Interesting read: De veelbelovende warboel van usb-c – Achtergrond – Tweakers.
This Dutch article explains about the clusterfuck of USB standards and why USB-C cables in the end might be a good thing.
Watch your cables!
–jeroen
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On the clusterfuck of USB standards and why USB-C cables in the end might be a good thing – Dutch Tweakers.net article
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/24
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Delphi packages I have disabled by prefixing their description with an underscore (and why)
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/19
There is a little trick to disable “Known IDE Packages”: you can stop Delphi from loading one by either making “Value data” of the registry blank, or prepending it with an underscore:
packages that might have been disabled, by checking any string entries where the data has been pre-pended with an underscore OR is blank
[WayBack] Access violation at address 00000000 read of address 00000000, when starting the IDE or opening a project after installing the updates
I’ve pre-pended underscores to some packages in the registry key [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland|Codegear|Embarcadero\BDS|Delphi\#.0\Known IDE Packages] and intend to keep the list below updated over time.
Note that you have to prepend the description with an underscore: it is not sufficient to add these to
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland|Codegear|Embarcadero\BDS\#.0\Disabled Packages].Empirically, the
Disabled Packagesseem to work only for packages starting withdclin their filename.
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Windows PPTP – How to Create a VPN Server on Your Windows Computer Without Installing Any Software
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/18
Windows has the built-in ability to function as VPN server, although this option is hidden. This trick works on both Windows 7 and Windows 8. The server uses the point-to-point tunneling protocol (PPTP.)
Source: How to Create a VPN Server on Your Windows Computer Without Installing Any Software
One day this might come in handy though I need to investigate a bit more on PPTP security issues first: might need to go for L2TP/IPsec instead.
Later: indeed, I should follow Don’t use PPTP, and don’t use IPSEC-PSK either (via: CloudCracker blog)
–jeroen
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optional Windows Update “Synaptics driver update for Synaptics Composite USB HID Device” breaks some UltraNav USB keyboards
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/27
About a year ago, I ran into the optional Windows Update “Synaptics driver update for Synaptics Composite USB HID Device”.
It basically breaks the UltraNav/TrackPoint functionality of some USB keyboards like my 31P9304 USB TrackPoint keyboard (also known as SK-8835)
I bumped into this on another system as well, so I was glad I found this on an asian site: 联想ThinkPad|ThinkCentre|ThinkStation服务与驱动下载常见问题.
Below is the English translation of which the most important is the workaround: Install the Windows Vista driver from the Lenovo support page.
http://www.lenovo.com/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-66917
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Dell Dimension 9200 Updated to 8GB. – General Hardware – Desktop – Dell Community
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/24
From old stock, I still had a few of these machines and gave them away maxed out at 8 GB with a Windows x64 installation and SSD.
You need 4 of these: 2GB DDR2 PC2-5300 @ 667Mhz non-ECC non-registered memory DIMM. Faster DIMMs work too. Registered DIMMs don’t work.
- [Wayback/Archive.is] Dell Dimension 9200 Updated to 8GB. – General Hardware – Desktop – Dell Community.
- [Wayback/Archive.is] OKMemory: DELL DIMENSION 9200 Dell Dimension 9200 Desktop RAM Memory Upgrade .
- [Wayback]/Archive.is] Dell dimension 9200 Memory | Tom’s Hardware Forum Dell dimension 9200 Memory – Memory – Memory.
- [Wayback/Archive.is] Type of memory for Dimension 9200/DXP061 – Tech Support Guy.
- [Wayback/Archive.is] Dimension 9200 – Windows 7 64 Bit – Dell Community
–jeroen
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German trains show Kernel, IP-address *and* MAC address
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/21
A long time ago, I found out German trains can show a Kernel version number during their boot sequence (sometimes even at their station, in this case Hannover Central Station). Recently, I found who posted the original of the picture (Volker Briegleb) and through reddit that Volker had posted more pictures on a twitter thread.
So this train showed:
- Kernel: 6.1.0.0
- IP: 10.0.0.196
- MAC: 74:38:89:00:66:C9
The MAC address indicates the network device is made by ANNAX Anzeigesysteme GmbH.
–jeroen
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Multi-WAN routers compared
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/20
Mikrotik have statistics and way more features. Of the not so good features on the TP-LINK ER-5120 multi-WAN router (none of which are mentioned in their documentation), the worst 2 are:
- Virtual-Server table can only handle 32 incoming port redirects
- no IPv6 support
- both incoming WAN and outgoing NAT isn’t very stable (my guess it’s a NAT table filling up)
Source: Gigabit Load Balance Broadband Router TL-ER5120 – Welcome to TP-LINK
Source: MikroTik – Forum – Tweakers
RouterBoard RB3011UiAS-RM description. The RB3011 is a new multi port device, our first to be running an ARM architecture CPU for higher performance than ever before. The RB3011 has ten Gigabit ports divided in two switch groups, an SFP cage and for the first time a SuperSpeed full size USB 3.
