Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/19
Based on [WayBack] How can I open a cmd window in a specific location? – Stack Overflow:
cmd /K "pushd ""D:\Versioned Stuff\wiert.me"""
The quoting is required for paths having spaces, so I always include them just in case I ever have a path with spaces.
If I want it with bash, then I run it as follows:
cmd /K "pushd ""D:\Versioned Stuff\wiert.me""" && "C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe"
Documentation: [WayBack] CD Change Directory – Windows CMD – SS64.com
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/19
While checking out an issue with the SSH server for ContinuaCI issue (see info below), I wanted to look at the files leading to the issue: .pem and .rsa files with the private key for the SSH server.
So I browsed through my series of openssl related articles to see if I already had made a script better explaining the cryptic openssl command-line parameters. I didn’t have it yet, but it turned out to be really simple:
C:\ProgramData\VSoft\ContinuaCI\SSHD>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\usr\bin\openssl.exe" rsa -in server_keypair.rsa
writing RSA key
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
...
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
C:\ProgramData\VSoft\ContinuaCI\SSHD>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\usr\bin\openssl.exe" rsa -in server_keypair.rsa -text
Private-Key: (1024 bit)
modulus:
..:..:..:.....
publicExponent: 35 (0x23)
privateExponent:
..:..:..:.....
prime1:
..:..:..:.....
prime2:
..:..:..:.....
exponent1:
..:..:..:.....
exponent2:
..:..:..:.....
coefficient:
..:..:..:.....
writing RSA key
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
...
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
C:\ProgramData\VSoft\ContinuaCI\SSHD>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\usr\bin\openssl.exe" rsa -in server_keypair.pem
Enter pass phrase for server_keypair.pem:
unable to load Private Key
2675996:error:06065064:digital envelope routines:EVP_DecryptFinal_ex:bad decrypt:evp_enc.c:529:
2675996:error:23077074:PKCS12 routines:PKCS12_pbe_crypt:pkcs12 cipherfinal error:p12_decr.c:108:
2675996:error:2306A075:PKCS12 routines:PKCS12_item_decrypt_d2i:pkcs12 pbe crypt error:p12_decr.c:139:
2675996:error:0907B00D:PEM routines:PEM_READ_BIO_PRIVATEKEY:ASN1 lib:pem_pkey.c:141:
C:\ProgramData\VSoft\ContinuaCI\SSHD>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\usr\bin\openssl.exe" rsa -in server_keypair.pem -passin pass:password
unable to load Private Key
2675996:error:06065064:digital envelope routines:EVP_DecryptFinal_ex:bad decrypt:evp_enc.c:529:
2675996:error:23077074:PKCS12 routines:PKCS12_pbe_crypt:pkcs12 cipherfinal error:p12_decr.c:108:
2675996:error:2306A075:PKCS12 routines:PKCS12_item_decrypt_d2i:pkcs12 pbe crypt error:p12_decr.c:139:
2675996:error:0907B00D:PEM routines:PEM_READ_BIO_PRIVATEKEY:ASN1 lib:pem_pkey.c:141:
The command-lines use the [WayBack]rsa tool with:
-in parameter-text parameter to dump it into human readable form-passin parameter with a [WayBack] pass phrase argument pass:password.The server_keypair.pem file (having the header -----BEGIN ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY----- and footer -----END ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY-----) was a password protected RSA private key where somehow ContinuaCI had the wrong password for.
I’m not sure it’s a good idea that the server_keypair.pem file has not password at all.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/19
Odd, the [WayBack/Archive.is] Delphi Intrinsic Routines – RAD Studio indicates quite a few compiler intrinsics are not available on Windows.
