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Archive for July, 2026

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Forensics: Automating Active Directory Account Lockout Search with PowerShell (an example of deep XML filtering of event logs across multiple servers in parallel) – where the images disappeared from blogs.technet.microsoft.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/22

Yes, the text of this post is still on [Wayback/Archive] Forensics: Automating Active Directory Account Lockout Search with PowerShell (an example of deep XML filtering of event logs across multiple servers in parallel) | Microsoft Learn but the original images from blogs.technet.microsoft.com as well as the code snippet got lost due to link rot and incomplete migration. I restored the blog post with comments from the Wayback Machine archives.

I needed the images and the snippet to be able to write future blog post Some links on getting the most recent defragmentation time of a Windows volume hat is appearing in a week or so.

The script is downloadable from LockoutEventsXML.ps1 or via [Wayback/Archive] TechNetGalleryArchive/LockoutEventsXML.ps1 at master · GoateePFE/TechNetGalleryArchive · GitHub at [WaybackSave/Wayback/Archive] github.com/GoateePFE/TechNetGalleryArchive/raw/refs/heads/master/LockoutEventsXML.ps1 by [Wayback/Archive] GoateePFE (Ashley McGlone) · GitHub.

Note the blog post uses @" strings – with $using.variable to pass local variables to remote sessions. See these entries for more information about that topic:

Queries:

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Posted in .NET, CommandLine, Development, Power User, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development, Windows | Tagged: , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Since more than 40 years, `c:tmp.txt` is a valid file path on Windows (because of MS-DOS 2.x)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/22

Some are surprised but because of MS-DOS 2.x compatibility:

`c:tmp.txt` is a valid file path on Windows

Since each drive letter remembers the current directory and that memory bit is not thread-local nor process-local, so relying on it is bad practice.

The above is a quote from [Wayback/Archive] Oleksii Holub 🇺🇦 on Twitter: “So I was trying to understand the difference between <code>Path.IsPathRooted(...)</code> and <code>Path.IsPathFullyQualified(...)</code> and learned that apparently <code>c:tmp.txt</code> is a valid file path on Windows 🤯” which has an image without alt-text on a long bit of Microsoft documentation which I will further quote below.

Many people don’t know this, so here is a list of variations on relative paths:

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Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, EKON, Event, History, MS-DOS, Power User, Retrocomputing, Software Development, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »

Wayback Machine search string for either docwiki, Delphi 2007 or Delphi 2009 docs

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/21

A long time ago, I wrote about Google Search string for either docwiki, Delphi 2007 or Delphi 2009 docs.

Well, not long after Embarcadero totally messed up their DocWiki installation, ditched all DocWiki history cand causing a multi-day DocWiki outage (see The Delphi documentation site docwiki.embarcadero.com has been down/up oscillating for 4 days is now down for almost a day.), they also killed their (then still working) Docs server (containing all the Delphi 2007 and Delphi 2009 documentation).

That means the search strings in my previous blog post mentioned above do not work any more. The only way to find back that kind of documentation is through old blog posts (those usually are in the various Web Search Engine indexes), or through the Wayback Machine.

What Embarcadero also did not do is cooperate with the people at the Internet Archive to ensure the docs server was completely archived in the Wayback Machine. Since about Delphi 2010, their behaviour has been ticking boxes in the product feature matrices instead of tickling their users with great user experience including understanding what ensuring history is available actually means.

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Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Development, Internet, InternetArchive, Power User, Software Development, WayBack machine | Leave a Comment »

bluesky-social/social-app: The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/21

Took me a while to notice this is open source: [Wayback/Archive] bluesky-social/social-app: The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android

Via [Wayback/Archive] Gergely Orosz on Twitter: “Wow. The other Blue site open sourced their app (The protocol is already open sourced) Unlike Twitter’s recommendation algorithm that is a fork (and not the real thing), both these are the prod thing. This developing in the open is new, and encouraging! “

Related:

–jeroen

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Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII [Blu-ray]: Amazon.de: DVD & Blu-ray

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/20

On my wish list, which is supposed to be the Bluray edition: [Wayback/Archive] Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII [Blu-ray]: Amazon.de: DVD & Blu-ray – Blu-Ray box

And note that this is not the DVD, but a CD in DVD packaging: [Wayback/Archive] Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII: Amazon.de: DVD & Blu-ray – DVD Amaray (style) Box

If you want the CD, then better buy the this 2 CD box: [Wayback/Archive] Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII: Amazon.de: CDs & Vinyl – 2 CD in softpack

Found this after an acquaintance mentioned that selected movie theatres had the remastered Pink Floyd at Pompeii movie running for a short period in 2025.

Related:

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Enorm optimistische weergave van Schiphol: Woon ik onder een vliegroute?

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/20

De heel optimistische weergave in plaatjes [Wayback/Archive] Schiphol | Woon ik onder een vliegroute?.

In werkelijkheid buigen veel vliegen nog veel eerder af, vaak al als ze onder de 500 meter hoogte zijn, en komen daardoor laag en vol gas over woonwijken heen.

Idem voor naderend verkeer. Het komt geregeld voor dat ze vol gas wisselen van een toenadering naar de Zwanenburgbaan om dan vol gas laag over Nieuw-West en Badhoevedorp naar de Kaagbaan te vliegen.

–jeroen

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75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/17

The USA now have data to prove this: [Wayback/Archive] 75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why

We knew bigger cars were killing more pedestrians; now there’s data to prove it.

They are not cars (like the EU currently regards them), but trucks that can go as fast as cars, but don’t have the extra safety measures that regular trucks have.

So when is the EU going to ban or heavily restrict these?

Via [Wayback/Archive] 75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why | Hacker News

--jeroen

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Help:Interlanguage links – Wikipedia

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/17

For my link archive in case I need to connect two articles on the same topic written in different languages:

Query: [Wayback/Archive] wikipedia connect two languages of the same topic – Recherche Google

–jeroen

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A while ago I encountered the GitHub unicorn page and saved it in a gist as it is a nice HTML example of embedding images

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/16

I hardly do web development, so every once in a while I encounter something that I forgot about.

In this case it was embedding images with base64 encoding in the HTML of a web page.

The GitHub unicorn page reminded me of that, so I saved it in a gist and a JSFiddle:

You can view the rendered HTML here:

Via: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: “First time I got the GitHub unicorn.…” – Mastodon

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yewtu.be is an invidious instance with an easy to remember domain name. | Hacker News

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/16

Learned this a while ago as someone linked to a video on it: [Wayback/Archive] yewtu.be is an invidious instance with an easy to remember domain name. | Hacker News

[Wayback/Archive] yewtu.be: Invidious

Related:

Queries:

–jeroen

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