Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/03
[Wayback/Archive.is] capitaltg/thea: Certificate Checker
Certificate Checker provides an easy-to-use solution to check certificates, certificate chains, and TLS configurations. To run Certificate Checker for publicly-accessible web sites you can go to:
https://certchecker.app and enter in there a URL to check.
Users can easily run Certificate Checker in an internal network to validate or troubleshoot their TLS configuration. To run it on a local network you can run the Docker image as described below. You can also build the application and deploy it on an existing server.
It runs on [Wayback/Archive.is] Certificate Checker.
I used it to check various certificates and chains, including those for my GitHub Pages explained last week in Setting up a GitHub project so it is served over https as a custom subdomain.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/03
There is a Harman Kardon Remote app on [Wayback/Archive.is] Android and [Wayback/Archive.is] iOS.
It can control Harman Kardon AVR and BDS devices, and the communication appears to be simple XML over HTTP according to [Wayback/Archive.is] H/K AVR 151 Remote Control API – Adam Parsons.
It got reverse engineered into two libraries, both based on string concatenating XML HTTP requests:
Note:
- the Harman Kardon Remote app only runs on my local IPv4 subnet (it won’t work routing from one IPv4 to another IPv4), hopefully the API works better
- the app does auto-detect (wich often fails) of on-line Harman Kardon AVR/BDS devices, I wonder how that is implemented
- there is this [Wayback] Harman Kardon AVR – Home Assistant plugin
- it works on some JBL devices too, as they are based on Harman Kardon internals: [Wayback] Harmon/Kardon AVR – Configuration – Home Assistant Community
I just tested it with a unit test and it work on my JBL AVR101 (same API as the Harman/Kardon)
- that the Harman Kardon remoting protocol is quite unstable (and even worse than the above Remote apps) that can only be solved by cold-rebooting your Harman Kardon device (observed this both on a BDS 277 and BDS 580), so be sure to have a remote controlled power outlet for that.
- You often have to cold-reboot these anyway because they stop listening to the IR-remote control as well or listen to HDMI commands (like ARC or CEC), so I already had such a switch in place.
- Same for Samsung TVs that over time will not wake up using CEC and require cold-rebooting
- various devices and firmware versions have different ideas of the
sleep command and eventually can perform a full shutdown, see the comments at [Wayback/Archive.is] Add list of known devices · KarimGeiger/HKAPI@6036d4f.
- the Harkan Kardon Remote protocol is totally different from the Harman Kardon Controller protocol used by the Harman Kardon Controller apps on [Wayback/Archive.is] Android and [Wayback/Archive.is] iOS.
- For people interested: the Harman Kardon Controller protocol is for the Harman Kardon Omni speakers and use a JSON/REST API, with:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/05/02
A while ago I wrote about Stop 0x0000007B after converting an existing XP machine to a Virtual Machine (ESXi, Hyper-V, or other).
After this, the machine still had boot issues (a grey or black screen after boot, unless booted via Grub from a rescue CD).
The solution in retrospect was simple, but I only figured out after the fact what the solution had done.
Of course this gave me a facepalm moment, as back in the days, this was exactly the warning I gave everyone when installing Windows XP on ESXi anyway: use a SCSI buslogic based virtual disk, not an IDE or SATA virtual disk.
The reason is that Windows XP does not like the IDE/SATA disk that VMware provides. Windows Vista and up are less of a problem.
This is indeed what my practical solution did:
- VMware Converter 4.x creates a VM with an IDE/SATA disk (as it cannot talk to the more recent ESXi versions at all because of API changes)
- VMware Converter 6.x creates a VM with a buslogic SCSI base disk (and it can create it directly on your ESXi rig, though it will use a directory in the root of your data store, even if you prefer it somewhere deeper in the directory tree)
References:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/29
Today is my birthday. I am turning 53 today. But when writing this I’m not sure I am what we Dutch call “schoon”. It is a Dutch euphemism that I dislike, but still accidentally use. The thing is that one never knows for sure to be really clean from he signs of cancer metastases.
While writing this post, I’m in a melancholic mood during a period of depression/burnout after all the treatments. I am reflecting on if and how I survived the metastasised rectum cancer and lived through all other stressful things that started somewhere early 2017.
So I was glad to find the tweet below on the edge of spring that inspired me, I originally made me draft this post as being titled
“Surviving cancer is not a fight or a battle, it is about having luck or misfortune”
It was a (now by posting this link) pointer back to Having cancer is not a fight or a battle, it is about having luck or misfortune.
But it doesn’t do the artwork of Désirée Hairwassers justice, so here is her tweet:
[Wayback/Archive] Dees on Twitter: “Het lijkt mij ook een gepast moment om jullie mijn boek te presenteren. In het Engels, want gericht op de hele wereld. Dun boek. Dat moet een bestseller worden….. “
Translated: “I also think it is an appropriate time to present my book to you. In English, because aimed at the whole world. Thin book. That should be a bestseller”
And her video about “How to survive cancer: The inspirational journey of Désirée Hairwassers” showing the book. A very focused book (if it does not show, click on her above tweet to see it):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/29
Sometimes machines die without one having had the chance of doing a proper bootable file-system backup instead of a file-by-file-backup.
You can still P2V these machines (convert them from physical to virtual), but it is a lot more pain as you have to try to grab any installation keys for them and create a compatible virtual machine configuration by hand like I did in P2V of an existing XP machine to Hyper-V to have an emergency fallback when retiring old XP physical machines.
The below linked answer (with steps) uses Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (now back in the hands of Veritas again as Backup Exec) to make part of this process towards VMware ESXi less tedious: [Wayback] virtualization – Convert a hard-drive into a VMWare machine – Server Fault (thanks [Wayback] Mark Booth and [Wayback] Dave M)
Doing this might require you to find old Windows XP media. Those are in the Internet Archive (often slower, but has the file hashes too) and The Eye (much faster from where I live in Europe); Internet Archive examples are for English, though other languages are present as well:
Got the Internet Archive tip from [Wayback/Archive.is] Where can I download an official Windows XP ISO? I have a license key if that helps? : windows, found the correct filename there, then downloaded the [Wayback] The Eye.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/28
Sometimes you want to have an iframe covering the full page, so for my link archive:
Notes:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/27
Some links that helped me getting this working:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/25
Since they are likely to perform an FTR/EFTR procedure to remove a ~2.5cm sized polyp growing inside the colon on top of the LAR (Lower Anterior Resection) surgical suture line, below are some links, partially in Dutch, partly in English.
Searches
Since they are related to my LAR-syndrome symptoms:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/04/22
For my link archive:
Built in Norway by privacy-friendly Europeans, Whereby is the easiest way to meet over video. There’s no app or software download required. Just choose your own personalized URL and meet using your internet browser – on mobile or desktop – with only one click.
[Wayback] Pricing | Whereby
The lowers plan is interesting:
Free, forever:
- Host up to 100 participants
- Unlimited one-on-one meetings
- Group meetings for up to 45 minutes
Keywords: videoconference, videocall, beeldbellen
––jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 