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Archive for July 16th, 2021

Custom Resolution Utility (CRU)

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/07/16

This tool can help resetting monitor/display configurations for when your machines gets out of suspend/sleep/shutdown mode and resets the displays to wrong defaults (especially wrong scaling).

Documentation and download: [WayBack] Custom Resolution Utility (CRU)

Custom Resolution Utility (CRU) allows custom resolutions to be defined for both AMD/ATI and NVIDIA GPUs by creating EDID overrides directly in the registry without dealing with .inf files. Download:

Note the requirements:

Old version at [WayBack] GitHub – radamar/Custom-Resolution-Utility-ToastyX: Custom Resolution Utility for Windows by ToastyX, duplicated so the source won’t be lost..

Short instructions (but be sure to read the long ones above as well) slightly rephrased for readability:

  1. For each monitor
    1. Disable all of the default “Established Resolutions”
    2. Delete all of the default “Detailed Resolutions”
    3. Delete all of the default “Standard Resolutions”
    4. Add a new “Detailed Resolution”
    5. Under new “Detailed Resolution” I left all of the settings the same except for the active horizontal and vertical pixel dimensions, which is obviously where you set your desired screen resolution.
  2. Once all monitors are configured properly, close CRU and run the restart.exe or restart64.exe included with CRU and you should be good to go!

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Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Vista | Leave a Comment »

CloudFlare knows how to do public postmortems on outages

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/07/16

Everyone can learn from an outage. CloudFlare shows how to do it right, for instance on the RegEx-going-wild downtime 2 years ago.

So it’s time to link to that one again: [WayBack] Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019

More like these at [WayBack] Post Mortem – The Cloudflare Blog.

More on evaluating regular expressions in linear time:

Via [WayBack] Details of the Cloudflare outage on July 2, 2019 | Hacker News

–jeroen

Posted in Algorithms, Development, Power User, RegEx, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

ESXi 6.7 and up: embedded busybox wget understands https (finally!)

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/07/16

At last, somewhere around ESXi 6.7, the built-in BusyBox tool wget started to support the https protocol.

Yay!

Which means that workarounds in these answers are not needed any more:

It was a big BusyBox version bump (from 1.22.x to 1.29.x)  between ESXI 6.5 and 6.7, especially since 1.26.x versions (that introduced wget) have been available way before ESXi 6.5 came out: [WayBack] BusyBox.

From an ESXi 6.5U2 host

[root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:/tmp] wget https://www.example.org
wget: not an http or ftp url: https://www.example.org
[root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:/tmp] wget --help
BusyBox v1.22.1 (2018-07-23 19:34:04 PDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: wget [-csq] [-O FILE] [-Y on/off] [-P DIR] [-U AGENT] URL...

Retrieve files via HTTP or FTP

    -s  Spider mode - only check file existence
    -c  Continue retrieval of aborted transfer
    -q  Quiet
    -P DIR  Save to DIR (default .)
    -O FILE Save to FILE ('-' for stdout)
    -U STR  Use STR for User-Agent header
    -Y  Use proxy ('on' or 'off')

[root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:/tmp] vmware -l
VMware ESXi 6.5.0 Update 2

From an ESXi 6.7U2 host

[root@ESXi-X9SRI-3F:/tmp] wget https://www.example.org
Connecting to www.example.org (93.184.216.34:443)
index.html           100% |******************************************************************************************|  1270  0:00:00 ETA
[root@ESXi-X9SRI-3F:/tmp] wget --help
BusyBox v1.29.3 (2018-11-02 15:37:50 PDT) multi-call binary.

Usage: wget [-c|--continue] [--spider] [-q|--quiet] [-O|--output-document FILE]
    [--header 'header: value'] [-Y|--proxy on/off] [-P DIR]
    [-S|--server-response] [-U|--user-agent AGENT] URL...

Retrieve files via HTTP or FTP

    --spider    Only check URL existence: $? is 0 if exists
    -c      Continue retrieval of aborted transfer
    -q      Quiet
    -P DIR      Save to DIR (default .)
    -S          Show server response
    -O FILE     Save to FILE ('-' for stdout)
    -U STR      Use STR for User-Agent header
    -Y on/off   Use proxy
[root@ESXi-X9SRI-3F:/tmp] vmware -l
VMware ESXi 6.7.0 Update 2

–jeroen

Posted in ESXi6.5, ESXi6.7, Power User, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi | Leave a Comment »

 
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