also do it the other way around:
- Program a USB micro controller, design your own PCB, load the progammed firmware using a bootloader on the USB device then have it control LEDs other other hardware: Source: open-source firmware to control color LEDs (or other things) with USB-enabled RouterBoard – MikroTik RouterOS
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HTTP Prompt is an interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete…
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/26
HTTP Prompt is an interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting. Download url -> https://github.com/eliangcs/http-prompt – Joe C. Hecht – Google+
Source: HTTP Prompt is an interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete… [WayBack]
To me it looks remarkably similar to https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie [WayBack] which too is a visual cURL replacement.
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Seems I need to say good bye to Bitbucket: no explanation of which limit I exceeded and by how much.
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/26
Seems I need to say good bye to Bitbucket: while creating a new repository without changing any user aspects, I got this nice message at https://bitbucket.org/repo/create which does not explain which limit I reached:
You’ve exceeded your user limit, restricting all your repositories to read-only access. Change your plan to restore write access. Learn more
Later I found that https://bitbucket.org/account/user/jeroenp/plans-and-billing/ lists I’m within the free plan:
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Increasing the WinBox font size on OS X
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/26
Though the Mikrotik people seem reluctant to make the font size in Winbox configurable, if you run it through WineBottler on OS X, you can scale the individual app. It’s not very pretty but makes it easier to use.
The trick is based on the Windows DPI font settings explained for instance at DPI Display Size Settings – Change – Windows 7 Help Forums and Large Fonts in Registry: Where Exactly? | PC Review but then in Wine.
For Windows, this is a system wide setting, but on a WineBottler application there is one “Windows environment” per application, so it’s application specific and should work for other applications than WinBox as well.
It makes it much easier to do script editing now.
Steps I performed:
- Quit all WinBox instances
- Open a Terminal
- Open this file
/Applications/Winbox4Mac.app/Contents/Resources/system.reg - Find this key and name=value:
- key
[System\\CurrentControlSet\\Hardware Profiles\\Current\\Software\\Fonts] 1460991918
- name=value
"LogPixels"=dword:00000060
- key
- Change the name=value to be like this (scales to 133.3333333%)
"LogPixels"=dword:00000080
- Save the file
- Start WinBox
The value increases the DPI from 0x60 (96 DPI) to 0x80 (128 DPI) , but the WinBox software isn’t smart enough to scale a lot of other UI properties based on it (like controls dialogs, grid cell sizes and script editors).
So it takes a bit of experimenting what works well (on my system, dword:00000090 – or 144 DPI) which scales to 150% cuts off too much of the descenders).
Values I tried:
- dword:00000060
- dword:00000078
- dword:00000080
- dword:00000084
- dword:00000090
I got at this trick through [Wine] Screen font size then wading my way to find where system.reg was stored on my system.
TODO: dive into Fixing Windows font scaling without restarting | Marc Durdin’s Blog and see if other registry settings need to be applied as well.
–jeroen
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Sending various HTTP request kinds using curl
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/25
I’ve been using cURL but always had a feeling not to its potential basically because the cURL man page [WayBack] is both massive and lacks concrete useful practical examples.
For instance, I knew about the --header and --verbose options (I always use verbose names even though shorter -H and -v exist) to pass a specific header and get verbose output, but the man page basic examples like this by Tader:
curl --header --verbose "X-MyHeader: 123" www.google.comsource: How to send a header using a HTTP request through a curl call? – Stack Overflow [WayBack]
There are some more examples at bropages.org/curl but they’re hardly organised or documented.
So I was really glad I found the below answer [WayBack] by Amith Koujalgi to web services – HTTP POST and GET using cURL in Linux – Stack Overflow.
But first note that recent versions (around 7.22 or higher) of cURL now need to combine the --silent and --show-error (or in short -sS) parameters to suppress progress but show errors: linux – How do I get cURL to not show the progress bar? – Stack Overflow [WayBack]
Back to the examples
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Some repositories with Mikrotik RouterOS Scripts (so no repos with API interfaces)
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/25
For my own reference:
- List of TOR exit nodes and how to disable them in the firewall: openkasnet/Mikrotik
- Probably better done by interfacing to http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ and their CSV lists at http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ip_list_all.php/Tor_ip_list_ALL.csv aka http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/ip_list_all.php
- Firewall rules for certain regions and malware: kometchtech/mikrotik
- Tolaris/mikrotik-dns-dhcp: Tool to syncronise DHCP lease names with DNS hostnames on Mikrotik routers.
- Something with queues: chemax/mikrotik: mikrotik’s script
- Dynamic DNS mihaiv/Mikrotik: Mikrotik scripts and xpegenaute/Mikrotik: Mikrotik stuff and e4r7hbug/namecheap_routeros: Namecheap dynamic DNS update script for RouterOS
- Setup of new router jadiaz/MikroTik: Scripts for use with various Mikrotik routerboards
- Auto-upgrade and config backup: massimo-filippi/mikrotik: MikroTik / RouterOS Scripts
- TheAntz/RouterOS-Scripts: Various scripts and scripting functions for use in MikroTik RouterOS. function.EmailMultipleRecipients.rsc Add, function.csvIntSum.rsc,
function.getDaysInMonth.rsc, function.getISO8601DateTime.rsc - karrots/ros-ddns-ipsec: Mikrotik RouterOS script for updating IPSEC peer IP addresses from DNS.
- jaydio/routeros-scripts: MikroTik RouterOS – Assorted Scripts
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How to Turn YOUR Handwriting into a Font for FREE!
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/24
Cool:
Tutorial showing how to turn your handwriting into a font for FREE! This is great for making personalized gifts, kids’ crafts, scrapbooking, & more!
It’s all about www.myscriptfont.com [WayBack] which can genrerate TTF or OTF form a filled in PDF Form [WayBack] or PNG Form [WayBack]
–jeroen
Source: How to Turn YOUR Handwriting into a Font for FREE! [WayBack]
Via:
- Turn Your Handwriting into a Font for Free [WayBack]
- http://makezine.com/2015/03/04/turn-your-handwriting-into-a-font-for-free/ – Joe C. Hecht – Google+
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 