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Archive for the ‘Power User’ Category

Windows 10 Home: allow a certain user to have a non-expiring password

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/15

Sometimes it makes sense to have a user never expire the password.

On a non-home editions of Windows, this is easy: just run lusrmgr.msc, then in the UI change the property for the user.

On home editions of Windows, you cannot do this in a GUI: those bits are either disabled or completely unavailable.

I did this on a demo VM system on an elevated command-prompt:

C:\>wmic UserAccount where Name='developer' set PasswordExpires=False
Updating property(s) of '\\DEMO-VM\ROOT\CIMV2:Win32_UserAccount.Domain="DEMO-VM",Name="developer"'
Property(s) update successful.

To show the current state (before I changed it):

C:\>wmic UserAccount where Name='developer'
AccountType  Caption           Description  Disabled  Domain      FullName  InstallDate  LocalAccount  Lockout  Name       PasswordChangeable  PasswordExpires  PasswordRequired  SID                                            SIDType  Status 
512          DEMO-VM\developer              FALSE     DEMO-VM                            TRUE          FALSE    developer  TRUE                TRUE             TRUE              S-1-5-21-2478057260-1439466941-978077079-1002  1        OK     

Via: [WayBack] Cocosenor: 4 ways to disable or enable Windows 10 password expiration notification

–jeroen

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MacOS “mds_stores” high CPU usage

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/15

I notices a high CPU usage, so searched for [Wayback] “mds_stores” – Google Search.

There I quickly found out this is the Spotlight indexer using a lot of CPU.

From that, it was easy to track down: I had added a second 4TB backup disk, but forgot to add it to the Spotlight indexing exclusion list, where you get by following these steps:

  1. Open “Preferences”
  2. Search for “Spotlight”
  3. Click on the “Privacy” button
  4. Click on the “+” button to add a new folder
  5. Browse to the top of the list inside your computer to find the volumes to exclude

Now it is on it:

Related: [WayBack] [FIXED] mds_stores Process Consuming High CPU Usage – MacMetric

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, SpotLight | Leave a Comment »

Windows Users like “Window Manager\DWM-3” are virtual users

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/15

Having seen logon failures from user Window Manager\DWM-3 while on a public WiFi network, I did a quick search on [WayBack] “Window Manager\DWM-3” – Google Search.

It appeared somebody trying a dictionary attack on the RDP port of my Windows VM which was on the host Bridged Network (see [Archive.is] Help – VMware Fusion 6 Documentation Center).

This is a virtual user that is part of a series of users that the Desktop Window Manager started using from Windows 8 and up.

The first user always exist, DWM-2 and up are created for new dwm.exe processes (by winlogon.exe) when users start logging on through RDP connections to a Windows machine:

  1. Window Manager\DWM-1
  2. Window Manager\DWM-2
  3. Window Manager\DWM-3
  4. Window Manager\DWM-4

In addition to logging on as a new user, as of Windows 8, these also are created when shutting down and starting up (which Windows fools you by actually doing a kind of hibernate): [Wayback] windows 8 – What is winlogon.exe -SpecialSession? – Super User

Related:

–jeroen

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Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X9SRi-3F

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/12

I still like this board: Supermicro | Products | Motherboards | Xeon® Boards | X9SRi-3F.

It has been in a storage solution for a while, uses OK power, has not many SATA ports, but enough slots for expansion cards, and comes with two network connections and 8 slots which I fitted with a total of 256 gibibyte of memory.

Some links, as SuperMicro tends to hide them behind POST requests:

Note that IPMI over je Java Web Start.app runs into certificate signing issues, so better use Supermicro IPMIViewer for this:

IPMIView links via:

The errors when running the KVM Console from your web browser are waved away by SuperMicro, but more and more people bump into them:

–jeroen

Posted in Development, Hardware, Mainboards, Power User, Software Development, SuperMicro, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESXi, X9SRi-3F | Leave a Comment »

Enable Block at First Sight to detect malware in seconds | Microsoft Docs

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/12

On my reading list, because I saw it suddenly enabled on a domain based Windows network:

[WayBackEnable Block at First Sight to detect malware in seconds | Microsoft Docs

Enable the Block at First sight feature to detect and block malware within seconds, and validate that it is configured correctly.

It seems to have been introduced early 2018: Windows Defender – Wikipedia: Advanced Features

Windows 10’s Anniversary Update introduced Limited Periodic Scanning, which optionally allows Windows Defender to scan a system periodically if another antivirus app is installed.[5] It also introduced Block at First Sight, which uses machine learning to predict whether a file is malicious.[21]

There is a BAFS – Windows Defender Testground for which you need a Microsoft account.

–jeroen

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Domeinnaam prijzen – Internetproviders en Hosting – GoT

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/12

For my link archive: domain name registration prices in The Netherlands: [WayBack] Domeinnaam prijzen – Internetproviders en Hosting – GoT

–jeroen

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Waarom stemmen we in Nederland niet online? | NU – Het laatste nieuws het eerst op NU.nl

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/11

Mooi stuk [Wayback] Waarom stemmen we in Nederland niet online? | NU – Het laatste nieuws het eerst op NU.nl

Is het veilig om tijdens de coronacrisis in het stemhokje te staan, vragen veel mensen zich op dit moment af. Waarom stemmen we nu eigenlijk niet online?

Samenvatting:

  • Vrij stemmen is buiten het stemhokje niet goed te controleren
  • Stemgeheim is biuten het stemhokje niet goed te controleren

Eigenlijk gelden beide ook voor briefstemmen.

Wat voor mij ook belangrijk is, is dat het uitleggen van normaal stemmen (inclusief controles en hertellingen) heel eenvoudig is uit te leggen, maar dat dit bij elektronisch stemmen veel moeilijker is.

Vanwege het belang van inzichtelijkheid zie ik online stemmen voorlopig daarom niet komen.

–jeroen

 

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How to count the number of days / workdays / weekends between two dates in Excel?

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/09

For my link archive as the Excel functions WORKDAY [WayBack] and NETWORKDAYS [WayBack] helped me finding the working days in a month a while ago: [WayBack] How to count the number of days / workdays / weekends between two dates in Excel?.

Note:

–jeroen

Posted in Development, Excel, Office, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Inspecting Postfix’s email queue – Tech-G

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/08

[WayBack] Inspecting Postfix’s email queue – Tech-G:

mailq

or

postqueue -p

then

postcat -vq XXXXXXXXXX

Process (flush) the queue:

postqueue -f

OR

postfix flush

Viewing which senders/receivers are in the queue most:

Try with:
– qshape

More specific:
qshape -s deferred | head ===> deferred mails based on SENDER
qshape deferred | head ===> deferred mails based on RECEIVER

Rate limiting: [WayBack] Postfix Configuration Parameters: default_destination_rate_delay

–jeroen

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Owner of Dutch web hosting companies: Hosting Bedrijven met dezelfde (mede)eigenaar? – Webhosters.nl

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/03/08

For my link archive: Owner of Dutch web hosting companies.

[WayBack] Hosting Bedrijven met dezelfde (mede)eigenaar? – Webhosters.nl

Het bedrijf achter het hosting merk dat je kent bepaalt vaak een groot deel van de kwaliteit. Bedrijven in dit overzicht hebben hetzelfde moederbedrijf.

–jeroen

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