Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/24
Used it for instance for this edit: [Wayback/Archive] Lightweight Directory Access Protocol: verschil tussen versies – Wikipedia.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/17
Voor mijn link archief: KPN telefooncentrales, waarvan een paar waar familie of ik een aansluiting had:
[Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrales – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
Deze hadden Mojibake met de generic replacement character (“�”):
Wijkcentrales Code Plek Ctlr [Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrale: Castelr� – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
(moet Castelré zijn)Odi [Wayback/Archive] Wijkcentrale: St. Odili�nberg – VVDSL.robinflikkema.nl
(moet Sint Odiliënberg zijn)
Let op: de [Wayback/Archive] fourstack KPN UI (toenmalig gebouwd door [Wayback/Archive] FourStack) is sinds 2021 uit de lucht, zie [WaybackSave/ArchiveBad] FPI Fourstack Snelheid DSL – Internet en hosting – GoT , dus de gegevens worden niet meer bijgewerkt.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/05
Note that http://neverssl.com is the way to figure out if you are in a captive portal, see below.
In Windows 10, the name of the endpoint changed from
msftncsitomsftconnecttest, presumably to make the purpose of the access more obvious in security and audit logs. Nobody will understand that NCSI stands for Network Connectivity Status Indicator.
[Wayback/Archive] Trouble connecting to Web sites and services because of certificate errors? Check if you’re being held captive – The Old New Thing
It refers to a few other interesting sites, for instance about modifying if/how NCSI detects internet connectivity:
You can turn off NCSI by doing one of the following:
- Create a
REG_DWORDregistry setting namedNoActiveProbeinHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\NetworkConnectivityStatusIndicatorwith a value of1(one).
As mentioned at the top: my blog post on http://neverssl.com: NeverSSL – helping you get online on WiFi networks requiring authentication
Other related blog posts:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/04
I have seen too many sites where cabling was laid en never tested before actual use, which meant locating the cabling and faults was a nightmare.
Be sure to have good (which can be very simple, but more complex when Power over Ethernet is involved) testing hardware and use it during installation. You will thank yourself later.
A few videos that can be helpful:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/02
Quite a I while ago, I wrote Bookmarklet to save a page both in the WayBack machine and Archive.is (ending on the latter to solve a reCAPTCHA).
The bookmarklet has been very stable, but as of a week or so I need to press the Enter key for it to actually archive.
The reason is that Archive.is, also known as Archive Today, introduced a new URL parameter for auto-starting the archive of an URL.
The old one looked like this: https://archive.is/submit/?run=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Ffeed%2Fhistory%2Fcomment_history
The new one like this: https://archive.is/submit/?anyway=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Ffeed%2Fhistory%2Fcomment_history&submitid=auT7eAltRDxCOGSjdoRMhu3H9d91VEFlvjVztfvNU8XO0ccAhji5DvTyqQew6rfm
The new submitid URL 40 character base64 parameter is being checked in the back end. One way of obtaining one by loading https://archive.is/ then wait for it’s completion and grab it from there.
The alternative is to wait for the submit page to fully load, then find the “save” button via its HTML <input type="submit" value="save"> and press it.
So that’s on the todo list for the updated Bookmarklet of the above blog post.
For now, I just have to press the Enter key for each archived page, I wonder how long that will last (:
Oh: to get the “do you want to save the page again” URL you will have to know the canonical URL first, as that ID is in the again URL, see the bold bits here:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/22
I got the below error when booting a Dell Optiplex 7060 Micro, a machine not just supporting supporting UEFI but preferring it, on which I had copied a backed-up disk image, then moved the hidden Recovery partition to the end of the physical disk (to make room to extend either the OS or DATA partitions).
Fixing it lead me to a trip that was on the boundary of software archaeology, so this blog post has a truckload of archived links to information that is still relevant, but for which the original links have long vanished due to link rot or (often worse) part of the historic information got lost because of migration to new tooling forgot to cover important additions (especially in comments).
One thing that I had to unlearn was MBR disk basics, for instance the fact that on GPT disks a partition can be active (they can only be on MBR disks, but despite UEFI supporting both MBT and GPT, GPT disks are way more common and required). The same holds for partitions having a boot flag: that too only applies to MBR disks. For the same reason, bootrec is only useful for MBR disks. More details towards the end of this blog post. CSM (Compatibility Support Module) booting is the UEFI way to simulate BIOS boot for operating systems that do no support UEFI.
Back to the error at hand:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/07/21
Just in case I ever want to bind a BSKY handle to a domain name I own:
Via:
You can claim your own domain-name as username (like I did) by registering an
_atprotoTXTdns-record.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/26
Need to look into this further: [Wayback/Archive] Robust Links – Make Your Link Robust.
Likely running it on my blog requires JavaScript to be enabled which means going from the premium to the small business plan (at te time of writing from USD 8 to USD 25 per month: a 200+% increase).
Let’s first start with an example:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/06
When “Open” Dutch Fiber (ODF) builds a fiber network, the internet provider Odido (ex T-Mobile Netherlands) gets a year exclusive use of the infrastructure.
In practice that is longer (see below tweets why), and for me it might become almost 2 years after ODF announced they would start building the local fiber network in the area where I live: [Wayback/Archive] [Odido Glasvezel] Ervaringen & Discussie – Internet en hosting – GoT.
You really do not want Odido, as they do NOT support IPv6 (I have Does Odido (the old T-Mobile Netherlands) which took over Tweak Internet (they supported IPv6) already support IPv6? scheduled on that).
Currently Odido does a lot of colportage, even threatening that copper will be phased out – yeah, that is going to take years! – likely because their exclusivity period is about to end. Which is a reminder for me to check if other providers can already deliver over the ODF network.
Dates to remember:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/23
If I ever need old Geocities material then I should check back at oocities and other archival efforts as they have archived a truckload of it and (unlike the the Archive.org geocities arvhive) are indexed by public search engines.
Their archive home page is [Wayback/Archive] Geocities Archive Geocities Mirror / The 90s Archive (1990s 2000s nineties) / The Early web of which I quote a few bits:
- Special Thanks goes to all the editors and webmasters who made this project alive by updating their old links every day
from * geocities.com/*
to *.oocities.com/*- oocities.com/org, geocities.ws, reocities.com, internetarchaeology.org, webcitation.org, deletedcity.net
Adding some domains from Yahoo! GeoCities: Archiving efforts – Wikipedia, these are publicly indexed archival sites that have parts of old Geocities content (part of which might be gone by the time you read this: web sites and their content become increasingly ephemeral):
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 