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Some links on creating bootable USB sticks from ISO media (for a Linux rescue CD)

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/05

These did help me a lot:

In the end: UNetBootin with the knoppix image worked fine. Alt Linux Rescue failed (it copied fine, but it had a kernel panic upon boot).

Downloads I tried:

Commands

  • fdisk -l | grep sd
  • smartctl -a /dev/

–jeroen

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Word for Windows Keyboard Shortcut for Find Next – Super User

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/05

Unlike most applications where F3 is search next, Office has their own thought about keyboard shortcuts.

So in Word for Windows, you can use these:

  • Find next:
    • “RepeatFind”: Shift+F4 or Ctrl+Alt+Y.
    • “Browse next item”:  Control+PageDown.
  • Find previous:
    • “Browse previous item”: Control+PageUp.

–jeroen

via:

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Lock screen dialer shortcut gone in 6.0 – Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/02

Solution:

  1. Go to Settings
  2. Click Apps
  3. Click
  4. Gear Icon
  5. Click Default Apps
  6. Click Assist & voice input
  7. Click Assist app.
  8. Changing that to None instead of Google App puts the dialer shortcut back on the lock screen, but it also disables long pressing the home button to launch the Google App/Now.

–jeroen

Source: Lock screen dialer shortcut gone in 6.0 – Android Forums at AndroidCentral.com

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Delphi: Alt+Down Arrow is the keyboard shortcut for ellipsis buttons

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/01

Thanks Primož Gabrijelčič for reminding me on Stack Overflow that Alt + Down opens the dialogs behind ellipsis buttons in the Delphi IDE.

It’s the CUA and Windows short-cut to open drop-down lists (comboboxes) and for opening drop-down list for a property in the object inspector, but I never realised also would work for these ellipsis buttons.

This was my original stack-overflow question: Is there a keyboard shortcut for the ellipsis buttons of the Project Options in the Delphi IDE?

The Project Options in the Delphi IDE has a few option (like the Search Path) each with an ellipsis button (the one on the right having only three dots ... in the image below) to pop-up a dialog.

What keyboard shortcut activates that button?

Project Options with ellipsis button

–jeroen

Via: Object Inspector Keyboard Shortcuts – RAD Studio

Posted in Delphi, Delphi 10 Seattle, Delphi 10.1 Berlin (BigBen), Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi x64, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Delphi XE7, Delphi XE8, Development, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Cool little trick to show all the preset variables for your GCC/Clang compiler

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/30

Thanks David Berneda for sharing this a while ago:

Cool little trick to show all the preset variables for your GCC/Clang compiler:

clang -E -dM - < /dev/null

I’ve always wondered how to get these. Some are kind of surprising, especially since there are 320 of them, at least on my system.

On my system (Mavericks, I wish the sw_vers console tool would tell that): 170 lines.

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Posted in Apple, C, C++, Development, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

4K/5K monitors: when your RDP session has small black bands limiting the height/width to 2048/4096 pixels

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/29

Sometimes RDP limits you to 2048 pixels vertical (or 4096 pixels horizontal)

Sometimes RDP limits you to 2048 pixels vertical (or 4096 pixels horizontal)

Just found out why on some Windows versions, the RDP sessions form my 4K monitor has some small black bands on top/bottom: older versions of Windows limit their RDP server to 4096 x 2048.

A 4K monitor will not hit the width limit (as 4K cheats: it is usually “just” 3840 pixels wide), but it does hit the height limitation (2160 is slightly more than 2048: you miss 112 pixels that show as two small black bands).

A 5K monitor is worse: it will hit both limits (5K does not cheat: at 5120 × 2880 it is exactly 5*1024 pixels wide) so you miss 124 pixels horizontally and a whopping 832 pixels vertically.

Don’t buy a 5K monitor yet if you do a lot of RDP work to older Windows versions.

The link below has a table listing various Windows versions, but it omits end-of-life versions so I’ve done some testing: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 R2 share the same limitations as Windows Server 2008 most likely because their latest service packs share the same RDP 6.1 version.

I updated this in the table:

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Posted in 4K Monitor, 5K monitor, Displays, Hardware, Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

certificate – What is a Pem file and how does it differ from other OpenSSL Generated Key File Formats? – Server Fault

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/29

The canonical answer on extensions and formats like csr, pem, key, pkcs12, pfx, p12, der, cet, cer, crt, p7b, crl, PEM, PKCS7, PKCS12, PKCS10, DER, text, binary, ASN1: certificate – What is a Pem file and how does it differ from other OpenSSL Generated Key File Formats? – Server Fault.

