Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/29
Just in case I need to explain this to someone, as it has been a long time ago I did this: [WayBack] windows – Is there a single UAC binary? – Super User.
Via: [WayBack] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers: Is there a UAC binary? – Google+
Most important reference: [WayBack] How User Account Control Works | Microsoft Docs
consent.exe
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/29
I need to put some time in understanding git merge --no-ff.
Some links to get started:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/28
I love the “bigclive” YouToube channel: it is full of neat ideas, and wise tips on disassembled electrical gadgets. Most of his videos involve soldering or/and making schematics of the things he tears apart or builds.
This one is on Using LEDS as mains indicator lights on 120V and 230V (live demos):
Modern LEDs are bright enough at low current to use as directly mains powered indicators with minimal circuitry. The slight downside is that with a simple resistor circuit the vast majority of the power gets wasted as heat. But the current is so low anyway that it doesn’t really matter. Here are some simple ways to drive LEDs from 110V to 240V with minimal circuitry. I tend to recommend running resistors at around half their rating at worst as it means they will last a long time and not discolour too much with age.
His [WayBack] bigclive.com web-site is very small and shows some of his projects.
You can follow him on either youTube or on the the BigCliveDotCom reddit channel.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/28
I like it when people find out that Rubber Ducking is a good thing.
Read the story at [WayBack] … I’ve read about ‘rubber ducking’ and thought of it as a good thing, but I never really use/did it. Also I knew that SO showed me the value of MCVE,… – Mike Torrettinni – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/28
From the hindsight department [WayBack] Nice when someone in Dallas using 69.162.119.78 is querying your DNS infrastructure for many permutations of domains… https://gist.github.com/jpluimer… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+.
Wolfgang Rupprecht gave me some hints on the cause, as the IP address 69.162.119.78 Google Search used to be of a gaming server: [WayBack] TwotailsTikat’s Profile – Member List – Minecraft Forum
After a good night sleep,
# nslookup 69.162.119.78
78.119.162.69.in-addr.arpa name = mail.uptimerobot.com
In retrospect: perfectly normal behaviour for monitoring machine “snip”.
Log by https://github.com/gamelinux/passivedns
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/27
[WayBack] Keygo RTS – Afstandsbediening 4 kanalen RTS “De duurzame, stevige en spatwater bestendige afstandsbediening voor 4 kanalen”
Handleiding (ook voor integratie in bestaand RTS systeem): [WayBack] https://www.nijszonwering.nl/sites/default/files/downloads/Installatiehandleiding%20Somfy%20handzender%20KeyGo%20RTS.pdf
Bijbehorende video:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/27
Somehow Firefox is available on ARM by default, but the crash recovery isn’t that awesome.
On my list of things to try is Chrome or Chromium. These links should help me find out if this is possible at all:
On Firefox crash recovery:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/27
When I first bumped into this around 2017, I found via [WayBack] How to Make File Explorer Open This PC By Default In Windows 10 that it was just a new “Folder Options” choice that by default pointed to “Quick Access” (Dutch “Snelle Toegang”) instead of prior Windows versions opening at “This PC” (Dutch “Deze PC”).
Only recently, I found out that Scott Hanselman already tweeted about this in August 2015:
[WayBack] Scott Hanselman on Twitter: “Windows 10 Tip: You can control where Windows Explorer opens (This PC vs Quick Access). Click View | Options http://t.co/mNi6K6tVIP”
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/26
https://twitter.com/_je_suis_John/status/1287261372959596544
Remembering Peter Sellers who passed away 40 years ago today ~ Being There (1979)
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/24
A few tips:
cd /sourceDirectory
find -type f \( -not -name "md5sum.txt" \) -exec md5sum '{}' \; > md5sum.txt
.
cd /targetDirectory
md5sum -c /sourceDirectory/md5sum.txt
.
On some systems (this was an ESXi system which can’t run stuff from the console in parallel), you could optimise this using xargs for the generation and GNU parallel for the generation and checking. Both should be very similar:
GNU parallel is written to have the same options as xargs. If you write loops in shell, you will find GNU parallel may be able to replace most of the loops and make them run faster by running several jobs in parallel.
Via:
–jeroen
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