Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/27
Since I always forget:
for /l %1 in (1,2,200) do echo %1 >> text-%1.txt
This creates files with incremental filenames like this:
text-1.txt
text-3.txt
...
text-199.txt
–jeroen
via: For – Loop through a range of numbers | Windows CMD | SS64.com [WayBack]
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/27
It’s a while ago I saw this first, but recently I bumped into it again and found out I never posted a link, so here it goes:
A game to help you master the pen tool
Source: The Bézier Game
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/26
Edit 20260501: be careful, as this damaged the NAND memory of my router because of too many write cycles. Root cause: too high update frequency.
Interesting: middelink/mikrotik-fwban: Use your Mikrotik firewall to do fail2ban like blocking of unwanted IPs. Written in Go.
It might beat these (that just count SSH connections, not failed connection attempts)
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/22

The operation could not be completed.

Include In Project
I’ve got a bunch of PowerShell projects in a solution. In some of them, I can include new files, in others I get the below error.
The diff of a good/bad project is below as well.
Two questions:
- Does anybody know how to work around this?
- Does anybody know how to find the actual error for this?
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Microsoft Visual Studio
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The operation could not be completed
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OK
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Good file: WindowsLogsCbsInquiry.pssproj
Bad file: WindowsTempInquiry.pssproj
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/21
For one of my VMs I forgot to note which of the initial password I had changed, so I wanted to check them.
Since I didn’t have a keyboard attached to the console and ssh wasn’t allowing root, I needed an alternative than actual login to test the passwords.
Luckily /etc/shadow, with getent and openssl came to the rescue.
Since getent varies per distribution, here is how it works on OpenSuSE:
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