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Some sites than can help you check if your (maybe dynamic) IP has been black-listed

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/07

A few links that helped me track down why a sudden new Ziggo IP-address was blacklisted:

–jeroen

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Calendar Link ParametersTeamup Calendar

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/09/03

A while back, I needed to show the Teamup Calendar for my marching band at a specific date.

Luckily I found [Wayback/Archive] Calendar Link ParametersTeamup Calendar allowing me to assemble such link:

https://teamup.com/ks7a793f73fc4d5e89?date=2018-09-03&view=l

Which shows at the end of the month, we are going to perform on Tattoo on Stage in Luzern (Lucerne), Switzerland in the famous KKL concert hall:

KKL Luzern im Oktober: Tattoo on Stage mit Militär- & Show Bands aus der ganzen Welt. Das Festivalprogramm sowie Tickets gibt es bei worldbandfestival.ch

[Wayback/Archive] Tattoo on Stage | KKL Luzern, 01. Oktober 2017

We’ve been there before and it’s great fun! The [Wayback/Archive] New Zealand Army Band even did a haka challenge with us.

--jeroen

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In case I ever need to record calls on my Fritz!Box devices

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/23

I need to dig a bit deeper into these links to see how easy it is to record calls made on a Fritz!Box then playing back the captured calls.

Note that in various countries you have to indicate to the calling parties that their calls can be recorded.

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Skype consumer IP ranges

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/09

Since I will likely have to enable Skype in a relatively restricted environment, here are some links that likely will help me getting IP lists to open up:

–jeroen

Posted in Internet, Power User, routers, Skype | Leave a Comment »

Just in case I move away from Mikrotik

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/02

Mikrotik has great hardware, great firmware (if you have the right builds), but notoriously bad documentation and a not so great software release and testing process.

So I might consider switching away, so here are some threats that might lead to alternatives:

–jeroen

Vincent Parret commented at https://plus.google.com/+JeroenPluimers/posts/UWZiufmkdK1

 

I use ubnt edgerouters, great bang for buck. My ER Pro-8 has been up for 8 months (no reboots) and hasn’t missed a beat, rock solid ipsec vpn. I looked at microtik, but found the edgerouters slightly easier to configure.

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Ubuntu: Fixing the myserious “Failed to stop apt-daily.timer: Connection timed out”

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/05/14

Ubuntu is the only Linux system I had that – after installing a text-mode console setup – gets itself in the below state with only running apt update and apt-get upgrade.

Preparing to unpack .../archives/apt_1.2.19_armhf.deb ...
Failed to stop apt-daily.timer: Connection timed out
See system logs and 'systemctl status apt-daily.timer' for details.
Failed to get load state of apt-daily.timer: Connection timed out
dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

I could not find meaningful search results for the above thing, nor did systemctl status apt-daily.timer return anything better than

Failed to get properties: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out

Heck, it doesn’t even reboot any more (no helpful search results either):

# reboot
Failed to start reboot.target: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out
See system logs and 'systemctl status reboot.target' for details.
Failed to open /dev/initctl: No such device or address
Failed to talk to init daemon.

Nor did systemctl status reboot.target return anything better than

Failed to get properties: Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.systemd1': timed out

From the ubuntu-16.04-minimal-odroid-c1-20160817.img.xz base system, it only had these extra packages installed:

  • etckeeper
  • tmux
  • speedtest-cli
  • sendemail

Workaround found, but still unsure why this happened in the first place

Despite the workaround below, I still don’t know why I got into this situation and this leaves me with a very uncomfortable feeling.

Too bad some systems (like ODroid) only have Ubuntu based distributions as sorting out stuff like above took me way too much effort.

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Posted in *nix, Development, etckeeper, Hardware Development, Internet, Linux, Odroid, Power User, SpeedTest, Ubuntu | 2 Comments »

Home – Outpan – GTIN to product attribute mapping

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/26

On my research list: Home – Outpan as it is a key-value store of EAN (actually GTIN, so including GS1 UPC, EAN which means barcodes like UPC-12, EAN-8, EAN-13 and ITF-14).

  • [WayBack] Global Trade Item Number – Wikipedia
  • [WayBack] API Documentation – Outpan Developers

    Legacy API

    Get Product Information

    GET https://api.outpan.com/v2/products/[GTIN]?apikey=[YOUR API KEY]

    Add Product Name

    POST https://api.outpan.com/v2/products/[GTIN]/name?apikey=[YOUR API KEY]

    Required POST parameters:

    name: The name you would like to add for this product.

    Add Product Attribute

    POST https://api.outpan.com/v2/products/[GTIN]/attribute?apikey=[YOUR API KEY]

    Required POST parameters:

    name: Name of the attribute you would like to add for this product.

    value: Value for the attribute you would like to add for this product.

    • [GTIN] is the barcode number (ISBN, EAN, UPC, …) of the product you’re looking up.
    • All API calls must be done via HTTPS. Plain HTTP calls will be rejected.

–jeroen

via [WayBack] [How To] Scan a barcode and add the product name to Wunderlist : tasker

[How To] Scan a barcode and add the product name to Wunderlist
byu/plepleus intasker

 

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A while ago, Windows 10 started to popup an Edge browser window after reboot without an internet connection

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/21

Does anyone know how to disable Edge popping up with a failed link www.msftconnecttest.com/redirect on machines blocked by a router?

This happens on the PC running Windows 10 Pro N (winver shows 1709 build 16299.371) that is not allowed to do any internet access.

Related: [WayBack] How to Find Out Which Build and Version of Windows 10 You Have | ilicomm

Later:

This seems to be intended as per these links:

TL;DR:

This can happen on Windows 8 and up when Windows thinks there is a partial network connection and a logon to a proxy or captive portal might solve the solution.

Allowing these in the proxy for port 80 solves the issue:

  •  *.msftncsi.com
  • *.msftconnecttest.com

--jeroen

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From the #AllesIstKaput department: DNS 1.1.1.1 is unusable for many; 9.9.9.9 has government affiliation

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/04

Abstract from this morning’s Twitter feed:

  • 1.1.1.1 [Wayback] DNS is broken in many areas (because of for instance AT&T, Vodafone, Cisco screwing up and 1.1.1.1 historically being marked for research purposes)
  • 9.9.9.9 [Wayback] DNS has government affiliation (owned by Quad9, but the partner list below does not look nice)

So what’s left?

There are a more interesting IPv4 addresses untaken for DNS, but I’m not sure they are likable enough:

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DNS traffic monitoring tools: tshark, tcpdump or dnstop

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/02

I resolved my issue with tshark, but that’s not available on all systems neither is dnstop. Most systems do have tcpdump though.

Anyway, some links:

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, DNS, Internet, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, SuSE Linux | Leave a Comment »

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