Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/07
[WayBack] Shouldnt this line be null terminated? HostEnt := gethostbyname(MarshaledAString(TEncoding.UTF8.GetBytes(Name))); – G+ – Allen Drennan
Yes it should, but I’m not sure if the compiler is fully to blame as GetBytes does not return a terminating zero byte.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/07
Around this time, episode 500 of RetroMacCast should be out.
It’s an “about weekly” podcast centered around classic Apple computers, mainly of the Macintosh kind but occasionally also on the Apple I, ][, //e, //c and ///, IIgs and Lisa kinds.
After all these years since they started in 2006, It’s still fun to listen to.
Occasionally they do a vodcast on YouTube, for instance their 100th show below.
New episodes are announced here:
Source: [WayBack] Two fans were podcasting at RetroMacCast before it was cool
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/06
This thread has some tips on pre-paid SIM cards for use in the USA: [WayBack] Telefonie en mobiel internet in de VS deel 2 – Pagina 9 – AllesAmerika.com Forum
This seems to be one of the few allowing for hotspot/tethering use: [WayBack] Arieli Mobile Unlimited + Tethering Data plan | Arieli Mobile – Prepaid USA SIM Card wireless provider
Via: [WayBack] T-Mobile vergroot databundels Travel & Surf-passen voor buiten EU – Tablets en telefoons – Nieuws – Tweakers
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/06
Nowadays, with tools like Metasploit and what tools leaked from the NSA and other agencies, it is so easy to hack a system even if it is almost up to date.
All the more reason to keep your systems fully patched all the time.
To get a Metasploit impression: [WayBack] Hacking Articles,Ethical Hacking Training in Delhi,Metasploit Training
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] I gotta find time to look at this… Joe C. Hecht – Google+
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/06
I use Nirsoft’s [WayBack] CSVFileView. It is a simple lightweight read-only csv viewer.
Source [WayBack] windows – What is a good light-weight CSV viewer? – Stack Overflow
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/03
Cool set of steps on [WayBack] How I use Wireshark – Julia Evans who uses the combination of tcpdump to dump traffic in pcap files and Wireshark to analyse the pcap files after copying them using scp. On many platforms, Wireshark can also capture the ptrace files for you.
Via: [WayBack] 🔎Julia Evans🔍 on Twitter: “how I use Wireshark https://t.co/j699JXrjaH” which has some nice comments including:
ptrace to your tool-kitscp for copying, as you can do [WayBack] dumpcap over an existing ssh connection:
wireshark -k -i <(ssh <IP> "sudo dumpcap -P -w - -f 'not tcp port 22'")–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/03
When you start with a blank registry comparison, then you need to compare keys copied from RegEdit with reg:\
For instance, when fixing [WayBack] Delphi fails to start after Windows did some “Program Compatibility Assistant” magic to it when BDS.exe crashed because the compiler ran out of memory:… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+ I compared these:
reg:\\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS
reg:\\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\JeroenProfile
Note: Beyond compare registry settings are in:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare 4HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Scooter Software\Beyond CompareHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare 4HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Scooter Software\Beyond CompareHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare 4—jeroen Not sure where the CacheID entry under HKCU (and sometimes HKLM) is for.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/03
Somewhere after Yosemite, braindead Mac OS X forcibly maps “Ctrl+Click” to right-click. In past versions, you could disable but those days have gone.
This means that inside Windows on VMware Fusion, you cannot add/remove items to/from a selection any more (for instance in the Windows Explorer).
Various workarounds turned up in my Google Search, but only this one works:
Holding down CTRL + OPTION together and LEFT CLICKING will do this.
Source: [WayBack] vmware fusion – How to use the control key in VM Ware? – Super User
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/02
This was Delphi Berlin, but Live Bindings is not much better in any other Delphi version when opening a project group having multiple applications none of which use Live Bindings:
This is how you disable them in Delphi 10.1 Berlin from the console; modify your BDS version and BPL version for other Delphi versions:
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\18.0\Disabled Packages" /v "$(BDSBIN)\dclbindcomp240.bpl" /t REG_SZ /d "Embarcadero LiveBindings Components" /f
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\18.0\Disabled Packages" /v "$(BDSBIN)\dclbindcompfmx240.bpl" /t REG_SZ /d "Embarcadero LiveBindings Components FireMonkey" /f
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\18.0\Disabled Packages" /v "$(BDSBIN)\dclbindcompvcl240.bpl" /t REG_SZ /d "Embarcadero LiveBindings Components VCL" /f
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\18.0\Disabled Packages" /v "$(BDSBIN)\dclbindcompdbx240.bpl" /t REG_SZ /d "LiveBindings Expression Components DbExpress" /f
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\18.0\Disabled Packages" /v "$(BDSBIN)\dclbindcompfiredac240.bpl" /t REG_SZ /d "LiveBinding Expression Components FireDac" /f
(Reminder to self: modify bitbucket.org/jeroenp/wiert.me/src/tip/Native/Delphi/Scripts/List-Delphi-Installed-Packages.ps1 so it can generate these)
Edit: I have done just that: it now understands the GenerateDisablePackagesScriptparameter so it generates a small console script to disable various packages.
In QualityCentral: 144003 – Automated Incident Report:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/02
The diff engine in PlasticSCM is nice in appearance, but it lacks a lot of features for file types that Beyond Compare handles out of the box.
For instance, .RES files cannot be diffed:
--------------------------- Error --------------------------- Unsupported file types for binary diff. Only images are supported (JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP) --------------------------- OK ---------------------------
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 