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Finding the exact bounds of text

I need to know the exact bounds a piece of text -- the equivalent of getTextBounds for Android. I realize this goes somewhat counter to Flutter's design, but I am using text in a non-traditional way (as if the text were, say, embedded into an artistic picture at a precise [...] read more

Cisco ASA Site-to-Site VPN Dropping

I have three sites, Toronto (1.1.1.1), Mississauga (2.2.2.2) and San Francisco (3.3.3.3). All three sites have ASA 5520. All the sites are connected together with two site-to-site VPN links between each other location. My issue is that the tunnel between Toronto and San Francisco is very unstable, dropping every 40 [...] read more

How to dump memory to a file in gdb (osx)? Need to rescue my work

I need to know how I can dump memory in Safari.app, to a file. I've entered gdb attach 6741 (my safari PID). Now what? I tried searching for help on gdb on google, but I couldn't find anything that told me what to do, even when searching for "how to [...] read more

Remove padding in Flutter Container > FlatButton

I am looking to remove the default margin of the FlatButton but can't seem to set/override it. buttons with padding [https://i.stack.imgur.com/auKR7.png] Column(children: <Widget>[ Container( children: [ FractionallySizedBox( widthFactor: 0.6, child: FlatButton( color: Color(0xFF00A0BE), textColor: Color(0xFFFFFFFF), child: Text('LOGIN', style: TextStyle(letterSpacing: 4.0)), shape: RoundedRectangleBorder(side: BorderSide.none)))), Container( margin: const EdgeInsets.only(top: 0.0), child: FractionallySizedBox( [...] read more

Problem switching to v8086 mode from 32-bit protected mode by setting EFLAGS.VM to 1

I'm in 32-bit protected mode running at current privilege level (CPL=0). I'm trying to enter v8086 mode by setting EFLAGS.VM (Bit 17) flag to 1 (and IOPL to 0) and doing a FAR JMP to my 16-bit real mode code. I get the current flags using PUSHF; set EFLAGS.VM (bit [...] read more

Strongswan (IKEv2) connection established, but no traffic routing

I've seen this sort of question posted a few times before, but so far, none of them have solved my issue. I'm trying to set up an IKEv2 VPN on my Ubuntu Server to use with my Windows Phone using Strongswan. The connection seems to be set up correctly, but [...] read more

Corrupted NTFS Drive showing multiple unallocated partitions

My external hdd with a single NTFS partition was accidentaly plugged out (kids!)... and is now corrupted. Iv tried running ntfsfix - with no luck - output below.. When I look at the disk under disk management in Windows 7 it shows up as having 5 partitions 2 of which [...] read more

SQL Server 2012 with account NT Service\MSSQLSERVER access is denied in domain

A few months ago we installed SQL Server 2012 in Windows 2008 R2 under the virtual account "NT Service\MSSQLSERVER", all good. A few days ago, one of the admins of the IT dept installed Full Text Search component to the SQL Server 2012 (the problem is he could not recall [...] read more

Disable IPv6 Loopback on Windows 7 64 Bit

I have a Windows 7 64 Bit machine, and I cannot find a way to disable the IPv6 Loopback. I looked at the article at How to disable IP version 6 or its specific components in Windows and shows how to set HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters\DisabledComponents to various values – but none of [...] read more

How to put FloatingActionButton to Fragment?

How can I put my fab on my fragment? help please I'm getting errors such as. > android.view.InflateException: Binary XML file line #13: Error inflating class fragment in my fragment acticity. Well here are my codes. well the problem is in the getActivity().setContentView(R.layout.activity_ownerhome); #ownerhome.java public class ownerhome extends AppCompatActivity { [...] read more

FreeBSD IP aliases in different subnets and default outgoing IP address

I have a FreeBSD VPS that until recently had assigned 3 public ip addresses in a /29 subnet. When making outgoing connections, the IP address used was always the non aliased one ".20", however now I have added another block of 3 ip addresses in a different /29 subnet and [...] read more

ASA site-to-site IPSec vpn to linux ipsec-tools endpoints stops working after a random period of time

