Some links I need to research to find a duplicate file finder that fits my needs:
- Which duplicate files and folders finders exist for Windows? – Super User.
- Duplicate File Finder (DupFiles) – Funduc Software.
–jeroen
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Research item: duplicate file finders
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/26
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Downloading TomTom POI files for Germany/Austria/Switzerland and for Italian LPG & CNG filling stations
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/22
LPG is Liquefied Petroleum Gas. CNG is Compressed Natural Gas. Both are good fuels for cars. I favour LPG, for two reasons. First, it often can be obtained as a rest-product of cracking crude oil, second it has a much higher energy density than CNG.
For each country, you should
- download the POI files (preferably in the OV2 format)
- download the icon bitmap file
- make sure the name portion of the files are the same
- copy those files to your device using the something like the MyPOI manager or the instructions at TomTom POI updates in TomTom forum – GPS POI.
Germany, Austria & Switzerland
Note: In Switzerland, there are relatively few LPG stations, but many CNG stations.
Download section for getting LPG and CNG stations in Germany, Switzerland and Austria: LPG & CNG Tankstellen (download).
For TomTom devices, just download the LPG or CNG files for POI and Icon:
Italy and other countries
Start your downloads at LPG Autogas in Italy – Petrol GPS POI data directory for TomTom, Garmin, Navman, SmartPhones and other GPS devices. – GPS POI Data.
Then press the Download POI File button to download the OV2 and BMP file.
–jeroen
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Shotcut keys in Windows 8 (via: Technical Gallery – Krishnan Sriram)
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/19
Krishnan Sriram has a very nice list of New hotkeys for the Windows 8 Consumer Preview.
His lists starts with the shortcuts that stayed the same; these are the ones that are new:
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How To Backup Bootable USB Drive
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/15
I needed to make backups of a couple of maintenance USB drives.
It turned out to be pretty easy: How To Backup Bootable USB Drive describes how to do that based on a small USB Image Tool developed in .NET.
One of the things you can do with this is backup bootable Windows installation media.
Note it is a simple tool, so it backups only same size to same size. For more advanced copy purposes, use something like the professional tools from Acronis.
–jeroen
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LUSRMGR von Remote aufrufen – Windows – Administrator
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/12
psexec to the rescue again:
psexec \\%rsys% -u DOMAIN\%user% mmc.exe lusrmgr.msc
note: both the current and remote computer must be trusting the AD belonging to DOMAIN, otherwise you will get an access denied message.
–jeroen
via: LUSRMGR von Remote aufrufen – Windows – Administrator.
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Robocopy Exit Codes: 0 and 1 usually mean success
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/08
Most console applications return 0 (zero) as success.
But sometimes there are multiple success result codes, and the success depends on what you want to do with them.
One example is RoboCopy.
The zero result code means that nothing happened: no error occurred and nothing was copied, because there was no need to.
But for most RoboCopy scenario’s result code 1 (one) is also success. It means that no error occurred and that one ore more files were copied.
In fact the RoboCopy result codes form a bitmap explained on ss64.com.
Most RoboCopy use cases will have [0,1] as the set off success result codes.
–jeroen
via: Robocopy Exit Codes.
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Some notes on multi-touch and Windows
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/06
While fooling around with Microsoft Surface, you are astonished with the number of fingers it supports: 10 is no problem on the Samsung SUR40 which can also do full HD resolution (more specs here).
Not so with the standard Windows 7 touch support: that has only 2.
As I want to increase that to better mimic the development environment to the actual environment a few notes:
- How Many Touch Points Does Windows 7 Multi-Touch Support? – Stack Overflow.
- 3M Touch Systems – 3M™ Display M2256PW. (20 touch points, but a tad expensive, and no HD resolution)
- Multi-Touch Vista.
- Why Windows 7 will never be a touch-friendly OS | Enterprise | Real World Computing | PC Pro.
- Touch hardware and Windows 8 – Building Windows 8 – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.
- DailyTech – All Windows 8 PCs Will Have 5-Fingered Touch.
- How to enable (or improve) two finger scrolling on your Windows laptop | RLV Blog.
–jeroen
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It looks like everything signed by an Adobe Code Signing Certificate can be malware
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/29
If I read Inappropriate Use of Adobe Code Signing Certificate my conclusion is that anything signed by the Adobe Code Signing Certificate since 2012-07-10 potentially can be malware.
As a precaution, I will manually revoke the certificate on all my systems (that’ll take a while!). If anyone knows how to automate that process, please post a comment showing how to.
Hitching on a trusted certificate of a big software company comes close to the ultimate hack: trojaning signed malware in the distribution of an OS vendor.
–jeroen
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RDP/MSTSC: keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Remote Desktop
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/21
The Ctrl+Alt+Delete keyboard shortcut equivalent for VMware View/Workstation/Player is very easy to remember: Ctrl+Alt+Insert.
While searching for the Ctrl+Alt+Delete keyboard shortcut equivalent in Remote Desktop (which is Ctrl+Alt+End), I came accross the via List of the keyboard shortcuts that are available in Windows XP.
It includes these lists:
- General keyboard shortcuts
- Dialog box keyboard shortcuts
- Microsoft natural keyboard shortcuts
- Accessibility keyboard shortcuts
- Windows Explorer keyboard shortcuts
- Shortcut keys for Character Map
- Microsoft Management Console (MMC) main window keyboard shortcuts
- MMC console window keyboard shortcuts
- Remote desktop connection navigation
- Microsoft Internet Explorer navigation
- Other information
I was after the Ctrl+Alt+End shortcut from the list below which works in any Windows version I tested so far. But the other lists are very useful too.
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Zero day vulnerability in mshtml.dll used by Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 and 9, and many other products.
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/20
Summary:
- Zero day vulnerability in mshtml.dll used by Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 and 9, and many other products.
- Resolution: Deploy EMET or stop using IE and other products using mshtml.dll until Microsoft delivers a patch.
Earlier this week a zero-day vulnerability in the mshtml.dll was made public. This DLL is used by almost all Internet Explorer versions (6-9 are vulnerable) and many other software products (almost anything from Microsoft and a lot of 3rd party software that displays a web page on Windows).
While Microsoft is building a fix that is to be released very soon now (probably tomorrow, Friday September 21st 2010), the official resolutions are not to use the mshtml.dll at all (impractical for many people), or deploy EMET (impractical too as it requires administrative privileges).
If you can, switch to a browser that uses a different layout engine than mshtml.dll (for instance browsers based on WebKit will do).
These pages are good starting points for more information:
- CVE – CVE-2012-4969 (under review).
- Microsoft Offers Guidance for Internet Explorer Zero-Day | SecurityWeek.Com.
Particularly interesting posts:
- Zero-Day Season Is Really Not Over Yet.
- Microsoft Internet Explorer execCommand Vulnerability Metasploit Demo.
- Microsoft Offers Guidance for Internet Explorer Zero-Day | SecurityWeek.Com.
- Microsoft to release emergency Internet Explorer patch tomorrow – SC Magazine UK.
–jeroen
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