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Need to write a proper bookmarklet for the wayback archive (:

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/14

Some inspiration for writing a proper bookmarklet that finds or saves a WayBack machine page:

On the last link, I was hoping that the https://web.archive.org/liveweb/https://www.example.org would work but it doesn’t work for many URLs and I’m not sure yet why that is.

It has a nice tip that works though:

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youtube-dl – saving both audio and video without keeping intermediate files seems impossible

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/14

Just in case someone has a better alternative than youtube-dl alias:

alias youtube-dl-audio-and-video='youtube-dl --keep-video --extract-audio --audio-quality 0 --audio-format mp3'

It extracts the audio and keeps the video.

The result is that also all intermediate downloads are being kept.

So even after studying the README extensively the only alternative seems to be a double download like this:

youtube-dl-audio-and-video() { youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-quality 0 --audio-format mp3 $1; youtube-dl $1; }

–jeroen

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zypper errors on download.opensuse.org

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/13

If you see error message like below when performing zypper refresh or zypper dist-upgrade, then please inform the opensuse team (for instance Twitter or the #openSUSE-factory IRC channel) as this is part of the aftermath of the download.opensuse.org trouble that started last week.

Permission to access 'http://download.opensuse.org/ports/aarch64/tumbleweed/repo/oss/suse/setup/descr/appdata-icons.tar.gz' denied.

What happened to me with Raspberry Pi 3 and Tumbleweed is below and fixed because after I got in touch: the data restore had worked out OK, but the permissions didn’t.

I got there as the search for “Permission to access ‘http://download.opensuse.org/ports/aarch64/” got me to [WayBack] TUMBLEWEED Zypper Permission to access:

Unfortunately there was a catastrophic issue last week with the openSUSE download system (read: stuff is still broken and not all mirrors are fully functional).

–jeroen

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Some links around GuardiCore

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/13

Interesting tool to scan your network vulnerabilities from both outside and inside: guardicore/monkey: Infection Monkey – An automated pentest tool

Via a chain of links all around “Trojan.sysscan:

–jeroen

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Happy Day of the Programmer – and remember what SQLite is about…

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/13

T-Shirt quote worthy:

“SQLite does not compete with client/server databases. SQLite competes with fopen().”

Happy Day of the Programmer!

–jeroen

Source: Made me distribute coffee over keyboard :-). Best. Definition. Ever. [WayBack]

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GitHub: Searching your own repositories – excluding forks

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/12

The Searching repositories – User Documentation mentions

By default, forked repositories are not shown.

But it forgets this only holds for the main search box which is conveniently called “Search GitHub” but documented as “Search repositories“:

Based on that documentation you’d think the “Search Repositories” box would adhere to the same defaults, right?

Wrong. We live in the “form over function” era so that would be too easy.

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Welcome to workaround.org – tips around open source and Linux stuff

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/12

At the time of discovering Welcome to workaround.org via More ISP Mail saveback – Joe C. Hecht – Google+:

ISPmail tutorials

The famous ISP-style mail server tutorials live here. Learn how to set up your own fully-functional mail server using Postfix, Dovecot IMAP/POP3 and MySQL backend on a Debian server just like your favorite mail or website hosting provider.

I have been maintaining the ISPmail tutorial since Debian Woody. However those older Debian versions are no longer supported. If you still like to read the old versions I have provided PDF versions of the tutorials for Squeeze, Lenny, Etch, Sarge andWoody.

Thoughts blog

My daily work leads to various discoveries and insights. Some were petty but others really brightened my day.

My projects

I am a system administrator and programmer. In my nerdy spare time I work on web applications, Python and Ruby programs, write articles or explore new software technologies. On workaround.org you can find news, solutions and hints on my findings and get help. Of course your feedback is welcome.
These are some projects I am currently working on:

IRC – Internet relay chat

  • IRC is a great medium for getting instant help (at least on the freenode IRC network). I have collected some tips about Getting help on IRC to help you get help instead of getting barbecued.
  • knoba’s factoids
    I run a bot called knoba (short for knowledge base) on the freenode IRC network. Two channels I visit frequently are #postfix and #squid. So I have fed the bot with lots of factoids that you can query using !foobar in the channel. These are the factoids understood in #squid and #postfix. Please don’t play with the bot publicly. Send it a “/msg knoba help" and learn how it works.

