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Belastingaangifte 2021 met Excel gratis downloaden | Computer Idee

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/25

Helaas gaf [Wayback/Archive] excel inkomstenbelasting 2021 – Google Search niet de directe link naar de downloadpagina.

Gelukkig [Wayback/Archive] belastingaangifte 2022 site:www.computeridee.nl – Google Search wel:

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Jan-Pieter Cornet on Twitter: “@rckjnsn @KarinSpaink @jpluimers @Jan_WdeVries @JeroenFrijters @xs4all @corbosman Zodra je lijn gemigreerd is naar KPN, werken de xs4allnl DNS entries niet meer. Zie punt I3 op …”

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/25

[Wayback/Archive] Jan-Pieter Cornet on Twitter: “@rckjnsn @KarinSpaink @jpluimers @Jan_WdeVries @JeroenFrijters @xs4all @corbosman Zodra je lijn gemigreerd is naar KPN, werken de xs4all.nl DNS entries niet meer. Zie punt I3 op …”

met verwijzing naar [Wayback/Archive] Overzicht – XS4ALL:

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Chocolatey 1.0.0 got released last week (chocolatey/choco · GitHub)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/24

Last week finally there was the stable [Wayback/Archive] Release version 1.0.0 · chocolatey/choco · GitHub.

So I fixed the Wikipedia page

It was a few days after the 11th birthday “Celebration”: [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software Blog | This One Goes To 11! Celebrating 11 Years Of Chocolatey. Not a really festive post, though it does have a really nice overview of 11 years of Chocolatey history and clearly showing the momentum of it has been a few years behind us.

The thing is: hardly anybody noticed the celebration nor the 1.0.0 release. Being at various 0.* versions for like a decade makes people not follow sudden version bumps closely. I only noticed when updating a bunch of testing VMs of which one had a problem, so I inspected the logs and saw the 1.0.0 version.

So these recent tweets did not gain much attention:

Anyway: the release notes indicate a few things scheduled for 2.0.0. Given the sudden 0.12.0 -> 1.0.0 bump, I have no clue far (or near!) in the future that will be.

It is kind of both a saddening and relieved feeling: like for instance Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange (both in the same age cohort as Chocolatey), Chocolatey is just there and mostly works.

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, Batch-Files, C#, Chocolatey, CommandLine, Development, Power User, PowerShell, PowerShell, Scripting, Software Development, Windows | Leave a Comment »

MSI Z77A-G43 support and downloads

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/24

For my link archive: [Wayback] MSI Z77A-G43 support and downloads

Note that Windows 10 does not seem to need additional drivers, even Wake-on-LAN works with the stock Windows 10 drivers (but does require two BIOS settings and three Windows driver settings, see [Wayback] Wake-on-LAN (WoL) | MSI HQ User-to-User FAQ.

Max processor information based on the below links.

  • Max processor that supports VT-d (for virtualisation), but no manual overclocking: i7 3770.
  • Max processor that supports manual overclocking, but not VT-d: i7 3770K

From:

Via: [Wayback] MSI Z77A-G43 – Kenmerken – Tweakers

–jeroen

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Some links on making a Windows 10 image backup to a network share and restoring from it

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/24

Earlier this month, I posted How to make a full backup of your Windows 10 PC | Windows Central.

That solution describes how to backup to and restore from a (different) local drive using the Windows 7/8.x tools ([Wayback] “Create a system image”) that still ship with Windows 10.

Soon, I need to be able to store a backup on a network location (and restore from it), so here are some links that hopefully solve this with the same tools (all via [Wayback] windows 10 restore image from network folder – Google Search):

–jeroen

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Wake-on-LAN (WoL) | MSI HQ User-to-User FAQ

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/23

[Wayback] msi hq user-to-user faq: wake on lan (wol) by Author Ruudt Swaanen on 3 May, 2017, paraphrased by me:

  1. In the BIOS:
    1. Under “Settings -> Advanced -> Power Management Setup”, disable the option “EuP 2013” (my mainboard) or “ERP Ready”.

      Disabling this function will keep the LAN port enabled when the system is put to Sleep (S3) or in Shutdown (S5) mode.

      Enabling this function will use less power (see [Wayback] What is EuP 2013? | Overclock.net)

    2. Under  “Settings -> Wake Up Event Setup”, enable the option “Resume By PCI or PCI-E Device” (my mainboard) or “Resume by LAN”.
  2. In the Windows 10 Control Panel, (control.exe) with an Administrator elevation token):
    1. In the “Power Options” Control Panel applet (powercfg.cpl), under “Choose what the power buttons do”, disable the option “Turn on fast startup (recommended)”.

      On many MSI based machines, the option “Turn on fast startup (recommended)” interferes with Wake-on-LAN.