I wonder if this list is correct:
Routine Description DCC32 DCC64 DCCOSX DCCAARM DCCIOSARM DCCIOSARM64 DCCIOS32 System.AtomicCmpExchange AtomicCmpExchange is used for comparing and exchanging memory values. System.AtomicDecrement AtomicDecrement is used for decrementing memory values. System.AtomicExchange AtomicExchange is used for exchanging memory values. System.AtomicIncrement AtomicIncrement is used for incrementing memory values. System.BuiltInArcTan Calculates the arctangent of a given number. System.BuiltInArcTan2 Calculates the arctangent angle and quadrant of a given number. System.BuiltInCos Calculates the cosine of an angle. System.BuiltInLn Calculates the natural logarithm of a real expression. System.BuiltInLnXPlus1 Calculates the natural logarithm of (X+1). System.BuiltInLog10 Calculates log base 10. System.BuiltInLog2 Calculates log base 2. System.BuiltInSin Calculates the sine of the angle. System.BuiltInSqrt Calculates the square root of X. System.BuiltInTan Calculates the tangent of X.
Especially since this compiles fine with the DCC32 compiler:
program CompilerIntrinsicsConsoleProject; {$APPTYPE CONSOLE} {$R *.res} var I, J, K: Integer; begin System.AtomicCmpExchange(I, J, K); System.AtomicDecrement(I); System.AtomicExchange(I, J); System.AtomicIncrement(J); end.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/18
Soon this is a thing of the past, but for just a few more days, you can help: Archiving Google+.
Either run this project: [WayBack] GitHub – ArchiveTeam/googleplus-grab: Archiving Google+.
Or even better: run the appliance, and help the WayBack machine with any archiving projects setup by the virtual appliance: the [WayBack] ArchiveTeam Warrior – Archiveteam.
See some of their other pages for more background information:
You can donate both to the archive team, and the internet archive:
The tracker is well under way: [WayBack] Googleplus tracker Dashboard. History: archive.is 1; archive.is 2
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/14
From a while ago [WayBack] delphi – Why was TDataSource created originally? – Stack Overflow
It is all about decoupling and indirection.
And with TDataSource there are two kinds of them:
- Decoupling the master detail relations (TDataSource is in the same module as the TDataSets that are being bound; the detail TDataSet references the master TDataSet by pointing its’ MasterSource property to the TDataSource that points to the master TDataSet)
- Decoupling the UI from the business layer (TDataSets are in a DataModule; TDataSource is on the Form/Frame which contains your UI controls, UI controls reference their DataSourceproperty).
Since many components can point to the same DataSource, you can quickly switch which underlying TDataSet they use by just flipping one TDataSource.DataSet property.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/13
Based on [WayBack] windows – How to run batch file command with elevated permissions? – Super User:
powershell -command "Start-Process cmd.exe -Verb runas"
This works better than "runas /user:administrator cmd.exe" as that forces to use the specific Administrator account, whereas the PowerShell way allows you to specify the actual account during elevation.
You can extend this to run a command with one or more parameters based on [WayBack] Launch Elevated CMD.exe from Powershell – Stack Overflow (thanks [WayBack] mklement0):
powershell -command "Start-Process cmd.exe -Verb runas -Args /k, call, goto-bin"
This will actually pass “call goto-bin” to cmd.exe which tries to execute the “goto-bin” command (which I have around on the PATH as goto-bin.bat).
You can either use comma-separated parameters or a quoted string. In this expansion, comma-separated is easier in this PowerShell construct.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/13
Reminder to self when checking “new” disks to see what partitions they contain before formatting them as VMFS.
There is a truckload information at [WayBack] Using the partedUtil command line utility on ESXi and ESX (1036609) | VMware KB.
