Interesting: namebench – Open-source DNS Benchmark Utility – Google Project Hosting.
It runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, comes with a GUI and a console version.
–jeroen
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namebench – Open-source DNS Benchmark Utility – Google Project Hosting
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Found back my WinImage license (still going strong: What is WinImage)
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/10
Every once in a while I need some disk imaging software. After all these years, WinImage is still my tool of choice.
This time, I needed it to create a Creating vSphere 5 ESXi embedded USB Stick.
Usually I only need it for a day or two, and most of the times I have reinstalled my system between uses. Not this time, so I needed to enter the license, which I knew I had, but had to search for it.
Luckily, I have installed the Lookout search tool for Outlook (which – even though you cannot officially get it any more – is so much better than the integrated search).
It found back the below message, from 1997.
1997! And the license is indeed perpetual: it still works on the most current WinImage build (which now supports x64 as well as x86, a lot more disk image formats and disk types, etc).
The WinImage site references some very old tools back from the days when you had BBS, Fidonet, ARPANET, Simtel, and Compuserve (the latter both hosted on PDP-10 machines, 1970s based technologies still ruled many of the computing world).
But I digress.
Back then, the only disk image supported were floppy disks, and most tools were DOS based. Like the FDFormat tool from Christoph H. Hochstätter which allowed you to add 300 kilobyte of extra space on 3.5 inch 1.44 megabyte floppy disk.
You can still see that in the WinImage binaries: Bootsector from C.H. Hochstatter
The email:
From: Gilles Vollant [mailto:——@winimage.com]
Sent: 07 December 1997 13:02
To: ‘——@xs4all.nl’
Subject: WinImage registration notificationThank you a lot for registering WinImage 4.00 Professional
Your code of registration is:
J——s
—————Note there is now french, english, italian, portugese, spanish and german version of WinImage.
I send you a floppy with WinImage 4.00 and my freeware Extract. I hope you’ll be happy with WinImage !Don ‘t hesitate to upload it on BBS and give to your friend !
Only two question : Where did you find WinImage and do you Windows 3.1, Win
95 or WinNT version, or both ? (you can answer in french or english)For getting more information, you can connect on my web site at :
http://www.winimage.com/winimage.htm
and at http://www.winimage.com for information and downloading other tools (including related to WinImage)Regards,
Gilles Vollant
–jeroen
via:
- What is WinImage.
- Download WinImage.
- fdformat – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- FDFORMAT 1.8 – Higher Capacity Floppy Disk Formatter.
- Dr. Bettina und Christoph Hochstätter.
- Getting Lookout to run on Outlook 2007 again – Joel on Software.
- Creating vSphere 5 ESXi embedded USB Stick « VMwire.
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Commandline equivalents for FsMgmt.msc: net share / net view / net session / net file / net use
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/03
For viewing shares, sessions and open files, you can use the FsMgmt.msc management console plugin (on the same page, Petri also has some interesting information on the NTLANUI.DLL)
You can do the same from the command line, using the NET command.
Somehow, can remember the NET SHARE and NET SESSION command, but I always forget about the NET FILE command.
Luckily, SS64 has documentation on the NET SHARE/VIEW/SESSION/FILE/USE commands on one page.
Here is what they have on NET FILE:
Display all the open shared files on a server and the lock-id
NET FILE
Close a shared file (disconnect other users and remove file locks)
NET FILE id /CLOSE
Two tiny notes:
- for NET FILE and NET SHARE you need to be Administrator (and run them from an elevated command prompt when running on Windows Vista and up).
- you can pluralize these commands as well:
– NET SHARES
– NET SESSIONS
– NET FILES
They work just like the singular version.
NET USES and NET VIEWS won’t work though.
–jeroen
via: net share / net view / net session / net file / net use.
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UNC and IPv6 (via IPv6 address – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
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
Thanks to this part of the IPv6 addresses article on Wikipedia:
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:370:7348is written as
2001-db8-85a3-8d3-1319-8a2e-370-7348.ipv6-literal.netThis 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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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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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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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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Making RoboCopy silent (via: backup – How can I make robocopy silent in the command line except for progress? – Stack Overflow)
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/14
A while ago, I got a question from a colleague on how to silence RoboCopy.
The RoboCopy /? help is a bit awkward to read, so there is this nice SO answer by Ruben Koene:
So together with previous answer you get the following and it’s silent:
ROBOCOPY [target] /njh /njs /ndl /nc /ns /np /nfl
And there is the FIND way where I marked the relevant options with an asterisk (*):
C:\Users\jeroenp>robocopy /? | find /i "No"
/S :: copy Subdirectories, but not empty ones.
/NOCOPY :: COPY NO file info (useful with /PURGE).
/PURGE :: delete dest files/dirs that no longer exist in source.
/PF :: check run hours on a Per File (not per pass) basis.
n must be at least 1 and not greater than 128.
/XJ :: eXclude Junction points. (normally included by default).
/X :: report all eXtra files, not just those selected.
* /NS :: No Size - don't log file sizes.
* /NC :: No Class - don't log file classes.
* /NFL :: No File List - don't log file names.
* /NDL :: No Directory List - don't log directory names.
* /NP :: No Progress - don't display percentage copied.
* /NJH :: No Job Header.
* /NJS :: No Job Summary.
/NOSD :: NO Source Directory is specified.
/NODD :: NO Destination Directory is specified.
–jeroen
via: backup – How can I make robocopy silent in the command line except for progress? – Stack Overflow.
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