    2. In the “Device Manager” (devmgmt.msc), under your network adapter change these options (the naming slightly differs per vendor/model; below is for generic Realtek PCIe GBE):
      1. On the “Power Management” tab, enable these options:
        • “Allow this device to wake the computer”
        • “Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer”
      2. On the “Advanced” tab, enable these options:
        • “Wake on Magic Packet”
        • “Wake on pattern match”
      3. On the “Advanced” tab, set this value:
        • “WOL & Shutdown Link Speed” is “10 Mbps First”

Now test in these global Power States:

  • S5 “soft off” (the state where there is a power cord connected, but none of the fans spin)
  • S4 “hibernating” (if you have turned that on in the power options)
  • S3 “sleeping”

This worked well for S3 and S5 (but not S4) on my MSI Z77A-G43 based Windows 10 PC and only required stock network driver for the “Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller” shown in the Device Manager (devmgmt.msc) and you can find on [Wayback] Microsoft Update Catalog: Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller Driver.

For more Wake on LAN blog posts, including how to initiate a Wake-on-LAN request, see the category Wake-on-LAN (WoL).

–jeroen

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Some links on USB pass-through for ESXi

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/23

For my link archive (especially because when disconnecting USB devices, the path value needs to be uber-correct, while for connecting, the path value only needs to be a partial match):

Commands applicable:

  • lsusb
  • the /var/log/vmkernel.log file filtered on usb (in a case insensitive way)
  • vim-cmd vmsvc/device.getdevices
  • vim-cmd vmsvc/device.connusbdev
  • vim-cmd vmsvc/device.disconnusbdev

–jeroen

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“Using Tailscale on Windows to network more easily with WSL2 and Visual Studio Code”

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/23

“Using Tailscale on Windows to network more easily with WSL2 and Visual Studio Code”

Points to [Wayback] Using Tailscale on Windows to network more easily with WSL2 and Visual Studio Code – Scott Hanselman’s Blog

 

Related:

–jeroen

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Wayback machine and VMware KB links

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/22

The VMware KB is notoriously bad into being saved in the WayBack Machine: saved links hardly render at all because of the VMware KB dynamic page loading structure.

But VMware KB articles expire, so a lot of web-pages point to non-existing links and end up through redirections at [Archive.is] https://kb.vmware.com/s/pagenotfound.

Below are a few link forms of the same VMware KB 2011818 article that vanished from the regular web. The first is saved in the WayBack Machine (but does not render), the second is saved and does render after a redirect to a saved third form, the most recent saved fourth form is actually a 404-error redirecting to a prior third form.

  1. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2011818
  2. http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2011818
  3. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2011818
  4. http://kb.vmware.com:80/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2011818

The first link form does archive as a rendered page in Archive.is if is is archived. t wasn’t, so the current archived version points to the “pagenotfound” page mentioned above.

Sometimes you have to dig deeper, as not all rendering archived versions contain actual content.

Here the first one is not even archived, the other ones are, but none of them have actual usable content:

  1. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2007922
  2. http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007922
  3. http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2007922
  4. http://kb.vmware.com:80/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2007922

This means you have to dig further in history:

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20140123114343/http://kb.vmware.com:80/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2007922 indicates not authorized
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20130117041323/http://kb.vmware.com:80/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2007922 shows the actual content.

–jeroen

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Stop 0x0000007B after converting an existing XP machine to a Virtual Machine (ESXi, Hyper-V, or other)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/22

In 2015, I posted P2V of an existing XP machine to Hyper-V to have an emergency fallback when retiring old XP physical machines and did a short edit on 20210727 promising about a future article on trying to fix the [Wayback] stop 0x0000007B blue screen.

This stop can that can happen during boot when the converted Windows XP requires different disk drivers than the physical Windows XP. Windows Vista and up are smarter to figure out the required changes, but Windows XP wasn’t.

The above screenshot is actually from the same physical Windows XP machine after doing the conversion, I wanted to try and run the virtual machine on physical hardware close to the original before moving it to the actual VMware host (yup, the Windows XP machine had been used as a VMware host before, so it had both VMware Workstation 6.5 and VMware Converter 4.01 installed).

The reason I wanted to move my last Windows XP machine to a virtual machine was that it was the only computer that could still print to my old, but nice, Olympus P-400 color dye sublimation printer. I mentioned this in 2015 when Installing the PIXMA mini260 – Canon Europe drivers under Windows 8.1 x64 – trying to say goodbye to Windows XP

I need to find a way to get my [Wayback/Archive.is] Olympus Camedia P-400 Digital Color Photo Printer. That is a lot harder: the latest Windows [Wayback] P-400 Printer > Software Downloads are for Windows XP.

At the end, of the blog post are a few links on the stop 0x0000007B and the Universal Boot CD for Windows workaround.

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