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Two fans were podcasting at RetroMacCast before it was cool

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/07

Around this time, episode 500 of RetroMacCast should be out.

It’s an “about weekly” podcast centered around classic Apple computers, mainly of the Macintosh kind but occasionally also on the Apple I, ][, //e, //c and ///, IIgs and Lisa kinds.

After all these years since they started in 2006, It’s still fun to listen to.

Occasionally they do a vodcast on YouTube, for instance their 100th show below.

New episodes are announced here:

Source: [WayBack] Two fans were podcasting at RetroMacCast before it was cool

–jeroen

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Posted in //e, Apple, Apple ][, Classic Macintosh, History, Macintosh SE/30, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Prepaid SIM cards for USA

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/06

This thread has some tips on pre-paid SIM cards for use in the USA: [WayBack] Telefonie en mobiel internet in de VS deel 2 – Pagina 9 – AllesAmerika.com Forum

This seems to be one of the few allowing for hotspot/tethering use: [WayBack] Arieli Mobile Unlimited + Tethering Data plan | Arieli Mobile – Prepaid USA SIM Card wireless provider

Via: [WayBack] T-Mobile vergroot databundels Travel & Surf-passen voor buiten EU – Tablets en telefoons – Nieuws – Tweakers

–jeroen

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Hacking Articles,Ethical Hacking Training in Delhi,Metasploit Training

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/06

Nowadays, with tools like Metasploit and what tools leaked from the NSA and other agencies, it is so easy to hack a system even if it is almost up to date.

All the more reason to keep your systems fully patched all the time.

To get a Metasploit impression: [WayBack] Hacking Articles,Ethical Hacking Training in Delhi,Metasploit Training

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] I gotta find time to look at this… Joe C. Hecht – Google+

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windows – What is a good light-weight CSV viewer? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/06

I use Nirsoft’s [WayBack] CSVFileView. It is a simple lightweight read-only csv viewer.

Source [WayBack] windows – What is a good light-weight CSV viewer? – Stack Overflow

Posted in Power User, Windows | 2 Comments »

How I use Wireshark – Julia Evans

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/03

Cool set of steps on [WayBack] How I use Wireshark – Julia Evans who uses the combination of tcpdump to dump traffic in pcap files and Wireshark to analyse the pcap files after copying them using scp. On many platforms, Wireshark can also capture the ptrace files for you.

Via: [WayBack] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “how I use Wireshark https://t.co/j699JXrjaH” which has some nice comments including:

  • adding ptrace to your tool-kit
  • not needing scp for copying, as you can do [WayBack] dumpcap over an existing ssh connection:
    • You might like this snippet, saves you the need to do the scp dance: wireshark -k -i <(ssh <IP> "sudo dumpcap -P -w - -f 'not tcp port 22'")

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Conference Topics, Conferences, Event, Power User, Wireshark | Leave a Comment »

Beyond compare – prefix any registry key comparisons with reg:\\

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/03

When you start with a blank registry comparison, then you need to compare keys copied from RegEdit with reg:\

For instance, when fixing [WayBack] Delphi fails to start after Windows did some “Program Compatibility Assistant” magic to it when BDS.exe crashed because the compiler ran out of memory:… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+ I compared these:

reg:\\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS

reg:\\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\JeroenProfile

Via: [WayBack] Specs

Note: Beyond compare registry settings are in:

  • HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare 4
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare 4
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare
  • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare 4

—jeroen Not sure where the CacheID entry under HKCU (and sometimes HKLM) is for.

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Mac OS X beyond Yosemite: Ctrl-Click to add/remove an item from a selection fails in Windows on VMware Fusion

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/03

Somewhere after Yosemite, braindead Mac OS X forcibly maps “Ctrl+Click” to right-click. In past versions, you could disable but those days have gone.

This means that inside Windows on VMware Fusion, you cannot add/remove items to/from a selection any more (for instance in the Windows Explorer).

Various workarounds turned up in my Google Search, but only this one works:

Holding down CTRL + OPTION together and LEFT CLICKING will do this.

Source: [WayBack] vmware fusion – How to use the control key in VM Ware? – Super User

–jeroen

via:

Posted in Apple, Fusion, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, macOS 10.12 Sierra, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Virtualization, VMware | Leave a Comment »

Diffing binary files in PlasticSCM through Beyond Compare

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/02

The diff engine in PlasticSCM is nice in appearance, but it lacks a lot of features for file types that Beyond Compare handles out of the box.

For instance, .RES files cannot be diffed:

---------------------------
Error
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Unsupported file types for binary diff. Only images are supported (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP)
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OK   
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Posted in Beyond Compare, Development, PlasticSCM, Power User, Source Code Management | 2 Comments »

Many ways to lock your MacBook

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/31

There are [WayBack] 7 ways to lock your MacBook – CNET: When it comes to locking your Mac, you have options.

For now I’ve added the below alias to my ~/.bash_profile which only works if you have “require a password immediately after sleep or screensaver begins”. I have that enabled (with a 5 second delay, not immediate so that when I’m behind my laptop and it starts the screensaver I can still move the mouse or touch a key to keep it awake).

alias sleep-display='pmset displaysleepnow'

See:

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, iMac, Mac, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Pro, Power User | Leave a Comment »

windows – How to list all files in directory/subdirectory without path name CMD? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/30

I needed all .dproj files in all subdirectories, but only their filenames without any directory names.

With directory names, this is easy:

dir /s /b *.dproj

The answers at [WayBack] windows – How to list all files in directory/subdirectory without path name CMD? – Stack Overflow give the below kind of output.

[WayBack] forfiles embeds all filenames within quotes:

forfiles /m *.dproj /s

"Foo.dproj"
"Bar.dproj"

A more convoluted [WayBack] for loop gives them without quotes where n stands for name and x for extension including .:

for /r %a in (*.dproj) do @echo %~nxa
Foo.dproj
Bar.dproj

–jeroen

Posted in Batch-Files, CommandLine, Development, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Windows | Leave a Comment »

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