Source: RouterBoard.com : RB3011UiAS-RM (link has high res images)
Source: RB3011UiAS-RM – MikroTik RouterOS
The CCR1009 will always be faster, even passively cooled: Source: RB3011 Fan Notice compared to CCR 1009 – MikroTik RouterOS. The passively cooled versions run at a lower clock-speed which you can even make lower yourself:Source: CCR1009-8G-1S-1S+PC lower clock – MikroTik RouterOS. On the active cooled CCR1009, you can replace the fans to make them more quiet: Source: CCR1009-8G-1S-1S+ General info & Questions – Page 2 – MikroTik RouterOS
Note the ports in/out the switch groups on the CCR1009: Source: CCR 1009 switch chip menu – MikroTik RouterOS
RouterBoard CCR1009-8G-1S-1S+PC description. Our popular 9-core Cloud Core Router is now available in a new passive cooling enclosure. This CCR1009 unit is equipped with two heat-pipes and a specially designed heat-sink, so its completely silent.
Source: RouterBoard.com : CCR1009-8G-1S-1S+PC
RouterBoard CCR1009-8G-1S-PC description. Our popular 9-core Cloud Core Router is now available in a new passive cooling enclosure. This CCR1009 unit is equipped with two heat-pipes and a specially designed heat-sink, so its completely silent.
Source: RouterBoard.com : CCR1009-8G-1S-PC
Source: Advise: CCR1009-1S-PC – MikroTik RouterOS
Source: CCR1009-8G-1S-1S+ is a BEST ROUTER !!! – MikroTik RouterOS
When the power supply breaks: Source: CCR1009-8G question about part number – MikroTik RouterOS
The actively cooled CCR1009 with lots of pictures and screenshots: Source: CCR1009-8G-1S-1S+ General info & Questions – MikroTik RouterOS
Mikrotik with xs4all
Source: Eigen router achter een XS4ALL-VDSL-aansluiting (2) | Harold Schoemaker
Source: xs4all ftth en Mikrotik router – Google Groups
Heeft iemand van jullie ook ervaring met IPv6 van XS4all met een fritzbox? Ik wil namelijk achter deze fritzbox een mikrotik plaaten en IPv6 door routeert.
Source: IPv6 mikrotik router achter een fritzbox.
Source: [Ervaringen/discussie] MikroTik-apparatuur – Netwerken – GoT
–jeroen
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Buffalo WLAE-AG300N DHCP client is buggy and adds a NULL character to the host name.
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/13
Buffalo WLAE-AG300N is one of those buggy DHCP clients… Even running firmware Ver.1.85 (R1.05/B1.00)), it gets the length of the DHCP host name wrong so adds a bogus NULL byte to that name.
@Buffalo: please fix this.
The DHCP client options are of structure Type/Length/Value so a client is supposed to set the length of the hostname to exactly the number of characters.
However there exist buggy clients that either send a length of 1 more and a \00 at the end of the name, or send a fixed length and pad it with \00 as necessary.
Fromt a packet capture:
Buffalo WLAE-AG300N gets the length of the DHCP name wrong and inserts an extra NULL character.
This besides these devices also not automatically powering up when power goes out and comes back up…
Mikrotik packet capture and viewing it in Wireshark
Anyway: getting and displaying the packet capture was quite easy:
- In Winbox (or from the console):
- Tools ->
- Packet Sniffer ->
- General tab: set filename and file limit, then click Apply
- Filter tab: choose the interface, protocol (UDP) and port (67), then click Apply
- Click Start
- Wait for the DHCP refresh to happen
- Click Stop
- In Winbox (or from the console):
- Files -> Choose the captured file -> Download
- In your file manager, ensure the downloaded file gets the .pcap extension
- In Wireshark: load the .pcap file and inspect it
–jeroen
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MikroTik CHANGELOG_6 link
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/06
In the absence of http://www.mikrotik.com/download/CHANGELOG_6 (somehow it’s unreachable where I live) here links that do work:
- http://www.mikrotik-software.de/downloads/CHANGELOG_6
- http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mikrotik.com/download/CHANGELOG_6
–jeroen
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Lantronix SpiderDuo Remote KVM Switch: Affordable KVM Over IP Switches
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/02
Lantronix SpiderDuo Remote KVM Switch: Affordable KVM Over IP Switches.
Interesting KVM-over-IP solution.
–jeroen
via: A bunch of stuff broke this month, learned a lot fixing it all | TinkerTry IT @ Home.
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