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Builds ChaCha20 version of openssl on Mac OS X static without dylib for use with testssl.sh

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/17

A while ago, testssl.sh [WayBack] needed Darwin binaries (for OS X): Supply Darwin binaries + install documentation · Issue #127 · drwetter/testssl.sh [WayBack]

So I created the small Bourne shell (sh) script below to deliver them.

It allows me to update these gists:

The build script itself is in a gist as well: https://gist.github.com/f4de3937630b87753133.git [WayBack]

It helped me to contribute to these testssl.sh issues:

Not all of these binaries are in https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh/tree/master/bin [WayBack] as it makes the testssl.sh repository too bloated. Some (including non-OSX builds made by others) are here:

Eventually the script might get merged into https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh/blob/master/utils/make-openssl.sh [WayBack] as there is a Darwin switch in this commit: https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh/commit/6efc3e90f52e5926b0853d3b2fb221b631dcf452 [WayBack]

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Testing and static methods don’t go well together

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/16

A few links as, in code I’ve inherited, I see way too many static methods hindering testing:

–jeroen

Posted in Agile, Development, Software Development, Unit Testing | 1 Comment »

“Personal Computing on the VIC 20” manual is on-line, but prepared for a slow download.

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/16

From a while ago:

David Ratnasabapathy: The VIC-20 programmer’s manual was the best intro to programming I’ve ever read. I’d love to find a copy online, the new generation could use it.

+Isaac Kuo that book is wealth. I loved marginal explanations that expanded on the main text, it’s a tactic I use in my own class notes.

The manual was called Personal Computing on the VIC 20 and it is online! This is amazing! Ah, memories.

http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/VIC-20%20Programmer’s%20Reference%20Guide.pdf

+Tomasz Machalski there’s a motherload here:

http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/

Including VIC-20 User’s Manual.pdf

http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/VIC-20%20User’s%20Manual.pdf

and VIC-20 Programmer’s Reference Guide.pdf

http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/VIC-20%20Programmer’s%20Reference%20Guide.pdf

Jeroen Wiert Pluimers:+David Ratnasabapathy thanks a lot!

Downloaders: that site is slow. Not as slow as the New Horizons uplink, nor as slow as 1980s modems, but be prepared for some serious wait time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem#The_Smartmodem_and_the_rise_of_BBSs

Note that the wayback machine has them cached:

–jeroen

via It’s our third birthday! What better present than the VIC-20 [1] (“A Real… [WayBack]

Posted in 6502, Commodore, Development, History, Software Development, VIC-20 | 1 Comment »

If your Solitaire Collection on Windows 10 has display issues: ditch your old ATI/AMD Radeon graphics adapter

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/15

Solitaire Collection display issues on older ATI/AMD Radeon graphics cards

Solitaire Collection display issues on older ATI/AMD Radeon graphics cards

If you’ve installed Windows 10 and the Solitaire Collection looks like the picture on the right, then there is a good chance your machine has an older ATI/AMD Radeon graphics adapter (or mobile one).

At least these categories are affected:

Despite Microsoft knowing this (heck it fails on some Windows 8 systems as well), it keeps luring people into upgrading their working systems with Windows 10 resulting in non-working systems.

Not a smart move…

–jeroen

via: solitaire collection display problems radeon – Google Search

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Fix the OS X Finder not displaying the contents of specific folders | MacIssues

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/15

The culprit is usually the mds [WayBack] process (metadata server).

Simple command-line solution:

sudo killall mds

A more convoluted way with the Activity Monitor is in the link below.

–jeroen

via: Fix the OS X Finder not displaying the contents of specific folders | MacIssues [WayBack]

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User | Leave a Comment »

The End of Gmane? – via: Random Thoughts

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/12

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen at the end of July posted:

In 2002, I grew annoyed with not finding the obscure technical information I was looking for, so I started Gmane, the mailing list archive. All technical discussion took place on mailing lists those days, and archiving those were, at best, spotty and with horrible web interfaces.

The past few weeks, the Gmane machines (and more importantly, the company I work for, who are graciously hosting the servers) have been the target of a number of distributed denial of service attacks.

…

But I ask myself: Is this fun any more?

…

And now the DDoS stuff, which I have no idea why is happening, but I can only assume that somebody is angry about something.

…

I’m thinking about ending Gmane, at least as a web site. Perhaps continue running the SMTP-to-NNTP bridge? Perhaps not? I don’t want to make 20-30K mailing lists start having bouncing addresses, but I could just funnel all incoming mail to /dev/null, I guess…

…

I feel like I’m letting down a generation here. And despite what I rambled about in that paragraph up there, I’ve had many fun interactions with people because of Gmane. And lots and lots and lots of appreciative feedback over the years.

Later that day he posted a comment explaining a few more details.

Cutting things short: NNTP and MX work (for now), he is talking with parties for them to continue gmane, but for now the web-site is offline.

So I looked at which posts I had been using gmane links to correct them into linking to the Web Archive (a.k.a. WayBack machine) as much as possible. There were quite a few (even more than a simple Google search revealed) as shown in the list below.

Lesson learned
Counting how many of the gmane links were not at the WayBack machine I learned that for every blog post, I should links before posting them. Problem: I’ve scheduled about 400 posts and published some 3200, so that’s going to be a lot of edits.

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Setting the language of HP Solution Center needs a full uninstall/install cycle *and* the non-Unicode Windows Language to be set

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/12

I can imagine why some people hate the HP Solution Center software: it’s a dork on the language front and not even Unicode-aware.

You cannot set the language form inside it. The language is fixed at install time. You’d think it would take the users language settings for that. But it doesn’t: it takes the users non-Unicode language setting for it. Which – of course – you cannot find when searching in the control panel for Language (or Dutch Taal) you get there by searching for Region (or Dutch Regio).

This succeeds:

Nederlands (Nederland)

Nederlands (Nederland)

 

It fails when it is set to:

Engels (Verenigde Staten)

Engels (Verenigde Staten)

–jeroen

Posted in HP Printer Drivers, Power User, Printer drivers, Windows, Windows 10 | 2 Comments »

Infrared ceiling fan and light control repair

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/12

–jeroen

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freegeoip.net – Free IP geolocation HTTP API

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/11

Not sure yet how frequently you can call the Free IP geolocation HTTP API but it’s surely interesting.

Source: freegeoip.net

–jeroen

via: Hi everyoneDoes anyone know how to get the country code for where a device is currently residing… – Chris Pimlott – Google+

Posted in Development, Geolocation, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

programmers humor – Google image Search

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/11

An ever varying list of programmer humour images: programmers humor – Google Search.

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