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Archive for November, 2019

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some links on bash and optional parameters

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/26

Hopefully I’ve been able to integrate some of the ideas in the links below in github.com/jpluimers/btrfs-du/blob/master/btrfs-du

One of the features I wanted there was to be able to add optional switches like --raw, --iec or --si to it similar to what as the btrfs qgroup show subcommand has.

It seems possible with bash, but it is not trivial, at least not for me as a non-frequent bash user, so here are some links to get me started:

In retrospect, other languages than bash might have been a better choice for a script like that (:

–jeroen

PS, some btrfs references:

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, bash, bash, Development, Power User, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

GitHub – NickRing/Delphi-Shortcut-Finder: Shows/find keyboard short-cuts have be assigned, that may be conflicting.

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/26

Cool tool: [WayBack] GitHub – NickRing/Delphi-Shortcut-Finder: Shows/find keyboard short-cuts have be assigned, that may be conflicting.

Via: [WayBack] I need some help from anyone who knows RTTI better than me. I’m writing an OTA tool to list all the actions or keybindings that are associated with a s… – David Hoyle – Google+

David has an excellent series of blog posts on writing experts around his tool [WayBack] IDE Explorer – Dave’s Development Blog.

–jeroen

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Forticlient “the user might login in another computer”, never found the cause

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/25

Could only find one reference using “the user might login in another computer” – Google Search, who also could not find out why this error happened:

When trying to log in on FortiClient, I get an error message that says, “the user might login in another computer” I assume that could mean that I’m logged in on another machine elsewhere? I could not find any information confirming that.

[WayBack] Error Message | Fortinet Technical Discussion Forums

So I reached out to Fortinet, the makers of Forticlient:

[WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “@Fortinet what could cause this? Searching for the message “The user might login in another computer” did not get me any further: https://t.co/Bl4KoWJ7IB FortiClient 6.6.1.723 on MacOS High Sierra.…”

 

 

–jeroen

Posted in FortiGate/FortiClient, Network-and-equipment, Power User, VPN | Leave a Comment »

For my link archive: IPVoid.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/25

Nice landing page to check various aspects of IP addresses: [WayBack] ipvoid.com:

We offer a vast range of IP address tools to discover details about IP addresses. IP smtp blacklist check, whois lookup, dns lookup, ping, and more!

I irregularly use them to check out blacklist issues (yes, sometimes 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4 and even 9.9.9.9 appear on blacklists).

–jeroen

Posted in Internet, Network-and-equipment, Power User | Leave a Comment »

rpm – Suse: Restore Packages List from /var/adm/backup/rpmdb/Packages-20160323 .gz – Server Fault

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/25

In case I ever need to view the archived /var/adm/backup/rpmdb files again: [WayBack] rpm – Suse: Restore Packages List from /var/adm/backup/rpmdb/Packages-20160323 .gz – Server Fault

–jeroen

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macos – How can I modify the list of Applications under ‘Open With…’? – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/22

Some interesting links on the “open with” database:

Simple solution to clean the list:

# Clean up LaunchServices to remove duplicates in the “Open With” menu.
alias lscleanup="/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user && killall Finder"`

These were by products of what I was really searching for:

Why are some items grey when modifying the “Open with…” settings?

Some applications are greyed out, for instance when editing the “Open with…” for the .cap extension (which are pcap network captures that Wireshark can process).

After the steps below, sometimes the menu still does not update for all files of that extension.

This alias helped me to get that to work: alias restart-finder='killall -KILL Finder'.

Links that helped me finding out:

The trick is to toggle “Recommended Applications” into “All Applications”:

Then you can select “Wireshark.app”:

 

The same happens when you filter on a name (for instance because you know that Wireshark will work fine):

A final thing is that you have to check “Always Open With” so it ends up in the list.

–jeroen

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NeverSSL – helping you get online

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/22

most websites are now using https by default.

And that’s great, but it also means that if you’re relying on poorly-behaved wifi networks, it can be hard to get online. Secure browsers and websites using https make it impossible for those wifi networks to send you to a login or payment page. Basically, those networks can’t tap into your connection just like attackers can’t.

So to get your brain-dead hotel, airport or other WiFi connection to work:

http://neverssl.com/

[WayBack] NeverSSL – helping you get online

via [WayBack] Rainer Sokoll – Google+ commenting on [WayBack] Achtung, Heise hat #neuland  verlassen. So geht es richtig! – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

–jeroen

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Removing “Workbook Contains Macros” Prompt – Free Excel\VBA Help Forum

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/22

This indeed was an Excel 2011 for Mac thing.

Even without macros or VBA modules, Excel 2011 for Mac shows this dialog when opening a .xls file.

The solution was simple: save as .xlsx.

–jeroen

via [WayBack] Removing “Workbook Contains Macros” Prompt – Free Excel\VBA Help Forum

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ALTER DATABASE Compatibility Level (Transact-SQL) | Microsoft Docs

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/21

Since I keep forgetting which numeric value can correspond to what kind of server: [WayBack] ALTER DATABASE Compatibility Level (Transact-SQL) | Microsoft Docs

Product Database Engine Version Compatibility Level Designation Supported Compatibility Level Values
SQL Server 2019 15 150 150, 140, 130, 120, 110, 100
SQL Server 2017 (14.x) 14 140 140, 130, 120, 110, 100
Azure SQL Database logical server 12 130 150, 140, 130, 120, 110, 100
Azure SQL Database Managed Instance 12 130 150, 140, 130, 120, 110, 100
SQL Server 2016 (13.x) 13 130 130, 120, 110, 100
SQL Server 2014 (12.x) 12 120 120, 110, 100
SQL Server 2012 (11.x) 11 110 110, 100, 90
SQL Server 2008 R2 10.5 100 100, 90, 80
SQL Server 2008 10 100 100, 90, 80
SQL Server 2005 (9.x) 9 90 90, 80
SQL Server 2000 8 80 80

–jeroen

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Unorthodocs: Abandon your DVCS and Return to Sanity – bitquabit

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/21

Some interesting thoughts on DVCS: [WayBack] Unorthodocs: Abandon your DVCS and Return to Sanity – bitquabit

Besides the very good point it raises about DVCS (Git, Mercurial and most other DVCSes treat the whole state of the repository as the atom) it also indicates quite a few shortcomings:

  • most people hardly ever need the full history to be off-line
  • having the full history means repositories get huge in size, including your off-line clone
  • pseudo-solutions for huge repository sizes – like git-LFS or git-annex – are a no-go because now you loose atomicity
  • huge repositories in file or commit counts make them slow, especially when the trees are deep
  • splitting up repositories isn’t a good idea either because again: you loose atomicity
  • all DVCS are hard, not just git, because they are distributed and full of features
  • the workflow for submitting pull requests is quite a bit longer than submitting a patch, even though merging in a DVCS can be hard too (despite atomicity which does help a lot for DVCS systems)

I see many other advantages of DVCS systems (for instance that you only need to locally have the branches you are interested in, way better tooling for DVCS systems, ditto for sites hosting DVCS), but it always a good thing to know the weak spots of what you are working with.

–jeroen

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