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Bootable virus scanners supporting ntfs

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/09

I was looking for a bootable virus scanner supporting NTFS. Kaspersky was the first one I found, and it worked well.

Back then, these were the output locations:

The HTTP link can be convenient for locations that do not support TLS (cough, VMware ESXi wget, cough), which are OK if you calculate the sha256 hash from the TLS link first.

Likely there is a 2020 version by now.

I got the links via:

I might try BitDefender later.

–jeroen

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“net view” “System error 1231 has occurred.” “Windows 10”

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/09

On my research list: none of my Windows 10 PC’s in WORKGROUP can see that other machines exist, but they can connect to each other.

C:\>net view
System error 1231 has occurred.c

C:\>net view
System error 6118 has occurred.

On Windows 8.1 and 7 (I know: both beyond end-of-support) can see both Windows 8.1/7 machines and Windows 10 machines:

C:\>net view
Server Name          Remark
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
\\...
The command completed successfully.

It is unclear on which Windows 10 release this started failing. I think it is around 1803 (April 2018 Update) or 1709 (Fall Creators Update). It fails despite all settings indicating sharing and discovery are enabled:

Things tried that failed:

Start service WebClient

Tried from an administrative command prompt, then waited a minute:

C:\net start WebClient
The WebClient service is starting.
The WebClient service was started successfully.

Failed.

Via: [WayBack] System error 1231 has occurred – Microsoft Community

Ensure system names are uppercase

The system names were already in uppercase.

Via: [WayBack] Win10 10586 – FOUND FIX for system error 1231 bug ( network shares – Microsoft Community

TODO

Note: do not re-enable SMBv1 as it is inherently insecure!

–jeroen

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Poundland lights unexpected feature and USB mod. to operate christmas lights using USB – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/09

Cool video with nice ideas:

–jeroen

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PoE to ethernet + micro USB converters

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/06

The first is 100mbit, some do not get it to work with Raspberry Pi 3B+, but others do get it to work, even at 1Gbit:

The second is 1Gbit, about 40% more expensive, but just works:

Via: [WayBack] Thread by @Nick_Craver: “Shout out to @mstum for reminding me 1Gb PoE USB splitters are completely viable for Raspberry Pis – now running a fi PoE switches and using just 1 outlet on the UPS: … Less wiring and if the network’s […]”

–jeroen

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OpenCandy – Wikipedia

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/06

Hmm, one of my machines contained OpenCandy – Wikipedia as found by Malwarebytes (software) – Wikipedia:

Tracking back the installation, revealed it came with ImgBurn 2.5.8.0, which is now on my black-list.

In my case this was how to remove it:

rd /s /q %AppData%\OpenCandy

This is not universal; you might need to take additional measures like in [WayBack] How to Remove PUP.Optional.OpenCandy (Removal Guide).

I use this batch-file to get the most recent Malwarebytes and Chameleon:

get-malware-bytes.bat 

:: redirects to something like wget https://data-cdn.mbamupdates.com/web/mb3-setup-consumer/mb3-setup-consumer-3.6.1.2711-1.0.508-1.0.8211.exe
wget --content-disposition https://downloads.malwarebytes.com/file/mb3/
:: redirects to something like wget https://data-cdn.mbamupdates.com/web/mbam-chameleon-3.1.33.0.zip
wget --content-disposition https://downloads.malwarebytes.com/file/chameleon/

If you do not have wget on your system, then try this PowerShell alternative (which does not show progress) via [WayBack] Windows batch file file download from a URL – Stack Overflow

:: in case you do not have wget:
powershell -Command "(New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('https://downloads.malwarebytes.com/file/mb3/', 'mb3.exe')"
powershell -Command "(New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('https://downloads.malwarebytes.com/file/chameleon/', 'chameleon.exe')"
:: note these do not show progress!
:: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4619088/windows-batch-file-file-download-from-a-url

Related: [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “What if the most recent @Malwarebytes on a Windows 8.1 x64 VM (all patches installed) on ESXi backed by NVME hangs for hours on one file with hardly any CPU usage? Screenshots of mbam.exe, mbamservice.exe and mbamtray.exe thread usage below.

–jeroen

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het verbindingsboogje en de punt achter de noot – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/06

Omdat ik laatst iemand hielp met het lezen van noten en het bepalen van lengte, wat linkjes en een video.

Mijn eigen ezelsbruggetje is altijd een patroon van 2/# wat 3/# wordt:

  1. hele noot (4/4 of 2/2) wordt 3/2 of 6/4
  2. halve noot (2/4 of 1/2) wordt 3/4
  3. kwart noot (1/4 of 2/8) wordt 3/8
  4. achtste noot (1/8 of 2/16) wordt 3/16
  5. zestiende noot (1/16 of 2/32) wordt 3/32

Ooit maak ik daar een mooi plaatje van, als ik een on-line plek heb gevonden waar ik noten kan schrijven zonder te hoeven inloggen. Dit hielp niet echt: [WayBack] Best music notation software: online, offline, apps and everything else – Creative Music Education of [Archive.is] What is the best free online music notation software? – Quora

De linkjes

–jeroen

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AmazonSmile Hilfe: Kontaktdaten unserer Logistikpartner

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/05

[Archive.is] AmazonSmile Hilfe: Kontaktdaten unserer Logistikpartner

–jeroen

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How To Use Journalctl to View and Manipulate Systemd Logs | DigitalOcean

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/05

For my link archive because of the tips: [WayBack] How To Use Journalctl to View and Manipulate Systemd Logs | DigitalOcean

–jeroen

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Register and use a custom clipboard format in Delphi – twm’s blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/05

Cool post: [WayBack] Register and use a custom clipboard format in Delphi – twm’s blog.

It is about transmitting GPS (WGS 84) coordinates from one program to another via the clipboard.

One day I will find some time to dust off some draft clipboard posts that I have been dormant for too long.

These already got published:

Via [WayBack] I just now had the need to transmit GPS (WGS 84) coordinates from one program to another. First, I simply copied longitude and latitude separately using… – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+

–jeroen

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Git history in Visual Studio Code

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/11/04

Out of the box, Visual Studio Code does allow you to pull from and commit/push to git repositories, but it has not much more git support.

These two marketplace extensions will help big time:

I like GitLens most as it covers so much more than just git history.

If you only need git history access, then you can use Git History as well.

More information and a better comparison:

–jeroen

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