Posted by jpluimers on 2022/12/12
Lot’s of installation tips in [Wayback/Archive] useful commands that can be used after clean installation of Windows 10.
It includes PackageProvider installation for NuGet, Chocolatey, ChocolateyGet (Chocolatey via OneGet), and use of both winget and scoop.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/18
I was a long time user of SysInternals‘ TcpView, but a while back I switched to NirSoft‘s CurrPorts (cports).
The main reason is that TcpView does not support filtering, which in the long past was not a problem since few Windows applications keep TCP connection open.
But nowadays with so many network dependencies, especially when using cloud services like DropBox/OneDrive/GoogleDrive/backblaze, these clutter the view a lot.
NirSoft’s CurrPorts (actually the executable is called [Wayback/Archive] cports.exe) can filter for both inclusion/exclusion on the open ports list based on many parameters (search for the “Using Filters” section in the cports.exe documentation: it’s a little bit below the version history).
The filtering syntax is extensive, and for ease of use, the context menu of the open ports list allows adding include/exclude filters on various parameters. After doing that, you can inspect the filter list to get an idea of possibilities and syntax.
For me, the easiest way to install CurrPorts is through [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | CurrPorts 2.65.
I found CurrPorts when trying to figure out how to use filters in TcpView: [Wayback/Archive] tcpview filter by process – Google Search
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/11/02
While undergoing many treatments against rectum cancer, I saved the below tweets with a marker “The new windows package manager: aka.ms/winget“.
Well, actually the first tweet is gone, now, but archived as [Wayback/Archive] Stefan Stranger on Twitter: “New Windows Package Manager #MSBuild2020… “
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/26
Last winter, I discovered that the OpenVPN version on Chocolatey was really old: it had not been updated since 2019.
Most Chocolatey maintainers are volunteers and sometimes the burden can become too large. Back then the maintainer was [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | wget, but luckily [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | dgalbraith has stepped in and in March 2022 bumped the version from [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | OpenVPN 2.4.7 to [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | OpenVPN – Open Source SSL VPN Solution 2.5.4 and kept maintaining (currently there is [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | OpenVPN – Open Source SSL VPN Solution 2.5.7).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/29
On my list of things to play around with: [Wayback/Archive.is] chocolatey-community/chocolatey-test-environment: A testing setup related to how the Chocolatey Package Verifier runs testing. Used for manual testing or prior to submission
It sort of is a standalone version of the [Wayback] Chocolatey Software Docs | Package Verifier Moderation Service that you can use to check Chocolatey package that you develop/modify.
From the github repository README:
Requirements
You need a computer with:
- a 64-bit processor and OS
- Intel VT-x enabled (usually not an issue if your computer is newer than 2011). This is necessary because we are using 64bit VMs.
- Hyper-V may need to be disabled for Virtualbox to work properly if your computer is a Windows box. NOTE: This may actually not be required.
- At least 10GB of free space.
Setup
To get started, ensure you have the following installed:
- Vagrant 1.8.1+ – linked clones is the huge reason here. You can technically use any version of Vagrant 1.3.5+. But you will get the best performance with 1.8.x+. It appears you can go up to Vagrant 2.1.5, but may have some issues with 2.2.2 and Windows guests (newer versions may be fine).
- Virtualbox 4.3.28+ – 6.1.6 (this flows in the selection of Vagrant – 5.2.22 seems to have some issues but newer versions may work fine)
- vagrant sahara plugin (
vagrant plugin install sahara)NOTE: If you decide to run with version 1.8.1 of Vagrant, you are going to need to set the
VAGRANT_SERVER_URLenvironment variable as described in this forum post, otherwise, you will get an HTTP 404 error when attempting to download the base vagrant box used here.
Related: people wanting to do a similar thing for Linux: [Archive.is] chocolatey/choco: Has anyone ever tried to set up virtual box with linux (e.g. ubuntu) for choco testing ? – Gitter
Yes, it should work for
choco new,choco pack, andchoco push, running on mono.
[Wayback/Archive.is] https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/runs/3660684196?check_suite_focus=true…
There is also a
dockerfileavailable here:
[Wayback/Archive.is] https://github.com/chocolatey/choco/tree/develop/dockerHowever, as @AdmiringWorm said, there are not any official builds or official support at this time.
…
In my own private fork of choco however I’m using such interfaces as RestartManager
//https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/restartmanager/nf-restartmanager-rmstartsession [DllImport("rstrtmgr.dll", SetLastError = true, CharSet = CharSet.Auto)] static extern int RmStartSession(out uint pSessionHandle, int dwSessionFlags, string strSessionKey); //https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/restartmanager/nf-restartmanager-rmendsession [DllImport("rstrtmgr.dll", SetLastError = true)] static extern int RmEndSession(uint pSessionHandle); //https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/restartmanager/nf-restartmanager-rmgetlist [DllImport("rstrtmgr.dll", SetLastError = true)] static extern int RmGetList(uint dwSessionHandle, out uint pnProcInfoNeeded, ref uint pnProcInfo, [In, Out] ProcessInfo[] rgAffectedApps, ref uint lpdwRebootReasons);those will be windows specific indeed, but I’ll reach them later on.
–jeroen
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