We swapped to ASA's over the weekend, and we replaced our VPN infrastructure which was previously based on openvpn and are now using IPSec between our ASA 5520's and our other sites that have linux (CentOS) routers. The VPNs connect just fine, but after a period of time the connections [...] read more

a class method named ._() function in dart?

ive seen this code can anyone please explain to me what the AppTheme._() means, as ive read about its singleton class in dart but I really can't understand how it works. class AppTheme { AppTheme._(); static const Color notWhite = Color(0xFFEDF0F2); static const Color nearlyWhite = Color(0xFFFEFEFE); static const Color [...] read more

Enable TLS 1.2 in Windows Server 2012 running Exchange 2013 via IIS 8.0

I got some issues getting the TLS 1.2 protocol running on one of our Windows Server 2012 machines. I checked this using ssllabs.com by Qualys and also tested with a powershell script and the linux tool "cipherscan". The server hosts one Exchange 2013 SP1 (CU4) Server, with IIS 8.0. The [...] read more

OpenVPN connection works but no gateway is assigned

i try to setup openvpn on a vps and I'm able to establish a connection to the server, but the gateway isn't assigned to the client. Here are my config files: client config: client dev tun proto udp remote foo.bar 1194 resolv-retry infinite nobind persist-key persist-tun ca ca.crt cert client1.crt [...] read more

Why _umul128 works slower than scalar code for mul128x64x2 function?

I am second time trying to implement fast mul128x64x2 function. First time I ask the question without comparision with _umul128 MSVC version. Now I made such a comparison and the results that I got show that the _umul128 function slower then native scalar and handmade simd AVX 1.0 code. Below [...] read more

In a MIPS assembly `addi` instruction, how is a hexadecimal immediate interpreted?

Is there is a standard or recommendation for how the addi instruction (and others) should be interpreted in assembly, when hexadecimal immediate values are used? Example: addi $t0, $zero, 0xffff I was expecting this to mean the same as addi $t0, $zero, -1 where 0xffff would be sign extended to [...] read more

My two-way trust with selective auth seems to behave opposite to a one-way trust

I'm not sure why I'm the only one running into this, I think it's a larger problem with Server 2012 and RDS protocols... With 2008 machines, you can use utilize a one way trust to authenticate across domains with the TSGateway service, but with 2012 it breaks when running across [...] read more

How to limit ZFS writes on NVME SSD in RAID1 to avoid rapid disk wear?

Currently I'm running Proxmox 5.3-7 on ZFS with few idling debian virtual machines. I'm using two SSDPE2MX450G7 NVME drives in RAID 1. After 245 days of running this setup the S.M.A.R.T values are terrible. SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02, NSID 0xffffffff) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature: 27 Celsius Available Spare: 98% [...] read more

Block incoming traffic in bonding mode when primary interface is down

My server running on latest kernel (4.4.6) has configured a bond device (bond0) with two enslaved interfaces eth0, wlan0 with primary interface eth0. cat /proc/net/bonding/bond0 Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011) Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup) Primary Slave: eth0 (primary_reselect always) Currently Active Slave: wlan0 MII Status: up MII [...] read more

Issue installing IE11

I've been using WSUS to roll out IE11, there's a few stranglers that IE11 will not install and I've started looking into. Here's what I've done. 1. Confirmed all prerequisite updates have been done. 2. I'm using the x64 bit package of ie11 and only using x64 servers and workstations. [...] read more

System Account Logon Failures every 30 seconds

We have two Windows 2008 R2 SP1 servers running in a SQL failover cluster. On one of them we are getting the following events in the security log every 30 seconds. The parts that are blank are actually blank. Has anyone seen similar issues, or assist in tracking down the [...] read more

How can I get FreeNAS to respond to libvirt shutdown requests

I have a KVM VM of FreeNAS 0.7.1 Shere (revision 5127) running on Ubuntu Server 10.04 and I'm unable to convince the VM to shutdown from the host virsh shutdown freenas I would expect this to send some ACPI? trigger to the VM and FreeNAS then do what it's told. [...] read more

