Good end-of-year re-reading (hopefully there is a video link by now) by Chris Eng (@chriseng) [WayBack] Time to Grow Up: Counterproductive Security Behaviors That Must End // Speaker Deck
via: [WayBack] Thats a decent keynote – G+ Kristian Köhntopp.
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Time to Grow Up: Counterproductive Security Behaviors That Must End // Speaker Deck
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/29
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Idera / Embarcadero at least fixed some of their security issues…
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/27
Some security improvements
A long while ago I quoted [WayBack] Ideara / Embaracdero is flushing away user trust in their ability to do secure computing… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+.
Since then they have fixed some of the issues:
- EDN password reset email messages do not contain the plain text password any more
- The https sites now have much better security certificates
Still, parts of their infrastructure run over http or use other insecure patterns.
Infrastructure and DevOps are hard, but an integral aspect of any company.
Hopefully, their most important new-years resolution is to improve on that.
AppAnalytics still down
I don’t hold my breath as [Archive.is] https://appanalytics.embarcadero.com/ for more than a month now has been showing
503 Service Unavailable
No server is available to handle this request.
On the other hand: they have improved, so let’s keep our fingers crossed, and it had been running since 2015: [WayBack]Embarcadero Introduces AppAnalytics, the First Usage Analytics Service for Desktop, Mobile, and Wearable Applications
Disabling AppAnalytics in Delphi
There are three ways to disable AppAnalytics in the Delphi IDE to phone home (this is for Delphi XE8, change the version numbers accordingly):
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\16.0\UsageAnalytics" /v Enabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /fdel "C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\16.0\bin\TrackingSystem220.bpl"- Disable
$(BDS)\Bin\TrackingSystem220.bpl(normally having valueEmbarcadero Tracking System Package) as described in Delphi packages I have disabled by prefixing their description with an underscore (and why)
That should at least get rid of the 30 second shut-down timeout in some Delphi versions while they try to post the usage data to AppAnalytics (thanks Uwe Raabe for this great tip!)
–jeroen
Related:
- [WayBack] Rob’s Technology Corner: Ideara / Embaracdero is flushing away user trust in their ability to do secure computing.
- QC does this logon call to http://qc.embarcadero.com/coBugCGI.exe/soap/ICDSReportPublicInterface
- List of “Plain Text Offenders”; hopefully someone publishes a list of https offenders too
- [Archive.is] Is appanalytics.embarcadero.com down?
- [WayBack] AppAnalytics is dead? https://appanalytics.embarcadero.com/ 503 Service Unavailable – for me – Pavel Golub – Google+
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Maximum filename length 60 characters, le-sigh
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/26
It is still better than a maximum password length of 20 characters, but limits like these keep being reason for frustration:
–jeroen
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Wasgij Destiny 17 INT ‘Paying the Price! 1000pcs – Jumbo
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/26
My mentally retarded brother got himself the below puzzle below. It’s a tad too much complicate for his IQ of ~50 as his ability for relative time is very very limited, so he cannot make most transitions from “then” to “now.
Imagine how the petrol station might look today. The cars will have changed, the fuel will have increased in price, but what about other things? Imagine the differences, and the similarities, between then and now.This is the scene you have to puzzle.
Source: [WayBack] Wasgij Destiny 17 INT ‘Paying the Price! 1000pcs – Jumbo
Luckily, I found Wasgij destiny 17 – YouTube who had the solution image and mailed it to me.
Now my brother can finish his puzzle: he is so exited!
–jeroen
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Some links on multicast networking, Raspberry Pi and DVB USB adapters that help you build a TV server
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/26
A cool set of YouTube videos by CWNE88:
- Multicast – YouTube – Multicast IPTV over Wi-Fi
- Raspberry Pi Multicast TV server – YouTube
- Raspberry Pi Multicast TV server – Part 2
- Rackmount Raspberry Pi Multicast TV Server
The USB device used here is this one:
Tuner is AVerMedia AVerTV Volar Green
There are 2 models, but the good one uses firmware dvb-usb-it9135-02.fw The other one uses dvb-usb-af9035-02.fw but that didn’t seem to work as well and got hot. They look the same on the outside though.
