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Dell Inspiron 17R/5737 with Windows 10 does not understand 802.11n

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/19

Learned the hard way that relatively recent equipment like a Dell Inspiron 17R/5737 with Windows 10 does not do 802.11n despite Dell claiming “Dell™ Wireless 1705 802.11b/g/n with Bluetooth v4.0”.

I discovered it while hooking it up to a Huawei E5577Cs which by default is configured for 5Ghz 802.11n and the Dell not seeing it at all despite up-to-date drivers.

Both an iPad and an LG Android phone would immediately see it.

Switching the Huawei to use 2.4Ghz WiFi immediately made the Dell see it.

Windows 10 installed an Intel® Wireless-N 7260 driver and I could not find any settings that make the 802.11n work.

–jeroen

 

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Ports – MemePix

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/19

Cool image of many ports found on Macs, PCs, peripherals, audio and video equipment, including:

Optical Audio “Toslink”, USB A 1.0/1.1/2.0, Firewire 4pin iLink, Firewire 400 1394a, Firewire 800/3200 1394b/c, Ethernet 8P8C/RJ-45, Modem/phone RT-11, Apple Desktop Bus – ADB, Mac Serial, PS/2 keyboard/mouse, USB A 3.0, DE-9F, DB-25  Serial/Com Port, DE-9 Serial RS-232, e-SATA, Centronics, Parallel 36pin, Centronics SCSI 50pin, AT Keyboard, 50 pin SCSI 2, Surround sound, stereo/headphones, line-in, Mic, Digital Audio RCA, AAUI, Composite Audio/Video, S-Video, Component Video, F-Connector RF/COAX, 25-pin Parallel Port/SCI 1/DB-25F, Mac Video/MIDI/gameport/AUI/DA-15, Mini DisplayPort, Mini-DVI, Mini-VGA, Apple Hi-Density Video HDI-45, Apple Display Connector – ADC, LFH60 (dual DVI-D), DMS59 (dual DVI-D), HDMI, Micro-DVI, DisplayPort, DVI Video, DE-15/HD-15/VGA/SVGA.

There are many many more (like micro HDMI, USB-C, various USB 3 forms), but these are the most common ones.

Source: [WayBack] Ports – MemePix via See the different types of ports.

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How to make an easy universal knife holder | DIY projects for everyone!

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/16

Cool: How to make an easy universal knife holder | DIY projects for everyone!

You only need the below materials and some tools:

  • 9mm thick Oak Wood
  • Bamboo Skewers
  • Wood Glue
  • Wood Oil

–jeroen

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Shared Google Calendars not showing up on iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Here’s the fix! | iMore

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/16

If shared Google Calendars do not show on your iPad, iPod, iPhone or Mac, then go to https://www.google.com/calendar/syncselect (sometimes called https://www.google.com/calendar/iphoneselect) and set a tick mark in front of each calendar you want to appear there. Finally, refresh the calendar list on your iOS device and you are set.

–jeroen

Source: Shared Google Calendars not showing up on iPhone, iPad, and Mac? Here’s the fix! | iMore

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#220 feature `SKIP_FIRMWARE` by jpluimers · Pull Request #221 · Hexxeh/rpi-update

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/13

Reminder to self: Fix #220 feature SKIP_FIRMWARE by jpluimers · Pull Request #221 · Hexxeh/rpi-update

It’s bash. How hard can it be.

(no that was a rhetorical question).

–jeroen

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

“the user name or password for imap.gmail is incorrect” – iPad, iPod or iPhone with iOS < 7

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/13

If you ever get a “the user name or password for imap.gmail is incorrect” on an iPad, iPod or iPhone with iOS version less than 7, then don’t waste time about entering captchas or fiddling with URLs: it took me 2 hours to find this is caused by GMail enforcing OAuth2 and blocking less secure apps mid 2014 after announcing it in April 2014.

Note that besides iOS < 7, these are also considered unsafe: the Mail-app on Windows Phone-version less than 8.1, some versions of desktop e-mail clients like (tadaaaaa!) Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird.

Almost all searches for the error message lead you into trying to opening Safari on your iOS device visiting http://www.google.com/accounts/DisplayUnlockCaptcha or switching your servers from gmail.com to googlemail.com (or back), but these tricks don’t help.

What does help is (if you really insist on using a less secure app) to enable these less secure apps in your google account: https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps. Note this does not work when you have 2-step verification enabled.

I came across this when donating my old iPad 1 devices and the people could not use it for GMail. Since the GMail app in iTunes doesn’t support iOS 5.1.1 any more basically the devices are now glorious photo frames.

–jeroen

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HDDWatches site. HDD Watch created from a Microdrive HDD. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/12

[WayBack] Kristian Köhntopp – Google+ – Ist ja bald Weihnachten pointed me to http://www.hddwatches.com/.

If I could wear watches (that’s over since I had RSI in the 1990s), I’d ask one for X-mas.

Which reminds me I still should have a few of these microdrives around.

The manufacturer is based on an Indiegogo project. Here are the links:

–jeroen

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How to Prevent Windows 10 From Automatically Downloading Updates – metered connections

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/12

Prevent Automatic Downloading of Updates on a Specific Connection

When you set a connection as “metered,” Windows 10 won’t automatically download updates on it. Windows 10 will automatically set certain types of connections — cellular data connections, for example — as metered. However, you can set any connection like as a metered connection.

A friend is trying this as he’s on roaming data using a Mobile WiFi hotspot. Lets see if this works…

Source: How to Prevent Windows 10 From Automatically Downloading Updates

–jeroen

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Notes and links on proxytunnel, sslh, apache, stunnel, putty, ssh and more

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/12

This is based on lots of help from Rui Seabra with a G+ remark I made a while ago: “So what would be a proper way to setup an SSH connection over HTTPS given that the proxy in between is CNTLM providing credentials to an NTLM authenticating proxy that does HTTPS man-in-the-moddle? Clients are Linux or Windows with admin access. On the outside Linux with admin access as well.
This is also becoming more and more relevant with “free” WiFi providers only allowing HTTP/HTTPS and playing HTTPS Man-in-the-Middle.”

So the situation is something like this:

  • client ssh client
  • stunnel client
  • man-in-the-middle HTTP/HTTPS proxy only allowing outgoing traffic on ports 80/443
  • server: sslh
    • server apache daemon
    • stunnel daemon
    • server ssh daemon

Some links:

–jeroen

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I can’t think of a better bunch of people to teach this course…

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/09

I can’t think of a better bunch of people to teach this course. Understanding the economics of security, especially from the bad guys perspective is a really valuable tool even if you are totally focussed on code.

https://www.edx.org/course/cyber-security-economics-delftx-secon101x

Cyber Security Economics

edX

I’m going to try to make room in my agenda to follow this course.

–jeroen

via: [WayBack] Alan Cox – Google+

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