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SSD TRIM check tool | CyberShadow’s blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/17

SSD TRIM check tool | CyberShadow’s blog [WayBack] has source code on github:

trimcheck – SSD TRIM check tool for Windows

Source: CyberShadow/trimcheck: SSD TRIM check tool for Windows

It’s written in D using rdmd as compiler.

–jeroen

via via.

 

Posted in D, Development, Hardware, Power User, Software Development, SSD, Trim, Windows | 1 Comment »

Closed: HDD Guardian – Home

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/16

Too bad: it was fun while it lasted.

Mid april 2017 [WayBack] HDD Guardian – Home closed down, so the latest commit removed all the [WayBack] HDD Guardian – Source Code.

HDD Guardian provides a Windows front-end for smartctl, a utility which monitors your hard drive(s) and SSD(s) for health status, taking advantage of S.M.AR.T.

The WayBack machine and Archive.is have archived some links though:

Anyone interested in getting it before codeplex itself shuts down:

git svn clone https://hddguardian.svn.codeplex.com/svn

Edit 20210909:

Note that a while ago, the salvaged source code got pushed to GitHub: [Wayback/Archive.is] native-api/hddguardian: A GUI app to watch and manage HDDs’ S.M.A.R.T., based on smartmontools. Salvaged from https://hddguardian.codeplex.com

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, Development, Power User, Software Development, VB.NET, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Mikrotik UDP port 5678 usage is for MikroTik Neighbor Discovery Protocol (MNDP)

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/14

Just in case you see UDP port 5678 in the firewall log of your MikroTik device: it’s usage of the MikroTik Neighbor Discovery Protocol (MNDP) [WayBack] protocol.

You can either block Neighbour Discovery [WayBack] in the firewall or turn it off on the MikroTik Services [WayBack] or inspect any of these protocols:

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Posted in Hardware, Internet, MikroTik, Network-and-equipment, Power User, routers, WinBox | Leave a Comment »

Play to Chromecast from VLC 3.0 on Mac OS X (OS X, macOS, or whatever other names apple comes up with)

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/14

On my Mac OS X machine, I got this to work with the 20170731 nightly of VLC 3.0.

[WayBack] How to stream from VLC to Your Chromecast (3.0 Updated Version) – VLC Media Player only explains the steps for Windows and Android, probably because they were the first platforms supported by VLC to render on Chromecast: [WayBack] How to Stream Videos from VLC to Chromecast (Including on Windows, Mac & Android) / [WayBack] How to Stream From VLC to Your Chromecast

To make it easier for end-users, on other platforms the menu entries are different.

  • Windows: Menu Video -> Render
  • Mac: Menu Playback -> Renderer (not Render as shown in some posts)
  • Linux: No UI yet.

I found this via [WayBack] Latest VLC 3 Nightly Streams to Chromecast Perfectly! : Chromecast and [WayBack] How do I stream to Chromecast using VLC? – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

On Linux, there is the command-line for now (which works on OS X and Windows as well), or if you insist: use MKChromecast as described in [WayBack] How To Cast Video from Ubuntu to a Chromecast – OMG! Ubuntu!. [WayBack]Mkchromecast This is a program to cast your macOS X, or Linux audio to your Google Cast or Sonos devices with sources at https://github.com/muammar/mkchromecast

On Windows and Mac OS X, after choosing the Render, the steps are the same:

  1. Choose Render discovery on
  2. Choose a Chromecast device
  3. Accept the security certificate for it

Download: [WayBack] https://nightlies.videolan.org/build/macosx-intel/vlc-3.0.0-20170731-0451/vlc-3.0.0-20170731-0451-git.dmg via [WayBack] https://nightlies.videolan.org/build/macosx-intel/vlc-3.0.0-20170731-0451/

I didn’t need [WayBack] https://nightlies.videolan.org/build/macosx-intel/vlc-3.0.0-20170731-0451/vlc-contrib-x86_64-apple-darwin15-20170731.tar.bz2 

–jeroen

Posted in Chromecast, Google, Media, Media Streaming, Power User, Video | Leave a Comment »

wget for nirsoft

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/11

Since they require a referer:

wget --referer=http://launcher.nirsoft.net/downloads/ -m -np http://download.nirsoft.net/nirsoft_package_1.20.10.zip
wget --referer=http://launcher.nirsoft.net/downloads/ -m -np http://download2.nirsoft.net/nirsoft_package_enc_1.20.10.zip

The latter has password nirsoft9876$

The filenames change over time (the 2016 archive of http://launcher.nirsoft.net/downloads/ shows http://download.nirsoft.net/nirsoft_package_1.20.5.zip and http://download2.nirsoft.net/nirsoft_package_enc_1.20.5.zip

Need to check out if I can automate this, as they seem to keep a SysInternals link http://download.nirsoft.net/sysinternals4.nlp

–jeroen

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Pass: The Standard Unix Password Manager

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/11

Anyone having experience with “Pass is the standard unix password manager, a lightweight password manager that uses GPG and Git for Linux, BSD, and Mac OS X.”?

Source: Pass: The Standard Unix Password Manager

–jeroen

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How-To: Automatically change your Mac’s display resolution when running specific apps [Video] – via: 9to5Mac

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/11

Yet another reason I love SwitchResX: : How-To: Automatically change your Mac’s display resolution when running specific apps [Video] | 9to5Mac

A few years ago, SwitchResX helped me switch my Mac machine to 1360×768 and 1888×1062 « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, iMac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks | Leave a Comment »

Using BC4 OSX with Version Control Systems

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/10

A great thread about Using BC4 OSX with Version Control Systems, -Tools and IDEs.

Some highlights:

–jeroen

Posted in Beyond Compare, CVS, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Mercurial/Hg, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management, SourceTree, Subversion/SVN, TFS (Team Foundation System) | Leave a Comment »

DELL 9200 blinking orange power button LED

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/09

I had distributed my DELL 9200 machines over some family and friends.

After 10+ years, one of them was showing the [Wayback/Archive.is] “blinking orange” power button LED. Usually this means a power supply issue and in this case [Wayback] these are tower machines compatible with a regular ATX power supply.

So the fix was a basic power supply exchange like mentioned here:

Note: if you have steady orange power button LED blinking, then you need to check the main-board capacitors as this video below shows.

–jeroen

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Photographer captures Miami Beach air show with Nikon 800mm and custom rig

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/07

Cool pictures and ditto rig via:

–jeroen

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