Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/12
[WayBack] Why don’t I get properly translated program output after installing the corresponding language pack? – The Old New Thing.
It means you cannot fully cover all translations when writing software.
More on translating your software at [WayBack] Where can I get the glossary of Microsoft’s standard translations for computer terms? – The Old New Thing « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/12
I’ve this page for my brother: https://martijn.pluimers.com/agenda-month-weather.html.
It serves his agenda plus a few weather widgets.
The weerslag widget fails to load as it’s in an iframe pointing to http but the page is https. That’s not allowed as shown in this nice table at [WayBack] ssl – Insecure content in iframe on secure page – Stack Overflow by amol-ghotankar and richard:
page - iframe - status ----- - ----- - ----------- http - http - allowed http - https - allowed https - http - not allowed https - https - allowed
So I put it behind a simple Apache reverse proxy: https://www.pluimers.com/maps.weerslag.nl/GratisRadar/1201/864/verwacht?zoom=10:
| <Location /maps.weerslag.nl> | |
| ProxyPass http://maps.weerslag.nl | |
| ProxyPassReverse http://maps.weerslag.nl | |
| Require all granted | |
| </Location> |
If they still haven’t fixed their https access, I need to dig deeper into this.
When writing this [Arhive.is] https://maps.weerslag.nl/GratisRadar/1201/864/verwacht?zoom=10 gave a 404 and http://maps.weerslag.nl/GratisRadar/1201/864/verwacht?zoom=10 misbehaved behind the proxy:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/12
A long time ago (Delphi XE2 era), David Dubois and I helped out Doug find either the cause or a workaround of a memory overwrite in a 32-bit application.
The problem was that a call to Format for a pointe or hex value would give corrupt results, but with a regular integer value it would succeed.
Doug created an example [WayBack] overwriting some memory to simulate the problem.
I provided some steps [WayBack] to help trace such cases down.
In the and a rebuild – first withut madExcept, later with madExcept turned on again – solved the problem.
Likely this was the Delphi IDE becoming corrupt, something which I have seen intermittently over the last two decades.
Be sure to read both answers at [WayBack] delphi – Format and Pointers/Hex Values (Memory Overwrite) – Stack Overflow
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/11
Apparently, during my 15 month rectum cancer fight, I missed the one month window of migrating my opensuse account (because of the sale of opensuse from Microfocus to a German investment company named EQT Partners).
I got the email on may 1st (right before my first surgery) and since I only just am recovering from the last surgery, discovered [Wayback] Community Account Migration:
The Community Accounts (aka. Bugzilla Accounts) will migration to the SUSE datacenter in Nuremberg
SUSE is the largest independent open source company.
We are finalizing this independence also on the technical level.
The Community Accounts (a.k.a. Bugzilla Accounts) were moved back to SUSE to a new system in our Nuremberg data center.All accounts have been migrated. Except for the password.
To access your migrated account a migration tool was offered until June 18th
The migration is no longer possible.
To regain access to your account you have to request a password reset.
This requires that the account has your correct email address registered.
If this is not the case you will have to create a new account.
It looks like the account migration uses Okta (identity management) – Wikipedia as authentication service (quite odd for a German company to use a USA based company for authentication: hellp GDPR!), using mail servers having hostnames not ending in opensuse.org, but like o#.mailrelay.okta.com.
Hopefully identify emails do get through: they are now trying to get past my grey-list filters.
Edit:
The okta mail servers didn’t get through the grey-list, so I forced them to the secondary mail servers where they did get through.
It indicated migration is not possible any more and I should seek help:
At this time your password can only be reset by an administrator. To send them a request, go to your Sign-in Help page. Then click the Request help link.
So I did:
Hi,
Due to my 15 months fight with rectumcancer and the “SUSE Account Changes – Coming soon!” last May not indicating any deadline for the migration, I missed the one month account migration window (2020-05-18 to 2020-06-18) mentioned at https://idp-portal-info.suse.com/
Can you please re-activate the account jeroen.suffix@example.com and re-bind the forums.opensuse.org username accountname for me and send me a password reset email on that above email address?
Thanks,
–jeroen
Edit 20210112:
I got an account activation email, added password/question/mobile-phone-number, then got redirected to https://myaccount.suse.com/app/UserHome, then the “Forums” link allowed me to enter a forums alias the same as my old alias. So it looks it sort of works now: my old
jpluimersposts have not been linked to my new account.
Some reading for when I have more energy:
I just checked and the email about migration did not indicate any deadline apart from that password reset links were valid for 90 days, a lot longer than one month window.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/11
Works on my systems too (I think it works from Windows XP on) to hide users from the home screen: [WayBack] How to Hide User Accounts on the Windows 10 Login Screen – Make Tech Easier.
