Not sure why yet, but on a gigabit network between a Windows 2008 R2 Server and a Proxmox KVM machine, WinSCP gets around 10 megabit/second and FileZilla > 30 megabit/second.
Others seem to agree that filezilla faster than winscp.
–jeroen
FileZilla on Windows is waaaay faster than WinSCP
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/21
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Some Google URLs
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/21
Below a table with clickable links, details are in the Via at the end. I added some more beyond the 10 original ones.
# URL What Footer 1 Footer 2 Footer 3 1 https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail Get a new account 2 https://www.google.com/ads/preferences Manage advertisement profile 3 https://www.google.com/takeout Download your Google data (mail can take days!) 4 https://support.google.com/legal To file a complaint about using copyrighted or unpermissioned material 5 https://maps.google.com/locationhistory Shows where your devices have been 6 https://history.google.com All your searches 7 https://www.google.com/settings/account/inactive Prevent extended inactivity, Google doesn’t delete your account after 9 months. 8 https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity When you suspect account abuse 9 https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions Set permissions of apps and sites relating to your account 10 https://admin.google.com/example.org/VerifyAdminAccountPasswordReset Apps users: reset admin account by adding a CNAME to the DNS 11 https://plus.google.com G+ / Google Plus 12 https://plus.google.com/hangouts Google Hangouts 13 https://gmail.com GMail / Google Mail 14 https://contacts.google.com Google Contacts (note + button to add is hidden behind Hangouts pop-up also on the lower right) 15 https://calendar.google.com Calendar / Agenda 16 https://www.google.com/sync Sync Google Settings between various devices / applications 17 https://myaccount.google.com Account and privacy settings 18 https://myaccount.google.com/security Security settings like two-factor authentication (2-step signin) 19 https://security.google.com/settings/security/secureaccount Check if your security settings (recovery phone, recovery email, security question) are still up to date. 20 https://myaccount.google.com/privacycheckup/1 Setting your privacy 21 https://wallet.google.com Manage Wallet 22 https://play.google.com Google Play Store and settings 23 https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager Where is your Android device # href what # href what # href what # href what # href what # href what # href what # href what # href what # href what # href what
–jeroen
via: Some Imporatant URLs you should know as a Google User – I am Programmer.
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Tim Anderson did have Amazon S3 to work from Delphi in 2006
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/20
I will probably need this in the future as occasionally I still do Delphi work:
- How to use Delphi Win32 to access Amazon’s S3 Simple Storage Service
- Amazon S3 Delphi sample « Tim Anderson’s ITWriting
- Anyone have an example to get back the error message from Amazon S3?…
–jeroen
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Merging multiple commands and piping it to one output.
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/20
The unix shell is hard, but boy, sometimes it can work like magic, for instance piping two testssl.sh commands into one gist:
retinambpro1tb:testssl.sh jeroenp$ ( ./testssl.sh --version ; ./testssl.sh --local ) | gist -d "testsll version and local ciphers for Mac OS X Darwin binarries supporting zlib"
https://gist.github.com/701496d7fbf929967aa1
The source of this magic was this AskUbuntu answer: How to merge and pipe results from two different commands to single command? – Ask Ubuntu
–jeroen
via: openssl.Darwin.x86_64 lacks zlib support · Issue #164 · drwetter/testssl.sh
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Some notes on modifying NIB files on Mac OS X to add/change shortcuts
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/19
One of the nitpicks in VMware Fusion is that it has no keyboard shortcut for Resume or Suspend. I was trying to add Command-R and Command-S for those but that didn’t work out.
Since the links below seem to work for some other applications, I’ve kept them:
- modify nib to add shortcut to menu item – Google Search
- osx – Find and Change system shortcut – Ask Different
- osx – OS X How to add items to application’s top menu? – Stack Overflow
- MacDevCenter.com: Mac modding shortcuts
–jeroen
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Loading your MAINICON and VersionInfo through plain text .RC resource files.
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/19
I like repositories to have as much of the information in text format.
Delphi traditionally puts both the MAINICON and the VersionInfo resources in a binary .res file and also updates that file on almost every recompile.
There are quite a few posts explaining how to get them from text, but a version controlled example works best for me, so there is one at https://github.com/jpluimers/atom-table-monitor/blob/master/ATOMScannerConsole
The trick is to:
- put your resources in a text RC file that can be compiled through a resource compiler
- add these to your Delphi project via the project manager, so it generated RcCompile elements which instructs the build process to run the resource compiler first:
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| <RcCompile Include="MAINICON.rc"> | |
| <ModuleName>MAINICON.rc</ModuleName> | |
| <Form>MAINICON.res</Form> | |
| </RcCompile> | |
| <RcCompile Include="VERSIONINFO.rc"> | |
| <ModuleName>VERSIONINFO.rc</ModuleName> | |
| <Form>VERSIONINFO.res</Form> | |
| </RcCompile> |
Here are the example files:
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IMPLICITBUILDING in your .dpk files: a Delphi XE2 specific thing
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/18
While upgrading a truckload of Delphi stuff for a client, I came across the IMPLICITBUILDING directive in a few .dpk files that Delphi XE2 sometimes inserts but XE8 doesn’t.
