Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/28
Bug: Initialisation of Delphi Record containing a dynamic array with ‘Implicit’ class operator – Stack Overflow [WayBack]
Analysed in Source: Initialisation of Delphi Record containing a dynamic array with ‘Implicit’ class operator – Stack Overflow [WayBack]
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/28
Gosh, bash can be a pain. So here are some more links that proved to be useful in the past:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/27
Interesting read with lots of references: [WayBack] The Cryptowars, twenty years ago – The Isoblog.
My TL;DR:
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] So as a society, we are having the same conversation for 20 years now, and we won’t really make progress here because of Zuboff’s law. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/27
Since I always forget:
for /l %1 in (1,2,200) do echo %1 >> text-%1.txt
This creates files with incremental filenames like this:
text-1.txt
text-3.txt
...
text-199.txt
–jeroen
via: For – Loop through a range of numbers | Windows CMD | SS64.com [WayBack]
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/27
It’s a while ago I saw this first, but recently I bumped into it again and found out I never posted a link, so here it goes:
A game to help you master the pen tool
Source: The Bézier Game
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/26
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/26
Interesting: middelink/mikrotik-fwban: Use your Mikrotik firewall to do fail2ban like blocking of unwanted IPs. Written in Go.
It might beat these (that just count SSH connections, not failed connection attempts):
Another alternative is to parse one of the logs:
Of course you should have this installed by default as part of your hardening process:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/26
[WayBack] [WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading via [WayBack] Affects all oses. Updated can be applied by updating your UEFI/BIOS microcode update for CPU. Make sure you apply those fixes. – nixCraft – Google+:
This warning advisory is relevant for users of systems with the Intel processors code-named "Skylake" and "Kaby Lake". These are: the 6th and 7th generation Intel Core processors (desktop, embedded, mobile and HEDT), their related server processors (such as Xeon v5 and Xeon v6), as well as select Intel Pentium processor models.
My own actions for now are below.
Find out which machines use CPUs on these lists:
Use these Linux commands to find out the model and hyperthreading support:
grep -E 'model|stepping' /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u
grep -qE '^flags.*[[:space:]]ht[[:space:]]' /proc/cpuinfo && \
echo "Hyper‐threading is supported"
Use this Windows command to find out the model:
wmic cpu get caption
Use this command on Mac OS X:
sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string
If it’s on the list and supports hyperthreading, then disable hyperthreading.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/26
Source: The Most Common VPN Error Codes Explained
- VPN Error 800 “Unable to establish connection”
- VPN Error 619 “A connection to the remote computer could not be established”
- VPN Error 51 “Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem”
- VPN Error 412 “The remote peer is no longer responding”
- VPN Error 721 “The remote computer did not respond”
- VPN Error 720 “No PPP control protocols configured”
- VPN Error 691 “Access denied because username and/or password is invalid on the domain”
- VPN Errors 812, 732 and 734 “The connection was prevented because of a policy configured on your RAS/VPN server”
- VPN Error 806 “A connection between your computer and the VPN server has been established but the VPN connection cannot be completed.”
–jeroen
via: Could be useful. – Joe C. Hecht – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/23
This was too funny to let go unnoticed: [WayBack] How to turn on the light at home, Philips Version – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+.
It was shown during [Archive.is] Google Cloud Next 2017 in Amsterdam and immediately reminded me of The Big Bang Theory – How to turn on a lamp below.
A few notable entries from the comments:
–jeroen
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