Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/24
When you have physical access to a machine, assume it is compromised.
Sometimes the compromise can be as simple as a HID device access:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/24
Reminder to self: [WayBack] Tomato by shibby – upgrade procedure and cfg backup | LinksysInfo.org:
I keep a text file with the changes I’ve made after a fresh install and I keep the file updated as I make changes.
Re-configuring the router after that takes a bit of time, but it is not that bad. Toastman’s method (here) noted above as well as the methods described here and here can also be used, but I haven’t tried them.
which references:
nvram export –set >config.txt
This outputs the complete setup in useable text form, each line beginning with “nvram set”. This means it’s ready to input to the router without having to add the “nvram set” to every line. You could do this by ssh or telnet.
NOTE – you can only restore the whole config file to the original router. To configure a different router you need to cherry pick the important lines (see below)
e.g.
nvram set clkfreq=480,240,120
nvram set wl0_country=AU
nvram set wan_domain=freewifi
nvram commit
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/24
From quite some time ago, but still very relevant as encoding issues keep occurring:
A while ago, I saw the text “v3/43/4r” in a document.I know it comes from “vóór” (the acute accent emphasises in Dutch), and wonder which encoding failure was applied to get this wrong.
Source: [WayBack] Which encoding failure did encode “vóór” into “v3/43/4r”? – Stack Overflow
From the [WayBack] answer by rodrigo:
- ó: is U+00F3, and occupies the same codepoint (0xF3) in a lot of different encodings (most ISO-8859-* and most western Windows-*).
- In CP850 the codepint 0xF3 is ¾ (U+00BE), that is the three-quarters character. It is the same in other, less used, codepages (CP775, CP856, CP857, CP858).
- The ¾ is sometimes transliterated to 3/4 when the character is not directly available.
And there you are! “vóór” -> “v¾¾r” -> “v3/43/4r”.
The first part (ó -> ¾) is the usual corruption of ANSI vs. OEM codepages in the Western Windows versions (in my country ANSI=Windows-1252, OEM=CP850). You can see it easily creating a file with NOTEPAD, writing
vóórand dumping it in a command prompt withtype.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/21
Failed to reconfigure virtual machine W81Entx64-vs2017. There are insufficient licenses to complete this operation.
Searching for “There are insufficient licenses to complete this operation.” memory did not reveal much, so at first I thought I had a memory issue.
A quick look at esxtop in memory (m) mode indicated that was totally fine:
BTW: esxtop is a fantascit tool, with truckloads of information, so you should definitely read these:
- [WayBack] ESXTOP – Yellow Bricks
- [WayBack] Interpreting esxtop 4.1 Statistics |VMware Communities (still very relevant)
Then something occurred to me:
The cause was that I tried to update the memory of an ESXi Windows VM which I thought I had shut-down from within Windows, but actually bumped an error message during the shutdown.
Shutting down properly (shutdown -s -t 0 in Windows), then increasing the memory worked fine:
Virtual machine W81Ent64-vs2017 was successfully reconfigured.
ESXi cannot increase the memory of a live system, hence the license error as per [WayBack] VMware Hot-Add: How and When to Use it:
One of the most common questions I receive on the daily management of virtual machines is if you should turn on hot-add features and why doesn’t VMware turn them on by default. The answer is very clear.
What are the requirements for Hot-add/Hot-plug:
- Your virtual machines need to run at minimum hardware version 7.
- Hot-add/Hot-Plug is not compatible with Fault Tolerance
- vSphere Advanced, Enterprise or Enterprise plus.
- Only hot-add is possible. You cannot “hot-remove” RAM or vCPUs.
- Hot-Add/Hot-plug must be supported by the VM operating system!
- Guest-OS licensing limitations need to be monitored and taken into consideration. You are changing the number of vCPUs/RAM!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/21
Still a very insightful read: [WayBack] Swap and Memory Pressure: How Developers think to how Operations people think – The Isoblog.
I totally agree with the view Kristian Köhntopp presents which I usually call “fail early, fail hard, fail clearly”.
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] Swap and Memory Pressure: How Developers think vs. how Operations people think. – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/21
I agree with this, but used to be very bad at it: [WayBack] 5 Minutes Early Is On Time; On Time Is Late; Late Is Unacceptable
Being late is unacceptable. While that sounds harsh, it’s the truth and something that should be said more often. I don’t care whether you’re attending a dinner party, a conference call, or a coffee meeting — your punctuality says a lot about you.
A few things that helped me:
It’s still not perfect, but they help me things I had a hard time coping with:
Via: [WayBack] 5 Minutes Early Is On Time; On Time Is Late; Late Is Unacceptable – Marjan Venema – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/20
From an interesting discussion at [Archive.is/WayBack] FaceBook: Delphi developer thread by Jarto Tarpio with some measurements by Jarto Tarpio and André Mussche.
NeverSleepOnThreadContention, UseSwitchToThread, and UseReleaseStack then measure.FullDebugMode address space is never released back to the operating system so once the address space has been exhausted there is very little room to manoeuvre.SetMemoryReleaseRate and ReleaseFreeMemory in …/obones/tcmalloc-delphi/…/tcmalloc.pasThe differences make it a challenge to integrate in your development and deployment process: because of the debugging facilities, you’d like FastMM in all your environments, but TCMalloc in multi-threaded environments with high allocation/deallocation rates.
One possibility is to have your CI environment deliver both in all stages, run all tests on both, then choose the final one depending on your run-time configuration.
That gives a burden on configuring your Continuous Integration, but the gain might outweigh this cost.
Relevant links from the Facebook thread:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/20
A while ago I wrote about Until 20171201 you can get free access to “Automate the Boring Stuff with Python”?.
That book is still free. And these great books are too:
Via: [WayBack] Cracking Codes with Python by @AlSweigart teaches complete beginners how to program in Python. The book features the source code to several ciphers and … – ThisIsWhyICode – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/20
Long read but very much worth it: [WayBack] Writing a Time Series Database from Scratch | Fabian Reinartz.
On using the file systems strengths for a flexible time series database that is both fast to write, and read millions of data points per second.
via:
Similarly interesting: [WayBack] Translations: This article was translated to Simplified Chinese by Xiong Duo and to Korean by Matt Lee (이 성욱). Introduction I want to make solid-state
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/19
Since I often forget to cleanup some bits of a migration: [WayBack] Migrate to PackageReference with 3 clicks:
Related:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 