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Archive for the ‘Scripting’ Category

Setting the sound volume through NirCmd – Windows command line tool

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/14

I needed this during logon on Windows machines to set the sound volume: [WayBackNirCmd – Windows command line tool set-soundvolume-25-percent.bat:

:: requires https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html
:: 100% = 65535
nircmd setsysvolume 16000

Works on all Windows versions (7-10) I tested so far.

Via

There are way sexier ways to do this, but they were all too convoluted for the time I had to get this to work.

For the future:

–jeroen

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How do I get the IP address into a batch-file variable? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/13

Since ping has a more predictible  output over Windows versions than ipconfig, I use this in a batch file:

for /f "delims=[] tokens=2" %%a in ('ping -4 -n 1 %ComputerName% ^| findstr [') do set NetworkIP=%%a
echo Network IP: %NetworkIP%

Source: [WayBackHow do I get the IP address into a batch-file variable? – Stack Overflow

Thanks [WayBackbruce965.

–jeroen

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How to Setup Chroot SFTP in Linux (Allow Only SFTP, not SSH)

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/07

I need to script this one day: [WayBackHow to Setup Chroot SFTP in Linux (Allow Only SFTP, not SSH)

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, Awk, bash, Communications Development, Development, Internet protocol suite, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, SSH, TCP | Leave a Comment »

Some Computerphile videos starring Professor Brian Kernighan

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/06

Most you probably know [WayBackProfessor Brian Kernighan or the YouTube channel Computerphile (sister channel of Numberphile).

He stars in about half a dozen of their videos giving a nice insight in his contributions to the field and how well he can explain things.

Full videos are below; these are the titles:

BTW: If you like those youtube channels, check out [WayBackBrady Haran – Video Journalist who produces similar channels as well.

–jeroen

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PSBL: Passive Spam Block List powered by Spamikaze

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/11/01

On my research list: [WayBackPassive Spam Block List:

PSBL is an easy-on, easy-off blacklist that does not rely on testing and should reduce false positives because any user can remove their ISP’s mail server from the list.

The idea is that 99% of the hosts that send me spam never send me legitimate email, but that people whose mail server was used by spammers should still be able to send me email.

This results in a simple listing policy: an IP address gets added to the PSBL when it sends email to a spamtrap, that email is not identified as non-spam and the IP address is not a known mail server.

Via: Hans Wolters commenting at [WayBack] For my research list: Source: Bruteforce login prevention… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+

References:

–jeroen

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Batch files and parentheses

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/31

Answering [WayBack] delphi – post-build event with multiple if/copy combinations only execute if first file does not exist – Stack Overflow made me do a quick search for parentheses handling in batch files. TL;DR: it is a mess.

But it reveals some interesting links:

–jeroen

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Hunting for Beyond Compare on your system: bc.bat

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/23

For my archive bc.bat it finds Beyond Compare, then starts it with the given command line parameters. It prefers version 4 over version 3 and user settings over system settings:

:begin
@echo off
  setlocal
  IF /I %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% == amd64 goto :x64
  IF /I %PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432% == amd64 goto :x64
  goto :x86
:x64
  :: OS is 64bit
  set hkcuBaseKey=HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare
  set hklmBaseKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare
  
  goto :findBC
:x86
  :: OS is 32bit
  set hkcuBaseKey=HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare
  set hklmBaseKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare
  goto :findBC
:findBC
  :: https://gist.github.com/rojepp/634908
  :: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5369528/windows-batch-reg-query-key-value-to-a-variable-but-do-not-display-error-if-key
  set SupportedBeyondCompareVersions=3, 4
  for %%v in (%SupportedBeyondCompareVersions%) do (
    for /f "usebackq tokens=2* delims= " %%c in (`reg query "%hkcuBaseKey% %%v" /v ExePath 2^>NUL`) do (
      call :do set bcExe="%%d"
    )
  )
  if not [%bcExe%]==[] goto :foundBC
    for /f "usebackq tokens=2* delims= " %%c in (`reg query "%hkcuBaseKey%" /v ExePath 2^>NUL`) do (
      call :do set bcExe="%%d"
    )
  if not [%bcExe%]==[] goto :foundBC
  for %%v in (%SupportedBeyondCompareVersions%) do (
    for /f "usebackq tokens=2* delims= " %%c in (`reg query "%hklmBaseKey% %%v" /v ExePath 2^>NUL`) do (
      call :do set bcExe="%%d"
    )
  )
  if not [%bcExe%]==[] goto :foundBC
    for /f "usebackq tokens=2* delims= " %%c in (`reg query "%hklmBaseKey%" /v ExePath 2^>NUL`) do (
      call :do set bcExe="%%d"
    )
:foundBC
  if [%bcExe%]==[] ( echo no bc.exe found in registry) else (
    echo bcExe=%bcExe%
    if exist %bcExe% start "Beyond Compare" %bcExe% %*
    if not exist %bcExe% echo not found: [%bcExe%]
  )
:exit
  endlocal
:end
  goto :eof
:do
  ::echo %*
  call %*
  goto :eof

–jeroen

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Quickly finding and debugging jQuery event handlers with findHandlersJS – The Blinking Caret

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/16

tl;dr: Finding event handlers registered using jQuery can be tricky. findHandlersJS makes finding them easy, all you need is the event type and a jQuery selector for the elements where the events might originate.

I need to invest some time in using this: [WayBackQuickly finding and debugging jQuery event handlers with findHandlersJS – The Blinking Caret

Sourcecode: [WayBackraw.githubusercontent.com/ruidfigueiredo/findHandlersJS/master/findEventHandlers.js

References:

Via: [WayBackjavascript – Chrome Dev Tools : view all event listeners used in the page – Stack Overflow

–jeroen

Posted in Chrome, Development, Google, JavaScript/ECMAScript, jQuery, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

aha (Ansi HTML Adapter) with clickable URIs

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/02

aha is great to generate HTML from ANSI text (i.e. the coloured output on a Linux console).

But it doesn’t generate clickable URIs (it can’t yet by itself as it only looks one character in the future).

The thread at https://github.com/theZiz/aha/issues/20 suggested a case-insensitive regex through sed but the exact suggestion failed for a few reasons I will explain below.

First the bash alias (requires both aha and perl):


#!/usr/bin/env bash
# based on https://github.com/theZiz/aha/issues/20#event-797466520
aha-with-expanded-http-https-urls()
{
aha | perl -C -Mutf8 -pe 's,([^"])((https?|s?ftp|ftps?|file)://.*?)([\s]|\&quot;\s),$1<a href="$2">$2</a>$4,gi'
}

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On my todo list: experiment with having multiple sendmail queue directories under /var/spool/mqueue

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/27

Right now my sendmail configuration handling my domains have one queue directory /var/spool/mqueue which means that each round of the queue processing handles all the outgoing mail in succession.

This is getting less OK because of the increased mail volume over time both on mail that gets in and needs to be forwarded and mail that needs to be bounced for various reasons like SPAM.

So below are some links helping me to sort out various things including having multiple queues (as then each round can handle each queue in parallel).

The default sendmail configuration is one mail queue and I hope to find out for what reason that is.

Background info:

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