This appears to be a Delphi XE2 specific thing that in younger Delphi versions has been solved properly SolarWind‘s answer on Stack Overflow:
The compiler directives which appear between the $IFDEF IMPLICITBUILDING and $ENDIF are normally passed as parameters by the compiler when explicitly compiling a package. Because these options change based on the configuration (debug / release) and target platform (Win32, Win64, OSX32) it’s problematic to have them statically defined in the package project source. When defined in the project source they will always override the options passed by the compiler. The $IFDEF prevents these options from being used during explicit compilation.
Source: Delphi XE2: What is the purpose of IMPLICITBUILDING directive found in package – Stack Overflow
and comment by Andreas Hausladen:
That seems to be a workaround for the problem that compiling packages with the msbuild script ignored all dproj compiler options because they were read from the dpk file by the compiler.
Some more references (I’ve saved them in the WayBack machine as the forums auto-expire posts):
- Embarcadero Discussion Forums: Why does Delphi change Indy’s dpk …
- https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?threadID=61656 (has expired, could not save)
- Source: Embarcadero Discussion Forums: I would like Indy to not have Debug Info. How?…
–jeroen
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Multi-line comments in a bash shell script
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/18
I’m used to multiline comments in many languages, but since I don’t use bash very often, I only recently learned it can do that too.
So this is how to have comments span multiple lines in bash by using the : command which according to the bash man page does nothing:
: [arguments]
No effect; the command does nothing beyond expanding arguments and performing any specified redirections. A zero exit code is returned.
So the syntax is:
: '
your comments here
'
–jeroen
via: Shell Script Put Multiple Line Comment.
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When a PC lost its trust relationship with a domain controller: “The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed”
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/17
(Don’t ask for details; at a site with Microsoft Data Protection Manager an external company monitoring that DPM didn’t notice various backups – including the domain controller – were months old despite daily tape changes; so then the RAID fell out because multiple disks failed within hours, contingency aftermath took weeks)
When you logon to a client machine and get “The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed”
- do not rejoin your client machine to the domain
- ensure on the client machine:
- you can logon without a domain account (part of any contingency plan should be logging in with a local account or without a domain controller if you have the – potential risky – cached domain logon enabled, otherwise you’ve to do more nasty measures)
- you have PowerShell v3 or later on the client machine
- on the client machine
- Ensure it’s connected to the same network as the domain controller
- Ensure you can ping the domain controller
- Test with
Powershell Test-ComputerSecureChannelto see if the connection is indeed lost:- if it returns
Truethen you have a different problem (have not seen this, but just in case: this blog post won’t solve that) - if it returns
False, then continue with the next step
- if it returns
- Run
Powershell Test-ComputerSecureChannel -Repairand check if the output isTrue(whenFalsethere )
Note there are various posts suggesting to use Powershell Reset-ComputerMachinePassword and netdom.exe resetpwd /s:dc-hostname.domain /ud:domainadminusername /pd:*. Though faster than rejoining the domain, the Powershell Test-ComputerSecureChannel is even faster and easier.
–jeroen
via:
- Quick Fix for computers no longer domain joined. | Hyperbole, Embellishment, and Systems Administration Blog
- DON’T REJOIN TO FIX: The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed
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VMware ESXi – converting a thick disk to a thin disk – via: Server Fault
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/10/17
There are various places that tell you you cannot resize a thick disk to a thin disk using vmkfstools.
When you do it wrong, you get this error:
DiskLib_Check() failed for source disk. The file specified is not a virtual disk (15).
This happens when you directly try to resize the physical disk image:
# vmkfstools --clonevirtualdisk msmxp-flat.vmdk --diskformat thin msmxp-flat.thin.vmdk DiskLib_Check() failed for source disk The file specified is not a virtual disk (15).
Whereas you should point vmkfstools to the disk descriptor file which has the shortest name:
# vmkfstools --clonevirtualdisk msmxp.vmdk --diskformat thin msmxp.thin.vmdk Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned Cloning disk 'msmxp.vmdk'... Clone: 100% done.
(Note that many people shorten the --clonevirtualdisk to -i and --diskformat to -d).
For performance, it doesn’t matter much if your disk is thick or thin as explained by Death to false myths: The type of virtual disk used determines your performance.
But various people issues expanding a thick disk. With thin disks, that usually works fine.
This post explains the correct steps of resizing: VMWare ESXi 5.1–convert virtual disk (vmdk) from thick to thin provision.
Here is a summary:
Step zero: shutdown the VM and ensure you have a backup!
For instance with rsync is great for making a local backup:
# time ./850EVO1TBR1B/bin/rsync -aiv --info=progress2 --progress ./850EVO1TBR1B/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp/ ./850EVO1TBR1A/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp/
Step one: show the disk files:
/vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # du -h *.vmdk 12.0G msmxp-flat.vmdk 0 msmxp.vmdk
There are two: msmxp.vmdk describes the disk and msmxp-flat.vmdk has the data.
