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Level 29: The BBS

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/13

How retro can you get? [WayBack] Level 29: The BBS gets very far: it runs on an Apple IIgs and provides access via modem (via a landline!), telnet or web to the same text interface.

Web access via [WayBack] Shell In A Box

                                                                                                                                                                                    
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User:

logs access to [WayBack] Level 29 BBS (@Level29_BBS) | Twitter.
is run by [WayBack] FozzTexx (@FozzTexx). Embedded Linux IoT DevOps Maker with expertise in multiple disciplines. Available for FT, PT, & contract work. Sacramento
allows members of [WayBack] Retro Battlestations (Show off your old-school computer rig! Dig out your retro computers and set them up, or dig out your vintage photos from when your computer was new!) to connect.

[WayBack] Relive the BBS dream (nightmare?) with Level 29
[WayBack] Level 29 Brings Old-school BBS to the Modern World on an Apple IIGS – The Mac Observer Before the days of Web browsers and broadband Internet, online communities were hosted by single computers you connected to by dialing in over a traditional phone line via a modem. If you miss the old days — or never had the chance to experience a BBS — now you can, thanks to Level 29. The system runs on an Apple

Via: [WayBack] Got this TV yesterday at a garage sale and hooked up the Apple II through the Sup R Mod and installed the Hayes Micromodem IIe to call Level 29 BBS. No … – Chris Osborn – Google+

–jeroen

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Remapping a mac keyboard for windows user In my quest to make this macbook air into a usable machine: Karabiner-Elements

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/10

I am still a bit ambivalent on remapping keys on a keyboard, mainly because of two reasons:

Without remapping, tools used for virtualisation, remote access and shells already get it wrong every now and then. Finding causes is already tough, so adding more degrees of freedom complicates this more.
Switching systems or assisting people without the tools can be cumbersome. I vividly remember the really hard times when I had switched from Windows Explorer to Windows Commander (now Total Commander) and could not use it on a sequence of contracting jobs.

Just in case I am going to use it:

It has an uninstaller!
It is open source: [WayBack] GitHub – tekezo/Karabiner-Elements: Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later. which taught me how git robots can be configured:
- [WayBack] Karabiner-Elements/stale.yml at master · tekezo/Karabiner-Elements · GitHub
- [WayBack] GitHub – probot/stale: automatically close stale Issues and Pull Requests
- [WayBack] Stale | Probot Close stale Issues and Pull Requests
Before the rewrite it was called Karabiner and KeyRemap4MacBook; old versions are still available when writing this:
- - Karabiner-Elements-11.6.0
    - For macOS High Sierra (10.13)
    - For macOS Sierra (10.12)
    - For macOS El Capitan (10.11)
  - Karabiner-10.22.0
    - For macOS El Capitan (10.11)
    - For macOS Yosemite (10.10)
    - For macOS Mavericks (10.9)
  - KeyRemap4MacBook-8.4.0
    - For macOS Mountain Lion (10.8)
    - For macOS Lion (10.7)
    - For macOS Snow Leopard (10.6)
  - KeyRemap4MacBook-5.1.0
    - For macOS Leopard (10.5)
    - For macOS Tiger (10.4)
  - Source code (GitHub)
Download from [WayBack] Karabiner – Software for macOS, or install via $ brew install caskroom/cask/karabiner (both need the root/administrator password as they hook deeply in your machine).

–jeroen

Via:

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“View Image” button in Google Image Search

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/10

Hopefully by now the extensions below still work, as Google removed the “View Image” button in Google Image Search a few years back.

When not: these might help finding an updated method (:

[Archive.is] Google Search “View Image” Button – Chrome Web Store: Make view image button great again.
- [WayBack] GitHub – devunt/make-gis-great-again: This web extension adds back “View Image” button to Google Image Search results.
[Archive.is] View Image – Chrome Web Store: Re-implements the Google Images’ “View Image” and “Search by Image” buttons.
- [WayBack] GitHub – bijij/ViewImage: Extension to re-implement the “View Image” and “Search by image” buttons into google images.

Via:

[WayBack] How to Bring Back the “View Image” Button In Google Image Search

Google’s image-based search engine has been a staple of the internet for more than a decade. But this morning it got a little less useful: in addition to making the reverse image search tool harder to find, the “Show Image” button has disappeared.
[WayBack] Internet rages after Google removes “view image” button, bowing to Getty | Ars Technica

Getty drops lawsuit against Google in exchange for controversial image search changes.

