Reminder to self: dig deeper in to this thread [WayBack] …In ToolsAPI.pas there’s IOTACodeInsightManager100 which is implemented by my custom CodeInsight manager… – Fl Ko – Google+
–jeroen
Initeresting CodeInsight ToolsAPI.pas bits IOTACodeInsightManager100, AllowCodeInsight, EditorTokenValidChars
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on my research list: autossh
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/12
Having mainly used ssh as a means to connect to a shell on remote machines and occasionally a manual port forward.
I never noticed autossh where you can automate the ssh logon process to keep permanent port forwards up and running. Cool!
It’s on my research list now, as this will be useful probably sooner than later:
- [WayBack] autossh
- [WayBack] autossh(1): monitor/restart ssh sessions – Linux man page autossh is a program to start a copy of ssh and monitor it, restarting it as necessary should it die or stop passing traffic.
- [WayBack] Permanent SSH Tunnels with autossh | Linuxaria
- Translation of Italian article [WayBack] AutosshTunnel – Truedoc – labs
- [WayBack] Keeping your SSH connections alive with autossh | Linux.com | The source for Linux information: With autossh, you can monitor your SSH connections and restart them if they stop sending traffic or SSH exits abnormally. This makes autossh perfect for keeping secure port forwarding available.
- [WayBack] Autossh for persistent database connectivity – Compose Articles Both SSL with whitelisting and SSH tunnelling into databases are powerful options when it comes to connecting to Compose database deployments. We recently introduced SSL for RethinkDB because it is the quickest and easiest way to get a secure connection, but there are still situations when you need an SSH
- [Archive.is] SSH tunnelling for fun and profit: Autossh SSH tunnelling for fun and profit: AutoSSH. Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels with AutoSSH and use systemd to launch SSH tunnels at boot time.
- [WayBack] npm autossh: Persistent SSH tunnels
My initial impression is that autossh is a wrapper around the regular ssh client that allows reconnection upon communication failures.
–jeroen
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Still an interesting thought: I’d like the next update from Emb to NOT contain any new features at all – just a huge bundle of bug fixes
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/11
Still an interesting thought: [WayBack] Maybe we need a vote here but personally I’d like the next update from Emb to NOT contain any new features at all – just a huge bundle of bug fixes. We… – Chris Pimlott – Google+.
Especially the comments in it are well worth re-reading.
By now a new Delphi version should have been out, so I am curious how the balance between bug fixes and new features was.
Edit: Fixed bugs are features, so in my opinion Embarcadero should release only bug-fix updates and upgrades for at least two years.
–jeroen
PS: Nice G+ comment at [WayBack] Still an interesting thought: [WayBack] Maybe we need a vote here but personally I’d like the next update from Emb to NOT contain any new features at al… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+:
Problem with new features is that they usually come with new bugs. Therefore new features take away developer capacity from fixing old bugs twice.
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Programmer humour: Working at PornHub
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/11
Programmer humour from a while back:
“I don’t think I would be comfortable telling my family that I develop PHP either.”
Via:
- [WayBack] Working at PornHub – CodeProject – Google+
- If you say “I work with PHP” around here, people think you have a lab and you cook up drugs.
- [WayBack] Working at PornHub – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
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No more https://www.whatsapp.com/cidr.txt
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/11
Not sure when this happened but the CIDR list is no more [WayBack] https://www.whatsapp.com/cidr.txt:
Dear partners, Please note that we have migrated the latest IP pools of WhatsApp to Facebook Mobile Partner Portal. Feel free to browse to the Settings page of the portal and download the latest WhatsApp IP pool: https://fb.me/mpp_support Further IP pool updates are also done through the portal and are no longer distributed via email or through WhatsApp web site. If you have not yet registered on the Mobile Partner Portal or have difficulties accessing it - please request access through the following form and we'll be happy to assist: https://fb.me/mpp_access For any technical requests please contact us through the Support section of the portal: https://fb.me/mpp_support WhatsApp team
In the past it was the place to get the CIDR so you could either block or allow WhatsApp traffic: [earlier WayBack]
It is still widely cited as way to regulate WhatsApp traffic, for instance at these places:
- [WayBack] Solved: Instand Messenger in Guest Network – Ubiquiti Networks Community
- [WayBack] Blocking WhatsApp in Mikrotik | Syed Jahanzaib Personal Blog to Share Knowledge !
Time to find an automated way to get the replacement list. Maybe the below helps (via [WayBack] Block facebook messenger and whatsApp on Dlink router – Super User)
whois -h whois.radb.net '!gAS32934'
–jeroen
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Google+ now closes in April 2019, as yet another bug gave developers access to non-public data from 52.5M users | TechCrunch
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/11
Google+ closes in April 2019. The G+ API even sooner.
Via: [WayBack] Google+ bug gave developers access to non-public data from 52.5M users | TechCrunch.
This seems to be a trend, so I need to try to get out before the end of the year.
I think I will move to pluspora.com/people/77b27110adcb013646c5005056268def.
