Posted by jpluimers on 2022/07/13
For a very long time (about 2 decades) Duncan Murdoch had his home page at www8.pair.com/dmurdoch which somewhere in 2021 has moved to
I figured that out thanks to some help from [Wayback/Archive] Pair Networks (@pairnetworks) / Twitter.
So you need to do a replacement of many URL link prefixes
http://www8.pair.com/dmurdoch/http://murdoch-sutherland.com/For instance some old and new pages:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/07/12
GitKon was a cool virtual conference about git and the git ecosystem: [Wayback/Archive.is] GitKon Sept 22 – 23, 2021 – Virtual Git Conference | Presented by GitKraken
Navigation was a bit hard because of the visual overload on the site (look at the various Archive.is archivals), so here is the outlined list of sessions with the rough timestamps in the below live recordings:
Global sitemap:
Live recordings are below. Hopefully they will last and per session splits will have become available.
None of them are at listed at [Wayback/Archive.is] www.youtube.com/c/Gitkraken/videos.
Via: [Wayback/Archive.is] Attendee Registration Thank You – GitKon 2021
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/07/11
After yesterdays post (which I will be editing to add some more pictures) MCH2022 badge sneak previews from tweeps that attended the Bitlair 20220709 Sweatshop (@MCH2022Camp) now a call for help:
The Badge Team needs volunteers helping them on the software side.
At the badge event, the version 1.0 firmware was flashed so the badge will function perfectly fine during the event, but it would be cool if more features are available that attendees can get when upgrading at the event or downloading from the hatchery.
There is a virtual environment to test and a GitHub projects page with open issues to get started.
See the links below on how you can help:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/07/06
Early june, I blogged about Wake-on-LAN from a Windows machine.
My plan was to adopt [Wayback/Archive.is] Wake.ps1 into Wake-on-LAN.ps1 (as naming is important).
One of the goals was to support multiple hardware MAC address formats, especially as Wake.ps1 had the below comment, but did support the AA-BB-CC-DD-EE-FF, though not the AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF hardware MAC address format:
<# ... .NOTES Make sure the MAC addresses supplied don't contain "-" or ".". #>
A colon separated hardware MAC address would result in this error inside the call to the [Wayback/Archive.is] PhysicalAddress.Parse Method (System.Net.NetworkInformation) | Microsoft Docs:
Send-Packet : Exception calling "Parse" with "1" argument(s): "An invalid physical address was specified."
So I did some digging, starting inside the above mentioned blog post, and adding more:
Parse method in the [Wayback/Archive.is] PhysicalAddress.cs source code in C# .NET, which contains code like this://has dashes? if (address.IndexOf('-') >= 0 ){ hasDashes = true; buffer = new byte[(address.Length+1)/3]; }
xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx(canonical)xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx(Windows)xxxxxx-xxxxxx(Hewlett-Packard switches)xxxxxxxxxxxx(Intel Landesk)
I should rename the first one IEEE 802, as per this:
The standard (IEEE 802) format for printing EUI-48 addresses in human-friendly form is six groups of two hexadecimal digits, separated by hyphens (
-) in transmission order (e.g.01-23-45-67-89-AB). This form is also commonly used for EUI-64 (e.g.01-23-45-67-89-AB-CD-EF).[2] Other conventions include six groups of two hexadecimal digits separated by colons (:) (e.g.01:23:45:67:89:AB), and three groups of four hexadecimal digits separated by dots (.) (e.g.0123.4567.89AB); again in transmission order.[30]
The latter is used by Cisco (see for instance [Wayback/Archive.is] Cisco DCNM Security Configuration Guide, Release 4.0 – Configuring MAC ACLs [Support] – Cisco and [Wayback/Archive.is] Cisco IOS LAN Switching Command Reference – mac address-group through revision [Support] – Cisco), so another format to add:
xxxx.xxxx.xxxx(Cisco)
The
addressparameter must contain a string that can only consist of numbers and letters as hexadecimal digits. Some examples of string formats that are acceptable are as follows:
00112233445500-11-22-33-44-550011.2233.445500:11:22:33:44:55F0-E1-D2-C3-B4-A5f0-e1-d2-c3-b4-a5Use the GetAddressBytes method to retrieve the address from an existing PhysicalAddress instance.
