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Reminder to self: testssl.sh has supported IPv6 for a long while if the OpenSSL binary supports it

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/31

testssl.sh has supported IPv6 for a long while if the OpenSSL binary supports it

See the below thread, specifically the mentioned comments.

–jeroen

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Some potential anti-virus and -malware tools for OpenSuSE Tumbleweed

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/31

I could not find many potential anti-virus and -malware tools for OpenSuSE Tumbleweed despite they would be useful not only for non-Linux clients like Windows and Mac OS X.

These I found:

–jeroen

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Classic car Airco – no more CFKs, but what alternatives?

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/28

Some Dutch links (as I live there) for my reference:

–jeroen

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1998 called, it want its code back – Anything Goes – CommitStrip

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/28

The blog relating the daily life of web agency developers

Source: Anything Goes | CommitStrip

Via: 1998 called, it wants its code back :D

–jeroen

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rsync z-lib compression segmentation fault? WTF!

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/27

Not sure why without the -z compression switch this succeeds:

# rsync -avloz /var/lib/named/master/ /etc/named/master/
sending incremental file list
pluimers.com
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
# rsync -avlo /var/lib/named/master/ /etc/named/master/
sending incremental file list
pluimers.com
pluimers.com.20161231
pluimers.com~

sent 10,495 bytes  received 74 bytes  21,138.00 bytes/sec
total size is 132,231  speedup is 12.51
# rsync -avloz /var/lib/named/master/ /etc/named/master/
sending incremental file list

sent 1,547 bytes  received 13 bytes  3,120.00 bytes/sec
total size is 132,231  speedup is 84.76

–jeroen

via: [WayBackrsync(1) – Linux man page

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There is a way to convert ‘array of const’ (open array) to TValue: Asbjørn Heid found one.

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/27

Brilliant solution by Asbjørn Heid:

So the solution I came up with is to use the observation that the “array of const” is “array of TVarRec”, and that “array of TVarRec” is passed as as two arguments: a pointer to the data and the length of the array (or rather, the highest index in the array).

Source: Is there a way to convert ‘array of const’ (open array) to TValue? For example,… [WayBack]

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Development, Software Development | 1 Comment »

SMS sending with Mikrotik RouterOS and a capabable USB device

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/27

Some links that were useful getting the SMS sending stuff to work.

The documentation is clear on what to do to send/receive SMS:

But it is unclear what USB hardware does work, so here are some links:

You can also do it the other way around:

–jeroen

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HTTP Prompt is an interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete…

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/26

HTTP Prompt is an interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting. Download url -> https://github.com/eliangcs/http-prompt – Joe C. Hecht – Google+

Source: HTTP Prompt is an interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete… [WayBack]

To me it looks remarkably similar to https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie [WayBack] which too is a visual cURL replacement.

–jeroen

Posted in *nix, Communications Development, cURL, Development, HTTP, Internet protocol suite, Power User, Software Development, TCP, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Seems I need to say good bye to Bitbucket: no explanation of which limit I exceeded and by how much.

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/26

Seems I need to say good bye to Bitbucket: while creating a new repository without changing any user aspects, I got this nice message at https://bitbucket.org/repo/create which does not explain which limit I reached:

You've exceeded your user limit, restricting all your repositories to read-only access. Change your plan to restore write access. Learn more

You’ve exceeded your user limit, restricting all your repositories to read-only access. Change your plan to restore write access. Learn more

Later I found that https://bitbucket.org/account/user/jeroenp/plans-and-billing/ lists I’m within the free plan:

–jeroen

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Increasing the WinBox font size on OS X

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/07/26

Though the Mikrotik people seem reluctant to make the font size in Winbox configurable, if you run it through WineBottler on OS X, you can scale the individual app. It’s not very pretty but makes it easier to use.

The trick is based on the Windows DPI font settings explained for instance at DPI Display Size Settings – Change – Windows 7 Help Forums and Large Fonts in Registry: Where Exactly? | PC Review but then in Wine.

For Windows, this is a system wide setting, but on a WineBottler application there is one “Windows environment” per application, so it’s application specific and should work for other applications than WinBox as well.

It makes it much easier to do script editing now.

Steps I performed:

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