Archive for the ‘Power User’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/08
Since my brother has this motherboard: M4N78 PRO GREEN.
It does WOL, but doesn’t always wake up when powered down.
–jeroen
ASUS Serial 93M0AI195747; Part 90-MIB7C0-G0EAY00Z; M4N78 PRO GREEN; UPC 61083916977; EAN 4719543169773
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/08
Not just for Postfix are the first two guidelines:
- Change one thing at a time
- Save known working configurations
For the latter, I’m using etckeeper pushing to an external git repository hoster.
For Postfix are the others from [WayBack] Postfix Configuration Guidelines.
One tip that’s missing, but saved my life numerous of times:
In /etc/postfix/main.cfg do not use this line ever:
inet_interfaces = $myhostname
If the resolving (through DNS or hosts file) of $myhostname fails for any reason in the future, then Postfix will not start at all, but in stead emit a fatal error like this:
/usr/sbin/postconf: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found for 127.0.0.2
Specify exact interfaces in stead, like any of these:
inet_interfaces = all
inet_interfaces = localhost
inet_interfaces = 192.168.24.68
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/08
After March 7, 2019, notifications for Google web products will no longer be accessible from the navigation bar.
[WayBack] Manage your notifications – Google Account Help has more details, but it does not look good.
More Google stuff is dying, almost every month now. For a list of dying products see: [WayBack] didgoogleshutdown.com
Given more is dying, and the increased lack of confidence many people have in Google, more people are abandoning Google. More on that in a future post.
For now: [WayBack] “Manage your Notifications”: After March 7, 2019, notifications for Google web products will no longer be accessible from the navigation bar. If you’d l… – Edward Morbius – Google+
“Manage your Notifications”: After March 7, 2019, notifications for Google web products will no longer be accessible from the navigation bar. If you’d like to receive similar notifications in the future, you can update the notification settings for your individual Google products.
As usual, it’s not clear whether or not this will affect the notifications widget on G+ itself. Google’s standards for clarity in exposition remain uncorrupted. Which is to say: entirely inadequate.
Otherwise, the article addresses Google Photos, Hangouts Chat, and Google+ (G Suite users).
Update: Further close reading suggests that Consumer Google+ will lose Notifications on March 7:
Note: Google+ notifications are available for G Suite users only.
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/9231049
Via: [WayBack] “Manage your Notifications”: After March 7, 2019, … – Lars Fosdal – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/06
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/04
Downloads: [WayBack] Softlink 1807114 – c’t magazine
Commands (only execute them from within a Windows PE session!):
- Sometimes the network does not start, so you can use the
wpeutil command to start it: wpeutil initializenetwork; with wpeutil disablefirewall and wpeutil enablefirewall you can manage the firewall.Background information:
- Like regular Windows,
net use can map shares to drive letters over a wired network connection. There is a small thing with anonymous logon, see the below links for more, and you might need a network driver that is not automatically loaded, see the next section.
- [WayBack] samba – Windows 10 PE Unable to map network drive anonymously – Server Fault
- [WayBack] WinPE Network Drivers: Initializing and adding drivers | Microsoft Docs
- Windows PE can load most drivers through the drvload command; ensure you have unpacked your drivers and the driver directory contains the appropriate
.inf file, then run drvload E:\driver\drivername.inf where E:\driver is where your driver files are.Background information:
- The
manage-bde -unlock command can unlock a Bitlocker volume. There are various parameters, but the most used combination is manage-bde -unlock C: -password where C: is the drive you want to unlock and -password (or -pw) causes it to prompt for a password.Background information:
- To get information which kind of boot was performed (BIOS or UEFI):
wpeutil updatebootinfo
regedit
Then browse toHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control and check the value for PEFirmwareType: when 1, it is BIOS, when 2, it is UEFI.
or check out
[WayBack] Boot to UEFI Mode or Legacy BIOS mode | Microsoft Docs and run this small script:
wpeutil UpdateBootInfo for /f "tokens=2* delims= " %%A in ('reg query HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control /v PEFirmwareType') DO SET Firmware=%%B
:: Note: delims is a TAB followed by a space.
if %Firmware%==0x1 echo The PC is booted in BIOS mode.
if %Firmware%==0x2 echo The PC is booted in UEFI mode.
You can execute compact.exe with the /compactos parameter from both a regular Windows installation as well as from Windows PE. From Windows PE, you need to provide an extra parameter: the drive to check.
