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JSON to tabular format via JSONformatter.org and JSON2table.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/10

Two interesting sites to ease transforming JSON fragments in log-messages to a table system, for instance Excel.

  1. Paste the bits in [WayBack] Best JSON Pretty Print Online then fix any syntax errors.
  2. Copy from there to [WayBack] json2table.com and press the triangle button (run)
  3. Copy either the tabular or tree result to your favourite program.
  4. Format any numbers for readability. I really like the Custom format ##0.00E+00 that just shows the exponents in multiples of 3 (so kilo, mega, giga, etc)[WayBack] formatting – How can I format bytes a cell in Excel as KB, MB, GB etc? – Stack Overflow

This way I copied the example code into adjecent Excel areas, so I could compare the values and calculate memory increase of a Delphi application.

—jeroen

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Radio Garden

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/10

Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

[Archive.is] Radio Garden

Via: [WayBack] Radio Garden is just too cool Check out radio across the planet with this interactive station finding globe! – Kevin Powick – Google+

–jeroen

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Git pushing to multiple remotes

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/10

I didn’t know there were multiple ways to push to multiple remotes.

[WayBack] github – Git – Pushing code to two remotes – Stack Overflow is intriguing as the accept answer shows one remote can have more than one URL, and you can push to all of them at the same time.

Most people just have multiple remotes with one URL per remote, and have a branch optionally track one remote brach: [WayBack] How can I tell a local branch to track a remote branch?

The other way around: you can find out which branch track remote branches as well: [WayBack] git – Find out which remote branch a local branch is tracking – Stack Overflow

–jeroen

 

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Bootable virus scanners supporting ntfs

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/09

I was looking for a bootable virus scanner supporting NTFS. Kaspersky was the first one I found, and it worked well.

Back then, these were the output locations:

The HTTP link can be convenient for locations that do not support TLS (cough, VMware ESXi wget, cough), which are OK if you calculate the sha256 hash from the TLS link first.

Likely there is a 2020 version by now.

I got the links via:

I might try BitDefender later.

–jeroen

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“net view” “System error 1231 has occurred.” “Windows 10”

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/09

On my research list: none of my Windows 10 PC’s in WORKGROUP can see that other machines exist, but they can connect to each other.

C:\>net view
System error 1231 has occurred.c

C:\>net view
System error 6118 has occurred.

On Windows 8.1 and 7 (I know: both beyond end-of-support) can see both Windows 8.1/7 machines and Windows 10 machines:

C:\>net view
Server Name          Remark
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\\...
The command completed successfully.

It is unclear on which Windows 10 release this started failing. I think it is around 1803 (April 2018 Update) or 1709 (Fall Creators Update). It fails despite all settings indicating sharing and discovery are enabled:

Things tried that failed:

Start service WebClient

Tried from an administrative command prompt, then waited a minute:

C:\net start WebClient
The WebClient service is starting.
The WebClient service was started successfully.

Failed.

Via: [WayBack] System error 1231 has occurred – Microsoft Community

Ensure system names are uppercase

The system names were already in uppercase.

Via: [WayBack] Win10 10586 – FOUND FIX for system error 1231 bug ( network shares – Microsoft Community

TODO

Note: do not re-enable SMBv1 as it is inherently insecure!

–jeroen

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Poundland lights unexpected feature and USB mod. to operate christmas lights using USB – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/09

Cool video with nice ideas:

–jeroen

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PoE to ethernet + micro USB converters

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/06

The first is 100mbit, some do not get it to work with Raspberry Pi 3B+, but others do get it to work, even at 1Gbit:

The second is 1Gbit, about 40% more expensive, but just works:

Via: [WayBack] Thread by @Nick_Craver: “Shout out to @mstum for reminding me 1Gb PoE USB splitters are completely viable for Raspberry Pis – now running a fi PoE switches and using just 1 outlet on the UPS: … Less wiring and if the network’s […]”

–jeroen

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OpenCandy – Wikipedia

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/06

Hmm, one of my machines contained OpenCandy – Wikipedia as found by Malwarebytes (software) – Wikipedia:

Tracking back the installation, revealed it came with ImgBurn 2.5.8.0, which is now on my black-list.

In my case this was how to remove it:

rd /s /q %AppData%\OpenCandy

This is not universal; you might need to take additional measures like in [WayBack] How to Remove PUP.Optional.OpenCandy (Removal Guide).

I use this batch-file to get the most recent Malwarebytes and Chameleon:

get-malware-bytes.bat 

:: redirects to something like wget https://data-cdn.mbamupdates.com/web/mb3-setup-consumer/mb3-setup-consumer-3.6.1.2711-1.0.508-1.0.8211.exe
wget --content-disposition https://downloads.malwarebytes.com/file/mb3/
:: redirects to something like wget https://data-cdn.mbamupdates.com/web/mbam-chameleon-3.1.33.0.zip
wget --content-disposition https://downloads.malwarebytes.com/file/chameleon/

If you do not have wget on your system, then try this PowerShell alternative (which does not show progress) via [WayBack] Windows batch file file download from a URL – Stack Overflow

:: in case you do not have wget:
powershell -Command "(New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('https://downloads.malwarebytes.com/file/mb3/', 'mb3.exe')"
powershell -Command "(New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('https://downloads.malwarebytes.com/file/chameleon/', 'chameleon.exe')"
:: note these do not show progress!
:: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4619088/windows-batch-file-file-download-from-a-url

Related: [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “What if the most recent @Malwarebytes on a Windows 8.1 x64 VM (all patches installed) on ESXi backed by NVME hangs for hours on one file with hardly any CPU usage? Screenshots of mbam.exe, mbamservice.exe and mbamtray.exe thread usage below.

–jeroen

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het verbindingsboogje en de punt achter de noot – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/06

Omdat ik laatst iemand hielp met het lezen van noten en het bepalen van lengte, wat linkjes en een video.

Mijn eigen ezelsbruggetje is altijd een patroon van 2/# wat 3/# wordt:

  1. hele noot (4/4 of 2/2) wordt 3/2 of 6/4
  2. halve noot (2/4 of 1/2) wordt 3/4
  3. kwart noot (1/4 of 2/8) wordt 3/8
  4. achtste noot (1/8 of 2/16) wordt 3/16
  5. zestiende noot (1/16 of 2/32) wordt 3/32

Ooit maak ik daar een mooi plaatje van, als ik een on-line plek heb gevonden waar ik noten kan schrijven zonder te hoeven inloggen. Dit hielp niet echt: [WayBack] Best music notation software: online, offline, apps and everything else – Creative Music Education of [Archive.is] What is the best free online music notation software? – Quora

De linkjes

–jeroen

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AmazonSmile Hilfe: Kontaktdaten unserer Logistikpartner

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/05

[Archive.is] AmazonSmile Hilfe: Kontaktdaten unserer Logistikpartner

–jeroen

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