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How can I reset a PC if I forgot the administrator password? – The Old New Thing

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/22

What I reboot three times is true.

[WayBack] How can I reset a PC if I forgot the administrator password? – The Old New Thing:

There is an emergency reset button that you can activate like this:

  • Turn off the computer.
  • Turn on the computer, but while it is booting, turn off the power.
  • Turn on the computer, but while it is booting, turn off the power.
  • Turn on the computer, but while it is booting, turn off the power.
  • Turn on the computer and wait.

After three failed reboot attempts, Windows goes into recovery mode and one of the options there is to reset the computer. One of the reasons for that option is to address this specific problem of finding an old machine that you forgot the password to, and you want to just reset the PC and start over clean.

–jeroen

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Debuggex: Online visual regex tester. JavaScript, Python, and PCRE.

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/18

On my list of things to try out when I need to use regular expressions again:

Test your regex by visualizing it with a live editor. JavaScript, Python, and PCRE.

Source: Debuggex: Online visual regex tester. JavaScript, Python, and PCRE.

Via: [WayBack] Sergiu Toarca answering [WayBack] Regex lookahead with multiple negative conditions – Stack Overflow

Note: in January 2018, Debuggex was down for a few days (Thanks Uwe for bringing that up and giving the below alternative [WayBack]).

If you are on Windows and are OK with a small cost, try this instead: [WayBack] RegexBuddy: Learn, Create, Understand, Test, Use and Save Regular Expression

–jeroen

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Poor mans C to Delphi converter by Wouter van Nifterick

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/18

Seems very OK for a first pass in a C to Delphi conversion:

[WayBack] Hi, I’ve created a C to Delphi converter.Because it’s been so useful to me that I’ve decided to share it.It converts C code as-you-type, and it keep… – Wouter van Nifterick – Google+

Source is on GitHub: https://github.com/WouterVanNifterick/C-To-Delphi

–jeroen

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Convert space indented text to markdown minus indented

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/17

Since I will never be good at regex, this are a few search/replace patterns I used in Atom.io to convert a plain text document space indented like this:

Version 1.23.4.15
First level indented text
Is also a first level indented text
Too a first level indented text
- First level indented text too
  Second level indented text
  Is also a second level indented text
  Too a second level indented text
  - Second level indented text too
    - A third level indented text
    Third level indented text
    Is also a third level indented text
    Too a third level indented text
98.4.32.1

to a Markdown indented one like this:

Version 1.23.4.15
- First level indented text
- Is also a first level indented text
- Too a first level indented text
- First level indented text too
 - Second level indented text
 - Is also a second level indented text
 - Too a second level indented text
 - Second level indented text too
 - A third level indented text
 - Third level indented text
 - Is also a third level indented text
 - Too a third level indented text
Version 98.4.32.1

Prepend Version when needed: https://regex101.com/r/CUhUbr/1

  • Search:
    • ^(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)
  • Replace:
    • Version $1

Add markdown first level indentations to lines that don’t have a markdown first level indentation yet, nor start with Version nor start with a space: https://regex101.com/r/CUhUbr/2

  • Search:
    • ^(?!(Version )|(- )|( )|(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+))(.*)
  • Replace:
    • - $5

Add markdown second level indentations to lines that don’t have a markdown second level indentation yet but do have a regular second level indentation: https://regex101.com/r/CUhUbr/3

  • Search:
    • ^  (?!(- )|( ))(.*)
  • Replace:
    •   - $3

Add markdown third level indentations to lines that don’t have a markdown third level indentation yet but do have a regular third level indentation: https://regex101.com/r/CUhUbr/4

  • Search:
    • ^    (?!(- )|( ))(.*)
  • Replace:
    •     - $3

––jeroen

https://regex101.com/r/CUhUbr/1

https://regex101.com/r/CUhUbr/2

https://regex101.com/r/CUhUbr/3

https://regex101.com/r/CUhUbr/4

 

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Links to various Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio downloads (arm/x64/x86 when available)

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/17

Link archive so I know how to get the 64-bit ARM, 32-bit Win32/x86 and 64-bit Win64/x64 downloads for the Visual C++ Redistributable files.

Note the various names of pages and files Microsoft uses.

