SSD TRIM check tool | CyberShadow’s blog [WayBack] has source code on github:
trimcheck – SSD TRIM check tool for Windows
Source: CyberShadow/trimcheck: SSD TRIM check tool for Windows
It’s written in D using rdmd as compiler.
–jeroen
via via.
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SSD TRIM check tool | CyberShadow’s blog
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/17
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Closed: HDD Guardian – Home
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/16
Too bad: it was fun while it lasted.
Mid april 2017 [WayBack] HDD Guardian – Home closed down, so the latest commit removed all the [WayBack] HDD Guardian – Source Code.
HDD Guardian provides a Windows front-end for smartctl, a utility which monitors your hard drive(s) and SSD(s) for health status, taking advantage of S.M.AR.T.
The WayBack machine and Archive.is have archived some links though:
- 2017: [Archive.is] [WayBack] HDD Guardian – Home – most recent home page
- 2017: WayBack: HDD Guardian – Documentation – Documentation – Supported/unsupported controllers
- 2016: WayBack: HDD Guardian – Documentation – News
- 2016: WayBack: HDD Guardian – Documentation – FAQ / Known Issues
- 2017: [Archive.is] HDD Guardian – Source Code – Changesets
- 2017: HDD Guardian – Download: HDD Guardian 0.7.1 (though the downloads themselves are not available).
Anyone interested in getting it before codeplex itself shuts down:
git svn clone https://hddguardian.svn.codeplex.com/svn
Edit 20210909:
Note that a while ago, the salvaged source code got pushed to GitHub: [Wayback/Archive.is] native-api/hddguardian: A GUI app to watch and manage HDDs’ S.M.A.R.T., based on smartmontools. Salvaged from https://hddguardian.codeplex.com
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wget for nirsoft
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/11
Since they require a referer:
wget --referer=http://launcher.nirsoft.net/downloads/ -m -np http://download.nirsoft.net/nirsoft_package_1.20.10.zip
wget --referer=http://launcher.nirsoft.net/downloads/ -m -np http://download2.nirsoft.net/nirsoft_package_enc_1.20.10.zip
The latter has password nirsoft9876$
The filenames change over time (the 2016 archive of http://launcher.nirsoft.net/downloads/ shows http://download.nirsoft.net/nirsoft_package_1.20.5.zip and http://download2.nirsoft.net/nirsoft_package_enc_1.20.5.zip
Need to check out if I can automate this, as they seem to keep a SysInternals link http://download.nirsoft.net/sysinternals4.nlp
–jeroen
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Free ebook: Introducing Windows Server 2016 – Microsoft Press blog
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/21
It’s been a while ago, but still relevant and available as both Standard PDF [WayBack] and Mobile PDF [WayBack]:
free ebook, Introducing Windows Server 2016 (ISBN 9780735697744), by John McCabe and the Windows Server team. Enjoy!
Source: Free ebook: Introducing Windows Server 2016 – Microsoft Press blog [WayBack]
Via: Ondrej Kelle – Google+ [WayBack]
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How do I rename a task in Task Scheduled on Windows Server 2008 R2 – Server Fault
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/20
you cannot rename a task except for exporting, renaming and importing again
Source: How do I rename a task in Task Scheduled on Windows Server 2008 R2 – Server Fault [WayBack]
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The Most Common VPN Error Codes Explained
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/26
Source: The Most Common VPN Error Codes Explained
- VPN Error 800 “Unable to establish connection”
- VPN Error 619 “A connection to the remote computer could not be established”
- VPN Error 51 “Unable to communicate with the VPN subsystem”
- VPN Error 412 “The remote peer is no longer responding”
- VPN Error 721 “The remote computer did not respond”
- VPN Error 720 “No PPP control protocols configured”
- VPN Error 691 “Access denied because username and/or password is invalid on the domain”
- VPN Errors 812, 732 and 734 “The connection was prevented because of a policy configured on your RAS/VPN server”
- VPN Error 806 “A connection between your computer and the VPN server has been established but the VPN connection cannot be completed.”
–jeroen
via: Could be useful. – Joe C. Hecht – Google+
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Bug fixes from both sides for “Windows 10 Creators update and Delphi debugging don’t go well”
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/13
It looks like Microsoft and Embarcadero solved their ends for [WayBack] Windows 10 Creators update and Delphi debugging don’t go well… :
- [WayBack] Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16215 for PC + Build 15222 for Mobile – Windows Experience BlogWindows Experience Blog
- [WayBack] The Issue with Delphi Runtime Packages and Windows 10 Creators Update
The issue was caused by the Windows LoadLibrary trying to optimise loading which backfired for libraries (PE files like DLL/EXE…) that have multiple import tables in them as generated by the Delphi and C++ Builder linker (and maybe other linkers as well).