–jeroen

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On my tools list: Rapid Environment Editor – freeware Windows environment variables editor

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/10

On my tools list: [WayBack] About – Rapid Environment Editor Rapid Environment Editor – freeware Windows environment variables editor

Thanks to Thomas Mueller via [WayBack] I have installed RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin running under Win 10 and I have tried to install GExperts. It doesn’t install into the IDE. I run the ExpertMana… – Bill Olson – Google+.

–jeroen

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openSUSE:Standards Rpm Metadata – openSUSE: Repository layout

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/09

For my link archive: [WayBack] openSUSE:Standards Rpm Metadata – openSUSE: Repository layout.

It is not fully up to date any more on primary.xml.gz, so here are my notes for the aarch64 version of Tumbleweed:

Inspect http://download.opensuse.org/ports/aarch64/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/repomd.xml [WayBack] for the name of *-primary.xml.gz (in this case http://download.opensuse.org/ports/aarch64/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/d701c298b21d0b995c9560f9cfcc84685cb916deacc4f4c4a613a9b9d8f5aa57-primary.xml.gz [WayBack]

Download that .gz file and uncompress it

Inspect the *-primary.xml from it, look inside the metatadata root element for a package having a name element with value openSUSE-release: that package element now has a version element having a ver attribute containing the version text.

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Linux, openSuSE, Power User, SuSE Linux, Tumbleweed | Leave a Comment »

linux – How do I use sudo to redirect output to a location I don’t have permission to write to? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/09

Various ways are explained at [WayBack] linux – How do I use sudo to redirect output to a location I don’t have permission to write to? – Stack Overflow.

Some are for simple commands and can be a one liner (for instance using tee, or executing a secondary shell).

Others are more suited for longer command sequences.

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, bash, bash, Development, Power User, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

delphi – How to reset the download when the GetIt package manager fails? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/08

Since GetIt is hardly, if at all documented, but has quite a few of problems, I will likely need to use this another time: [WayBack] delphi – How to reset the download when the GetIt package manager fails? – Stack Overflow

TL;DR:

Luis Navarro from Embacadero just explained to me:

Close the IDE, then delete the OmniThread folder from MyDocuments\Embarcadero\Studio\17.0\CatalogRepository After that, you have to edit the registry and delete also the Omnithread folder from HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Embarcadero\BDS\17.0\CatalogRepository\Elements

Via:

–jeroen

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Virtual Machine Serial Console access | Blog | Microsoft Azure

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/08

Reminder to self: out of band access (some older Windows images need extra work; it works out of the box for Linux and more recent Windows images) [WayBack] Virtual Machine Serial Console access | Blog | Microsoft Azure.

Related: [WayBack] Azure virtual machine serial console | Microsoft Docs Bi-Directional serial console for Azure virtual machines (aka.ms/serialconsolehelp).

Via: [WayBack] Microsoft Serial Console: how to fix a ‘broken’ cloud – Open Source Insider

–jeroen

Posted in Azure Cloud, Cloud, Cloud Development, Development, Infrastructure, Power User, Software Development, Windows Azure | Leave a Comment »

EDSAC Simulator

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/08

Cool historic stuff: [WayBack/Archive.is] Edsac Simulator.

It simulates the 1949 built EDSAC computer.

Via: EDSCA Simulator – Computerphile (video below) which explains concepts like the mercury memory “tank” used for memory.

–jeroen

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Time to look back at the Spectre vulnerabilities.

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/07/07

About 2 years ago, over the course of almost a year, many Spectre vulnerabilities were found.

In November 2018, this lead many people disabling Hyper Threading: [WayBack] STIBP by default.. Revert?

This is a reminder to self to look back at Spectre to get a better historic feel for it.

Via: [WayBack] Work is being done on the Linux Kernel mailing list about further exploits of the Spectre Family of Exploits. The mitigations are bad – basically, you c… – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

–jeroen

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Level 29: The BBS

Remapping a mac keyboard for windows user In my quest to make this macbook air into a usable machine: Karabiner-Elements

“View Image” button in Google Image Search

On my tools list: Rapid Environment Editor – freeware Windows environment variables editor

openSUSE:Standards Rpm Metadata – openSUSE: Repository layout

linux – How do I use sudo to redirect output to a location I don’t have permission to write to? – Stack Overflow

delphi – How to reset the download when the GetIt package manager fails? – Stack Overflow

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