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“Using Tailscale on Windows to network more easily with WSL2 and Visual Studio Code”

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/23

“Using Tailscale on Windows to network more easily with WSL2 and Visual Studio Code”

Points to [Wayback] Using Tailscale on Windows to network more easily with WSL2 and Visual Studio Code – Scott Hanselman’s Blog

 

Related:

–jeroen

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Wayback machine and VMware KB links

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/22

The VMware KB is notoriously bad into being saved in the WayBack Machine: saved links hardly render at all because of the VMware KB dynamic page loading structure.

But VMware KB articles expire, so a lot of web-pages point to non-existing links and end up through redirections at [Archive.is] https://kb.vmware.com/s/pagenotfound.

Below are a few link forms of the same VMware KB 2011818 article that vanished from the regular web. The first is saved in the WayBack Machine (but does not render), the second is saved and does render after a redirect to a saved third form, the most recent saved fourth form is actually a 404-error redirecting to a prior third form.

  1. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2011818
  2. http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2011818
  3. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2011818
  4. http://kb.vmware.com:80/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2011818

The first link form does archive as a rendered page in Archive.is if is is archived. t wasn’t, so the current archived version points to the “pagenotfound” page mentioned above.

Sometimes you have to dig deeper, as not all rendering archived versions contain actual content.

Here the first one is not even archived, the other ones are, but none of them have actual usable content:

  1. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2007922
  2. http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007922
  3. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2007922
  4. http://kb.vmware.com:80/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2007922

This means you have to dig further in history:

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20140123114343/http://kb.vmware.com:80/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2007922 indicates not authorized
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20130117041323/http://kb.vmware.com:80/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2007922 shows the actual content.

–jeroen

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Stop 0x0000007B after converting an existing XP machine to a Virtual Machine (ESXi, Hyper-V, or other)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/22

In 2015, I posted P2V of an existing XP machine to Hyper-V to have an emergency fallback when retiring old XP physical machines and did a short edit on 20210727 promising about a future article on trying to fix the [Wayback] stop 0x0000007B blue screen.

This stop can that can happen during boot when the converted Windows XP requires different disk drivers than the physical Windows XP. Windows Vista and up are smarter to figure out the required changes, but Windows XP wasn’t.

The above screenshot is actually from the same physical Windows XP machine after doing the conversion, I wanted to try and run the virtual machine on physical hardware close to the original before moving it to the actual VMware host (yup, the Windows XP machine had been used as a VMware host before, so it had both VMware Workstation 6.5 and VMware Converter 4.01 installed).

The reason I wanted to move my last Windows XP machine to a virtual machine was that it was the only computer that could still print to my old, but nice, Olympus P-400 color dye sublimation printer. I mentioned this in 2015 when Installing the PIXMA mini260 – Canon Europe drivers under Windows 8.1 x64 – trying to say goodbye to Windows XP

I need to find a way to get my [Wayback/Archive.is] Olympus Camedia P-400 Digital Color Photo Printer. That is a lot harder: the latest Windows [Wayback] P-400 Printer > Software Downloads are for Windows XP.

At the end, of the blog post are a few links on the stop 0x0000007B and the Universal Boot CD for Windows workaround.

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Wake-on LAN over tailscale VPN

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/22

Hey macOS desktop in the basement, thanks for going to sleep while I was in the middle of typing at you via SSH.

Maybe that should be a signal not to sleep, eh?

$ sudo wakeonlan ac:87:a3:19:7e:81
Sending magic packet to 255.255.255.255:9 with

Well, at least that works.

Related:

–jeroen

 

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Dutch: briefjes van 5 euro opnemen (withdrawing small valued banknotes)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/21

Vorig jaar publiceerde ik over Dutch: briefjes van 10 en 5 euro opnemen (withdrawing small valued banknotes)

In sommige gevallen wil je geld in kleinere coupures opnemen, bijvoorbeeld in biljetten van 5 of 10 euro. Het is niet makkelijk om hier informatie over te vinden, maar gelukkig bood de web-care uit…

Blog-posts zijn een tijd vooruit gepland en dat kwam toen goed uit, want ik werd ruim een jaar behandeld tegen uitgezaaide endeldarmkanker terwijl de zorg voor mijn verstandelijk beperkte broer doorliep: die gebruikt kleine coupures voor boodschappen.

Oorspronkelijk schreef ik bovenstaande post over de ABN-AMRO retailmix in mei 2019. De blog-queue is nu wat korter, dus schrijf ik dit eind mei 2021 nu er een overgang is van geldautomaten van de grootste Nederlandse bankketens naar algemene geldauomaten van Geldmaat, zie Geldmaat – Wikipedia.