I really do not have all the sources for the various representations for 48-bit MAC addresses, but I have seen them variously used:
AA-BB-CC-DD-EE-FF AA.BB.CC.DD.EE.FF AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF AAA-BBB-CCC-DDD AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD AAA:BBB:CCC:DDD AAAA-BBBB-CCCC AAAA.BBBB.CCCC AAAA:BBBB:CCCC AAAAAA-BBBBBB AAAAAA.BBBBBB AAAAAA:BBBBBB
From the last list, which is far more complete than the others, I recognise quite a few from tools I used in the past, but too forgot the actual sources, so I took the full list from there and tried to name them in parenthesis after the links I found above and what I remembered:
AABBCCDDEEFF (Bare / Landesk)AA-BB-CC-DD-EE-FF (IEEE 802 / Windows)AA.BB.CC.DD.EE.FF (???)AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF (Linux / BSD / MacOS)AAA-BBB-CCC-DDD (???)AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD (Cisco?)AAA:BBB:CCC:DDD (???)AAAA-BBBB-CCCC (???)AAAA.BBBB.CCCC (Cisco / Brocade)AAAA:BBBB:CCCC (???)AAAAAA-BBBBBB (Hewlett-Packard networking)AAAAAA.BBBBBB (???)AAAAAA:BBBBBB (???)Some additional links in addition to the ones above:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/07/05
I started doing occasional PowerShell “work” long before Visual Studio Code came along with its [Wayback] PowerShell Extension.
Back then, my tool of choice was PowerGUI: Settling on PowerGUI for PowerShell development. Before that it was PowerShell ISE.
Since then, I fiddled around a bit with Visual Studio Code, but not much. Then I got treated for rectum cancer, and when writing this, I’m back to Visual Studio code with the PowerShell Extension and already figured out a lot has improved.
One of the things is code formatting. Back some 7 years ago, this was all not set in stone. Now it is, so it is important to adhere to.
I already posted Code Layout and Formatting: Indentation · PowerShell Practice and Style last year, so now it is good repeat the link in it and add some more.
For my link archive:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/30
Even with a batch file saved as UTF-8 (with or without BOM), by default it does not show most non-ASCII Unicode characters.
The reason is that the default codepage usually is an ANSI one like codepage 437.
Thanks [Wayback] niutech for answering [Wayback/Archive.is] Unicode symbols in a batch file – Stack Overflow:
You can manually set the codepage to UTF-8 by typing
chcp 65001at the top of your batch file.
Codepage 65001 is Windows speak for the UTF-8 code page. I have some more blog entries mentioning codepage 65001.
An example where I needed this was to show how to address the localghost from a batch file (see The spookback localghost address to resolve 👻). This was the resulting UTF-8 saved batch file:
chcp 65001 ping 👻 ping xn--9q8h
For single-byte non-ASCII characters, you can usually get away with setting the encoding of your batch file to your default code page as mentioned in [Wayback/Archive.is] cmd – Using box-drawing Unicode characters in batch files – Stack Overflow.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/29
On my list of things to play around with: [Wayback/Archive.is] chocolatey-community/chocolatey-test-environment: A testing setup related to how the Chocolatey Package Verifier runs testing. Used for manual testing or prior to submission
It sort of is a standalone version of the [Wayback] Chocolatey Software Docs | Package Verifier Moderation Service that you can use to check Chocolatey package that you develop/modify.
From the github repository README:
Requirements
You need a computer with:
- a 64-bit processor and OS
- Intel VT-x enabled (usually not an issue if your computer is newer than 2011). This is necessary because we are using 64bit VMs.
- Hyper-V may need to be disabled for Virtualbox to work properly if your computer is a Windows box. NOTE: This may actually not be required.
- At least 10GB of free space.
Setup
To get started, ensure you have the following installed:
- Vagrant 1.8.1+ – linked clones is the huge reason here. You can technically use any version of Vagrant 1.3.5+. But you will get the best performance with 1.8.x+. It appears you can go up to Vagrant 2.1.5, but may have some issues with 2.2.2 and Windows guests (newer versions may be fine).