Step two: ensure you have enough free space on the volume:
# ls -al /vmfs/volumes | grep "552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed" drwxr-xr-t 1 root root 2660 Aug 5 04:35 552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 35 Aug 5 06:11 850EVO1TBR1B -> 552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed # df -h | grep "850EVO1TBR1B\|Use%" Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on VMFS-5 930.8G 736.8G 194.0G 79% /vmfs/volumes/850EVO1TBR1B
Convert the disk:
# vmkfstools --clonevirtualdisk msmxp.vmdk --diskformat thin msmxp.thin.vmdk Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned Cloning disk 'msmxp.vmdk'... Clone: 100% done.
Observe the size:
In my case the flat disk was almost full and fragmented, so the thin disk is not smaller:
/vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # du -h *.vmdk 12.0G msmxp-flat.vmdk 12.0G msmxp.thin-flat.vmdk 0 msmxp.thin.vmdk 0 msmxp.vmdk
Rename both disks
Use vmkfstools (do not use mv as that will not keep the descriptor/data vmdk files bound together) and check the rename.
You can replace --renamevirtualdisk with -E:
/vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # vmkfstools --renamevirtualdisk msmxp.thin.vmdk msmxp.vmdk ## /vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # vmkfstools -E msmxp.vmdk msmxp.thick.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # du -h *.vmdk 12.0G msmxp-flat.vmdk 12.0G msmxp.thick-flat.vmdk 0 msmxp.thick.vmdk 0 msmxp.vmdk
Turn on the Virtual Machine to verify it still works.
If it does, then delete it (you can replace --deletevirtualdisk with -U) which will remove both both the descriptor and data vmdk file:
/vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # vmkfstools --deletevirtualdisk msmxp.vmdk ## /vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # vmkfstools -U msmxp.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # du -h *.vmdk 12.0G msmxp-flat.vmdk 0 msmxp.vmdk
After shutting down the VM again and making a new backup, you can now expand the disk as described in VMware KB: Adding space to an ESXi/ESX host virtual disk.
You can replace --extendvirtualdisk with -X.
/vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # vmkfstools --extendvirtualdisk 14G msmxp.vmdk ## /vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # vmkfstools -X 14G msmxp.vmdk Grow: 100% done. /vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # du -h *.vmdk 12.0G msmxp-flat.vmdk 0 msmxp.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # vmkfstools --renamevirtualdisk msmxp.vmdk msmxp.thick.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # vmkfstools --clonevirtualdisk msmxp.thick.vmdk msmxp.vmdk --diskformat thin Destination disk format: VMFS thin-provisioned Cloning disk 'msmxp.thick.vmdk'... Clone: 100% done. /vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # diff msmxp.thick.vmdk msmxp.vmdk --- msmxp.thick.vmdk +++ msmxp.vmdk @@ -7,18 +7,18 @@ createType="vmfs" # Extent description -RW 29360128 VMFS "msmxp.thick-flat.vmdk" +RW 29360128 VMFS "msmxp-flat.vmdk" # The Disk Data Base #DDB -ddb.adapterType = "ide" -ddb.thinProvisioned = "1" -ddb.geometry.sectors = "63" -ddb.geometry.heads = "16" -ddb.geometry.cylinders = "29127" -ddb.uuid = "60 00 C2 9f 5e f8 33 76-6e c5 48 3c f2 84 d8 1e" -ddb.longContentID = "5659579edebed2ebdd8e0c8fda15abd4" ddb.toolsVersion = "9221" ddb.virtualHWVersion = "8" ddb.deletable = "true" +ddb.longContentID = "5659579edebed2ebdd8e0c8fda15abd4" +ddb.uuid = "60 00 C2 95 66 1b cf 7a-e3 db 3f 30 17 7e 00 2d" +ddb.geometry.cylinders = "29127" +ddb.geometry.heads = "16" +ddb.geometry.sectors = "63" +ddb.thinProvisioned = "1" +ddb.adapterType = "ide" /vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # du -h *.vmdk 12.0G msmxp-flat.vmdk 12.0G msmxp.thick-flat.vmdk 0 msmxp.thick.vmdk 0 msmxp.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # vmkfstools --extendvirtualdisk 14G msmxp.vmdk Failed to extend disk : One of the parameters supplied is invalid (1). /vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # vmkfstools --extendvirtualdisk 14G msmxp.vmdk Failed to extend disk : One of the parameters supplied is invalid (1). /vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # vmkfstools --extendvirtualdisk 14G msmxp.vmdk Failed to extend disk : One of the parameters supplied is invalid (1). /vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # vmkfstools --extendvirtualdisk 15G msmxp.vmdk Grow: 100% done. /vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # du -h *.vmdk 12.0G msmxp-flat.vmdk 12.0G msmxp.thick-flat.vmdk 0 msmxp.thick.vmdk 0 msmxp.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # vmkfstools --deletevirtualdisk msmxp.thick.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp # du -h *.vmdk 12.0G msmxp-flat.vmdk 0 msmxp.vmdk /vmfs/volumes/552f5788-33e30274-8dba-001f29022aed/Raid6SSD-VM/msmxp #
–jeroen
via: vmware esxi – vmkfstools returns error when trying to copy thin vmdk – Server Fault.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 