[Wayback/A] nixCraft on Twitter: “Here is how to check if you are affected by a known vulnerability in your hardware (CPU) when using Linux including mitigation status: grep -r . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/“
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nixCraft on Twitter: “Here is how to check if you are affected by a known vulnerability in your hardware (CPU) when using Linux including mitigation status”
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/10
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Adding entries to the PATH persistently (be aware of the 1024 character limit of SETX)
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/08
Directly after a new Windows installation, I want to have my cloned git repository of batch files in the PATH persistently so that it gets searched after rebooting or opening a new console window.
At that moment, there is not much of a 1024 PATH character limitation, but be aware about that limit if you try this yourself.
This is my add-current-directory-to-path-at-end.persistent-and-limit-to-1024-characters.bat:
:: https://serverfault.com/questions/664180/can-i-permanently-add-to-path-in-windows-using-batch
:: https://superuser.com/questions/812754/how-to-recover-from-path-being-truncated-to-1024-characters-by-setx
:: global environment
setx PATH "%PATH%;%CD%"
:: local process
:: https://superuser.com/questions/975605/add-current-directory-to-path
set PATH=%PATH%;%CD%
I execute it from within the cloned git directory.
Oh: you need to double-quote the SETX parameters, otherwise you get an error message: “ERROR: Invalid syntax. Default option is not allowed more than '2' time(s).“.
More links than the above ones from the batch file, especially on the 1024 character limitation:
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On Windows, `arp -d` sometimes fails but `netsh` comes to the rescue
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/08
(All below statements were run elevated as Administrator)
I had arp -d fail with any parameter combination on one of my systems always throwing the error The ARP entry deletion failed: The parameter is incorrect..
Luckily I found out that this did clear the ARP cache correctly:
netsh interface ip delete arpcache
I found that via [Wayback/Archive] “The ARP entry deletion failed: The parameter is incorrect.” – Recherche Google:
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Deploy .NET Framework 3.5 by using Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) instead of Chocolatey and some notes on PowerShell colours
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/07
Since every now and then, like testing software developed with older tools, you need to run older software.
This always works: [Wayback /Archive] Deploy .NET Framework 3.5 by using Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) | Microsoft Learn
DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /AllUse
/Allto enable all parent features of the specified feature.
(The /All is needed because software requiring .NET Framework 3.5 also require the parent features).
Notes:
- Tested on Windows 10 and Windows 11 in 2022.
- It can take a really long time (more than just a few minutes!) even on fast connections.
- Installing through Chocolatey with `choco install
dotnet3.5fails on Windows 11 (have not tried on Windows 10) with the classical red on black PowerShell default error theme*:
ERROR: The term 'wmic' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
The install of DotNet3.5 was NOT successful.
Error while running 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\DotNet3.5\Tools\ChocolateyInstall.ps1'.
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The links I used to search for a refurbished M-Series Apple Silicon MacBook Pro
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/06
Having used the fully loaded Intel 15″ Retina MacBook Pro machines (the ones without dreaded touch-bars or butterfly keyboards – note the IBM ThinkPad 701 butterfly keyboard – also known as TrackWrite – was perfectly fine) from 2015 for 9 years, it was finally time to upgrade to an Apple Silicon one, but again: not the touch bar models.
My work is mainly CPU and disk intensive and often based on remote logon to more powerful equipment, so GPU cores and performance only marginally matter for web-browsing and local electron based applications (hello vscode!).
Going from 4 hyperthreaded CPU cores (8 parallel threads) to at least 8 full CPU cores, I didn’t want to pay full price like back in the days, and wanted it to be less than my car (EUR ~4000), so these links helped me find refurbished ones in The Netherlands:
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Dumpsterdiving for network access :: Jilles.com
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/06
[Wayback/Archive] Dumpsterdiving for network access :: Jilles.com
Just scaring people by telling them I could simply login to your network when you throw away you broken Smart light was not very credible. And eventhough people were kindly speaking up for me I would still like to illustrate how simple it is.
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iTerm2 logged passwords: immediately upgrade to 3.5.11 and delete any /tmp/framer.txt on your systems – via isotopp Kris at Infosec Exchange
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/03
[Wayback/Archive] Kris: “iTerm2 logged passwords …” – Infosec Exchange
iTerm2 logged passwords
If you are running iTerm2 on MacOS with ssh integration (it2ssh or Settings -> General -> Profiles, set to SSH instead of Command) you want to
- Upgrade
- Find
/tmp/framer.txton all systems you generally log into and delete itIf you manage systems with MacOS users, good luck.
[Wayback/Archive] https://iterm2.com/downloads/stable/iTerm2-3_5_11.changelog affected versions:
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Latest Products/Feature Request Board topics – Ring Community
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/03
Yup, I have been in the Ring ecosystem since way before Amazon took them over, and it is kind of hard to part from the useful cameras, so here is for my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Latest Products/Feature Request Board topics – Ring Community
Via two suggestions I did:
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Modifying your receiver/amplifier: Converting Phono Inputs to Line-Level
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/02
For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive.is] Converting Phono Inputs to Line-Level
It shows for some receiver models how to have the Phono input signals bypass the preamplifier (preamp) so they effectively become Line level inputs and there is no need for an extra devices that undoes RIAA equalisation.
If that fails, then you need something like the [Wayback/Archive.is] Line level to phono input converter diagram:
Or get you a [Wayback/Archive.is] iRIAA2 – Inverse RIAA Filter – Hagerman Audio Labs
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Old programming books had cool little “puns” in their references, modern lack them in their indices. On the why, and history of them.
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/01
I wrote a two earlier blog posts around puns in programming book indices before:
- the 1992 Turbo Pascal 7.0 Language Guide having both entry in the manual about Recursion (“recursive loop, see recursive loop”) which of course is similar to “infinite loop” and entries for “infinite loop See loop, infinite” and “loop, infinite See infinite loop”.
- infinite loop in “LaTeX: A Document Preparation System” by Leslie Lamport, printed in 1994.
In the last one, I promised to list more occurrences which I now finally had time for to do.
But let me first elaborate more on the observation that modern computer books (like for instance on C# and Delphi beyond version 1) lack these kinds of index pun.
On the Delphi side, the index entry joke for recursion got removed no later than Delphi 3 (I am still looking for a Delphi 2 version of the Object Pascal Language Guide, see further below) even before the book being fully redone electronically and the index pages generation being automated in
I think I even understand why that is: the process of creating of indices. By the start of this century, more and more indices were automatically being generated and for the last 2 decades or so, all of them are. Back in the days however, indices were mostly done by hand. Nowadays, with everything automated, it is actually pretty tricky in most environments to add such an “infinite loop” index entry like in the Turbo Pascal book, as it would require two things at once:
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