Regular Windows:
compact.exe /compactos queries if it is enabledcompact.exe /compactos:always enables compactOS
Windows PE:
Compact.exe /CompactOS:Query /WinDir:E:\Windows
Background information:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/04
Great set of steps from ABN AMRO to get into the old on-line banking environment that usually works if the new one fails downloading PDF reports:
Note that outages like these are not reported at [Archive.is] Storingen – ABN AMRO – beschikbaarheid.
Related:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/04
[WayBack] RawGit: RawGit served raw files directly from GitHub with proper Content-Type headers.
This means you have to redirect your existing RawGit links before October 2019, and you cannot add new links on RawGit.
You might want to try alternatives, for instance this one I mentioned in 2017: raw.githack.com – like rawgit.com but supports bitbucket as well and runs on plain nginx.
[WayBack] raw.githack.com:
raw.githack.com serves raw files directly from GitHub, Bitbucket or GitLab with proper Content-Type headers.
There are some other options that RawGit itself mentions:
What you should use instead
The following free services offer fantastic alternatives to some or all of RawGit’s functionality. You may like them even more than RawGit.
RawGit source is still at [WayBack] GitHub – rgrove/rawgit: Served files from raw.githubusercontent.com, but with the correct content types., so if you want to host your own alternative you can.
It means I need to change these pages:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/01
Summary from [WayBack] Dear #lazyweb, can anyone point me to a modern email server setup (just email) with letsencrypt, some spam filter, multi domain preferably on RHEL/Cent… – Jan Wildeboer – Google+
- many SMTP servers on the interwebs do not have proper TLS setups, so do not require remote SMTP servers to deliver email with a proper certificate
- delivering mail via SMTP using STARTTLS with a proper certificate yourself is a good step forward
- postfix
- dovecot
- greylisting (although in practice it does not make much of a difference any more)
- fail2ban
- dnsbl (often called rbl)
- spamassasin
- rspamd (supports SPF, DKIM and many others)
- letsencrypt automation can be tough, so here is a small wrapper: [WayBack] GitHub – DrGlitchMX/update-letsencrypt: Tiny script for updating “Let’s Encrypt!” certificates from cron
- it helps having letsencrypt and the mail server to be on one machine:
- multidomain let’s encrypt cert that has my webserver name and the mailserver in the Subject Alternative Names field. As both are on the same machine certbot can automatically update it and I just point Postfix and Dovecot to the LE files.
- Hans-Martin Mosner SMTP as-is is just not suitable for the kind of decentralized mail that you would prefer. You need some mechanism to determine which mail senders to trust and which not. Cryptography is suitable at the MUA level and should be used much more, but at the MTA level, TLS for privacy and SPF(bleh) or DKIM(meh) for sender domain authentication are basically your only weapons -much too weak. The PGP web of trust must be considered a failed experiment – who of your mail contacts uses PGP properly or at all? Ironically the only secure messaging solutions for the masses are centralized.
- A bit large but, might be an option: Zimbra. Multidomain and spam out of the box. Certs are well documented. Just disable logging which consumes way too much resources.
- Guides
Things to do:
- find a proper multi-MX fallback setup guide for postfix
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/01
Reminder to self: Local Guides Nederland moved their [WayBack] G+ community over to [WayBack] Local Guides Connect – Help Desk – Local Guides Connect which is part of [WayBack] Local Guides Connect and powered by [WayBack] Powered by Lithium | Lithium.
Since that is not part of any other social media platform I subscribe to, I will likely only see new stuff when I actively go to that place: hopefully that is more than once a year.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/01
For my memory:
What’s new in this update:
It’s time for the first update of the year! We appreciate all your comments sent to us through the App Store, in-app feedback and email; and continue focusing on making this app better with each release.
In this version we addressed the following issues:
- Added support for the AVC (420 and 444) codec, available when connecting to current versions of Windows 10.
- In “fit to window mode”, a window refresh now occurs immediately after a resize to ensure that content is rendered at the correct interpolation level.
- Fixed a layout bug that caused feed headers to overlap for some users.
- Cleaned up the Application Preferences UI.
- Polished the Add/Edit Desktop UI.
- Made lots of fit and finish adjustments to the Connection Center tile and list views for desktops and feeds.
Please continue to send us feedback. We read it all and factor it into our planning. If you encounter any errors, you can always contact us via Help > Report an Issue.
NOTE: There is a bug in macOS 10.14.0 and 10.14.1 that can cause the “.com.microsoft.rdc.application-data_SUPPORT/_EXTERNAL_DATA” folder (nested deep inside the ~/Library folder) to consume a large amount of disk space. To resolve this issue, delete the folder contents and upgrade to macOS 10.14.2. Note that a side-effect of deleting the folder contents is that snapshot images assigned to bookmarks will be deleted. These images will be regenerated when reconnecting to the remote PC.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 