Marking packets with iptables with a NAT

I have to write bash scripts for a router to control bandwidth limitation for a given user on a given domain name. For this, I'm using iptables to mark the packets incoming from a restricted domain to a user ip address in the private network. With each couple user_ip/domain_ip I [...] read more

Direct3D crashes dxdiag in 32-bit but works fine in 64-bit mode

DxDiag crashes when I open it unless I bypass Direct3D. It works fine in 64-bit mode. I have a NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M, and I've tried updating (also uninstalling, reinstalling) my drivers. I've also tried doing the same with DirectX. How can I enable Direct3D for 32-bit? I've tried enabling [...] read more

Is my mac hacked? Found weird things

I apologize for posting in length, but I thought being complete would be of more value: 20120822, my browser was not resolving a domain so I went into my terminal to check and lo-and-behold! I find these crazy commands remnant: mac-mini$ su Password: sh-3.2# sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /etc/hosts Mar 22 23:07:08 [...] read more

disabling ipv6 on windows 7 64bit

not sure what i am missing here.. every website suggests creating this reg key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters\DisabledComponents as DWORD and setting its value to 0xFFFFFFFF i've done this, but when i reboot, my NIC adapter still shows IPV6 enabled. since i have 64bit version, i also tried setting this value as QWORD. [...] read more

Conversion from CIDR notation to IP address/subnet mask (dot-decimal)

/* * RFC 1518, 1519 - Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) * This converts from "prefix + prefix-length" format to * "address + mask" format, e.g. from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/yy * to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy. */ static private String normalizeFromCIDR(final String netspec) { final int bits = 32 - Integer.parseInt(netspec.substring(netspec.indexOf('/')+1)); final int mask = (bits [...] read more

Enable TLS 1.2 for specific Ciphers

We have a .NET application which calls an API that allows only TLS version 1.2. Server 2008 SP2. We ran following script on our server: # Copyright 2016, Alexander Hass # http://www.hass.de/content/setup-your-iis-ssl-perfect-forward-secrecy-and-tls-12 # # Version 1.7 # - Windows Version compare failed. Get-CimInstance requires Windows 2012 or later. # Version [...] read more

Access to xmlhttprequest at from origin has been blocked by cors policy in Angular 6

I'm using Asp.Net Core Boilerplate framework for my server side project. Angular 6 using for the client side project. Server side project working without any errors. (Showing Swagger API - and APIs are also working) No any compile errors from Angular project. When run the angular project using Google chrome, [...] read more

Safe low 32 bits masking of uint64_t

Assume the following code: uint64_t g_global_var; .... .... void foo(void) { uint64_t local_32bit_low = g_global_var & 0xFFFFFFFF; .... } With the current toolchain, this code works as expected, local_32bit_low indeed contains the low 32 bits of g_global_var. I wonder if it is guaranteed by the standard C that this code [...] read more

FreeBSD major update broke vpnc connectivity, incoming ESP traffic doesn't appear unencrypted on interfaces

I updated a FreeBSD box from 10.4 to 11.2-RELEASE-p4 recently and it seems to have broken the vpnc VPN connectivity. Here's the vpnc.conf:IPSec gateway 10.1.0.1 IPSec ID vpnuser IPSec secret su0hoh8liNgeiT8 Xauth username vpnuser Xauth password miuthei3Niew2ee Nat Traversal Mode none Noninteractive Following the interface configuration; em0 is the hardware [...] read more

High Performance AWS EC2 / RDS + Nginx + PHP-FPM setup

GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE ISSUE We're currently running an application on a PaaS type solution for PHP. Their solution is based on AWS cloud and due to the fact that their plans don't fit our scaling needs, we've decided to migrate to AWS directly the application is performing "well" ~100ms [...] read more

How to debug ip xfrm rules

I created ip xfrm rules on 2 machine and trying to pass traffic through the ipsec tunnel. The packet comes into the other end, encrypted, and disappears. I traced them through iptables, and here is the trace. 2015-11-27T14:50:21.442638+04:30 cfae kernel: [70234.667488] TRACE: raw:PREROUTING:policy:2 IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=00:0c:29:b7:97:49:00:0c:29:42:5b:e1:08:00 SRC=172.24.1.178 DST=10.60.60.31 LEN=128 TOS=0x00 [...] read more