Oh and it contains some openssl conversion tips as well, though this link has more: DER vs. CRT vs. CER vs. PEM Certificates and How To Convert Them.

–jeroen

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Invite people to a Google Hangouts session with you by constructing a manual invitation URL

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/26

Cool:

Did you know that you could share a link to let people chat with you in Hangouts?

We use these links for certain invites, but they work if you hand build them and share them too.

https://hangouts.google.com/chat/person/ 111111111111

Where the number is your profile id

With vanity urls it’s harder to find that, but the easiest way is to use the public api call here https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/latest/people/get#try-it.
Put “me” into the userId field and it will output your numerical id in the response.

Enter `id` in the `fields` to limit the JSON

Enter `id` in the `fields` to limit the JSON

By constructing such an invitation URL you can get people to directly start a Google Hangouts chat with you.

The above steps will give you a lot of JSON output which includes an id field somewhere in the middle. With one more trick you can get just the id field.

You can limit the output by putting id in the fields to request as the image on the right shows.

Sometimes clicking on G+ posts, you even get the id for free, I’m just not sure under what circumstances G+ builds a G+ URL with username or with id.

–jeroen

Source: We have made a number of changes internally to Hangouts…

via:

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Webserver cipher hardening links

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/26

There are quite a few pages on Webserver Cypher Hardening. This is yet another one born because I didn’t know how to compare these lists and why they were so different.

Apparently, OpenSSL has various ways of naming (groups of) cyphers. OpenSSL also disregards any cyphers it doesn’t have.

Basically there are two far ends for cypher lists:

  1. Fully name all cyphers and their order: long list fine grained control
  2. Name groups including group order and let OpenSSL expand the groups: short list but coarse grained control.

A way to compere them using openssl ciphers -V is answered at ssl – Hardening web server cyphers: which cypher list to choose, or how to map between Mozilla and Hynek – Server Fault.

Some of the cypher lists I found:

There are two great SSL tests I found out. The first one is online, the second one from the shell.

  1. SSL Labs:
  2. shell based SSL/TLS tester: testssl.sh.

–jeroen

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APC: getting ftp://ftp.apc.com/apc/public/software/pnetmib/mib/417/powernet417.mib turned out to be tricky

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/24

I tried updating my downloads for my APC7920 and APC7921 PDUs.

I knew the APC download site http://www.apc.com/nl/en/tools/download/index.cfm was slow and navigation unfriendly (lots of ERR_CACHE_MISS as you cannot ctrl-click on downloads), but it’s also buggy: Some of the ftp download URLs do not contain the authentication and one file would not download at all.

The solution for that is to prepend the credentials as username:password@ like these URLs where each first one is generated by the download site and each second one works:

  • ftp://ftp.apcc.com/restricted/hardware/nmcard/firmware/devipcfg_wiz/502/Device%20IP%20Configuration%20Wizard.exe
  • ftp://restrict:Kop$74!@ftp.apcc.com/restricted/hardware/nmcard/firmware/devipcfg_wiz/502/Device%20IP%20Configuration%20Wizard.exe
  • ftp://ftp.apc.com/restricted/hardware/nmcard/firmware/sec_wiz/104/SecWiz%201.04%20Install.exe
  • ftp://restrict:Kop$74!@ftp.apc.com/restricted/hardware/nmcard/firmware/sec_wiz/104/SecWiz%201.04%20Install.exe

The username is restrict and the password Kop$74! which requires single quotes on the command-line to prevent parameter and event expansion.

Otherwise you will get bash errors like these: event not found for the part starting with an exclamation mark and Login incorrect. for the parts having a dollar.

One file would not download at all: ftp://ftp.apc.com/apc/public/software/pnetmib/mib/417/powernet417 as all download attempts would time out:

  • Chrome with and without username:password@ (you will get a ERR_FTP_FAILED)
  • wget with and without username:password@ (it will result in a )
  • plain curl with and without username:password@ (it will result in a curl: (28) Timeout was reached)

The only command that would work was this:

curl -G ftp://ftp.apc.com/apc/public/software/pnetmib/mib/417/powernet417.mib > powernet417.mib

via: SimplicityGuy/pynoc – Travis CI

The trick is to:

  1. leave username and password away
  2. specify the -G (or –get) parameter forcing GET behaviour (which should be the default).

I’m not sure why it works, but it does.

–jeroen

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