Software on Nico Maas

Presentations with Markdown: revealjs

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Being an active contributor to the PiAndMore and other conferences, I happen to make quite a few presentations a year. In the past I was using the good old Microsoft Powerpoint - which has its strengths, but also its drawbacks. Positioning text and graphics were never my taste (I use LaTeX, btw) - so I set out to find a new way to create presentations - and found revealjs back in 2018.

Use Sonarqube with sonar-cxx

Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Installation

Download SonarQube from https://www.sonarqube.org/downloads/
- If you are using Java 8, you need to download SonarQube 6.7.x LTS (look for Historical Downloads on the website)
- If you are using Java 11 - SonarQube 7.9.x LTS (look for Long term support area on the website)
Unpack the SonarQube ZIP file
Download the latest sonar-c-plugin.jar and sonar-cxx-plugin.jar from https://github.com/SonarOpenCommunity/sonar-cxx/releases
Insert both jar files into the SONARQUBE_HOME/extensions/plugins extensions directory (within the unpacked ZIP file)
Start SonarQube and Login
- On Windows 10, e.g. via SONARQUBE_HOME/bin/windows-x86-64/StartSonar.bat
- Go to http://127.0.0.1:9000 as soon as “SonarQube is up” is announced
- Default login is user admin, password admin
Navigate to Administration -> Marketplace and make sure the plugins “C (Community)” and “C++ (Community)” are installed

BeagleLogic

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 09:00:46 +0000

To get your Beaglebone Black (BBB) to work as an Logic Analyzer, you can use BeagleLogic:

1.) Download latest version of BeagleLogic

https://beaglelogic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/beaglelogic_system_image.html
Released on 2017-07-13
sha256sum = be67e3b8a21c054cd6dcae7c50e9e518492d5d1ddaa83619878afeffe59c99bd
https://goo.gl/RiXGBs

2.) Burn it onto sdcard with Etcher

3.) Put SDCard into BeagleBone Black

4.) Hold “Boot” Button, plug in BBB with Mini USB Cable to your PC

5.) After 10 seconds or so, release “Boot” Button (this will just boot from SDcard with this trick)

[Dell] Using the Update CDs to get Dell Servers to latest firmware

Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:00:58 +0000

Dell has an very comfortable way of getting new firmware to nearly all of its server components: The bootable media / ISO or Update CDs. You can find them on this website and very useful. On a basic level, you pick your server, download the ISO, compare the MD5 checksum and burn the ISO onto a DVD. After that, you should get the Servicetag of your server and check for BIOS and iDRAC updates - these should be installed manually first. After that, boot from the DVD and let it install all the needed firmware. Basically, the DVD will cycle through all firmware of components ever installed in the series of your particular server and installs updates if needed. After another reboot, you’re done :).

Gitkraken - your next Git Client

Sat, 24 Dec 2016 15:00:28 +0000

If you’re in the NetOps/DevOps Teams, chances are high you need to develop code and use git. Well, on Windows Clients, I tended to use Atlassians Source Tree - however, that client became more and more buggy and unstable - unusable to say. Especially if I had to do an really big merge of my main to my deploy tag - it tended to crash most of the time.

So, without further ado: Enter Gitkranken. A nice, free, good looking and fast git client. Without dependencies.

[Talk] Wearables & IoT Presentation

Sat, 24 May 2014 09:00:14 +0000

My introduction to Wearables & IoT at the Saarcamp 2014:

Download: IOT_Saarcamp.pdf (3 MB)

[Putty] Multiple Tabs with Putty

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:59:00 +0000

An “Multi-Tab” Putty Version?
Does that exist?
No - putty does not do tabs, neither any custom version.
But theres an so called “Putty Connection Manager” which does mange your Sessions 256 bit AES encrypted as well as do Multiple Tabs via wrapping Putty multiple times within itself! http://puttycm.free.fr/cms/index.php

[Firefox] about:everything

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:23:31 +0000

The about: Addresses in Firefox are powerful parameters to change the behaviour of Firefox or watch stats. Therefore:

about:config - Configuration Stuff  
about:memory - Memory Consumption  
about:robots - Easter Egg

