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Moving an existing GitLab project into a new subgroup is called “Transferring”

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/14

Turns out the “slug” for a project… the part of the URL after the GitLab server domain name is made up of the “namespace” and the project name. The name space is the group/subgroup path, so I was

Via [Wayback] git – Moving an existing GitLab project into a new subgroup – Stack Overflow

Turns out the “slug” for a project… the part of the URL after the GitLab server domain name is made up of the “namespace” and the project name. The name space is the group/subgroup path, so I was looking to transfer project to new namespace.

Transferring the project to a different namespace means re-typing the project name during the transfer. You can do this using copy & paste.

The documentation is under [Wayback] Project settings: Transferring an existing project into another namespace | GitLab.

–jeroen

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Some notes on (temporarily) using CIFS/SMBv1 with Windows 10

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/13

Warning: only do this in a well confined network because of the SMBv1 has serious security implications!

Temporarily allowing SMBv1 makes it easier to transfer files from/to ancient Windows XP (virtual) machines.

Sometimes you need those to support hardware for which more modern drivers or support do not exist.

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LUMC folders over rectoscopie, coloscopie en diepe verdoving

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/10

Ik heb niet alleen prikangst, maar ook onderzoek in ziekenhuizen vind ik eng, dus voorbereiding hierop is voor is belangrijk, want uiteraard ga ik wel (en ben ik de rest van de dag uitgeteld vanwege de propofol).

Deze folders van het LUMC hielpen me de afgelopen dagen met voorbereiding:

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How isotopp became the online handle of Kristian Köhntopp

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/09

Like me, [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp is a nerd.

Unlike me, Kris bumped into character encoding issues for just about all his digital life. That started about the same time as mine, but again unlike me: he was way more involved in the technical aspects of it.

First a series of Tweets:

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Posted in ASCII, C++, Development, Encoding, EPS/PostScript, Font, ISO-8859, ISO8859, Power User, Software Development, Times New Roman | Leave a Comment »

Chocolatey on Windows 7: “You must provide a value expression on the right-hand side of the ‘-‘ operator.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/08

One of the places explaining a more and more frequent error on Windows 7 installations is [Wayback/Archive.is] “You must provide a value expression on the right-hand side of the ‘-‘ operator.” · Issue #29 · shiftkey/chocolatey-beyondcompare:

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Posted in Chocolatey, CommandLine, Development, Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, Power User, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 | Leave a Comment »

Be careful when using the System.Threading unit in versions earlier than Delphi 11 (it ditches Windows XP compatibility, for a reason)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/07

A while ago, I got reminded of a few occurrences of Delphi apps hanging after a little less than 2 months of being active.

It does not happen that often, as usually Patch Tuesday requires a reboot, but sometimes it doesn’t, or ops forgot to patch the affected machine.

The common thing for these hanging apps was that they all used the System.Threading unit (introduced in Delphi XE7). That unit relied on [Wayback] TThread.GetTickcount (added in Delphi XE3 in the System.Classes unit) which uses a 32-bit unsigned [Archive.is] cardinal value as it relied on the Windows API [Wayback] GetTickCount function which in turn has this remark:

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foone on Twitter: I google “industrial USB-C” and now everything is back to shit…

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/06

Lot’s of confusing pictures from [WayBack] foone on Twitter: “whenever I get bored and think my life is going too well, I google “industrial USB-C” and now everything is back to shit…”

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Posted in Development, Fun, Hardware, Hardware Interfacing, Power User, USB, USB, USB-C | 1 Comment »

Sciuridae Hero on Twitter: “How are the X-PhishMe and X-PhishMeTracking headers not part of every mail filtering program out there?! Security Industry Idiocy.”

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/03

[Archive.is] Sciuridae Hero on Twitter: “How are the X-PhishMe and X-PhishMeTracking headers not part of every mail filtering program out there?! Security Industry Idiocy.”

Kristian Köhntopp made me aware of these headers in [Archive.is] Kristian Köhntopp on Twitter: “Nach einer IRC Helpdesk Session: Macht Deine Firma sinnlose “Phishing Trainings”, in denen sie Mitarbeitern Fake-Nachrichten sendet um zu sehen, wer da was anklickt? Weil diese Firmen ihre Existenz rechtfertigen müssen, sind alle diese Nachrichten per X-Header trackbar.”.

More interesting posts on phishing by Kristian: [Archive.is] from:@isotopp phishing – Twitter Search

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Wake-on-LAN from a Windows machine

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/02

Before digging into Wake-on-LAN on Windows machines, I’ll interlude with basically the canonical wakonlan available on many non Windows machines

On Linux and BSD machines, there is the Perl script wakeonlan (steadily at version 0.41) at [Wayback/Archive.is] jpoliv/wakeonlan: Perl script for waking up computers via Wake-On-LAN magic packets (script: [Wayback/Archive.is] wakeonlan/wakeonlan at master · jpoliv/wakeonlan) with this help:

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Development, Perl, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Get it at a discount while it is hot: Delphi Thread Safety Patterns eBook by Dalija Prasnikar and Neven Prasnikar Jr.

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/01

Get the new [Wayback/Archive] Delphi Thread Safety Patterns eBook at a discount while it is hot:

Use Coupon Code: DTSPATT10 at checkout to get a $10 discount.
This promotional offer is valid through June 14.

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Posted in Delphi, Development, Encoding, ISO-8859, ISO8859, Mojibake, Multi-Threading / Concurrency, Software Development, UTF-8, Windows-1252 | Leave a Comment »