Monday, August 29, 2022

Chrome ERR_CERT_INVALID

I never knew….
If you cannot continue in Chrome because of an ERR_CERT_INVALID error, even after pressing Advanced: there’s a secret passphrase built into the error page. Just make sure the page is selected (click anywhere on the background), and type `thisisunsafe`

Sunday, July 24, 2022

ffmpeg reminder

Personal reminder:

Download latest: https://ffmpeg.org/download.html
Run ffmpeg -i MyMovie.mkv and look for stream info, e.g.:

Stream #0:0: Video: h264 (High), yuv420p(tv, bt709/unknown/unknown, progressive), 1920x800, SAR 1:1 DAR 12:5, 23.98 fps, 23.98 tbr, 1k tbn, 47.95 tbc (default)
Stream #0:1(dut): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 448 kb/s
      title           : Dutch
Stream #0:2(dut): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 448 kb/s
      title           : Flemish
Stream #0:3(eng): Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 448 kb/s
      title           : English
Stream #0:4(dut): Subtitle: subrip (default) (forced)
Stream #0:5(dut): Subtitle: subrip
Stream #0:6(eng): Subtitle: subrip

Say, I would like to have the video with the Flemish audio and all the subtitles (since they don’t take that much space)

ffmpeg -i MyMovie_2160p.mkv -vf scale=640:-2 -ac 2 -af "pan=stereo|FL=FC+0.30*FL+0.30*BL|FR=FC+0.30*FR+0.30*BR" -map 0:v:0 -map 0:a:1 -map 0:s MyMovie_640p_2ch.mkv
-vf scale=640:-2	= video filter: 640p, -2 means keep aspect ratio for vertical pixels
-ac 2			= (convert to) 2 audio channels
-af "pan=......		= audio filter: copy multichannel audio without losing center channel (dialogs)
-map 0:v:0		= copy first (0) video stream
-map 0:a:1		= copy second (1) audio stream (Start from 0. So 0 would be Dutch, 1 Flemish, 2 English)
-map 0:s		= copy all subtitles 
but if you have non-convertible subtitles (bitmapped), then first map the desired sub and copy, e.g.: -map 0:s:3 -c:s copy

Monday, July 11, 2022

ser2net p1 adapter yaml config

Because i didn’t make a backup. For next time’s reference:

connection: &p1usb
  accepter: tcp,10001
  enable: on
  connector: serialdev,/dev/ttyUSB0,local,115200n81

Older ser2net, shipped with debian buster with ‘just’ a .conf file is easy:

10001:telnet:600:/dev/ttyUSB0:115200 8DATABITS NONE 1STOPBIT banner

Thursday, July 7, 2022

pfSense Multi VLAN DNS (host) overrides

pfSense’s DNS resolver has the ability to do host overrides from the gui, but these are global overrides.
Unbound (the underlaying DNS resolver) has the ability to create DNS views to do different things based on source addresses.
It is located under Services - DNS Resolver - General - Custom options. It is a free format field.

Example:

server:
access-control-view: 10.123.12.0/24 vlan15activedirectory
access-control-view: 10.158.1.0/24 vlan16guest

view:
name: "vlan15activedirectory"
local-zone: "vpn.client.net" static
# adding the host as a zone results in NXDomain lookup

view:
name: "vlan16guest"
local-data: "vpn.client.net. 90 IN A 11.12.13.10"
# adding a specific host and map it to a specific ip

More info: https://unbound.docs … ring/tags-views.html

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Log all output to a file (dos, bash)

I’m always googling for this. What was that thing again that logs all output to a file?

2>&1

Bash example:

root@ubuntu:/mnt/sda6# rsync -av * /mnt/backup/sda6/ >/mnt/backup/readrrors.txt 2>&1

Dos example:

copy backup.log \\nas\share\weeklog.txt >output.txt 2>&1

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Forcing a refresh of Network Printer Settings from Print Server

If you have a printserver in your network and you want to change certain properties, e.g. print black/white instead of color, normally what you do is change the settings on the Advanced Tab - Default Settings Button. These are the settings a user inherits when first connecting to the shared printer.
But what if you want to revert these settings. You’d have to remove the printer from the userprofile and make sure the printer’s readded, in order to inherit the new default settings.

This is exactly what the following script does.
It also cleans removed/unshared printers, as it can only re-add printers that still exist.

on error resume next
Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")

'## Enumerate all the current printers in the profile
Set oPrinters = WshNetwork.EnumPrinterConnections

For i = 0 to oPrinters.Count - 1 Step 2

'## Disconnect the printer
WshNetwork.RemovePrinterConnection ""& oPrinters.Item(i+1) &"", true, true
'## Readd the same printer (if still exists)
WshNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection ""& oPrinters.Item(i+1) &"", true, true

Next

msgbox "Done"

You might want to comment the last line to make the script run totally silent.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Nokia OVI sync error “80043c94”

Maybe it’ll be fixed in newer versions but todays latest version of Nokia OVI Suite is 2.1.1.1 and the latest firmware for my nokia E71 is 410.21.010.
So now everything’s up to date, still can’t sync contacts, agenda, etc with the OVI Suite. All i get is error “80043c94”.
Searched all over the net, but no solution. AARGH

Reason: You cannot have your application data (%appdata%) redirected. Revert to default settings (as part of your user profile, whichs makes your userprofile bigger/slower when logging in/out) and sync works again.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Register a serie of .dll files

Run from prompt:

for /f "tokens=*" %a in ('dir /b *.dll') do regsvr32 /s %a

Remember: when running from a batchfile %a becomes %%a

Sunday, July 26, 2009

simple html redirect

So simple, yet so much used..

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="3; url=https://webmail.customer.com/exchange/">
<HTML>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<t>You will be redirected in 3 seconds ...</t>
<br>
</HTML>

Sunday, June 7, 2009

areca master password

It’s actually a pretty big security issue, but i’m glad it exists :)
Can’t access your raid configuration anymore? Forgot your password?

areca master password: MNO974315743924 (works on 1160, 1210 (McBIOS), …)

And just a reminder:
areca default archttp32 user/pass: admin/0000