[Firefox 3.6] XMarks Problem

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:34:47 +0000

I have been using XMarks for very long time to synchronize my Bookmarks over all my PCs.
( Even since XMarks has been known as Foxmarks… )
But at some point, I got some really nasty problem:
The “Unsorted Bookmarks” Folder started to get “replicated”:
Every sync or so, I got one more.
And more.
And more…
And I never found out why, until now:
I had serval sync profiles (Work, Home, Mobile, etc…) with restricted access to my Bookmarks.
Problem was: My Work PC didn’t sync the Unsorted Bookmarks Folder - my other PCs did.
That means: Every time the Work PC did sync and saw the Unsorted Bookmarks Folder, it was “new” to him and without settings and it did download.
Next time, he did “Push” it as new Folder to the Web - not as correct Unsorted Folder, but only as a normal Favorite Folder called like that.
The Other PCs did grab that, create it a new, sync it… and so on -.-’.
Folder Storm or so.
After removing all the trash folders and enabling the Work PC Sync for the Unsorted Bookmarks, I hope it will work out…

Windows 2000 / XP Password Special

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:37:03 +0000

So, you logged out of Windows and need to get your password back? Thats for what this little collection is for.

Lets say you need to “crack” an Windows 2000 / XP Password. For i.e. login data. Then you should go for Ophcrack: http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/

If you just want to login into Windows 2000 / XP / Linux etc. without using or cracking the password with admin rights, go for konboot: http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/

Firefox and Thunderbird Addons Special

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:58:27 +0000

Some little Special about my most beloved and used Addons for Firefox and Thunderbird!

Firefox:

Adblock:
Adblock is one of the most well known and widely used tools. It does what it says: Blocking Ads, Popups and such.

Bugmenot:
Bugmenot is an integration of the Website www.bugmenot.com into the Firefox.
Bugmenot is an service on which you can add own login data to Forums and Websites which everyone else can use to login.
So, you don’t need to register on every website to gain access.

Backup Data, Website and Mysql

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:58:50 +0000

Well, If it comes down to a simple Homenetwork - and a PC crash, normal situation is following: You’re mostly dead in the water.
Why?
Because most ppl don’t backup their data on a regular basis or do it wrong.
Actually, there are 3 kinds of pepole:
a) The person who doesn’t backup
b) The person who thinks does a backup - but does it wrong
c) The person who does a backup and stops after a while because he is too lazy… and experiences a crash…

Parted Magic

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:02:22 +0000

My tool of the week!
http://partedmagic.com/

Its an Live Linux with all you need to work on HDDs! For example gparted and clonezilla!
And theres even an PXE Boot Image! How cool is that?!?!

5 Stars +!!!

PXE Boot Bart PE

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:21:55 +0000

As I have been using PXE now for the last days, I wanted to build myself up some nice PXE Images to load from the Network. And the one thing I wanted for sure, was an Bart PE PXE Boot. So I searched the Net, found two really good guides ( Guide 1, Guide 2 ) and I am going to rewrite these Guides now here to set you up with an 100% working tutorial on “How to PXE Boot Bart PE”.

nrg2iso

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:55:59 +0000

This simple Delphi Program does “convert” Nero .nrg Files into the standard .iso format.
Its Freeware - and more than that, also OpenSource!

http://roland-illig.de/lang.delphi.nrg2iso.html

Low Level Format of an USB HDD and more

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:38:27 +0000

I came up with the website http://hddguru.com/ and found it to be very useful.
It does not only hold software like an Windows HDD Low Level Formating Tool or an Special Patched DOS Boot Disk, but also an big file database containing even more Software, Firmware Upgrades, Infos and a lot more!

