The CSS from [WayBack/Archive.is] Naughty naughty no alt that shows the below red moving rendering of images that do not have an alt-text is simple:
Naughty naughty no alt: CSS style to clearly show which images lack an alt-text
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/05
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UniFi USG link dump
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/04
I wanted to setup a UniFi USG (Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway) with round robin multi-WAN and incoming port forwarding on both WAN connections.
Quite a few links were the result:
- [WayBack] USG (not Pro) can you run dual WAN | Ubiquiti Community:
- You will need controller 5.5x and its bundled firmware to have the (Ex VoiP) WAN2 or LAN2 possibility.
- You can set 2 modes with the dual WAN configuration. You have the option to use them in a failover configuration or in weighted load balanced configuration. Weighted load balancing allows you to specify a percentage of traffic to go over the second link.
- [WayBack] Ubiquiti USG UniFi Firewall dual wan – Google Search
- [WayBack] install Ubiquiti USG UniFi Firewall multi-wan – Google Search
- [WayBack] UniFi – USG Port Forward: Port Forwarding Configuration and Troubleshooting – Ubiquiti Networks Support and Help Center
- [WayBack] install Ubiquiti USG UniFi Firewall – Google Search
Adoption was another headache. Some links on that too:
- [WayBack] UniFi – Troubleshooting Device Adoption Failures – Ubiquiti Networks Support and Help Center
- [WayBack] UniFi – Device Adoption Methods for Remote UniFi Controllers – Ubiquiti Networks Support and Help Center
- [WayBack] USG won’t adopt, tried manual upgrade of firmware | Ubiquiti Community
- [WayBack] Newbie stuck – USG set up and upgrade | Ubiquiti Community
- [WayBack] Newbie stuck – USG set up and upgrade | Ubiquiti Community
- [WayBack] Can’t adopt, provision, or upgrade firmware on any devices with new controller install | Ubiquiti Community
- [WayBack] UniFi – USG: How to Adopt a USG into an Existing Network – Ubiquiti Networks Support and Help Center
If you end up in a cannot adopt state, then a reset is the only practical way to go:
–jeroen
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Solved: ‘Answering Yes to “You have an older version of PackageManagement known to cause issues with the PowerShell extension. Would you like to update PackageManagement (You will need to restart the PowerShell extension after)?” hung my Visual Studio Code.…’
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/04
From a while back: [Archive.is] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: ‘Answering Yes to “You have an older version of PackageManagement known to cause issues with the PowerShell extension. Would you like to update PackageManagement (You will need to restart the PowerShell extension after)?” hung my Visual Studio Code.… ‘
After clicking “Yes”, the the only thing visible was this notification that had an ever running “progress bar”:
Notifications – Powershell – Source: Powershell (Extension)
The first part of the solution was relatively simple: restart Visual Studio code, then the original notification showed, and after clicking “Yes”, the “Panel” (you can toggle it with Ctrl+J) showed the “Terminal” output (yes, I was working on [Wayback/Archive.is] PowerShell script for sending Wake-on-LAN magic packets to given machine hardware MAC address, more about that later):
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UCM6200 series IP PBX for Unified Communications- Grandstream Networks
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/04
The UCM6200 IP PBX series allows businesses to unify multiple communication technologies, such as voice, video calling, video conferencing, video surveillance, data tools, mobility options and facility access management onto one common network.
[WayBack] UCM6200 series IP PBX for Unified Communications- Grandstream Networks
–jeroen
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Word: have part of Heading 1/2/3 not show up in the table of contents
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/01
Every now and then, for instance with a document including other documents, like in a homework assignment, you might want to exclude part of your Heading 1 (or Heading 2/Heading 3) entries from the table of contents.
Since presence in the Table of Contents is a ToC feature, not a style feature, you have to set the correct options in the ToC.
This is how you do it:
- Create new styles for the headings you do not want in the ToC (I call them “Heading 1, no ToC”; “Heading 2, no ToC”; etcetera) and base each on the corresponding style “Heading 1” or “Heading 2”

- Modify your Table of Contents to exclude these new styles (as they are automatically included)
This is contrary to many advices to use the “Reference” toolbar, then “Add Text” marked “Do Not Show In Table Of Contents”. That advice will remove the heading formatting completely and remove it from the navigation pane, so do not follow [WayBack] Quick Tip: How to exclude headings from the Table of Contents in Microsoft Word – jeffreykusters.nl.
The above solution both keeps the formatting, and the appearance in the navigation pane. It only disappears from the Table of Contents.
It is based on:
- [WayBack] How To Exclude Headings From The Table Of Contents In Microsoft Word | Lifehacker Australia
- [Archive.is] How to exclude certain headings from the multilevel numbering – Microsoft Community
- [Archive.is] Word 2016: Exclude Heading from TOC But NOT from Navigation Pane
- [Archive.is] How to remove table of contents but maintain heading format in Word – Microsoft Community (some people use names like “Hidden 1”, “Hidden 2”)
Following the above steps, you get styles like this:
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Some Alulux links videos for my archive
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/01
Since we have a similar garage door, below the fold some videos.
Before the fold some links.
- [WayBack] de Garagedeur Expert: De specifieke kenmerken van Alulux Resident roldeuren
- [WayBack] de Garagedeur Expert: In welke afmetingen is een Alulux Resident roldeur leverbaar? Hoeveel inbouwruimte is er nodig?