Same hardware/software, significant difference in performance

Introduction I have two sets of machines, set A and set B, with apparently the same hardware/software configuration, but with a significant difference in performance. Machines in set B are up to x4 faster than machines in set A. However, if I reboot a machine in set A, inexplicably it [...] read more

Iptables u32 matching nat

I'm currently setting up IPtables to redirect certain UDP payloads to my application. Here is an example of what I have working so far: iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -p udp -d {IPDST} --dport 27055 -m u32 --u32 '0>>22&0x3C@8=0xFFFFFFFF && 0>>22&0x3C@12=0x54536F75 && 0>>22&0x3C@16=0x72636520 && 0>>22&0x3C@20=0x456E6769 && 0>>22&0x3C@24=0x6E652051 && 0>>22&0x3C@28=0x75657279' -j [...] read more

CentOS reporting lower total memory compared others in AWS

I have a t2.medium instance running in AWS on the CentOS 7 AMI and I noticed in top and free it's basically reporting 3.45GiB of total memory. If I launch an instance with the AWS linux (I think I tried the RedHat one too) it reports about 4GiB of memory. [...] read more

Windows 2008 R2 services not working

EDIT I spawned the Windows events logging service won't start issue to a separate question here I have a strange problem: 1. SQLAGENT won't start 2. Windows events logging service won't start Today I tried to copy a db to test some changes, and discovered that SQL server agent can't [...] read more

Setting up gateway on different subnet than IP address

My provider has a (stupid) setup where the IP address for the gateway is on a totally different IP range than the assigned IP address. They insist on doing this for whatever reason. I'm trying to get Windows Server 2012 R2 configured using a static route but have had no [...] read more

Packets not entering FORWARD chain

first of all, this is not an every-day routing issue. The setup is fairly complex, so let me state it before. I got a router with, lets keep it simple, 3 interfaces. eth0, eth1, eth2. eth2 is used for pppoe. eth0 & eth1 have the clients. Okay so far so [...] read more

HP P410 ADU (hpacucli) generates empty report

I'm trying to monitor hard drive's smart status. I've tried smartctl tools and HP's own hpacucli to generate ADU report. However, neither of them are useful. smartctl does not show values like Power On Hours or Hard drive temperature. ADU report shows them empty. What's the right way to monitor [...] read more

Linux port based routing : reponse packets discarded

I would like to use port-based routing on my Linux local gateway. Here is my network diagram : 192.168.42.148/24 192.168.42.1/24 192.168.44.2 192.168.44.1 +--------------------+ +----------------------------+ +----------+ | Workstation (eth0)-|----------------|-(em0) Local_GW (tun0)-|------------| VPN_GW | +--------------------+ | (rl0) | +----------+ +-------------|--------------+ 10.133.8.79/21 | | 10.133.15.254/21 | +--------------------+ | Provider_GW | +--------------------+ Provider_GW only [...] read more

iptables NAT with multiple interfaces

I have an ubuntu 10 machine I'm trying to set up with NAT. eth0 is the WAN interface, that uses DHCP. eth1, eth2, eth3 are LAN interfaces. They are connected to 192.168.0.50, .51, .52 respectively. NAT through eth1 works great. On eth2/3, I get nothing -- "no route to host" [...] read more

Black screen while installing Debian

I tried installing Debian with a netinstall CD-ROM on my custom-built PC. Everything is going fine until I choose any of the install options because then the screen turns black and I get no graphical feedback at all. The screen itself seems to get information though because it doesn't go [...] read more

Error installing IE11 - prerequisite update KB2834140

I'm trying to upgrade Internet Explorer my Windows 7 (x64) development VM from IE8 to IE11. Both the online and offline installers fail with a bland error message: enter image description here [https://i.stack.imgur.com/0dueo.png] The troubleshooter tells me nothing, but the IE11_main.log reveals: 00:04.524: INFO: Download for KB2834140 initiated. Downloading http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=303935 [...] read more

What does the "-->" notation mean in the output of ifconfig?