Via: [WayBack] TechCrunch on Twitter: “Google+ security bug gave developers access to non-public data from 52.5M users . by @fredericl”
–jeroen
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If parts of your letsencrypt renewals succeed and others give you “urn:acme:error:connection” then just retry
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/10
On the same server, part of my letsencrypt renewals worked fine, while others had an error like this:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/spring4d.4delphi.com.conf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing... Renewing an existing certificate Performing the following challenges: tls-sni-01 challenge for spring4d.4delphi.com Waiting for verification... Cleaning up challenges Attempting to renew cert from /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/spring4d.4delphi.com.conf produced an unexpected error: Failed authorization procedure. spring4d.4delphi.com (tls-sni-01): urn:acme:error:connection :: The server could not connect to the client to verify the domain :: Error getting validation data. Skipping. ... - The following errors were reported by the server: Domain: spring4d.4delphi.com Type: connection Detail: Error getting validation data To fix these errors, please make sure that your domain name was entered correctly and the DNS A record(s) for that domain contain(s) the right IP address. Additionally, please check that your computer has a publicly routable IP address and that no firewalls are preventing the server from communicating with the client. If you're using the webroot plugin, you should also verify that you are serving files from the webroot path you provided.
A retry worked fine:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Processing /etc/letsencrypt/renewal/spring4d.4delphi.com.conf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cert is due for renewal, auto-renewing... Renewing an existing certificate Performing the following challenges: tls-sni-01 challenge for spring4d.4delphi.com Waiting for verification... Cleaning up challenges ... The following certs were successfully renewed: /etc/letsencrypt/live/spring4d.4delphi.com/fullchain.pem (success)
–jeroen
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Anaylizing PDF files
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/10
A few things that failed/worked:
- not all Acrobat editions have the “File -> Save as Other… -> Optimized PDF …” option (which provides “Audit Space Usage”); especially the ones coming with the ix500 and ix100 scanner do not.
- [WayBack] Amyuni | PDF Analyzer fails indicating it cannot execute
C:\Program Files (x86)\Amyuni Technologies\Amyuni PDF Analyzer\_PDFAnalyzer.vb(you can try from www.amyuni.com/…/PDFAnalyzerSetup.exe) - [WayBack] www.PDF-Analyzer.com Ingo Schmoekel Software-Dev.& Distribution sort of works, but does not show the sizes and attributes of images inside PDF files
- [WayBack] PDF Document Inspector only works on PowerPC equipped Macintosh machines
I still need to look at the Multivalent.jar when I have a system with Java again, as it is mentioned in [WayBack] pdf generation – Is there a tool to analyze a PDF in terms of fonts, objects, fields and their respective size (kb)? – Stack Overflow
References:
- [WayBack] pdf generation – Is there a tool to analyze a PDF in terms of fonts, objects, fields and their respective size (kb)? – Stack Overflow
- [WayBack] adobe acrobat – How to analyze the space usage within pdf document? – Super User
- [WayBack] Best tool for inspecting PDF files? – Stack Overflow
–jeroen
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Windows Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 – OpenDNS
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/10
I did this a long time ago, but forgot to blog about it back then: [Archive.is] Windows Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 – OpenDNS.
Summary:
Start with the DNS manager:
%SystemRoot%\system32\dnsmgmt.msc /s
Then open your machine, and double-click
Forwarders:
In the dialog, click the
Editbutton and add DNS servers (for instance Google DNS 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4).
In my case it became this:
Google DNS servers added
Click
Donebuttons until all dialogs are closed.
–jeroen
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Interview Robbert Dijkgraaf: ‘We zijn te veel het hert dat in de koplampen staart’ | NU – Het laatste nieuws het eerst op NU.nl
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/08
Long read, maar reuze interessant en super belangrijk: [WayBack] Interview Robbert Dijkgraaf: ‘We zijn te veel het hert dat in de koplampen staart’ | NU.nl
Over het verschil tussen klimaat en weer, hoe “de wetenschap” bij “de gewone man” te brengen, innovatie en een toch positieve kijk op de toekomst.
Ondanks dat velen het niet geloven, is het is op deze wereld nog nooit zo goed gegaan. Laten we er voor zorgen dat dit ook voor komende generaties kan.
Ik kan een deel van de klimaat/weer geschiedenis aan een persoonlijke situatie relateren. Meer hierover op [WayBack] Thread by @jpluimers: “@helgavanleur @RHDijkgraaf We zien dat bijvoorbeeld bij de begeleiding van mijn verstandelijk beperkte broer: wij zien hem ongeveer 2 keer per week, de zorginstantie veel vaker, maar heeft een sterk wisselende ambulante groep met slechte […]”.
Via:
- [WayBack] Robbert Dijkgraaf on Twitter: ‘We zijn te veel het hert dat in de koplampen staart’
- [WayBack] Helga van Leur ☀ on Twitter: “Het probleem is: het gaat ogenschijnlijk langzaam. Daarom zijn we ons vaak niet bewust van die veranderingen. Je ziet een klok ook niet bewegen. En dan heb je een tijdje niet gekeken en dan staat ‘ie opeens een stuk verder.” @RHDijkgraaf over #klimaatverandering…
–jeroen
Robbert Dijkgraaf geldt als een van de bekendste Nederlandse wetenschappers. De theoretisch natuurkundige is directeur van het Institute for Advanced Study in het Amerikaanse Princeton en woont daarom ook in de Verenigde Staten.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 