Daar attendeerde de webcare van ABN AMRO me op: [Archive.is] ABN AMRO on Twitter: “Goedemiddag! Via deze pagina kun je dit nakijken, je selecteert dan de optie voor automaten die biljetten van 5 euro hebben: locatiewijzer.geldmaat.nl ^ Martijn… “

Tijdens het schrijven waren er nog 6 retailmix automaten over volgens [Wayback] Retailmix MKB – Locatie Retailmix – ABN AMRO

Met de retailmix kunt u eenvoudig grotere hoeveelheden 5, 10 en 20 eurobiljetten uit de geldautomaat opnemen. Bekijk bij welke geldautomaten dit kan.

Als je dit leest is de overgang hopelijk helemaal afgerond en dat heeft, naast eenduidigheid, nog een belangrijk voordeel voor ons: waar halverwege 2019 ABN-AMRO de enige bank was die coupures van EUR 5 had en dan slechts in de ongeveer 45 geldautomaten die retailmix aanboden zijn er nu meer Geldmaat automaten die dat kunnen.

Hoe sterk het is verbeterd kun je terugvinden op [Archive.is] Kaart | Geldmaat Locatiewijzer: ruim 100 locaties toen ik in mei 2020 de screenshot nam; hopelijk is dat nu nog verder gegroeid.

Als je de site bezoeken, controleer even of er onder “Filter” een vinkje staat bij “Automaten met 5 eurobiljetten”, want dat werd niet automatisch uit de URL overgenomen: [Wayback] Twitter: … Maar als je https://www.locatiewijzer.geldmaat.nl/?fiver=true opent, staat niet automatisch “Automaten met 5 eurobiljetten” aangevinkt. …

Hopelijk werkt deze link nu: www.locatiewijzer.geldmaat.nl/?fiver=true

Deze locaties zijn voor ons het makkelijkst bereikbaar:

–jeroen

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Liander URLs for outages (Dutch: storingen)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/21

I wrote Liander related posts before:

Last year, a friend got an outage and I remembered there was a way to show details. When the outage is unresolved, the web-site does not show you how to pinpoint a certain outage by ID, but when it is, it does. That sounds complicated, so here are some example URLs:

If you have an outage ID and you append it to https://www.liander.nl/storingen/overzicht/details-van-deze-storing?storingsnummer= then either of these happen:

  • the page with the resolved outage appears
  • the URL changes into https://storingen-inzicht.web.liander.nl/overzicht?referentienummer= plus the outage ID and opens with the information on the unresolved outage

Note that these links do not save well in the Wayback machine (because – unlike Archive.is- it saves pages before rendering):

Via: [Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Seems you got power again: … (it also shows how to get from an outage at … to the details page: take the Referentienummer value, than paste it in the details URL which might change into … when unsolved).… “

–jeroen

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When Twitter “twitter.com/i/timeline” fails (often, intermittently, usually for a few days, sometimes weeks)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/21

Quite often, but at unpredictable intervals and durations, twitter.com/i/timeline fails.

I finally got the right search terms for this, so via [Wayback] twitter search your timeline – Google Search I found [Wayback] How to search your Twitter timeline | iMore.

The alternative:

  • shows most of the tweets from the timeline
  • does not show notifications (so you have to refresh every now and then)

Their trick is to filter your tweets on filter:follows filter:nativeretweets, then order by latest (the f=live bit below).

Direct web-link: twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20filter%3Anativeretweets&src=typed_query&f=live

For me, this filter seems to work better: filter:follows -filter:replies -filter:nativeretweets as it allows me to easily include or exclude retweets.

Direct URL: twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20-filter%3Areplies%20-filter%3Anativeretweets&src=typed_query&f=live

I bolded a few bits above for readability; below you can see how the URI is formed from the filter parts:

filter part URI part notes
twitter.com/search?q= base of URI
filter:follows filter%3Afollows show tweets of people you follow
%20 encoded space
filter:nativeretweets filter%3Anativeretweets only show new-style retweets
& URI parameter separator
src=typed_query tells Twitter this is a “filter”
f=live the “filter” is “Latest” tweets (without this, it is “Top” tweets)
-filter:replies -filter%3Areplies do not show replies (those are in your regular “notifications” already)
-filter:nativeretweets -filter%3Anativeretweets do not show new-style retweets

–jeroen

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Driver Store-File Repository using huge disk space. How can I reduce – Microsoft Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/18

[WayBack] Driver Store-File Repository using huge disk space. How can I reduce – Microsoft Community

Try deleting the unneeded drivers by following the steps below:

  1. On the search bar, type command prompt, right-click on it from the list then run it as Administrator.
  2. Type the command pnputil.exe /e > c:\drivers.txt then click Enter.
  3. This command will create a file drivers.txt on C: drive with the list of driver packages that are stored in the File Repository folder.
  4. Delete all unnecessary drivers with the help of command pnputil.exe /d oemNN.inf (NN — is a number of drivers file package from drivers.txt, as example oem07.inf). In case the driver is in use, you will see an error while trying delete it.

This can happen if you swapped a lot of hardware around. Especially graphics drivers tend to be bloatware.

Note this only deletes uninstalled drivers. The problem: some driver software, especially video drivers, keeps parts installed, even during uninstall, and even when running in Safe Mode.