I have a VPN connection set up on my OS X machine, and when I run ifconfig in the terminal I get the following response: utun0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 10.8.0.6 --> 10.8.0.5 netmask 0xffffffff Can someone help me understand what the --> symbol means? read more

Sysprepped image will not complete setup

I'm having a problem installing/setting up an image. Background:I've created a Windows 7 Enterprise image (i.e. installed OS, installed applications, configured settings, etc.). Then I sysprepped it and captured/applied it with imagex (onto a computer with identical hardware as the original). When I boot up the new machine, windows starts [...] read more

How to use openvpn for browsing

I'm just starting out with VPN and OpenVPN. What I understand is that I when I have a vpn connection, it's like I'm on the same network as the server. Then I should be able to connect to the server via the local address (10.8.x.x). Next to that I should [...] read more

Something very strange with network

I have Windows 7 and I have very strange thing with my network. Some time I was connected through wireless router and my IP was 192.168.2.103, router's IP was 192.168.2.1 and some other IP was 192.168.2.100. The last I get from page "active DHCP clients" of web interface of the [...] read more

FFMPeg exception setDataSource failed: status = 0xFFFFFFFF

I have 175 mp4 files. When I process file from index 0 to index 65 (or 66), I get exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: setDataSource failed: status = 0xFFFFFFFF at wseemann.media.FFmpegMediaMetadataRetriever.setDataSource(Native Method) at com.jni.utils.Mp4ParserUsingFFMpeg.createThumbnail(Mp4ParserUsingFFMpeg.java:518) at com.example.readmdtfile.activity.MainActivity$createMp4Async.createThumbnail(MainActivity.java:71) at com.example.readmdtfile.activity.MainActivity$createMp4Async.doInBackground(MainActivity.java:55) at com.example.readmdtfile.activity.MainActivity$createMp4Async.doInBackground(MainActivity.java:1) at android.os.AsyncTask$2.call(AsyncTask.java:288) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:237) at android.os.AsyncTask$SerialExecutor$1.run(AsyncTask.java:231) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1112) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:587) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:841) If [...] read more

Access array defined in inline assembler from C

I have an integer declared in Assembler, and I use it in C in the following way: asm( "number: \n" ".long 0xFFFFFFFF \n ); extern int number; int main(){ //do something with number } Now I want to declare a 32 byte array in Assembler. I tried the following: asm( [...] read more

Does JMeter fully support NTLM Authentication?

I am struggling to make JMeter to work with NTLM authentication. At the beginning I was provided with an URL and credential. When I tested the credential in Firefox and in Chrome I received the authentication popup and upon providing the credential I was authenticated. So I had created a [...] read more

How to get username and mail to display in UserAccountsDrawerHeader in flutter

I am getting my response from the URL after login in but I can only print the data in my console but how to get the mail and name from the that response I have tried with the future response but when I get a future response but its returning [...] read more

How to assign byte[] as a pointer in C#

I have a function that generates a CRC check byte based on the content of any packet.The problem is in translating the function from C++ to C# C++ code: unsigned char GenerateCheckByte( char* packet, int length, unsigned long seed ) { if( !packet ) return 0; unsigned long checksum = [...] read more

QEMU Triple Faulting when enabling interrupts

I'm working on a simple operating system, and I'm currently trying to load the IDT. I'm not getting any errors during compilation, but QEMU is triple faulting when I try to enable interrupts. I have looked at the address in the EIP register with iHex, but it seems to be [...] read more

Enable IPv6 in MariaDB in FreeBSD jail

I'm trying to set up a MariaDB 10.2 Server on a FreeBSD 11.2 Jail. The Server is running and accepts remote connections via IPv4 just fine. According to sockstat, it should also be listening on IPv6: db# sockstat | grep 3306 mysql mysqld 17516 177 tcp46 *:3306 *:* This is [...] read more

Transparent HAproxy on ubuntu (amazon EC2)

I am trying to setup a transparent HAproxy load balancer using ubuntu 18.04 on amazon EC2. I got the HAproxy to work on a non-transparent mode, so now I am trying to add the changes required for the transparent mode, but I am getting 503 Service Unavailable No server is [...] read more

How to get TOR hidden service to work with iptables

I'm running an Arch Linux server which acts as a TOR relay and I would like it to act as a hidden service as well (I want to provide .onion access to my services, I know running a relay next to a HS is not suitable for an anonymous service). [...] read more

How to limit speed for every device per MAC address in the gateway via Linux command "tc"?

