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If you never updated your Intel 320 SSD firmware, you should

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/23

Somehow I missed this:

So I made a file and an image backup, then updated the firmware.

–jeroen

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BensonApproved – USB Type-C

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/13

Cables that really work well: [WayBack] BensonApproved – USB Type-C

Related to USB-C charging cables: not always as good as you’d think.

–jeroen

Via: [WayBack] [Q] Goeie USB-C kabel(s)? Ik ben op zoek naar een goeie usb-c kabels, liefst een beetje betaalbaar. Als ik bijvoorbeeld bij de Mediamarkt kijk (I know,… – Roderick Gadellaa – Google+

 

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iSesamo Opening Tool – iFixit

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/09

Great tool for opening electronics. Use with care as it’s metal.

[WayBack] iSesamo Opening Tool – iFixit

via: Teardown of an IKEA Koppla USB power supply.

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Teardown of an IKEA Koppla USB power supply. – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/06

Seems like  a good USB power supply:

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Solid state drives in Linux: Enabling TRIM for SSDs – fstrim command and mount option discard | Opensource.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/06

When using SSD drives on Linux, mind the discard option in mnt and the fstrim command: [WayBack] Solid state drives in Linux: Enabling TRIM for SSDs | Opensource.com

–jeroen

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Urgent security advisory – MikroTik – upgrade to 6.41.3 if you can change your bridge implementation, ensure SMB and WWW are not WAN accessible

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/31

I both understand the [WayBack] Urgent security advisory – MikroTik and the users reluctant to upgrade: Mikrotik has a history of updates breaking existing behaviour and underdocumenting features and release notes.

The attack is over the www or www-ssl services which by default run on port 80 and 443. You can see on which networks they are bound using this example from the terminal:

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Interesting ways to obtain MTU and MSS sizes – via Troubleshooting Bitbucket Cloud MTU/MSS issues – Atlassian Documentation

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/29

I will probably need the netstat/tcpdump/wireshark tricks here in the future: [WayBack] Troubleshooting Bitbucket Cloud MTU/MSS issues – Atlassian Documentation

via: [WayBack] Atlassian Bitbucket Status – Network maintenance; MTU/MSS changes coming

–jeroen

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Packet Sender is a good tool when debugging protocols: free utility to send & receive network packets. TCP, UDP, SSL

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/07

It was fitting to bump into [WayBack] Packet Sender is a good tool when debugging protocols…” Written by Dan Nagle… – Lars Fosdal – Google+ on the day presenting [WayBack] Conferences/Network-Protocol-Security.rst at master · jpluimers/Conferences · GitHub

It also means that libssh2-delphi is getting a bit more love soon and will move to github as well after a conversion from mercurial.

Some of the things I learned or got confirmed teaching the session (I love learning by teaching):

Here is some more info:

–jeroen

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Posted in Communications Development, Delphi, Development, Encryption, Hardware, Harman Kardon, Home Audio/Video, HTTP, https, HTTPS/TLS security, Internet protocol suite, Let's Encrypt (letsencrypt/certbot), OpenSSL, Power User, Security, Software Development, TCP, TLS | Leave a Comment »

mikrotik CRUD examples for all APIs · danikf/tik4net Wiki

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/25

tik4net – Connect from .NET C# application to mikrotik router via ADO.NET like API or enjoy O/R mapper like highlevel api.

Source: CRUD examples for all APIs · danikf/tik4net Wiki

[Archive.is] C# API – tik4net on GitHub – Page 2 – MikroTik RouterOS

–jeroen

 

 

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Best SSDs: Holiday 2017

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/15

Not just a great overview for the season, but also a good overview on what the state of the art in various SSD products is: [WayBack] Best SSDs: Holiday 2017.

Recommended reading when you are looking for SSDs

–jeroen

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