Examples for AMD:

Booting in Safe Mode

One of the nagging Windows 10 things is that out of the box it is hard to boot in safe mode: you have to reset and fail the boot your Windows system multiple times, or you have to hold a shift key (which some BIOS versions do not allow).

Luckily, you can reset the “press F8 during boot” behaviour of older Windows versions:

  1. Start an administrative command prompt (confirm UAC elevation if needed)
  2. Run this command (the bold changes the setting; the others keep track of the changes and show the difference):
    bcdedit /enum > %temp%\bcdedit.original.txt
bcdedit /set {bootmgr} DisplayBootMenu true
bcdedit /enum > %temp%\bcdedit.F8-enabled.txt
fc %temp%\bcdedit.original.txt %temp%\bcdedit.F8-enabled.txt

    (many sites you also need to run something like bcdedit /set {default} bootmenupolicy legacy or bcdedit /set {current} bootmenupolicy legacy or replace the “default” and “current” with the boot option of your choice, but that is not needed)

  3. Reboot
  4. Press F8 once (not multiple times!) as soon as the boot screen appears

    Do not press F8 twice, as it usually runs the mode with early loading of anti-virus software disabled.

  5. Press F4 for “Safe Mode”

This works way better than holding the shift key during rebooting: often that does not work on the machines I tried it on (despite [WayBack] How to boot Windows 10 in Safe Mode – CCleaner.com claiming it should work).

Notes

The DisplayBootMenu for bootmgr (which I found via [WayBack] Boot menu policy – set text or graphical style boot menu Windows 8) seems only documented for Azure site:docs.microsoft.com “bcdedit” “DisplayBootMenu” “bootmgr” – Google Search:

[WayBack] Azure Serial Console for Windows | Microsoft Docs

Disregard the official documentation and other links indicating about bootmenupolicy as they require you to set it for each boot configuration, while setting DisplayBootMenu for bootmgr sets it for all configurations at once:

Without bcdedit, be prepared for lengthy steps:

Boot menu options enabled

These options will be enabled when you have a boot menu (the numbers are the number keys or function keys to press in order to activate the option) via [Archive.is] Windows Startup Settings (including safe mode) – Windows Help:

  1. Enable debugging
  2. Enable boot logging
  3. Enable low-resolution video (640×480)
  4. Enable Safe Mode
  5. Enable Safe Mode with Networking
  6. Enable Safe Mode with Command Prompt
  7. Disable driver signature enforcement
  8. Disable early launch anti-malware protection
  9. Disable automatic restart after failure

[WayBack] Image via [WayBack] Image Search from [WayBack] How to Fix a Computer That Won’t Start in Safe Mode:

Uninstall display drivers

The most effective way to fully get rid of a video driver is to run DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) in Safe Mode.

I found it via [WayBack] Windows downgrade my Radeon Software down to 15.11 | Community.

–jeroen

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Uitstel aanvragen belastingaangifte 2021 – hoe doe ik dat?

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/18

[Wayback/Archive] Uitstel aanvragen belastingaangifte 2021 – hoe doe ik dat?

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Some of my wp-admin links, as WordPress.com is hiding access to classic-editor and wp-admin links more and more

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/18

For my link list as WordPress.com is actively hiding them:

Notes

You can see the old versus new infrastructure by comparing these branches:

WordPress.com does not have the “Classic Editor” plugin, but just gradually discourages use of the old infrastructure which is far more feature rich, thereby screwing old users.

Some of these features from the old infrastructure that are gone (despite the pretentious name of the Gutenberg editor):

  • Posts/Pages/Tags/Categories/Comments overviews are paginated, can be filtered and have bulk-actions
  • Classic-Editor has lots of useful keyboard shortcuts and allows for nested quotes

For reference, WordPress – Wikipedia: Gutenberg versus classic-editor:

WordPress 5.0 “Bebo”[edit]

The December 2018 release of WordPress 5.0, “Bebo”, is named in homage to the pioneering Cuban jazz musician Bebo Valdés.[90]

It included a new default editor “Gutenberg” – a block-based editor; it allows users to modify their displayed content in a much more user friendly way than prior iterations. Blocks are abstract units of markup that, composed together, form the content or layout of a web page.[91] Past content that was created on WordPress pages is listed under what is referred to as a Classic Block.[92] Prior to Gutenberg, there were several block-based editors available as WordPress plugins, e.g. Elementor, and following the release of Gutenberg Elementor was compared to existing plugins.[93][94]

Classic Editor plugin[edit]

The Classic Editor Plugin was created as a result of User preferences and helped website developers maintain past plugins only compatible with WordPress 4.9.8, giving plugin developers time to get their plugins updated & compatible with the 5.0 release. Having the Classic Editor plugin installed restores the “classic” editing experience that WordPress has had up until the WordPress 5.0 release.[95] The Classic Editor Plugin will be supported at least until 2022.[96]

The Classic Editor plugin is active on over 5,000,000 installations of WordPress.[97]

–jeroen

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