via:
- Andrej Kvasnica – Google+ commenting in HP detonates its timebomb: printers stop accepting third party ink en masse – Alan Cox – Google+
How to downgrade firmware on HP OfficeJet Pro 8610 to allow using old or refilled cartridges – Brozkeff’s lala-land
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/20
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SysInternals sdelete: zero wipe free space is called -z instead of -c
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/20
In the 2009 past, sdelete used the -c parameter to zero wipe clean a hard drive and -z would clean it with a random pattern.
That has changed. Somewhere along the lines, -c and -z has swapped meaning which I didn’t notice.
This resulted in many of my virtual machines image backups were a lot larger than they needed to be.
The reason is that now:
-cdoes a clean free space with a random DoD conformant pattern (which does not compress well)-zwrites zeros in the free space
Incidently, -c is a lot slower than -z as well.
TL;DR: use this command
sdelete -z C:
Where C: is the drive to zero clean the free space.
–jeroen
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Batch files to show the User/System environment variables stored in registry – via: Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/20
I wrote two tiny batch files that would dump the environment variables from the registry.
Various reasons:
- Environment variables can be stored in two contexts: System and User (SET will show them all at once and for instance combine PATH up to 1920 characters).
- Environment variables can be set to auto-expand or not, which you cannot see from a SET command (REG_EXPAND_SZ versus REG_SZ).
show-user-environment-variables.bat:
reg query "HKCU\Environment"
show-system-environment-variables.bat:
reg query "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment"
Filtered results:
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OpenSSH/Logging and Troubleshooting –
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/19
For my own link history: Debugging a server configuration
Source: OpenSSH/Logging and Troubleshooting – Wikibooks, open books for an open world
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PSA: Manually Assign Any Coordinates As Your Home Or Work Address In Google Maps And Google Now
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/19
A solution for:
The problem with Google Now’s predictions though is that sometimes they can be inaccurate from the start or take a little longer to adapt to change. Moved your home? Switched jobs? Went for a month or two to a vacation house? Google Now might stubbornly want to keep your old addresses.
Source: PSA: Manually Assign Any Coordinates As Your Home Or Work Address In Google Maps And Google Now
–jeroen
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Very Small – Slim Leather Wallets by Bellroy
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/19
Interesting as foldable bills and around 12 plastic cars plus a few coins fit in: Very Small – Slim Leather Wallets by Bellroy.
–jeroen
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What every Browser knows about you
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/19
See all the data your browser reveals about you by visting a website.
Source: What every Browser knows about you
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Why the Apple II ProDOS 2.4 Release is the OS News of the Year « ASCII by Jason Scott
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/18
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5054
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Becker Mexico Cassette AUX input Upgrade by Ken Tyler for W116 : Mercedes-Benz S-Class – 280S, 280SE, 280SEL, 300SD, 350SE, 350SEL, 450SE, 450SEL & 450SEL 6.9
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/16
A modification to fit a 3.5 mm stereo socket to the front face of a Becker Mexico Cassette to allow use of mp3 players and the like but still retaining AM/FM radio and cassette functions.
Source: W116 : Mercedes-Benz S-Class – 280S, 280SE, 280SEL, 300SD, 350SE, 350SEL, 450SE, 450SEL & 450SEL 6.9
Interesting…
We’ve such a receiver in our classic car (see 1970 Becker Mexico AM-FM Cassette Car Radio showing operation & sound – YouTube « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff).
It would be a great way to add AUX to it, but I’d rather not modify the front-panel. Since the 450SEL69 has plenty of room, I will try to see if the above instructions can make the cable external so the AUX connector will be either near the arm rest or the glove compartment.
–jeroen
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VMware KB: Configuring Network Time Protocol (NTP) on ESX/ESXi hosts using the vSphere Client
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/16
Often it is better to configure more than just a single pool.ntp.org server in case the IP-address of the name gets cached too long and it becomes unresponsive during that period.
So it is better to configure multiple, choose from this list from [WayBack] pool.ntp.org: How do I setup NTP to use the pool?.
0.pool.ntp.org
1.pool.ntp.org
2.pool.ntp.org
3.pool.ntp.org
Here are the steps for one server where you need to repeat the steps after entering pool.ntp.org:
To configure NTP on ESX/ESXi 4.1 and ESXi 5.x hosts using the vSphere Client:
- Connect to the ESX/ESXi host using the vSphere Client.
- Select a host in the inventory.
- Click the Configuration tab.
- Click Time Configuration.
- Click Properties.
- Click Options.
- Click NTP Settings.
- Click Add.
- Enter the NTP Server name. For example, pool.ntp.org.
- Note: When entering the multiple NTP Server names, use a comma (,) followed by a space ( ) between the entries.
- Click OK.
- Click the General tab.
- Click Start automatically under Startup Policy.
- Note: It is recommended to set the time manually prior to starting the service.
- Click Start and click OK.
- Click OK to exit.
–jeroen
via:
- VMware KB: Configuring Network Time Protocol (NTP) on ESX/ESXi hosts using the vSphere Client.
- [WayBack] Configure your time / NTP server on ESXi « Tutorials « eMware.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 