- [WayBack] de Garagedeur Expert: Folders, documentatie en andere downloads voor de Alulux Resident garagedeur
- [WayBack] Roldeur Expert: Minimale inbouwruimtes, maximaal comfort met Alulux Resident roldeuren – informatie, foto’s en specificaties
- [WayBack] Das platzsparende Aluminium-Garagentor: Rolltor Resident | Alulux
- [locally archived: Planer_Garagentore.pdf] http://www.fricksonnenschutz.de/uploads/media/Planer_Garagentore.pdf
- [WayBack] MAXI-Rollladen-XXL-Montageanleitung.pdf (setting the endpoints on various motors)
Manual control is optional: [WayBack] Nothandkurbel (NHK) | Alulux
Remote control:
- [WayBack] Benny Roll-Torsteuerung 4.0 Alulux-201250 (end-of-life, just for historic reference)
- [WayBack] RTS04XL | Weller Rolltor Steuerung, für Alulux und Roma Rolltore-124.001 | Weller RTS04XL (replaces benny 4.0; replaced with RTS20Q)
- [WayBack] Funkmodul Dickert 868,3 MHz Keelog-HQAM868-57
- [WayBack] Funkmodul Dickert 868,3 MHz Keelog-HQAM868-57
- [WayBack] Universal Mini-Empfänger Dickert E27Q 2-Kanal 230V / 12-24Volt-E27Q-A201
- [WayBack] Dickert Rolltorsteuerung RTS 20Q | kompetenter Fachhandel | Torix.de or [WayBack] RTS20Q Rolltor Steuerung Dickert-RTS20Q-01(replaces benny 4.0; requires separate wireless receiver)
- Best for me was to buy the one including the most versatile receiver [WayBack] Dickert Rolltorsteuerung RTS 20Q | kompetenter Fachhandel | Torix.de
mit Smart 433-868 MHz Amplituenmodulation
- [WayBack] Dickert Funkmodul HQAM-Smart-57 Smartphone- und Funksteuerung | kompetenter Fachhandel | Torix.de
Smartphone per Bluetooth und weiterhin über 868 MHz und 433 MHz Handsender
- Best for me was to buy the one including the most versatile receiver [WayBack] Dickert Rolltorsteuerung RTS 20Q | kompetenter Fachhandel | Torix.de
- Bei einer Benny CD Tronic Rolltor Steuerung Neuen Handsender einlernen – YouTube
Generic:
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Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/09/30
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One of the Let’s Encrypt’s Root Certificates expired today (and their corresponding intermediate yesterday); how is your infrastructure doing?
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/09/30
Last weekend I published 5 days before the Let’s Encrypt’s Root Certificate is expiring!
It basically was a post trying to amplify the [Wayback/Archive.is] Let’s Encrypt’s Root Certificate is expiring! message by [Wayback] Scott Helme .
Yesterday and today, he is maintaining a Twitter thread on things that have broken.
Quite a few things have, including some versions of curl, on which a lot of infrastructure relies (the certificate for it got fixed later on 20120930), see:
- [Archive.is] Scott Helme on Twitter: “Yeah that’s reasonable, we’ve not had a notable certificate chain expiry issue like this to speak of really.… “
- [Archive.is] Daniel 🥌 Stenberg on Twitter: “the Mozilla CA cert bundle on curl.se now has the expired ‘DST Root CA X3’ cert removed: …”
- [Wayback/Archive.is] curl – Extract CA Certs from Mozilla:
This bundle was generated at Thu Sep 30 03:12:05 2021 GMT .
- [Wayback/Archive.is] curl – Extract CA Certs from Mozilla:
- [Archive.is] Daniel 🥌 Stenberg on Twitter: “The order is restored and https://libssh2.org/ is again served by a good cert. Sorry for the minor disruption.”
Two important starting points in his thread:
- [Archive.is] Scott Helme on Twitter: “🚨🚨🚨 5 minutes until the Let’s Encrypt R3 intermediate expires 🚨🚨🚨 29 September 2021 19:21:40 UTC”
- [Archive.is] Scott Helme on Twitter: “🚨🚨🚨 30 minute warning 🚨🚨🚨 IdentTrust DST Root CA X3 Expires: Sep 30 14:01:15 2021 UTC… “
If you want to check from one of your own clients, try [Archive.is] Scott Helme on Twitter: “I’ve created a test site to help identify issues with clients. If you can connect to https://t.co/bXHsnlRk8D then your client can handle being served the expired R3 Intermediate in the server chain!… “
[Wayback/Archive.is] https://expired-r3-test.scotthelme.co.uk/
Note that neither SSLabs, nor Cencys, nor CertCheckkerApp do show the expired certificate, only the new one:
- [Wayback/Archive.is] SSL Server Test: pluimers.com (Powered by Qualys SSL Labs)
- [Wayback/Archive.is] CN=pluimers.com – Censys
- [Wayback/Archive.is] CertCheckerApp Certificate Checker: pluimers.com
Yes, I know the pluimers.com web server is rated B from a TLS perspective. Will be working on it, but I’m still recovering from rectum cancer treatments, and have an almost 1.5 year backlog to get through.
–jeroen
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