I have a gateway whose OS is Linux.Assume my downlink bandwidth is 100 Mbps. I want to limit the max download speed to 1Mbps for every device which uses this gateway.In other words, if there are 100 devices, every device can get 1 Mbps bandwidth in theory.I tried doing traffic [...] read more

How to fix Apache2 w/ suPHP to scan the correct .ini directory?

Apache2 was reading the correct area for php.ini in /etc/php5/apache2 until suPHP was added to the system. Configuring suPHP_ConfigPath in /etc/apache2/mods-available/suphp.conf gets the correct php.ini loaded, but does not correct the directories to be scanned. How, and where, do I fix this so that Apache loads/scans/uses PHP from the original [...] read more

OpenVPN routing between static hosts

I have an OpenVPN server with successful static-key tunnels to two separate hosts - my laptop, and another server elsewhere on the internet. I have connectivity over both OpenVPN tunnels. How do I make it so the server with two tunnels routes traffic across its tunnels? Switching to server mode [...] read more

OpenVPN client connects but can't access internet

I setup an Openvpn server on a centos box and I can get the client to connect (osx) but can't access the internet or even the local network. I thought maybe DNS but couldn't access any sites via IP. Any help would be appreciated. I will list my config files [...] read more

DHCP offer is unicast but DHCPACK is broadcast

My DHCP server broadcast DHCPACK 0xffffffff . it is not working on layer 3 dhcp relay agent . as it can not forward this broadcast message to my client. can any one help me from exactly the broadcast bit set ? should I send any parameter to dhcp server so [...] read more

nslookup fails inside freebsd jail

I posted on the freebsd forums. I've been trying all night and I've made some progress but still I can't connect to the internet from my freebsd jail. Please just give me a hint here. I get the following inside the jail if I do nslookup www.google.com : ;; connection [...] read more

How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows Server

I have a performance lab running behind a firewall, so none of the machines in the lab has internet access. All machines in the lab are part of a domain with the domain controller also present inside the lab. The problem is that some server's time are drifting heavily. Some [...] read more

firewall-cmd - add-forward-port don't work

I have a KVM server (host) with multiple virtual machines (guests). My goal is my host forward port 222 to port 22 of a guest running an ssh service. This works... iptables -I OUTPUT -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j ACCEPT iptables -I FORWARD -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j ACCEPT iptables -I INPUT -d 0.0.0.0/0 [...] read more

Windows: SSL/TLS connection reset after ClientHello (ECONNRESET / write:errno=10054)

I'm using Windows Server 2012 as a workstation. The problem is that HTTPS connection initiated by node.js randomly fails. Probably this is system-wide issue and not only node is affected, but it appears mostly with node. Because any HTTPS request can randomly fail, npm install is a lottery and for [...] read more

What can trigger a SIGPWR signal that interrupts a 'sendmsg' system call?

On a RHEL 6 host, I have a Cassandra server listening for TCP connections on localhost. In parallel, I have a client application that sends it requests. The client (C# Mono) uses sendmsg to send the serialized bytes. I consistently see the sendmsg return without having sent all requested bytes. [...] read more

Windows 10 drops IKEv2 VPN connection to Cisco router in exactly 60 seconds after last data exchange

Update 3: 22 January 2017 I've narrowed down the update that causes this problem: KB3201845 OS Build 14393.479 from December 9 2016. I went through all these updates step by step. Looking at the changes files manifest, these files have been changed: * agilevpn.sys * vpnike.dll Other topics I've created: [...] read more

How to slow down traffic with tc?