MozBackup and RocketDock

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:06:52 +0000

Two really useful pieces of programming code:

MozBackup does Backup your Thunderbird, Firefox, etc Installations (even with commandline parameters (use it with rsync!!!)) under windows.
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/

Rocketdock is one of these new stylish docking bars as known from MacOS X. Together with the addon “Stack Docklet”, this thing is REALLY useful to get your shortcuts organized and handy under windows (2000, xp, vista, 7)! ^.^
http://rocketdock.com/

Enjoy and have a great day,

PXE Boot Acronis True Image Home 11

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:22:24 +0000

Files needed:
- smartdrv.exe
- TFTPD Server
- pxelinux.0
- memdisk
Download and unzip TFTD Server, create Folder “root”.
Start TFTP Server
Settings:

- Server Interface: Choose the right NIC
- DHCP Server:
Start Pool: 192.168.2.40
Size of pool: 4
Boot File: pxelinux.0
WINS/DNS Server: 192.168.2.1
Default Router: 192.168.2.1
Mask: 255.255.255.0
->> Press Save
- Under "Seetings"  
Base Directory to the created "root" Folder  
TFTP Security "None"  
PXE Compatibility  
->> Press OK

Copy memdisk, pxelinux.0 and smartdrv.exe to the root Folder
Also copy kernel.dat and ramdisk.dat from the Acronis Resuce Disc into the root Folder
create pxelinux.cfg Folder within root
create File with Name “default” (no .txt or such!) with following stuff inside:

LABEL acronis
KERNEL kernel.dat
APPEND initrd=ramdisk.dat vga=791 ramdisk_size=32768 acpi=off quiet noapic

Connect the Laptop to the Network, choose PXE / NIC as Bootmedia in the BIOS.
Let that thing boot to PXE and enter acronis at the boot: prompt
Have fun!

Orginal taken from: http://www.networkcomputing.de/aus-dem-testlabor-linux-pxe-server-fuer-restore-mit-true-image-bereitstellen/seite/2/?no_cache=1

PXE Install of Windows (without Floppy, without CDRom)

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:03:40 +0000

Files needed:
- smartdrv.exe
- TFTPD Server
- pxelinux.0
- memdisk
Download and unzip TFTD Server, create Folder “root”.
Start TFTP Server
Settings:

- Server Interface: Choose the right NIC
- DHCP Server:
Start Pool: 192.168.2.40
Size of pool: 4
Boot File: pxelinux.0
WINS/DNS Server: 192.168.2.1
Default Router: 192.168.2.1
Mask: 255.255.255.0
->> Press Save
- Under "Seetings"
Base Directory to the created "root" Folder
TFTP Security "None"
PXE Compatibility
->> Press OK

Copy memdisk, menu.c32, pxelinux.0, bartdisk.IMA to the root Folder
create pxelinux.cfg Folder within root
create File with Name “default” (no .txt or such!) with following stuff inside:

DEFAULT menu.c32
TIMEOUT 300
ALLOWOPTIONS 0
PROMPT 0
MENU TITLE PXE Boot System
LABEL BartBoot
MENU LABEL ^Bart Network Disk
kernel memdisk
append initrd=bartdisk.IMA
LABEL BootNormal
MENU LABEL ^Boot Normal
LOCALBOOT  0

Create an SMB Share in an Folder of your Choice. I took the Folder D:\PXE and did share that as pxe
Create Subfolder for every Windows Version you want to share. I created the subfolder tabxpsp3
Copy the i386 Folder from the Windows CD to that Folder
Do also copy the smartdrv.exe into the i386 in your pxe/subfolder/i386
Start tftpd
Connect the Laptop to the Network, choose PXE / NIC as Bootmedia in the BIOS.
Let that thing boot to PXE and go through everything with just default settings.
Fidsk: Delete All, than Create Primary Partition with all Space (minus 1000 MB), create extended Partition with the space left - and logical Partition in that
Reboot
This time, only accept normal default settings until an “Idetification Settings” comes up. Fill out and enable lmhosts option
In the empty pad enter IP Adress of your SMB Server TAB Name of the Server. For example: 192.168.2.39 ATOM, and press ALT+X to save and leave
Format: format c: and format d:
net use x: \atom\pxe
cd tabxpsp3\i386
smartdrv
winnt (/T D:)

Orginal taken from: http://www.lockstockmods.net/2008/04/26/easy-way-to-pxe-boot-windows/