Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/01
Found out the hard way that DynDNS.org now requires you to perform a web login every 30 days for the free service: Free DNS requires monthly login? – Dyn Community Forum.
Basically I’m looking for a way to either
The biggest problem: I’m using 2 routers that have a list of supported Dynamic DNS services that only partially overlap: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in ASUS RT-N66U, Fritz!, Fritz!Box, Network-and-equipment, Power User | Tagged: dynamic dns service, software, technology | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/22
I always forget this one:
The keyboard shortcut for resizing all columns in a report-mode (also known as Details mode) list view control to fit the current content width is Ctrl+Num+. That’s the + key on the numeric keypad.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/09
A decade ago, Lenovo had top-notch IPS displays with (back then high) DPI of 133 in some of their laptops called FlexView and FFS.
The IPS ThinkPad history is this: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Opinions, Power User, ThinkPad, UltraNav keyboards | Tagged: keyboard layout, macbook, thinkpad | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/08
When doing a lot of remote desktop and VM work from a Mac to Windows machines, the Mission Control shortcuts (like Ctrl Up/Down) often get in the way.
Since I hardly use Mission Control anyway (I run VMs and remote machines to really cut dependencies: far stronger than multiple desktops), I just disabled all the Mission Control keyboard shortcuts you see here:
Posted in Apple, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/05
Easy, but worth viewing the screenshots: IPredator – Setting up a PPTP connection on Mac OS X Lion.
Although: I should follow Don’t use PPTP, and don’t use IPSEC-PSK either (via: CloudCracker blog)
–jeroen
Posted in Apple, IPSec, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, Network-and-equipment, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, PPTP, VPN | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/24
A while ago, I had to connect to secure data over PPTP.
It reminded me of this post from about a year ago: via Divide and Conquer: Cracking MS-CHAPv2 with a 100% success rate (now archived at the wayback machine).
Their main point:
MS-CHAPv2 can be cracked within less than a day (and that time will only get less).
Their short conclusion “basically PPTP is dead, and IPSEC-PSK is worse” leads to the recommendation:
This leaves either an OpenVPN configuration, or IPSEC in certificate rather than PSK mode.
Longer quote: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in IPSec, Network-and-equipment, Power User, PPTP, Security, VPN | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/11
Today my router had an IP-address change, but didn’t update the DynDNS.org information in my My Host Services | My Dyn Account. Which meant I could not “phone home”, as I didn’t know the new IP-address**.
Lesson re-learned:
During initial router configuration, watch the router logs, as you might have accidentally updated the DynDNS.org by hand, not by your router
Had this in the ASUS Wireless Router RT-N66U – General Log:
Jun 11 08:01:53 notify_rc : restart_ddns Jun 11 08:01:53 ddns: clear ddns cache file for server setting change Jun 11 08:01:53 ddns update: connected to members.dyndns.org (204.13.248.111) on port 80. Jun 11 08:01:53 ddns update: server output: HTTP/1.1 200 OK^M Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 06:01:53 GMT^M Server: Apache^M X-UpdateCode: X^M Content-Length: 7^M Connection: close^M ^M notfqdn Jun 11 08:01:53 ddns update: malformed hostname: myhostname
The problem: hostname should not only be the name of the host, but the FQDN of the host. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in ASUS RT-N66U, Network-and-equipment, openSuSE, Power User, SuSE Linux | Tagged: computer, ddns, ip address change, software, technology | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/10
(note: part of this post is unfinished, but I wanted to make sure all the links are publicly accessible, so I posted earlier and incomplete)
I already did a few ESXi5 postings (they apply to 5.1 as well) of which the most important are:
Time to finish up some additional installation steps (with a big thanks to Matthijs ter Woord):
Posted in BIOS, Boot, ESXi5, ESXi5.1, Hardware, HP XW6600, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, PowerCLI, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi, Wake-on-LAN (WoL), Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/07
From the FON tech support pages:
Why is the MAC address online different than the one found on my router?
Philippe
posted this on March 08, 2011 09:29
If you look at your router information in your user area at fon.com, you will notice that the MAC ID is different than the one found at the bottom of the Fonera.
This is nothing to be worried about. Both MAC IDs are associated with the same Fonera. The MAC ID in the user area is associated with the FON_ signal.
The MAC ID found at the bottom of the Fonera refers to the LAN port.
Specifically for the FON2100A, there are 2 MAC addresses based on the sticker on the bottom of your FON:
001884 is the OUI for Fon Technology S.L.
You can find that for instance at MAC Address / WWN / Vendor Lookup – WintelGuy.com –.
–jeroen
via: Why is the MAC address online different than the one found on my router? : Fon Support.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/05
So I won’t forget where the FON2100A instructions are: Fonera Simpl Get Started : Fon Support.
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