Microsoft finetuned their optimisation whereas a future update to Delphi and C++ Builder will generate more optimised import tables.
–jeroen
via [WayBack] Blog post “The Issue with Delphi Runtime Packages and Windows 10 Creators Update”… – Marco Cantù – Google+
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VHD Attach 4.11 – Medo’s Home Page
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/06/05
Brilliant:
This is small tool that adds Attach and Detach option to contextual (aka right-click) menu of Virtual disk (vhd) files. That enables those operations to be done without trip to Disk Management console. Detach option is available on hard drive contextual menu also (if selected in options).
Source:
- VHD Attach 4.11 – Medo’s Home Page
- medo64/VhdAttach: A small tool that allows for easy virtual disk attach/detach and auto-mount.
–jeroen
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What’s got a vast attack surface and runs on Linux? Windows Defender, of course • The Register
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/26
Penguinistas, rejoice: Tavis Ormandy lets you fuzz Windows
Cool, as they now can fuzz Windows Defender and have Microsoft make it better so all Windows 8+ users can profit from it.
Source: [WayBack] What’s got a vast attack surface and runs on Linux? Windows Defender, of course • The Register
Repository: https://github.com/taviso/loadlibrary
Via: [WayBack] WAT? – DoorToDoorGeek “Stephen McLaughlin” – Google+
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17 years ago, C:\nul\nul crashed/BSOD Windows; now $MFT does for Windows < 10
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/26
Source:
History repeating itself: [Archive.is] 31607 – C:\nul\nul crashes/BSOD then, now it’s this:
- [WayBack] A bug in NTFS, or hang the entire system / Blog Aladdin RD / Habrahabr
- [WayBack] Баг в NTFS, или как подвесить всю систему / Блог компании Аладдин Р.Д. / Хабрахабр
- [WayBack] In a throwback to the ’90s, NTFS bug lets anyone hang or crash Windows 7, 8.1 | Ars Technica UK
- [WayBack] NTFS bug allows any website to crash Windows 7, 8.1
Via:
- [WayBack] NTFS bug allows any website to crash Windows 7, 8.1Users of older versions of Windows aren’t having the best time of it lately. Last week it was disco… – BetaNews – Google+
- [WayBack] Writing solid code is really hard these days … – Lars Fosdal – Google+
All versions prior to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 seem vulnerable.
So add $MFT to this list:
The following device names have been known to render a system unstable: CON, NUL, AUX, PRN, CLOCK$, COMx, LPT1, and CONFIG$.
Oh BTW: history repeated itself this year too. With NUL
In short, Steven Sheldon created a rust package named nul which broke the complete package manager on Windows:
- [WayBack] How I Broke Rust’s Package Manager for All Windows Users – sasheldon.com
- [WayBack] I Broke Rusts Package Manager for Windows Users | Hacker News
- [WayBack] I think a crate called ‘nul’ is causing errors for cargo (windows).
- [WayBack] @bstrie: @sheldonut Hi Steven, Rust team here :) We’re having some technical difficulties with the name of one of your crates… feel free to DM
- [WayBack] Null character – Wikipedia
- [WayBack] IRC Logs for #rust-internals | BotBot.me [o__o] – 2017-04-30 – 84953638 – page 4
- [WayBack] List of software package management systems – Wikipedia: Application-level package managers
- [WayBack] I think the name of this project causes issues for windows users. · Issue #1 · SSheldon/nul
- When cargo updates its crates.io registry, it creates a file for each crate, no extension, just the name.The name
nulis not a valid name in windows 10, so cargo fails to update the registry, and then aborts whatever it was doing (building, searching, ect.).I think this project should be re-published to crates.io under a new name, something likenull-stringsperhaps?
- When cargo updates its crates.io registry, it creates a file for each crate, no extension, just the name.The name
- [WayBack] Fresh install unable to install anything · Issue #3982 · rust-lang/cargo
- Here is what I see with verbose. I get this trying to install clippy or rustfmt. I assume I would get it with other crates.Updating registry
https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index
error: [20/-1] Cannot checkout to invalid path ‘3/n/nul’
- Here is what I see with verbose. I get this trying to install clippy or rustfmt. I assume I would get it with other crates.Updating registry
- [WayBack] IRC Logs for #rust | BotBot.me [o__o] – 2017-04-30 – msg 84953614 – page=19
- [WayBack] What’s the deal with those reserved filenames like NUL and CON? – The Old New Thing
- The solution: [WayBack] Reserve windows crate names. by withoutboats · Pull Request #695 · rust-lang/crates.io
- [WayBack] @withoutboats boats ✨ on Twitter: “I thought Rust was supposed to prevent nul errors! ;-)”
BTW: one of my gripes on learning new languages is that they come with a whole new idiom of their ecosystem: rust, cargo, crates, all sound like being a truck mechanic to me.
–jeroen
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