–jeroen

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Changing component class at run-time on demand for older Delphi versions need a bit more magic than you’d expect

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/16

Just in case I ever need to do heavy Delphi 2007 magic to change the component class of an object instance:

[WayBack] Quite unusual compiler behaviour (for older compilers) as seen here:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41181767/patching-instance-class-requires-base-… – David Heffernan – Google+

References:

–jeroen

Source: Quite unusual compiler behaviour (for older compilers) as seen here: http://…

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What happens when a huge number of people share a single grocery store loyalty card? – The Old New Thing

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/12

[WayBack] What happens when a huge number of people share a single grocery store loyalty card? – The Old New Thing

An interesting discussion in the comments besides this interesting article observation:

What messes up their data analysis is when two people with different lifestyles swap cards. The system sees that somebody who used to buy yogurt and bulk brewer’s yeast is now buying potato chips and frozen pizzas, and it can’t figure out what is going on.

–jeroen

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Is the era of management over? | World Economic Forum

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/12

Hopefully the next few years will finally show what the incremental software development and evolutionary management has been trying to advocate since the late 1950s and 1970s: hierarchies do not work and purpose works better for the vast majority than being in a triangle.

The first slide below is from Thoughtworks who has been doing these changes for several decades now.

Traditional hierarchies are giving way to more open and creative workplace cultures.

[WayBack] Is the era of management over? | World Economic Forum

That’s the only way to cope with complexity as talent dilutes in growing organisations.

Via:

–jeroen

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badssl.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/11

I wish I had bumped into this when it got released in 2015: [WayBack] badssl.com hosted in the cloud and maintained by two people from Google and Mozilla.

Where ssllabs.com is for checking server-side certificates, this one is for checking clients against many, many (did I already write MANY?) server side configurations both good (with a varying set of security settings like cyphers and key exchanges) and bad.

One of the bad ones is expired.badssl.com which your clients should not be able to connect to without throwing a big error.

Sources are at [WayBack] GitHub – chromium/badssl.com: Memorable site for testing clients against bad SSL configs.

Before using, please read their

Disclaimer

badssl.com is meant for manual testing of security UI in web clients.

Most subdomains are likely to have stable functionality, but anything could change without notice. If you would like a documented guarantee for a particular use case, please file an issue. (Alternatively, you could make a fork and host your own copy.)

badssl.com is not an official Google product. It is offered “AS-IS” and without any warranties.

–jeroen

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Reminder to self – Fiddler for OS X Beta

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/11

Reminder to self: [WayBack] Fiddler for OS X Beta as it’s been on my list since about a year ago: Fiddler for OS X Beta « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.

Note that reading the cerficicates can be done in a more simple way for the Current version of Mono:

/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/bin/mozroots --import --sync

I forgot in which version the Mono installer has Current linked to the most recently installed Mono version but it works well.

Executing should then be somethig like this:

/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/Current/bin/mono ~/bin/fiddler-mac/Fiddler.exe

I expect quite some bit of trouble decrypting HTTPS [Arvhive.is] as that was troublesome on Windows in the early Fiddler days as well.

In case of trouble, there is always Fiddler Ideas: Customer Feedback for Fiddler by Telerik . Add a new product idea or vote on an existing idea using the Fiddler by Telerik customer feedback form via [WayBack] Tsviatko Yovtchev: “@jpluimers @ericlaw https://t.co/lRNXC88M1b is our feature suggestion/issue tracker portal. Fiddler itself notifies on new versions.”

Back to the reminder: [WayBack] Fiddler for OS X Beta.

Direct download https://telerik-fiddler.s3.amazonaws.com/fiddler/fiddler-mac.zip.

Downloading Fiddler for OS X Beta…

If your download does not start, please [WayBack] click here to retry

Getting started

  1. If you don’t have the Mono framework installed on your Mac

    Please download it from [WayBack] http://www.mono-project.com/download/#download-mac and install it. If you already have it installed, ensure you’re running the latest version.

  2. If you just installed Mono

    Please open Terminal and type in:

    /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/<Mono Version>/bin/mozroots --import --sync

    (The Mono framework has its own trusted root certificates store. Currently (at mono version 4.2.4) this store remains empty after installing Mono on OS X. Fiddler uses the certificates in this store to validate the certificates of the websites visited. So you need to populate this store with a set of commonly trusted root authorities to avoid getting constant certificate warnings from Fiddler. The mozroots tool imports trusted authorities from the Mozilla LXR. )

  3. Extract fiddler-mac.zip to a folder you have write access to.

    It is recommended that the full path to Fiddler install folder does not contain any Windows path illegal characters. (At present it is possible that some Fiddler functionality, e.g. various file exports or Fiddler Script won’t handle such paths.)

  4. Open Terminal and navigate to the folder you extracted to in step 3.

  5. Type mono Fiddler.exe in Terminal.

To further understand the benefits and limitations of Fiddler for OS X please visit [WayBack] this blog post.

–jeroen

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