Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/18
Still a great book. I love the chapter Threading in C# – Free E-book which you also can get as a PDF download.
It’s a chapter from C# 56/5/… in a Nutshell by Joseph Albahari. Great book!
Don’t forget to read these as well: Jon Skeet: Multi-threading in .NET: Introduction and suggestions (printable) Multi-threading in .NET: Introduction and suggestions (browseable)
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/14
Through [WayBack] netcat 1.11 for Win32/Win64 I bumped into [WayBack] Netcat – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The docs at [WayBack] Netcat: the TCP/IP swiss army made it arrive on my research list.
Time for some scripting with it (:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/13
Many sites giving your public IP address return a web page with a bloat of html. From the command-line, you are usually only interested in the IP-address itself. Few services return exactly that.
Below are command-line examples to provide the public IP address mostly from a *nix perspective. Usually you can get similar commands to work with Windows binaries for wget and Windows binaries for curl.
In the end, I’ve opted for commands in this format, as I think akamai will last longer than the other sites (but does not include an end-of-line in the http result hence the echo on Mac/*nix):
I’ve not tried aria2 yet, but might provide commands for that in the future.
These are the Linux permutations for akamai:
curl whatismyip.akamai.com && echo curl ipv4.whatismyip.akamai.com && echo curl ipv6.whatismyip.akamai.com && echo curl ipv4.whatismyip.akamai.com && echo && curl ipv6.whatismyip.akamai.com && echoThe last two are convenient when you have both IPv4 and IPv6 configured on “the outside”.
You can replace curl with wget -q -O – (which outputs to stdout) for each command. You can even ommit the http:// (as that is the default protocol for both curl and wget).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/06
Just learned that Peter Naur, a Danish computer scientist and 2005 recipient of the ACM A.M. Turing Award, died January 3 after a brief illness.
In memoriams:
Peter was the N in BNF; some more background info:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/06
I had to verify the rights on some parts of the registry were the same for a lot of machines. So I used AccessChk by SysInternals.
If there were difference, my plan was to use REGINI to fix them.
It appears that AccessCheck does not show the permissions for objects within the specified path, not for the path itself.
As I observed that
accesschk -k hklm\software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell
does not reveal results.
But
accesschk -k hklm\software\Microsoft\Windows
shows:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/05
The GitHub Contributions Archive is based on the GitHub Archive (see below) and provides insight in anyones contributions. I discovered through a recent post by Ilya Grigorik:
Handy new tool (built on top of githubarchive.org dataset!) that aggregates all of your GitHub activity: bit.ly/1mraQyT.Apparently I’ve contributed to… – Ilya Grigorik – Google+
The GitHub Archive is amazing as it provides way more history than Github does by itself:
GitHub Archive is a project to record the public GitHub timeline, archive it, and make it easily accessible for further analysis.
Researching that data can provide tons of information, for instance about behaviour. It is also available through Google BigQuery so you can write your own queries for it.
The GitHub Contributions Archive – built by Liam Bowen – provides one (very usable) kind of insight: contributions, but there is much much more as quite some research, visualizations and talks have shown.
Interesting stuff!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/05
DiskMgmt.msc does not allow you to delete EFI partitions.
wmic has a nice assoc mode that allows you to find associated classes like the logical drive association to physical partitions.
But lets start simple: physical partitions and logical drives.
C:\temp>wmic partition get DeviceID, DiskIndex, Index, Type DeviceID DiskIndex Index Type Disk #1, Partition #0 1 0 GPT: System Disk #0, Partition #0 0 0 Installable File System C:\temp>wmic logicaldisk get Caption, DriveType, FileSystem, ProviderName, VolumeName Caption DriveType FileSystem ProviderName VolumeName C: 3 NTFS D: 5
These Associations:
They can be hard to use.
LogicalDisks are bound to a Partition, but a Partition does not need to have a Logical Disk.
I wanted the other way around: finding partitions not having a LogicalDisk association. But that does not seem to be possible with WMI at all.
Heck, detecting EFI partitions with WMI seems to be impossible.
Even though there needs to be a 15 second delay between DiskPart invocations:
you must allow at least 15 seconds between each script for a complete shutdown of the previous execution before running the DiskPart command again in successive scripts
it seems to be the only way to go.
But it is hard, as there seems to be no way to convert from volume (which lists the EFI partition as ESP), to disk+partition.
So a way to automate what How to delete a protected EFI disk partition with Windows 7 or 8 | WinAbility Software describes seems impossible.
Any thoughts on that?
This is what I have done so far
Now you can create a new partition on the disk.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/01
[WayBack] While cleaning up my “attic”, I came across some old QuickReport 1.0 documents and BDE installation tips so I scanned them.
I think the first document is by this Lars Søndergaard.
The last is by Dave Robinson, then working at Amber Computer Systems Inc, but I could not find on-line activity of him If you know him, please let me know his on-line contact info.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/30
This is what I needed:
:: http://www.windows-commandline.com/disable-screensaver-registry-settings/
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop" /v ScreenSaveActive /t REG_SZ /d 0 /f
And this one to verify the current settings:
:: http://www.windows-commandline.com/disable-screensaver-registry-settings/
:: possible names
:: ScreenSaveActive
:: ScreenSaveTimeOut
:: ScreenSaverIsSecure
reg query "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop" | findstr /I /C:"ScreenSave"
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/29
I needed to compare the local group memberships on a few systems.
I knew there is the distinction between
So I came up with this batch file thanks to Command Line Kung Fu:
:: http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/2009/06/episode-43-users-groups.html
for /F "skip=4 delims=*" %%g in ('net localgroup ^| find /v "The command completed successfully"') do @net localgroup "%%g"
It can be done in PowerShell too, but is more work.
Based on that and Beyond Compare I created some diff scripts.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 