- Virtualbox 4.3.28+ – 6.1.6 (this flows in the selection of Vagrant – 5.2.22 seems to have some issues but newer versions may work fine)
- vagrant sahara plugin (
vagrant plugin install sahara)NOTE: If you decide to run with version 1.8.1 of Vagrant, you are going to need to set the
VAGRANT_SERVER_URLenvironment variable as described in this forum post, otherwise, you will get an HTTP 404 error when attempting to download the base vagrant box used here.
Related: people wanting to do a similar thing for Linux: [Archive.is] chocolatey/choco: Has anyone ever tried to set up virtual box with linux (e.g. ubuntu) for choco testing ? – Gitter
Yes, it should work for
choco new,choco pack, andchoco push, running on mono.
[Wayback/Archive.is] https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/runs/3660684196?check_suite_focus=true…
There is also a
dockerfileavailable here:
[Wayback/Archive.is] https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/tree/develop/dockerHowever, as @AdmiringWorm said, there are not any official builds or official support at this time.
…
In my own private fork of choco however I’m using such interfaces as RestartManager
//https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/restartmanager/nf-restartmanager-rmstartsession [DllImport("rstrtmgr.dll", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Auto)] static extern int RmStartSession(out uint pSessionHandle, int dwSessionFlags, string strSessionKey); //https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/restartmanager/nf-restartmanager-rmendsession [DllImport("rstrtmgr.dll", SetLastError = true)] static extern int RmEndSession(uint pSessionHandle); //https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/restartmanager/nf-restartmanager-rmgetlist [DllImport("rstrtmgr.dll", SetLastError = true)] static extern int RmGetList(uint dwSessionHandle, out uint pnProcInfoNeeded, ref uint pnProcInfo, [In, Out] ProcessInfo[] rgAffectedApps, ref uint lpdwRebootReasons);those will be windows specific indeed, but I’ll reach them later on.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/28
It works as a [Wayback/Archive.is] Edit fiddle – JSFiddle – Code Playground.
And it fails on the Google Chrome console:
GET https://anniversary.archive.org/files/2021/07/October-2001-Google-Drive-7-19-2021-3-24-49-PM-768x276.png net::ERR_FAILED
The code is from [Wayback/Archive.is] javascript – Get width height of remote image from url – Stack Overflow (which has many more sync and async code examples that all fail in the same way, not sure why).
Glad the JSFiddle one works.
Via: [Wayback] get image dimensions from url – Google Search
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/23
[Wayback/Archive.is] CyberChef:
a simple, intuitive web app for carrying out all manner of “cyber” operations within a web browser. These operations include simple encoding like XOR or Base64, more complex encryption like AES, DES and Blowfish, creating binary and hexdumps, compression and decompression of data, calculating hashes and checksums, IPv6 and X.509 parsing, changing character encodings, and much more.
Source code at [Wayback/Archive.is] gchq/CyberChef: The Cyber Swiss Army Knife – a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis.
Via [Archive.is] Jilles🏳️🌈 on Twitter: “Hidden in plain sight. Rot13 cross word. Hidden Barcodes. Qr codes. Barely any InfoSec skill required. Still a hand full. Usually my to go place is: Cyberchef. I did a fun one for cyberklaas using ansi art.… “
Jilles also pointed to the solving part in [Archive.is] Jilles🏳️🌈 on Twitter: “See also, for solving: SCWF… “
The [Wayback/Archive.is] Solve Crypto with Force! needs to run without most script blockers, so best run it in an anonymous/private browser window.
Source code for SCWF is at [Wayback/Archive.is] DaWouw/SCWF: CTF tool for identifying, brute forcing and decoding encryption schemes in an automated way.
Screen shot of Cyberchef example “Perform AES decryption, extracting the IV from the beginning of the cipher stream” [Archive.is]:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/22
A very short review:
(Markdown preview for instance can be better done through [Wayback] Markdown All in One – Visual Studio Marketplace)
I found the above doing a search after visiting the below to links:
tag:preview | Visual Studio Code , Visual Studio Marketplace–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 