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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/24
Links:
TODO: find out the differences in both qres tools.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/17
A long time ago I wrote in Mac/PC: sending Wake-on-LAN (WOL) packets « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff “I’ve succesfully woken up these machines: HP XW6600 running ESXi 5.1 ThinkPad W701U running Windows 7”.
The XW6600 have now been demoted to Windows 10 machines that I only need every now and then, so most of the time they are shutdown.
However, with the installation of Windows 10 however, they stopped reacting to WOL (Wake on LAN).
Per web-search results, I’ve tried all the permutations of the below settings to no avail.
Luckily, my trusty APC PDU AP7921 (and little sister AP7920) helped out: when setting the “Reboot Duration” to 30 seconds or more (so the power fully drains), it can be rebooted.
Note that since I bought these a long time ago, they have been replaced by these:
- AP7920 Rack PDU, Switched, 1U, 12A/208V, 10A/230V, (8)C13
- AP7921 Rack PDU, Switched, 1U, 16A, 208/230V, (8)C13
Firmwares:
Power usage:
- an XW66000 with 32 gigabytes of RAM and one hard disk takes between 0.6-1.2 Ampère of current, which at 230 Volt is 140-275 Watt.
- over one day that is between 3.4 and 6.6 kWh
Settings tried
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Posted in Ethernet, Hardware, HP XW6600, Network-and-equipment, Power User, Wake-on-LAN (WoL), Windows, Windows 10 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/27
Blast from the past:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/13
TL;DR:
- If you use regular expressions (
/R) with FINDSTR, then pass them as /C:"regular-expression-string"
- If you forget the
/C: the string will be used as a normal search string
- If you forget the
: after the /C you will get an informal error, but the search will continue giving you wrong results
Details in [WayBack] regex – How to write a search pattern to include a space in findstr? – Stack Overflow
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/02
If you get this error:
—————————
RunDLL
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There was a problem starting C:\Program
The specified module could not be found.
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OK
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Then it is likely a process trying to run an unquoted path like this:
"C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe" C:\Program Files (x86)\ThinkPad\Utilities\PWMTR64V.DLL,PwrMgrBkGndMonitor
Searching did not reveal anything unusual, nor did [WayBack] ProcExp (there were no parent processes), or [WayBack] AutoRuns:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/02
When safe mode is a good thing: [WayBack] Windows XP Pro won’t boot, safe mode boot hangs at agp440.sys – Microsoft Community
During the regular boot, after a minute or so on SSD, a legacy Windows XP SP3 machine didn’t reboot.
During safe mode, it hung after loading agp440.sys. Apparently this is a Good Thing ™ as it means that chkdsk is running in the background as the post above explains.
Nice to know!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/11/18
Based on, but much shorter than, [WayBack] How to change the User Account Control (UAC) level in Windows | Digital Citizen which summary is
How to change how UAC prompts are shown in Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. How to disable UAC when you no longer want it turned on.
- Run
UserAccountControlSettings.exe
- Pull the settings up to the highest one
- Confirm
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/30
[Archive.is] Dixin’s Blog – Use Fiddler with Node.js Fiddler is an useful HTTP proxy debugger on Windows. It would be nice if it can work with Node.js applications. To do this, just need to proxy Node.js requests through Fiddler… on port 8888.
There is a snippet for it at github/Dixin/CodeSnippets/…/fiddler.js (now moved to [WayBack] github.com/Dixin/Blog/…/Blog/Dixin.Nodejs/fiddler.js)
It complements a few posts I’ve written about Fiddler using port 8888 as a proxy before:
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] Use Fiddler with Node JS – CHUA Chee Wee – Google+
Posted in Cntlm, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Node.js, NTLM, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows-Http-Proxy | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/28
Interesting tool that I needed one day to figure out how to recover from a certain NTFS partition having become RAW [Archive.is/WayBack] TestDisk, Data Recovery:
TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software: certain types of viruses or human error(such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.
TestDisk can
- Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
- Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
- Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
- Fix FAT tables
- Rebuild NTFS boot sector
- Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
- Fix MFT using MFT mirror
- Locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock
- Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
- Copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.
TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/25
By default, Chrome uses the same proxy server as Internet Explorer: the system one that your Chrome settings page accesses from chrome://settings/search#proxy through this command-line call:
"C:\Windows\system32\rundll32.exe" C:\Windows\system32\shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL C:\Windows\system32\inetcpl.cpl,,4
There is no GUI way inside Chrome to change this, but there is a command-line parameter: --proxy-server="ipaddress:port"
So create a new shortcut to Chrome, then you can change it.
This comes in very handy if you want to test
- some sessions through for instance Internet Explorer going through HTTP Fiddler (that defaults at localhost:8888)
- other sessions through Cntlm (that defaults to localhost:3128)
Some background information:
–jeroen
Posted in Chrome, Cntlm, NTLM, Power User, Web Browsers, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, 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, Windows-Http-Proxy | Leave a Comment »
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