A few tips; example output is further below:
/vmfs/devices/disks/ where there are two entries per device: a path leading to the device, and a link to that path which starts with vml. which I filter out with grep./vmfs/devices/disks/ ends with :# where # is a number, then it is a partitionpartedUtil get as partedUtil getptblwill give you exactly the same information,
unknown: the disk has no partition table yet (usually), or the type of partition table cannot be determined (hardly)gpt: there is a GUID Partition Tablemsdos: there is a Master Boot Record partition tablepartedUtil is unformatted, which means it is easy to parse, but hard to read for humans. You can pipe through sed 's/ /\t/g' (as there is no tr on the ESXi busybox)On scripting:
sh (always been there)Python (ESXi 5.1 has Python 2.7.8; ESXi 6.5 has Python 3.5.3; it has likely been available in earlier versions too).On device names:
On errors:
Module 'Disk' power on failed.(in the vmware.log file for the VM) and LookupAndOpen[file] failed Click here for more details. (in the Web UI): my impression this is usually has to do with either a mismatch of the text vmdk and the binary backing, or the chain of snapshots. The odd thing is that vmkfstool doesn’t always catch this and just returns Disk is error free.vmkfstools -x check /path/to/vmname.vmdk followed by vmkfstools -x repair/path/to/vmname.vmdkIf you do not like the cryptic
-x, then use--fix.
unknown, but for which VMware doesn’t know what to do with it. Basically three things to try:
gparted to edit the partition table.diskpartor diskmgmt.msc to edit the partition table.msdos one:~ # find /vmfs/devices/disks/ | grep T1500LM0032D9YH148
/vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____ST1500LM0032D9YH148__________________________________Z110C4Q0a
~ # partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____ST1500LM0032D9YH148__________________________________Z110C4Q0
unknown
182401 255 63 2930277168
~ # I know of three VMFS types:
Some interesting links about the various VMFS types:
Busybox has been updated over time:
traceroute now, this is not needed any more: [WayBack] Poor man’s traceroute for ESXi | virtuallyGhetto (https://github.com/leonidg/Poor-Man-s-traceroute/blob/master/traceroute.py needs to be updated to be compatible with Python 3 anyway).
Example outputs on one of my systems, of which I stripped most of the disks as they’re not really relevant here.
[root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] ls -1 /vmfs/devices/disks/ | grep -v '^vml\.' naa.5000c50087762d1b ... naa.600605b00aa054a0ff000021022683ae naa.600605b00aa054a0ff000021022683ae:1 ... t10.ATA_____ST1500LM0032D9YH148__________________________________Z110C4Q0 t10.ATA_____Samsung_SSD_850_PRO_2TB_________________S2KMNCAGB04321L_____ t10.ATA_____Samsung_SSD_850_PRO_2TB_________________S2KMNCAGB04321L_____:1 ... t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372 t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372:1 t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372:5 t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372:6 t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372:7 t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372:8 t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372:9 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____ST1500LM0032D9YH148__________________________________Z110C4Q0 unknown 182401 255 63 2930277168 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] partedUtil get /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____ST1500LM0032D9YH148__________________________________Z110C4Q0 182401 255 63 2930277168 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] partedUtil get /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____SAMSUNG_MZHPV512HDGL2D00000______________S1X1NYAGB09589______ 62260 255 63 1000215216 1 2048 1000214527 0 0 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.ATA_____SAMSUNG_MZHPV512HDGL2D00000______________S1X1NYAGB09589______ gpt 62260 255 63 1000215216 1 2048 1000214527 AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 vmfs 0 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372 gpt 3738 255 63 60062500 1 64 8191 C12A7328F81F11D2BA4B00A0C93EC93B systemPartition 128 5 8224 520191 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0 6 520224 1032191 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0 7 1032224 1257471 9D27538040AD11DBBF97000C2911D1B8 vmkDiagnostic 