Posted by jpluimers on 2024/08/12
In the past I wrote a few articles containing information about Captive Portals, but I forgot mentioning that the article Captive portal – Wikipedia exists.
Got reminded to this by these tweets about Apple not using the default browser when displaying the Captive Portal page:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/16
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] s3-ocr: Extract text from PDF files stored in an S3 bucket
One reason is archival of books. Even (or maybe especially) in IT, books already have historic meaning especially in narrower fields where they often are not available in the Internet Archive or have been scanned by Google Books.
Via/related:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/24
[Wayback/Archive] Deleted Tweet Finder taught me there is another web page archival site next to the Wayback Machine and Archive.is (also known as Archive Today): GhostArchive which was established in 2021 right when I was recovering from more than a year of cancer treatments.
They have quite a few ways to address an archived URL of which this is the main entry point: https://ghostarchive.org/search?term=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fhisvault_eth%2Fstatus%2F1802834724114649422
Reminder to self: figure out the URLs that trigger archival.
Via
Note that the Google Webcache is not really an archival site, nor is there possibility to trigger archival.
The URL structure there is https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fhisvault_eth%2Fstatus%2F1802834724114649422 (the part after cache: is the page link after URL encoding)
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/24
Not that long ago I learned about [Wayback/Archive] DNS Checker – DNS Check Propagation Tool:
CHECK DNS PROPAGATION
Recently changed your DNS records, switched web host, or started a new website: then you are at the right place! DNS Checker provides a free DNS lookup service to check Domain Name System records against a selected list of DNS servers located in multiple regions worldwide. Perform a quick DNS propagation lookup for any hostname, and check DNS data collected from all available DNS Servers to confirm that the DNS records are fully propagated.
I wish I had known it before as it is a great tool to verify DNS lookups from around the world.
For my link archive (A and SOA records are the most important to me):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/06
A while ago in 24 hours time, I bumped into both of these great illustrations about accomplishments that help strengthen your mental state.
Time to give the authors a boost:
An affectionate look at the emotions of work.
Head of Content and Comms at Humu, author and illustrator of Big Feelings and No Hard Feelings
Organizational Design + Development + Coaching. Author of NO HARD FEELINGS and BIG FEELINGS (4/26/22)
You can find more about their books and workshops at [Wayback/Archive] Liz + Mollie Feel Things.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/08
[Wayback/Archive.is] about etched:
etchedis an internet archive tool that permanently timestamps and stores web pages directly into the Bitcoin BSV blockchain.This is a major improvement from traditional web archivers as all etched pages are permanently stored and independently provable by anyone who has access to the bitcoin blockchain. This means even if etched shuts down anyone can search and view all previously saved data using bitcoin browsers like Bottle.
Via [Wayback] Archive.is blog — See if you suddenly died and that hardware failure…:
For redundancy, try something like etched.page, they store pages on Bitcoin blockchain.
Example: [Wayback] etched archive of nos.nl, 2021-09-10
Related:
interplanaria/bottle: Bitcoin BrowserB://: Bitcoin Simple Storage ProtocolC://: Universal Content Addressable File System over Bitcoin--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/19
I wrote this post because the xs4all->KPN transition was messy, especially on the VoIP side.
Emails and letters were incomplete lacking some essential information for manual configuration; 2nd line help desk did not return calls; pointers to where to find correct information were lacking.
This kind of is a catch all post with most of the links I found without much of their content so I can refer to them later when writing a more detailed post on how I did get VoIP to work.
So: for my link archive, almost all posts in Dutch.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/02/12
Quite a few people already bumped into this the last two days (will add those links later), so today’s confirmation by Broadcom – who have a similar modus operandi as companies like Computer Associates and Symantec were and Idera is now – as of the ESXi death does not come as a surprise.
Symptoms
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (free edition) is no longer available on the VMware website
Resolution
Along with the termination of perpetual licensing, Broadcom has also decided to discontinue the Free ESXi Hypervisor, marking it as EOGA (End of General Availability).
Regrettably, there is currently no substitute product offered. For further details regarding the affected products and this change, we encourage you to review the following blog post: https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud-foundation/2024/01/22/vmware-end-of-availability-of-perpetual-licensing-and-saas-services/
[Wayback/Archive] VMware End Of Availability of Perpetual Licensing and SaaS Services – VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/31
A while after writing notes on updating DNS info with bind DNS, b0rk (Julia Evans) posted about her DNS zine which got a reply about her DNS lookup tool. Below is part of that thread.
The reason I post is that – unlike the Google DNS ToolBox – you can bookmark her DNS tool link including the actual search part, which makes it far easier to do systems administration.
Examples:
example.org – all recordsexample.org – SOAwiert.me – all recordswiert.me – SOAThere is a trace tool too:
tracetrace – example.orgtrace – wiert.meThe thread:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/01/26
A long time ago, I wrote about Wifispots instellen | Klantenservice | Ziggo « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
For that, you need a Ziggo VPN certificate, which you can download from [Wayback] www.ziggo.nl/content/dam/www.ziggo.nl/tools/WifiSpots certificaten/WifiSpots certificaat Android en Windows Ziggo.crt .
On many Android phones, that does not install the default way any more as back then.
The reason is that it is a CA root certificate (in this case identifying Ziggo as certificate authority) thereby allowing them to issue any certificate. This can be a serious risk, so you have to be really sure to trust them before installing the certificate.
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