ID 07ca:3835 AVerMedia Technologies, Inc. AVerTV Volar Green HD (A835B)
–jeroen
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The fireplace yule Log visualiser in Google Play Music works, but only from web-browser, not from app
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/25
Kristian Köhntopp:
Dear Lazyweb, years ago I turned on the Yule log visualiser in GPMAA, Settings, Labs. Current Google music has no Labs. So how do I turn on cover art?
…
Turns out, the Settings -> Labs switch exists in Desktop Google Music only, and does not (longer) exist in the App.
Sad.
via: [WayBack] Dear Lazyweb… how do I turn on cover art? – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
The setting is at https://play.google.com/music/listen?authuser&u=0#/accountsettings
More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYkyOaSNLb8
–jeroen
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seo – How to request Google to re-crawl my website? – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/25
[WayBack] seo – How to request Google to re-crawl my website? – Stack Overflow
TL;DR:
- For a single page recrawl use http://www.google.com/addurl/ which forces you to login, then brings you to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url where you have to prove you’re not a robot.
- For a recrawl of a (selection) of the site at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home by adding a sitemap list via https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/sitemap-list or “fetch as Google” at https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/googlebot-fetch
Some links that help you create a sitemap.xml file:
- [WayBack] sitemaps.org – Protocol
- [WayBack] Generate google sitemap in command line – BASH | www.nowakowskig.com
- [WayBack] how to create an XML sitemap using wget and shell script – lost saloon
- [WayBack] Shell Script To Generate Mediawiki Wiki Software Google Sitemap
–jeroen
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htop – an interactive process viewer for Unix
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/25
Great tool: [WayBack] htop – an interactive process viewer for Unix because it’s both interactive and supports a wide range of OSes: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Mac OS X.
Thanks to Warren Postma who suggested it in his comment at [WayBack] 18 Useful Commands to Get Hardware Information on Linux – Linuxslaves.
Note that on OS X you get this warning after brew install htop :
htop requires root privileges to correctly display all running processes,
so you will need to run `sudo htop`.
You should be certain that you trust any software you grant root privileges.
On Linux you don’t get this message as there you have the /proc file system providing enough information as explained at [WayBack] osx – Why does htop on Mac OS X require root privileges to see data for all processes, but on Linux it runs without root – Super User.
A workaround (involving the setuid bit) is at [WayBack] Running htop on Mac OS X needs root. Why?! | Blog | JoeNyland.me or by running visudo ensuring you don’t need a password for it at [WayBack] osx – htop isn’t returning CPU or memory usage!? – Super User
–jeroen
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hardware rec – When to stop using a hard drive? What rules/software apply? – Super User
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/22
A kind of repeat of a 6 year old post, as by now this has much more information: [WayBack] hardware rec – When to stop using a hard drive? What rules/software apply? – Super User.
It is a continuation for another drive of my 2011 post hard drive – When to stop using a HDD? What rules/software apply?.
Basically I was unlucky receiving a brand new drive that appeared exceptionally slow and doing some ticking.
So I ran these on it:
- ([WayBack] Download) [WayBack] HDTune
- (x86 Download / x64 Download) [Archive.is] GSmartControl
–jeroen
Sorry for the “missed schedule”, but WordPress.com is acting up again:
Since I ran this machine on Windows and I didn’t have time to run locally, these are the tools I used:
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CPU FAN header is called FANA on SuperMicro X10SRI-F and X10SL7-F – Onboard LSI
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/22
The SuperMicro X10SRI-F and X10SL7-F boards are very similar, so I was happy that [WayBack] SuperMicro X10SL7-F – Onboard LSI pointed out where the CPU fan was: it’s header FANA which isn’t exactly clear form the X10SRI-F motherboard PDF manual [WayBack]:
FANA is the CPU fan connector
(I connected my CPU fan to the closest fan connector and everything works like a charm, but I’m still curious).
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 