Run the below .reg file on your machine, or manually add this key (does not need any value): HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\DomainStyleLogon
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\DomainStyleLogon]
Note the empty line at the end of the .reg file: that is by intention.
This will show the last logged-on user on the home screen, but still allows users to perform a switch to other users.
Related: [WayBack] ALWAYS display the last / default user Windows 7 welcome screen
Disable the users on the logon screen from interactive logon
Warning: do NOT disable your administrator user this way!
For why not, see the various users that lost access: [WayBack] Hide User Accounts on Windows 7 Logon – Windows 7 IT Pro > Windows 7 User Interface
net user on the command prompt to list the usernames and note the username you want to hide from the login screenregedit to edit the registryHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WinlogonSpecialAccountsSpecialAccounts key, create a new key UserListUserList key, create a new DWORD (32-bit) value with the Value name equal to the username and the Value data to zero (0, which is the default)Example:
SpecialAccountsIf you would like to unhide the hidden
Administratoraccount on Windows 7:
- Boot a Windows 7 Installation DVD or ISO
- go to command prompt and type
regedit -it- click on
HKLMhive and- next navigate
File>>Load hive- navigate to
C:\Windows\System32\configfolder and choose `SOFTWARE` file load it and assign this hive any name for exampleREM_SOFTWARE- open key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\REM_SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList- remove the
Administratoraccount
- or better way remove the whole key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\REM_SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/11
Cool: [WayBack] Test for modern Internet Standards like IPv6, DNSSEC, HTTPS, DMARC, STARTTLS and DANE.
Their motivation and background: [WayBack] About Internet.nl
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/08
Great work by [WayBack] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “ssh tips… “
Via:
Some more tips:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/08
[WayBack] Roderick Gadellaa on Twitter: “In case anyone who owns an Android TV is interested: I’ve built a (very, very) simple app that (re)sets the volume of the TV to 8% of the max volume every time you turn it on. #androidtv #tools…”
[WayBack] Roderick Gadellaa on Twitter: “Some instructions: – You have to sideload it (google is your friend: “how to sideload app on android tv”) – You have to start the app once. It won’t show up on Home, so go to Settings > Apps > TvVolsetr > Open – Android TV 7.0 Nougat or higher required”
[WayBack] Roderick Gadellaa auf Twitter: “Some instructions: – You have to sideload it https://t.co/8aK0bmXXFl – You have to start the app once. It won’t show up on Home, so go to Settings > Apps > TvVolsetr > Open – Android TV 7.0 Nougat or higher required”
Follow only the images links from [Archive.is] “how to sideload app on android tv” – Google Search, as the others point to phishing sites.
This image link for instance is useful: [WayBack] How to Sideload Apps on Android TV: Android TV is an excellent product for anyone who wants to expand their current living room setup—it makes easy work of streaming most content, has a slew of games (that are actually worth playing), and is relatively inexpensive. But what happens when an app you want on your TV isn’t available for your device?
Download: [WayBack] tvVolsetr.apk
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/08
I’ve found out that the only way to reset the below fields on an OKI printer is to
admin which has default password 999999, on an OKI MC342 the password is aaaaaa)Image source: [Archive.cs] Checking or Changing the Settings of This Machine from a Computer (MC853, MC873)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/01/07
[Archive.is] Waarom een onderzoek met maar 7 respondenten toch goed kan zijn | De Volkskrant: Denkfouten in het hedendaags ontwerp gefileerd door innovatie-expert (en cabaretier) Jasper van Kuijk. Deze week: gebruikstest.
Quantitative studies often require large numbers of respondents, but quantitative studies can be done with a very small group.
While quantitative studies often will get you just one result (I rate this application a 7 out of 10, or with this A/B change, click through increases by 5%), qualitative studies will get you much more specific comments like “the main menu is cluttered”, or “the design is slick” (translated from the Image in the article).
Extensive research was done for a 2003 published paper [Archive.is] Beyond the five-user assumption: Benefits of increased sample sizes in usability testing which you can read as PDF [WayBack].
[WayBack] Jasper van Kuijk on Twitter: “Mijn ‘Hoe moeilijk kan het zijn?’ van vandaag. Waarom voor gebruiksgemak een gebruikstest met 7 participanten nuttiger is dan een enquête met 1500 respondenten. #HMKHZ via de @volkskrant”
[WayBack] Ionica Smeets on Twitter: “Hear, hear! Aldus een wiskundige die heel wat jaren nodig had om waarde van kwalitatief onderzoek in te zien…”
and
and
–jeroen
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