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Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things: December 17th, 2013 – Scott Hanselman

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/03

Always an interesting read, and usually posted to his blog a while after the email blast gets out.

There is too much information to fully re-post here, so here is an abstract of the entries I already had benefits from, or have a high interest in:

(BTW: don’t you love the that the bug report about WordPress.com adding backslashes in the “Press This” functionality still got no official WordPress response after 3 months?)

–jeroen

via: Hanselman’s Newsletter of Wonderful Things: December 17th, 2013 – Scott Hanselman.

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

Downloading https urls from the commandline through cURL for Windows

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/27

Lately I moved more and more away from wget, mainly because out of the box, wget (and also aria2, which I like for the bittorrent support) handle https downloads so badly: you need to manually setup your CA store on each and every installed system.

Not so with cURL, especially not on Windows any more, as “recently” (that is: since the last time I examined it, which is over a year ago now), there is a new kid in town: cURL for Windows: a Windows Installer for the Web Transfer Tool.

You don’t even need to download the installer. Grabbing the stuff from the bin directory in the zip download is enough: it contains a prepackaged CA certificate set that works splendid.

So now downloading https://dl.google.com/update2/installers/ChromeStandaloneSetup.exe to the current directory is as simple as Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in *nix, Batch-Files, Development, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, wget, Windows | Tagged: , | Leave a Comment »

Mac function keys (F1-F12) in remote desktop (Windows RDP/MSTSC) – MacRumors Forums

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/24

The F keys on a Mac still perform the Mac OS X specific function, even in a full screen RDP session, but you can get their Windows functionality back with ease as MacRumors user blindzombie shows:

I got it to work with fn – command – F9

or just command – F9 if you set your keyboard preferences to use F1, F2, etc as standard function key

–jeroen

via function keys (F1-F12) in remote desktop – MacRumors Forums.

Posted in Apple, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook-Air, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Remote Desktop Protocol/MSTSC/Terminal Services, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Reminder: find out which Windows 7 drivers work for ScanSnap S510 from Fujitsu

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/14

One of the few Windows XP machines left is main usage is for the Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 scanner that I have been using for years: it is small, does duplex scanning, emits searchable PDFs through an embedded Adobe Acrobat and Abby ScanSnap Edition OCR license. The Scan button on the scanner “just works” and allows for a “Scan Now, organize later” workflow.

Just Works: if a user is logged in on the Windows machine, which usually is the case.

Next to that, it is used for internet browsing and remote desktop access to VMs in the various clouds: it is more than adequate for that with dual Dell UltraSharp U2407WFP monitors at 1920×1200. The extra 120 pixels over “modern” 1080p do make a difference you know.

I never bothered to upgrade the machine, as it works so nicely and I have had bad experience replacing systems that include embedded licenses: it usually doesn’t work.

Of course I could buy a new ScanSnap iX500, but I don’t want to increase the electronic waste unless I’ve researched if it is possible to get the ScanSnap S510 working on Windows 7 or 8.x, or even on one of my Macs.

So here are some links for further research on a light-weight solution: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Apple, Fujitsu ScanSnap, Hardware, ix500, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Scanners, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | 1 Comment »

Steps for shrinking a vmware disk for a Windows guest VM inside VMware Workstation of VMware Fusion

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/13

Another one from the “missed schedule” series, this one was originally scheduled for 20130927.

These articles were not very clear on the actual steps to take:

The steps I tried: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Fusion, Power User, VMware, VMware Workstation, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Leave a Comment »

Windows security Token Bloat

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/13

This can happen when your Windows Security Token bloat has struck:

… the problem could be minor, or relatively major. You may get weird access denied messages, applications crashing, or strange entries in your event logs. Or worse yet a SID for a group that has a ‘deny permission’ on an object could be dropped into the virtual bit bucket, allowing a user to access a resource they are not supposed to access.

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Summary of fixes for token bloat:

  1. Use global or universal groups instead of domain local.
  2. Increase the MaxTokenSize on all computers
  3. Convert security groups to distribution groups if they are only used for email lists.

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There is a hard-coded limit of 1,024 SIDs for the Kerberos PAC (privilege attribute certificate)

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Kerberos token size still remain to 64k in windows7 / win2008r2.

This is what UWWI did to avoid token bloat: UWWI Token Bloat – IAM – UW Information Technology Wiki.

–jeroen

via:

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

Accessing Mac Hard Drives from Windows 7/8: Boot Camp Support Software 5.0.5033

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/07

If you want to read  a Mac HFS+ formatted disk from Windows 7/8 then you can use the Boot Camp Support Software 5.0.5033.

It is a large download (about half a gigabyte, uncompressed 800+ megabyte) of which you need only this file:

  • BootCamp5.0.5033.zip\BootCamp\Drivers\Apple\BootCamp.msi

When you want to write HFS+, then MacDrive works fine and has a 5-day fully functional trial (so you can verify really large files transfer fine).

The other way around is built in, but not enabled by default. To have a Mac read and write NTFS volumes, you have to edit your /etc/fstab file as explained in will mountain lion read/write to an…: Apple Support Communities to which I added some hyperlinks. Note there are also NTFSFree and OSXFuse (which is the successor of MacFuse). Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Tagged: , , | 1 Comment »

In my research list: Bvckup 2 | Simple fast backup

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/07

Need to check this out later this month: Bvckup 2 | Simple fast backup.

–jeroen

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Outlook + Outlook express: email received from Outlook sender does not have any attachment in Outlook Express

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/03

A friend of mine uses Outlook Express because that has been with Windows since very early on, and before that with Internet Explorer from version 4 till version 6.

He is the kind of person that does use a computer, but doesn’t like change. No wonder, as he is well into the retirement age and the systems he has used in the past all lasted for a very long time.

So it is going to be a big change for him when he needs to upgrade from Windows XP – that he used for over 10 years – to something else. Probably more on that in a later stage (if Windows Live Mail exists by then).

Back to the problem at hand: he couldn’t see attachments from certain Outlook users, though those users insisted .

I hadn’t used Outlook nor Outlook Express for a long while but it was fairly easy to track down the cause by viewing the message source in either of these two ways:

As soon as you see the full message source, there is a ms-tnef encoded Winmail.dat attachment in the affected messages. You find it by searching for a line that starts with “begin” followed by 2 spaces, “666” or “664” (it is one of the means to fake UUencoded attachments and hide text from Outlook Express).

Winmail.dat is known to cause all sorts of problems, even the NY Times devoted an article about it. It basically encapsulates the content of a message including any attachments into RTF: a Microsoft proprietary – but documented – standard of encoding formatted text.

Outlook Express does not cope with Winmail.dat well: it is a typical example of the one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing.

The “trick” is to configure Outlook for using HTML to format text (or use plain text without formatting) instead of RTF. You can do this either globally, or per recipient in the address book:

So when you use Outlook Express, ask the sender not to use RTF.

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 2 Comments »

Know your enemy: Hacking Microsoft Remote Desktop Services for Fun and Profit

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/03

All software and protocols has weak points, so it is good to know about the weak points on MSTSC and the RDP protocol: Hacking Microsoft Remote Desktop Services for Fun and Profit.

–jeroen

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