0 8 1257504 1843199 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0 9 1843200 7086079 9D27538040AD11DBBF97000C2911D1B8 vmkDiagnostic 0 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] partedUtil get /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372 3738 255 63 60062500 1 64 8191 0 128 5 8224 520191 0 0 6 520224 1032191 0 0 7 1032224 1257471 0 0 8 1257504 1843199 0 0 9 1843200 7086079 0 0 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] partedUtil getptbl /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372 | sed 's/ /\t/g' gpt 3738 255 63 60062500 1 64 8191 C12A7328F81F11D2BA4B00A0C93EC93B systemPartition 128 5 8224 520191 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0 6 520224 1032191 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0 7 1032224 1257471 9D27538040AD11DBBF97000C2911D1B8 vmkDiagnostic 0 8 1257504 1843199 EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 linuxNative 0 9 1843200 7086079 9D27538040AD11DBBF97000C2911D1B8 vmkDiagnostic 0 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] partedUtil get /vmfs/devices/disks/t10.SanDisk00Ultra_Fit000000000000004C530001240406103372 | sed 's/ /\t/g' 3738 255 63 60062500 1 64 8191 0 128 5 8224 520191 0 0 6 520224 1032191 0 0 7 1032224 1257471 0 0 8 1257504 1843199 0 0 9 1843200 7086079 0 0 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] partedUtil --help Usage: Get Partitions : get Set Partitions : set ["partNum startSector endSector type attr"]* Delete Partition : delete Resize Partition : resize Get Partitions : getptbl Set Partitions : setptbl ["partNum startSector endSector type/guid attr"]* Fix Partition Table : fix Create New Label (all existing data will be lost): mklabel Show commonly used partition type guids : showGuids Get usable first and last sectors : getUsableSectors Fix GPT Table interactively : fixGpt [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] partedUtil showGuids Partition Type GUID vmfs AA31E02A400F11DB9590000C2911D1B8 vmkDiagnostic 9D27538040AD11DBBF97000C2911D1B8 vsan 381CFCCC728811E092EE000C2911D0B2 virsto 77719A0CA4A011E3A47E000C29745A24 VMware Reserved 9198EFFC31C011DB8F78000C2911D1B8 Basic Data EBD0A0A2B9E5443387C068B6B72699C7 Linux Swap 0657FD6DA4AB43C484E50933C84B4F4F Linux Lvm E6D6D379F50744C2A23C238F2A3DF928 Linux Raid A19D880F05FC4D3BA006743F0F84911E Efi System C12A7328F81F11D2BA4B00A0C93EC93B Microsoft Reserved E3C9E3160B5C4DB8817DF92DF00215AE Unused Entry 00000000000000000000000000000000 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] cat /local/bin/what-is-my-shell.sh if test -n "$ZSH_VERSION"; then PROFILE_SHELL=zsh elif test -n "$BASH_VERSION"; then PROFILE_SHELL=bash elif test -n "$KSH_VERSION"; then PROFILE_SHELL=ksh elif test -n "$FCEDIT"; then PROFILE_SHELL=ksh elif test -n "$PS3"; then PROFILE_SHELL=unknown else PROFILE_SHELL=sh fi echo $PROFILE_SHELL echo $SHELL [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] /local/bin/what-is-my-shell.sh sh /bin/sh [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~] python --version Python 3.5.3 [root@ESXi-X10SRH-CF:~]
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/13
Interesting read and watch:
At the recent Embedded Linux Conference and OpenIoT Summit, Mozilla Technical Evangelist Dietrich Ayala proposed a simple and affordable solution to home automation: A discarded smartphone can handle some of the most useful home automation tasks without requiring expensive hubs and sensors — or risking data security in the cloud.
Source: [WayBack] Repurposing Old Smartphones for Home Automation | Linux.com | The source for Linux information.
Via Ruurd Pels.
GitHub Repository autonome/context by autonome (Dietrich Ayala)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/12
For my link archige: [WayBack] Classic compiler (Win32) strings double-free crash because of error in reference-counting. Tested with XE2 and 10.1 Berlin Test applications: https://g… – Arioch The – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/12
On my list of things to install soon IDE Fix Pack 6.4 and 6.4.1:
Technically, there is 6.4 that works in Delphi 10.3 Rio Update 1, but it is better to install 6.4.1 as it works with 10.3 and 10.3.1:
The dependencies file looks interesting for good uses list optimisation, given that you compile with all conditional define permutations:
There is a ton of changes, of which I like the bold ones most:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 