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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/11/23
If you have a MYSHARE share on SERVER having an IPv6 of 2001:db8:85a3:8d3:1319:8a2e:370:7348, but your WINS fails, then you can use it in an UNC path like this:
\\2001-db8-85a3-8d3-1319-8a2e-370-7348.ipv6-literal.net\MYSHARE
Literal IPv6 addresses in UNC path names
In Microsoft Windows operating systems, IPv4 addresses are valid location identifiers in Uniform Naming Convention (UNC) path names. However, the colon is an illegal character in a UNC path name. Thus, the use of IPv6 addresses is also illegal in UNC names. For this reason, Microsoft implemented a transcription algorithm to represent an IPv6 address in form of a domain name that can be used in UNC paths. For this purpose, Microsoft registered and reserved the second-level domain ipv6-literal.net on the Internet. IPv6 addresses are transcribed as a hostname or subdomain name within this name space, in the following fashion:
2001:db8:85a3:8d3:1319:8a2e:370:7348
is written as
2001-db8-85a3-8d3-1319-8a2e-370-7348.ipv6-literal.net
This notation is automatically resolved by Microsoft software without any queries to DNS name servers. If the IPv6 address contains a zone index, it is appended to the address portion after an ‘s’ character:
fe80--1s4.ipv6-literal.net
–jeroen
via: IPv6 address – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/11/09
Thanks to Matthijs ter Woord who pointed me to these.
They require a single Intel®, Nvidia®, or AMD® primary WDDM driver. That driver does the actual rendering, the USB device then gets the rendered parts over USB to the monitor.
The really cool thing is: they work on a PC with Windows XP and higher, and on Mac with OS X Tiger or better.
The chipsets are based on DisplayLink technology; they have their own USB devices as well.
USB2.0 to DVI-I Graphics
CSV-2000D – SenseVision USB Graphics – USB2.0 to DVI-I
USB2.0 to DVI-I graphics devices let you easily add an additional monitor to your notebook PC, desktop and MacBook®. The Club 3D SenseVision USB2.0 to DVI-I Graphics allows you to extend your desktop display beyond 1080p HD resolution displays. … View Details
USB2.0 to HDMI Graphics
CSV-2000H – SenseVision USB Graphics – USB2.0 to HDMI
USB2.0 to HDMI graphics devices let you easily add an additional monitor to your notebook PC, desktop and MacBook®. The Club 3D SenseVision USB2.0 to HDMI Graphics allows you to extend your desktop display beyond 1080p HD resolution displays. … View Details
–jeroen
via: USB Graphics – Graphic solutions GeForce & Radeon.
Posted in Apple, 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, MacBook-Pro, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Leave a Comment »
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
Posted in .NET, Development, Hardware Interfacing, Power User, Software Development, USB, 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 »
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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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.
Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Power User, RoboCopy, Scripting, Software Development, 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 | 3 Comments »
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:
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, Development, Microsoft Surface, Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, Software Development, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Tagged: 3m, computing hardware, development environment, fingers, gadgets, hd, microsoft, microsoft surface, pc hardware, real world, samsung, stack overflow, technology | 1 Comment »
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
via: Inappropriate Use of Adobe Code Signing Certificate « Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET) Blog.
Posted in *nix, Adobe, Android Devices, Apple, HTC, HTC Sensation, iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod, iPod touch, Linux, 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, Opinions, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, 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 | Tagged: adobe software, conclusion, engineering team, precaution, secure software, software, software company, software engineering, technology, ultimate hack | Leave a Comment »
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.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, 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 »
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:
Particularly interesting posts:
–jeroen
Posted in Internet Explorer, Power User, Web Browsers, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Tagged: execcommand, internet explorer patch, internet explorer versions, layout engine, party software, software, software products, technology, zero day | 8 Comments »
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