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Dixin’s Blog – Use Fiddler with Node.js

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 »

TestDisk, Data Recovery; free and open source

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

Posted in *nix, Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Using Chrome on Windows with a different proxy server than the system one (which is used by Internet Explorer)

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 »

Run a batch file when a user connects to a session

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/11

Some links:

This is different from Windows: running a batch file during logon of a single or all users, as these do not run when RDP re-connecting to a session that is already logged on.

Related:

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »

How to access a BitLocker-encrypted drive in Ubuntu 16.04?

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/07

Interesting: [WayBack] I am using Ubuntu 16.04 along with windows 10. I have encrypted my drives using BitLocker. Now my encrypted drives are not visible in ubuntu 16.04. But I want to access my encrypted drives using.

References: [WayBack] How to access BitLocker encrypted drive in Linux? This article introduces one way to access Bitlocker encrypted drive in Linux

via:

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Enabling IIS log files on Windows 7

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/01

Since each Windows version, Microsoft hides the way to first enable, then configure IIS Logging in a different place: [WayBack] Enabling IIS log files on Windows 7.

That should provide me some guidance on how to find it back when it is not displayed at all.

Related:

–jeroen

Posted in Development, IIS, Power User, Software Development, Windows | Leave a Comment »

zabbix on Windows: check the configuration before restarting the Zabbix Agent service

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/09/27

If the Zabbix configuration on Windows (especially mismatches in C:\zabbix\zabbix.agentd.conf.d), then the Zabbix Agent will not start at all:

C:\zabbix\bin\win64>zabbix_agentd.exe --start
zabbix_agentd.exe [4711]: ERROR: cannot start service [Zabbix Agent]: [0x0000041D] The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

This is how to check it before starting the service:

C:\zabbix\bin\win64\zabbix_agentd.exe --config C:\zabbix_agentd.conf
zabbix_agentd.exe [43]: ERROR: cannot add user parameter "MyDuplicate[*],PowerShell.exe -File C:\zabbix\UniquePowerShellScript.ps1 "$1"": key "MyDuplicate" already exists

The problem is that in the C:\zabbix\zabbix.agent.conf.d directory, two files had a similar config:

UserParameter=MyDuplicate[*],PowerShell.exe -File C:\zabbix\FirstPowerShellScript.ps1 "$1"
UserParameter=MyDuplicate[*],PowerShell.exe -File C:\zabbix\SecondPowerShellScript.ps1 "$1"

The problem is that the first part of UserParameter (before the [*])  is a key which needs to be unique over all configuration files.

If everything is fine, you will see this:

C:\zabbix\bin\win64\zabbix_agentd.exe --config C:\zabbix_agentd.conf
zabbix_agentd.exe [1581]: use foreground option to run Zabbix agent as console application

If you need to manually start Zabbix as a service, then perform this (the first step is not needed if the service has already been stopped):

C:\zabbix\bin\win64>zabbix_agentd.exe --stop
zabbix_agentd.exe [1642]: service [Zabbix Agent] stopped successfully

C:\zabbix\bin\win64>zabbix_agentd.exe --start
zabbix_agentd.exe [1642]: service [Zabbix Agent] started successfully

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, Linux, Monitoring, Power User, Windows, Zabbix | Leave a Comment »

Some FindStr links

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/23

When searching text files on Windows, often FindStr is the only tool at hand. Given the MS-DOS ancestry, it carries quite a bit of history, so here are a few links on the quirks it has:

General references:

–jeroen

Posted in Console (command prompt window), Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Signal messaging downloads

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/23

I forgot about the announcement that Signal had also become available on the Desktop, but it is via [WayBack] https://signal.org/download/:

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Debian based x64 Linux:

$ curl -s https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/keys.asc | sudo apt-key add -
$ echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/signal-xenial.list
$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install signal-desktop

I like the mix of echo and tee to update the [WayBack] /etc/apt/sources.list.d folder with the signal-xenial.list file.

These links will always give you the latest download filename:

The files you get there will be relative to the path https://updates.signal.org/desktop/ so will be similar to:

You can get the sources at https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/releases

Via:

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, Android Devices, Apple, Debian, iMac, iOS, iPhone, Linux, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, macOS 10.12 Sierra, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Enable/Disable Windows 10 “tray” notification area icons

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/08/19

It looks like they reorganised the way you can enable/disable the Windows Notification Area icons (often called “Icon Tray”) in Windows 10.

Up until Windows 8.1, you could run this:

%SystemRoot%\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Options_RunDLL 5

There you would end up editing the application specific icons.

As of Windows 10, you need to:

  1. Run %SystemRoot%\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Options_RunDLL 6
  2. Click on “Select which icons appear on the task bar” (or Dutch “Selecteren welke pictogrammen op de taakbalk worden weergegeven”)

So both the index changed, and you need an extra click to get at the application specific icons.

Further more, you can now only turn them on or off, where up until Windows 8.1, you could also choose only show notifications. I think on means only show notifications as for instance the Java Updater with a setting on on Windows 10 disappears after a Java Update has been installed, whereas on Windows 8.1 it would stay unless you switched from on to only show notifications.

The above commands are based on [WayBack] Create Direct Shortcut for “Notification Area Icons” in Windows Vista and Later – AskVG and

–jeroen

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