I'm on Ubuntu 14.04; I'd like to learn the basics of traffic shaping, I made a simple script that should slow down my HTTP(S) traffic to ports 80 and 443. # usage: sudo ./filename.sh #delete existing rules # wlan0 is my WiFi tc qdisc del root dev wlan0 iptables -t [...] read more

How do I configure DNS when sharing a VPN connection in linux?

I'm using a Linux computer (raspberry pi) to share a VPN connection over ethernet. I want the raspberry pi to connect to the internet normally (not over the VPN). I'm very close to getting it working, but I don't know how to configure the DNS for the eth1 network. Connection [...] read more

How can I get a Mellanox ConnectX-2 to work on this ASUS desktop motherboard?

People seem to be happy with second-hand Mellanox ConnectX-2s on Linux so I grabbed a pair. Both cards result in an network interface showing up on one computer but neither show up in the other computer. Working computer: * EVGA 120-LF-E650 desktop board * Ubuntu 16.04 LTS * Linux 4.4.0 [...] read more

Enable SCHANNEL Protocols in Windows Registry (Win7 & 2012R2) DisabledByDefault or Enabled?

I have enabled TLS 1.0/1.1/1.2 protocols on my local Win7 machine and 2012R2 server as well as disabled SSL 2.0/3.0 using the registry DWord value DisabledByDefault = 0 based on the following Microsoft support article: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/245030(see SCHANNEL\Protocols subkey...) But i noticed another TechNet article which seems to contradict this KB [...] read more

Routing subnet to specific routing table with fwmark, direct to ISP and VPN

Introduction I'm trying to set up a VPN on my router so that I have two routing tables. I want it so that all the filtering is done with iptables, and iproute just acts on the specific fwmarks, ie generic rules. It is an improvement of Routing a particular subnet [...] read more

OS X - GPU Panic

For half a year, I've been experiencing random freezes/reboots on my MacBook Pro Retina Mid 2012 model. My current OS is OS X Yosemite, but I started experiencing the issue in the Mavericks era. The laptop has endured some occasional, unintended slight physical abuse, but nothing very serious. Just mentioning [...] read more

Computer tends to BSOD crash (in any browser) when using Flash based apps?

About a month ago my computer started experiencing crashes, at first it was just every once in a while, then it escalated to around 5 times a day. Typically it crashes when I access flash-based games and videos, but it has occurred at random, e.g. no sensible correlation between what [...] read more

on xeon, does addq require 2 clock cycles?

How many cycles are required to add long ints on a xeon? from timing trials, it appears that 2 clock ticks are needed. /proc/info says model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5660 @ 2.80GHz sample c code (loop.02.c) unsigned long i, j=0; for(i=0; i<(0xFFFFFFFF);i++) j+=3; assembler code 21:loop.02.c **** for(i=0; [...] read more

How to set Java home in JSch to execute a command?

I'm using Jcraft JSch to ssh into a remote machine and execute a command. As it's a non-interactive shell it's not finding Java home. How do I set Java home while using jsch? looking like ((ChannelExec) channel).setEnv("LANG", "UTF-8"); ((ChannelExec) channel).setEnv("JAVA_HOME", "/blah/java/J8.0_64/"); is deprecated? public String sendCommand(String command) { StringBuilder outputBuffer [...] read more

general protection fault when running os on iso

I have the following bootloader code which seems to run perfectly fine on a hard disk: [bits 16] [org 0x7c00] bootld_start: KERNEL_OFFSET equ 0x2000 xor ax, ax ; Explicitly set ES = DS = 0 mov ds, ax mov es, ax mov bx, 0x8C00 ; Set SS:SP to 0x8C00:0x0000 . [...] read more

About the limitation of STM32H7 SPI in slave mode

I'm implementing SPI communication between two Nucleo STM32H743 boards. I've configured SPI in Full-Duplex mode, with CRC enabled, at the maximum SPI frequency (100MHz for SCK frequency). It's working fine as long as I'm doing only transmission from Master side and Reception from Slave side. Here is the code I'm [...] read more

Having trouble compiling ffmpeg code in command terminal

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