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Slavonic Dances – Wikipedia

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/23

For music practice Slavonic Dances – Wikipedia:

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oocities: Geocities Archive Geocities Mirror / The 90s Archive (1990s 2000s nineties) / The Early web

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/23

If I ever need old Geocities material then I should check back at oocities and other archival efforts as they have archived a truckload of it and (unlike the the Archive.org geocities arvhive) are indexed by public search engines.

Their archive home page is [Wayback/Archive] Geocities Archive Geocities Mirror / The 90s Archive (1990s 2000s nineties) / The Early web of which I quote a few bits:

  • Special Thanks goes to all the editors and webmasters who made this project alive by updating their old links every day
    from * geocities.com/*
    to *.oocities.com/*
  • oocities.com/org, geocities.ws, reocities.com, internetarchaeology.org, webcitation.org, deletedcity.net

Adding some domains from Yahoo! GeoCities: Archiving efforts – Wikipedia, these are publicly indexed archival sites that have parts of old Geocities content (part of which might be gone by the time you read this: web sites and their content become increasingly ephemeral):

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Electronic Basics by GreatScott! – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/22

[Wayback/Archive] Electronic Basics by GreatScott! – YouTube

At the time of writing these were some 60 videos each 5-15 minutes long in reversed order (#1 at the bottom, #61 at the top).

This means it is about 10 hours of watching time well worth it.

--jeroen

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Online .NET source code browsers for both .NET Framework and .NET Core

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/22

I used these .NET Source Browsers quite few times over the last decade, first for the .NET Framework and later for .NET Core (now called .NET, sometimes .NET Runtime) as well, but forgot to blog about them, so now that I discovered there is one for the Roslyn Compiler Platform as well, let’s list them all:

It was introduced as [Wayback/Archive] referencesource-beta.microsoft.com by [Wayback/Archive] A new look for .NET Reference Source – .NET Blog which explains how to use it for browsing (on-line and off-line), Visual Studio integration, debugging, and more. In about a month however it got out of beta and became the primary as it functioned so well (you can verify this while browsing through the 2014 Wayback links).

All are powered by [Wayback/Archive] KirillOsenkov/SourceBrowser:

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GitHub – LaurieWired/Malimite: iOS and macOS Decompiler

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/21

Will likely need this one day: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – LaurieWired/Malimite: iOS and macOS Decompiler

--jeroen

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Podcast with @mattgodbolt of godbolt.org fame, on among other things becoming a verb, 6502s, exploring compilers, and application binary interfaces.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/21

From a while ago: [Wayback/Archive] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “embedded.fm/episodes/334 Embedded.fm  with @mattgodbolt of godbolt.org  fame, on among other things becoming a verb, 6502s, exploring compilers, and application binary interfaces.”

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Debugging Win32 binaries in Ghidra via Wine

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/20

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Debugging Win32 binaries in Ghidra via Wine

[Wayback/Archive] Ghidra is a cross-platform reverse-engineering and binary analysis tool, with recent versions including support for dynamic analysis. I want to try using it as a replacement for IDA Pro in reverse-engineering of Win32 binaries, but hit bugs related to address space detection when running gdbserver with Wine ([Wayback/Archive] ghidra#4534).

This post contains custom GDB commands that allow Ghidra to query the Linux process ID and memory maps of a Win32 target process running in 32-bit Wine on a 64-bit Linux host.

Via [Wayback/Archive] Ptrace Security GmbH on Twitter: “Debugging Win32 binaries in Ghidra via Wine #Pentesting #Debugging #CyberSecurity #Infosec”.

--jeroen

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Exceptions and DLL in Delphi – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/20

Every once in a while I discover an answer I have not yet put on my blog, especially as related answer are always interesting.

This is one that didn’t make it until now: [Wayback/Archive] Exceptions and DLL in Delphi – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] jpfollenius, [Wayback/Archive] Deltics and [Wayback/Archive] Lars Truijens)

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The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source – Windows Developer Blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/19

This is so cool:

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-is-now-open-source/

https://x.com/ClintRutkas/status/1924512886229225567

–jeroen

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When Archive.Today (and their .fo/.is.li/.md/.ph/.vn) look down; check your DNS

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/19

The [Wayback] Archive Today blog has not been updated for more than a year now*, and this looks to coincide with up-time issues.

Part of the inability to save pages in Archive.Today (or any of their other domains) or access them can have to do with DNS issues, actually confirmed by the linked Wikipedia article. There are many links on them, some are these reddit threads:

  • Note the problem archiving the Archive Today blog into the Wayback Machine isn’t always successful. When trying around the moments that Archive Today could not archive pages, the Wayback Machine could not find the Archive Today blog in their DNS, see the the picture below.

The really cool thing is that during after the Internet Archive hack (and therefore Wayback Machine downtime), Archive Today held up pretty much OK, so not all is bad (:

Anyway Archive Today archival started to work again after some 4 hours of problems, and I got dragged into other work, so there was no chance to investigate further. Hopefully another day… or preferably: hopefully they stay up.

Query: [Wayback/Archive] archive today down – Google Suche

--jeroen


Wayback Machine archival: "SorryCannot resolve host blog.archive.today."

Wayback Machine archival: “Sorry
Cannot resolve host blog.archive.today.”

 

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