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I have found a secret tunnel that runs underneath the phone companies and emerges in paradise / Boing Boing

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/29

The upshot? For $500, Calyx will send you a little wifi hotspot with a Sprint SIM in it that comes with a year’s worth unlimited, anonymous, unshaped, unfiltered 4G/LTE bandwidth on Sprint’s network. Unlimited as in, I downloaded 60GB with mine and it didn’t break a sweat.

Source: I have found a secret tunnel that runs underneath the phone companies and emerges in paradise / Boing Boing [WayBack]

via: +Joe Hecht

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Google Drive stuck forever on “One Moment Please” during initial login on Windows Server based systems.

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/29

Basically the Google Drive sign-in user interface is a wrapper around Internet Explorer.

If you have tight Internet Option settings, then your sign-in can fail without telling you why:

There is a older list of exceptions to add to the Internet Options Application Development: sign in to google drive … stuck in one moment please, but since Google has moved quite a few domains around (they now for instance use 1e100.net for part of the traffic).

The easiest way is to get the URLs right is to play back what Google Drive sign-in does from within Internet Explorer. These are the steps:

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What’s got a vast attack surface and runs on Linux? Windows Defender, of course • The Register

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/26

Penguinistas, rejoice: Tavis Ormandy lets you fuzz Windows

Cool, as they now can fuzz Windows Defender and have Microsoft make it better so all Windows 8+ users can profit from it.

Source: [WayBackWhat’s got a vast attack surface and runs on Linux? Windows Defender, of course • The Register

Repository: https://github.com/taviso/loadlibrary

Via: [WayBack] WAT? – DoorToDoorGeek “Stephen McLaughlin” – Google+

–jeroen

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17 years ago, C:\nul\nul crashed/BSOD Windows; now $MFT does for Windows < 10

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/26

Source:

History repeating itself: [Archive.is31607 – C:\nul\nul crashes/BSOD then, now it’s this:

Via:

All versions prior to Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 seem vulnerable.

So add $MFT to this list:

The following device names have been known to render a system unstable: CON,
NUL, AUX, PRN, CLOCK$, COMx, LPT1, and CONFIG$.

Oh BTW: history repeated itself this year too. With NUL

In short, Steven Sheldon created a rust package named nul which broke the complete package manager on Windows:

BTW: one of my gripes on learning new languages is that they come with a whole new idiom of their ecosystem: rust, cargo, crates, all sound like being a truck mechanic to me.

–jeroen

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Posted in Development, Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, NTFS, Power User, Security, Software Development, The Old New Thing, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Defender, Windows Development, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

Google DNS, Open DNS or your ISP DNS servers?

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/26

There are various arguments for using Google DNS (8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4) or Open DNS servers or not. A few are listed here:

It basically comes down to two things:

  1. DNS speed
  2. CDN speed (Contend Delivery Network providers like CloudFlare, Akamai, etc)

If your DNS server isn’t close to you, it might select a CDN server that is far from you. If you rely on CDN, then you need to weight in that factor.

This is how I decide:

  • devices not needing CDN: use Google DNS or Open DNS
  • devices needing CDN: use Namebench to pick fast DNS servers that are nearby based on Namebench reports with “Recommended configuration (fastest + nearest)”

–jeroen

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Forceer DigiD om SMS bij inloggen te gebruiken

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/26

Zonder SMS is het vrij makkelijk om iemand anders zijn DigiD te gebruiken.

Met SMS is dat een stuk moeilijker.

Het forceren van SMS bij inloggen kan via https://mijn.digid.nl/inloggen_voorkeur

Je moet EERST inloggen op https://mijn.digid.nl/, en daarna naar https://mijn.digid.nl/inloggen_voorkeur gaan (DigiD is niet slim genoeg om na het inloggen daarheen terug te gaan).

Kies daar deze optie:

  • Midden, ik wil inloggen met een extra controle via sms, ook wanneer Basis vereist is

Via: [WayBack90 procent van DigiD-gebruikers gebruikt dienst zonder sms-authenticatie -update – IT Pro – Nieuws – Tweakers

–jeroen

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Github reStructuredText parser got less strict so it now does display parts it cannot fully render

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/25

As the pull request had been in the pipeline for almost 2 years, I missed it went through:

Before that, Github would not render parts of reStructuredText files at all it could not fully render them. Now it renders them as raw reStructuredText so at least you can see the content.

Examples:

.. function:: code_to_ast(codeobj)

–jeroen

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UsesHelperSetup.zip by Stefan Glienke for Delphi 10.0/1/2

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/25

[WayBack] Some while ago I started a plugin to easily add units to the uses clause just like you can do via quickfix in VisualStudio.I never actually polished it… – Stefan Glienke – Google+

UsesHelperSetup.zip download: https://1drv.ms/u/s!ArjIoB43KhwDg3Ju1tkHlJniN2WS (for now Delphi 10, 10.1 and 10.2: Seattle/Atlanta, Berlin/Big-Ben, Tokyo/Godzilla)

jeroen

 

Posted in Delphi, Delphi 10 Seattle, Delphi 10.1 Berlin (BigBen), Delphi 10.2 Tokyo (Godzilla), Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Two ScanSnap ix500 tips: cleaning the scanner and preparing the paper for scanning

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/25

For my own reference:

–jeroen

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Happy Geek Pride Day – Nerdious geekius computerus

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/25

Wishing you all a happy Geek Pride Day. Please hug your local Nerdious geekius computerus.

Big image [WayBack] of the PDF map based on this world image [WayBack]. Older Google Drawing.

–jeroen

via:

Facebook office images

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