Inspiration: [Wayback/Archive] How I Setup My Mac – Liam Beeton
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- [Wayback/Archive] Liam Beeton (@liambeeton) / X
- [Wayback/Archive] Liam Beeton (@liambeeton.com) — Bluesky
--jeroen
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How I Setup My Mac – Liam Beeton
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/18
Posted in Apple, Apple Silicon, ARM Mac, M1 Mac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, macOS 14 Sonoma, Power User | Leave a Comment »
H3/H2 Net Card – ODROID – wonder how well pfSense supports it
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/18
I wonder how well [Wayback/Archive] H3/H2 Net Card – ODROID is supported by pfSense. It is an M.2 based PCIe network card that adds 4 ethernet ports of 2.5 gigabit each to an ODROID H2 or H3 series (so you have 6 ports total), ideal for some hefty router.
Pictures (from the above link) of the board, cases and mainboard below.
But first: Realtek NICs is not vendor supported on FreeBSD (which pfSense and OPNsense are based on).
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Posted in *nix, BSD, Ethernet, FreeBSD, Hardware, Network-and-equipment, pfSense, Power User, routers | Tagged: homelab, serverbuilds | Leave a Comment »
DEF CON 30 – stacksmashing – The Hitchhacker’s Guide to iPhone Lightning and JTAG Hacking – YouTube (using Raspberry Pi Zero and hand modified lightning extension cable)
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/16
From a few years back when Lightning debugging cables were either expensive, hard or not to get at all: [Wayback/Archive] DEF CON 30 – stacksmashing – The Hitchhacker’s Guide to iPhone Lightning and JTAG Hacking – YouTube.
Basically it is a Raspberry Pi Zero with adapted firmware connected to half a lightning extension cable.
A textual description (I wish it was linked from the above video) is at [Wayback/Archive] stacksmashing – The hitchhacker’s guide to iPhone Lightning & JTAG hacking – DEF CON Forums, which in turn refers to:
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Posted in Development, Hardware Development, iOS, iPhone, Power User, Red team, Security | Tagged: checkm8 | Leave a Comment »
Parallel hashing on MacOS
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/14
Now that I have had an Apple silicon for a while, which has enough cores to perform parallel work, this is how I calculated a bunch of hashed from a lot of large files:
find . -type f | xargs -P 0 -n 1 md5 -rfind . -type f | xargs -P 0 -n 1 shasum --algorithm 1find . -type f | xargs -P 0 -n 1 shasum --algorithm 256
I contemplated about using GNU parallel, but that is not installed by default on MacOS and I was already familiar with xargs.
Argument meanings can be found at these locations:
Related:
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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Apple, Apple Silicon, ARM Mac, M1 Mac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, xargs | Leave a Comment »
Moet het raam dicht?
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/14
Weet voor je naar bed gaat of je vliegtuiggeluid kunt verwachten.
Ben jij iemand die elke avond wakker ligt als er weer een vliegtuig voorbij komt? Of houd je je ramen ‘s nachts uit voorzorg potdicht om het geluid buiten te houden?
Deze site stuurt je voor je naar bed gaat een mail als er verwacht wordt dat vliegtuigen die nacht je slaap kunnen verstoren. Tijdens nachten waarop je geen mailtje krijgt kun je dus gewoon je raam open houden!
Van [Wayback/Archive] Moet het raam dicht?
Ze maken gebruik van deze bronnen (de laatste is inmiddels verhuisd):
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Way harder than I anticipated: How To Share Discord Profile Link
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/11
Some of the people I know are not on any of Signal, WhatsApp, Google Chat, or other usual direct message platforms.
This left Discord, which I use more (at least weekly) than Facebook Messenger (once a month or so).
Sharing a user-link there proved to be quite a bit more difficult than I anticipated: it even involves enabling developer mode!
The steps are at [WaybackSave/Archive] How To Share Discord Profile Link [Copy & Share]
Found via query: [WaybackSave/Archive] share direct link to discord account – Google Suche
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My first mobile phone was not a Nokia but a Motorola which I still have just like the first Nokia banana
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/11
A while ago someone asked on Twitter if people had mobile phones in the early 1990’s.
I bought my first GSM phone in 1995. Unlike my other mobile non-smart phones that were from Nokia, this one was from Motorola.
It was the international GSM version of the Motorola MicroTAC series (see picture below) which by then was way more affordable and smaller than the Nokia devices (see Nokia 2010 – Wikipedia and Nokia 2110 – Wikipedia).
This was in the age that world wide there were various competing mobile phone network standards.
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Windows Installer is transactional, but combined with NTFS and installer processes is not fully: do more C:\Config.msi vulnerabilities exist? (plus a truckload of information on Windows SIDs)
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/10
Over the last years a few C:\Windows.msi vulnerabilities have been discovered (and fixed), of which some are linked below.
The core is that the Windows Installer tries to be transactional, and NTFS is, but the combination with installer processes isn’t.
That leads into vulnerabilities where you can insert malicious Roll Back Scripts (.rbs files) and Roll Back Files (.rbf files), and I wonder if by now more have been discovered.
So this post is a kind of reminder to myself (:
Oh, and I learned much more about whoami on Windows, as there whoami /groups shows very detailed SID information. From that, I learned more on the internals of SIDs too!
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Posted in Blue team, C++, Development, Power User, Red team, Security, Software Development, Visual Studio C++, Windows, Windows Development | Tagged: 1, else, endif, if | Leave a Comment »
Run Windows 3.1 in True-Colour Full HD: GitHub – PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv: Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/09
This is soooo cool: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv: Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1
Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1This is a rewrite of the Windows 3.1 SVGA driver, designed to support ALL available 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit or 32-bit graphic modes on any system providing the VESA BIOS Extensions (hence theVBEin the name). It is based on the Video 7 SVGA driver included in the Win16 Driver Development Kit, with most of the hardware-specific code gutted out, and with support added for multi-byte pixels.
Related:
- The above github repository mentions [Wayback/Archive] VESA patch (Windows 3.1x) – Win3x.Org which regrettably has their downloads behind a logon wall, and the Wayback Machine does not have that particular
svgapatch.zipproperly archived.- Some quick searches found back [Wayback/Archive] Japheth’s Site with the
svgapatch.zipdownloadable from [Wayback/Archive] www.japheth.de/dwnload1.html at Wayback svgaptch.zip with the file being web.archive.org/web/20250106100041/https://www.japheth.de/Download/Win16/svgaptch.zip.
- Some quick searches found back [Wayback/Archive] Japheth’s Site with the
- [Wayback/Archive] WinWorld: Calmira 4.x alternative Windows 3.1 shell
It reminds me of other endevours to keep retro-software easy to use: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in Assembly Language, Delphi, Delphi 1, Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 3.11, x86 | Leave a Comment »
From Turbo Pascal to Delphi to C# to TypeScript, an interview with PL legend Anders Hejlsberg – YouTube
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/09
Nice historic perspective: [Wayback/Archive] From Turbo Pascal to Delphi to C# to TypeScript, an interview with PL legend Anders Hejlsberg – YouTube
Via [Wayback/Archive] Zack Urlocker on Twitter: “Great interview with @ahejlsberg on the evolution of programming languages, the rise of TypeScript and more. Anders is one of the best programmers I ever worked with. …”
--jeroen
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Posted in .NET, Borland Pascal, C#, Delphi, Development, History, JavaScript/ECMAScript, MS-DOS, Pascal, Scripting, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, TypeScript, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 