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Microsoft live/passport account Security settings URL

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/13

For my link archive:

Microsoft live/passport account Security settings are at https://account.live.com/proofs/Manage

–jeroen

Posted in Cloud, Infrastructure, Microsoft Live, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Vulnerability Note VU#446847 – Savitech USB audio drivers install a new root CA certificate

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/10

Savitech has released a new driver package to address the issue. Savitech drivers version 2.8.0.3 or later do not install the root CA certificate.

Users still must remove any previously installed certificate manually.

  1. SaviAudio root certificate #1
    • ‎Validity: Thursday, ‎May ‎31, ‎2012 – ‎Tuesday, ‎December ‎30, ‎2036
    • Serial number: 579885da6f791eb24de819bb2c0eeff0
    • Thumbprint: cb34ebad73791c1399cb62bda51c91072ac5b050
  2. SaviAudio root certificate #2
    • Validity: ‎Thursday, ‎December ‎31, ‎2015 – ‎Tuesday, ‎December ‎30, ‎2036
    • Serial number: ‎972ed9bce72451bb4bd78bfc0d8b343c
    • Thumbprint: 23e50cd42214d6252d65052c2a1a591173daace5

Source: [WayBack] Vulnerability Note VU#446847 – Savitech USB audio drivers install a new root CA certificate

Background: [WayBack] Inaudible Subversion – Did your Hi-Fi just subv… | RSA Link: While threat hunting, RSA FirstWatch came across a curious exposure in Windows PCs, involving driver packages provided by a certain manufacture…

Via:

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Security, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Playing Humax 5400C content on a Mac under OS X

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/10

I’ve had success transferring files for off-line usage on OS X using FileZilla connecting over FTP to my Humax.

Playing with MPlayerX was a bit troublesome as sliding through the resulting media file over commercials is hard.

VLC player has come a long way and plays the files a lot better (the audio gets less out if sync with the video/subtitle).

In addition: VLC on Mac OS X supports DLNA – basically a superset of UPnP – well (at least version 2.2.4 does): start with Universal Plug'n'Play to view any devices, then click on the little triangles in the list to open any new level.

A few tips on streaming:

  1. Do not play other content on the Humax itself: the device and operating system are simply not well enough designed to do deliver multiple streams without jitter at the same time.
    1. Try to avoid recording on the Humax while playing: the Humax will prioritise recording over playback.
  2. Ensure the Humax is on wired internet: the Humax 150N wireless adapter has bad antennas and can’t keep up even in good WiFi conditions (even with a great 802.11n access point next to it: it never reaches the 150 megabit IEEE_802.11n-2009 data rates).
  3. Try to have your Mac on wired internet as well.
  4. Ensure any firewalls allow DLNA / UPnP traffic

–jeroen

via:

Posted in DLNA / UPnP, Media Streaming, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Some links on isolating parts of networks with Mikrotik

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/10

On my research list so I can do proper LoT.

–jeroen

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Posted in Development, Internet, MikroTik, Power User, RouterOS, routers, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

TLS tests for your mail server

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/09

Need to do some more research on this to ensure I didn’t goof up:

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Communications Development, Development, Internet protocol suite, postfix, Power User, Security, sendmail, SMTP | Leave a Comment »

MX Backup – Postfix Email Server | samhobbs.co.uk

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/09

Interesting as it has steps for both OpenSuSE and Debian each well suited for running on a Raspberry Pi.

[WayBack] MX Backup – Postfix Email Server | samhobbs.co.uk

It seems postfix is a lot easier to configure than sendmail so I already like it.

First I need to read a bit more in Postfix greylisting.

I’ll need to catch up on Sam’s other parts with the postfix tag as well:

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Debian, Development, Hardware Development, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, Raspberry Pi, Raspbian, sendmail, SuSE Linux, Tumbleweed | Leave a Comment »

Issues are disabled at tohosokawa/rst-preview-pandoc: reStructuredText preview in Atom using Pandoc

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/08

No more issue reporting: tohosokawa/rst-preview-pandoc: reStructuredText preview in Atom using Pandoc

This is a very useful Atom.io package, but it has one big issue: when you close a preview window then re-opening it, the settings are restored to the default -frst -thtml --webtex ones.

As I’m an Atom.io n00b, I need to dig into this another time.

Notes:

I want the defaults to include --standalone --toc --toc-depth=5 or at least --standalone --toc.

For now I’ve hardcoded them.

–jeroen

Posted in atom editor, CoffeeScript, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Text Editors | Leave a Comment »

bash: `printf` supports `\e` just like `echo -e` does

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/07

Learned a few things when modifying https://github.com/gkotian/gautam_linux/blob/master/scripts/colours.sh

Note: `printf` supports emitting `ESC` (ASCII character `\033` aka `27` aka `0x1B`)as `\e` the same way that `echo` does

https://linux.die.net/man/1/printf
https://linux.die.net/man/1/echo

Format strings are at https://linux.die.net/man/3/printf
%-10s means left adjusted (aligned) string of length 10

–jeroen

via:

I was investigating how the colour definitions on my OpenSuSE system actually work internally so I added some extra output: ${TYPE} and ${COLOUR}.

Source: Show type and colour definition in addition to the rendered colour. by jpluimers · Pull Request #5 · gkotian/gautam_linux

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, bash, bash, Development, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, SuSE Linux | Leave a Comment »

Anyone having trouble with Windows 10 latest update (build 1709)?

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/03

[WayBack] Anyone having trouble with Windows 10 latest update (build 1709)? – Agustin Ortu – Google+

It looks that for some people, Windows 10 version 1709 (the Fall Creators Update) uninstalls applications.

Not good.

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 10 | 1 Comment »

Android app writers: How to lose your end-users’ notification privilege…

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/30

Android apps make sounds when posting notifications. So adding useless gets you on the blacklist quickly thereby disallowing your app for posting any notifications at all.

Kristian shows how and why at

How to lose notification privilege:

  1. Use notification for marketing.
  2. Long press.
  3. Disable.

It’s that easy. You never force grab my attention for marketing a second time, especially since Android notifications by default come with sound now. This one woke me up.

–jeroen

Posted in Android Devices, Google, Power User | Leave a Comment »

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