Linux tips

My daily work leads to various discoveries and insights. Some were petty but others really brightened my day.

Regarding the Squid web proxy

Squid is a powerful open-source web proxy. I was responsible for a large Squid installation at a former employer. Maybe the following articles help you save time in your daily work.

Padrino web framework

Padrino is an lean Ruby web framework. It is an interesting alternative to the heavier Ruby-on-Rails. I spent quite some time with it and created a couple of articles about it:

Zabbix monitoring

Zabbix is a mighty open-source monitoring software. If you need a serious system for your organisation and manage to condone its creepy web interface it is hands down the the most superior software I have ever seen. And I have been dealing with monitoring software since Nagios was called Netsaint.

These articles should help you in your daily work maintaining a monitoring system:

–jeroen

 

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Delphi code of the day…

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/11

I was debugging an issue where a Delphi SOAP implementation was shoe-horned into an Indy server and came across the [WayBack] TWebRequest.UpdateMethodType Method.

The further you get down the if/then/else tree, the more often the indexed property Method is accessed, same for the conversion/comparison code.

property Method: string index 0 read GetStringVariable;

So if the HTTP method is POST (very common), then the calls are being made 3 times:

procedure TWebRequest.UpdateMethodType;
begin
{$IFDEF NEXTGEN}
  if Method = 'GET' then  { do not localize }
    FMethodType := mtGet
  else if Method = 'PUT' then   { do not localize }
    FMethodType := mtPut
  else if Method = 'POST' then  { do not localize }
    FMethodType := mtPost
  else if Method = 'HEAD' then  { do not localize }
    FMethodType := mtHead
  else if Method = 'DELETE' then  { do not localize }
    FMethodType := mtDelete
  else if Method = 'PATCH' then  { do not localize }
    FMethodType := mtPatch;
{$ELSE !NEXTGEN}
  if System.AnsiStrings.AnsiStrComp(PAnsiChar(Method), 'GET') = 0 then  { do not localize }
    FMethodType := mtGet
  else if System.AnsiStrings.AnsiStrComp(PAnsiChar(Method), 'PUT') = 0 then   { do not localize }
    FMethodType := mtPut
  else if System.AnsiStrings.AnsiStrComp(PAnsiChar(Method), 'POST') = 0 then  { do not localize }
    FMethodType := mtPost
  else if System.AnsiStrings.AnsiStrComp(PAnsiChar(Method), 'HEAD') = 0 then  { do not localize }
    FMethodType := mtHead
  else if System.AnsiStrings.AnsiStrComp(PAnsiChar(Method), 'DELETE') = 0 then  { do not localize }
    FMethodType := mtDelete
  else if System.AnsiStrings.AnsiStrComp(PAnsiChar(Method), 'PATCH') = 0 then  { do not localize }
    FMethodType := mtPatch;
{$ENDIF NEXTGEN}
end;

–jeroen

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Terry L@u’s blog: Manage non-domain Hyper-V servers (Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview) by Hyper-V Manager

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/11

One day I will need this: Terry L@u’s blog: Manage non-domain Hyper-V servers (Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview) by Hyper-V Manager [WayBack]

Via: Matthijs ter Woord

–jeroen

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W123 – Tacho-Reparatur – works for W116 odometer (kilometerteller) as well

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/11

Since the odometer of our W116 would stall every now and then, we had to repair it.  Luckily the instructions at W123 – Tacho-Reparatur [WayBack] work fine for a W116 as too.

It’s different between 450SEL and 450SEL 6.9 and contains a bunch of lightbulbs so for completeness some links that help fixing lighting issues:

–jeroen

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