HP has released a BIOS firmware update which resolves this issue by updating the firmware to 2013.10.01 (A) (15 Nov 2013). This firmware update is packaged in "SP64420.exe" Unfortunately to be able to download this package from HP, your server must be under warranty or you must have a special account on the HP website. I find this ridiculous as it is clearly a bug with the current firmware and if your server is out of warranty this means you can never upgrade the operating system! What a joke!!
Luckily, I have uploaded this BIOS update to my Google hosting to ensure anyone who finds themselves in the same situation as me is able to get the SP64420.exe and update their BIOS for a HP Proliant MicroServer G7 N40L allowing them to run Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012. This download is available from the following link:
https://sites.google.com/site/cbblogspotfiles/SP64420.zip
Also someone else uploaded the original exe here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rj9mezamisxqxdh/SP64420.exe?dl=0
SHA256 checksum:
621b51ff87a933d91eda2038b508f49143ac7ff7eb8f7de33db2dfa7b94d3862 SP64420.exe
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?swItemId=MTX_57720d956df94dfcbaa0e28256#tab2
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The moon landing was one of the most important moments in the history of computing, laying the foundations for everything from fly-by-wire cockpits to the smartphones in our hands. //
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Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software
The moon landing was one of the most important moments in the history of computing, laying the foundations of much of our digital world
By Robert Lee Hotz
July 14, 2019 9:10 pm ET
Yes, in 1969 the internet was still 14 years away, the World Wide Web wouldn’t show up until eight years after that and wouldn’t become a “thing” for the masses for yet another five years or so.
But the Apollo 11 mission couldn’t have happened without computer code—software. As the Wall Street Journal put it a couple of weeks ago: “It took more than big rockets to put humans on the moon … It took code.”
In Windows 10, Microsoft ditched the good old calculator app and replaced it with a new Modern app, which we wrote about recently here: Run Calculator in Windows 10 directly. Many people are not happy with this change because the old Calc.exe loaded faster, and was more usable for mouse/keyboard users. If you would like to get the classic Calculator app back in Windows 10, it is possible. In this article, we will take a look at the Old Calculator for Windows 10 program which will allow you to get Calculator from Windows 8 and Windows 7 in Windows 10.
Desktop: KeePassXC
KeePassXC is a cross-platform desktop app that runs on Linux, Windows, and macOS.
The official KeePass software only targets Windows and runs on Linux via Mono, but looks non-native and clunky. KeePassXC uses the Qt GUI framework and looks nice on all platforms, and is compatible with the same KeePass database files.
Mobile: KeePass2Android Offline
For my Android phone, I'm using Keepass2Android Offline because I don't need cloud sync services, nor do I really want to use them. There is also Keepass2Android that supports cloud services, if you want to sync your database via Dropbox or Google Drive or some other services.
Syncing
To sync my password database between devices, I set up a Syncthing instance on my web server (as the centralized host) and my various devices, including my phone. The password DB itself is managed in a Git repository, so after I make changes, I commit it to git to ensure that there is an 'out-of-band' good copy of the database that doesn't get automatically pushed around between devices. Just in case something happens.
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Then I heard about BitWarden. They offered a commercial service (with a free tier) that I could quickly try... they supported all the OSs, mobile and desktop, and browsers that I use... and they release their entire codebase (server and clients) under open source licenses. I tried it, it worked for me, I was sold!
Then I decided I wanted to run my own BitWarden server, rather than use their commercial centralised cloud platform (because, as with LastPass, it's a tempting target). That's when I found out the server of BitWarden was written using Microsoft technologies, C# (yeah, it's mostly open source, but it's dirty to me due to its Microsoft legacy), and MS SQL Server, which is a nasty proprietary dependency (especially given how basic the database requirements for this sort of application are).
So I was devastated that I couldn't set up my own server... until another Free and Open Source Software aficionado pointed me at Daniel Garcia's work! Daniel has implemented a full (unofficial) BitWarden work-alike using a fully FOSS stack: the Rust language, storing data in SQLite, and (quite thoughtfully) re-using other open source licensed components of the BitWarden system that don't have proprietary dependencies, including the website code and layout (which is part of the server).
Daniel's server implementation also unlocks all the "premium" services that BitWarden offers through their hosted service, too... so that's a nice bonus.
Another open source developer, mpasil, has created a "fork" of Daniel's project from which he maintains an up-to-date Docker container on hub.docker.com. Thanks to both Daniel Garcia and mpasil's efforts, it turns out to be quite straightforward to set up your own Docker-based BitWarden-compatible service! Here's how...
Alternative implementation of the Bitwarden server API written in Rust and compatible with upstream Bitwarden clients*, perfect for self-hosted deployment where running the official resource-heavy service might not be ideal.
📢 Note: This project was known as Bitwarden_RS and has been renamed to separate itself from the official Bitwarden server in the hopes of avoiding confusion and trademark/branding issues. Please see #1642 for more explanation.
Image is based on Rust implementation of Bitwarden API.
This project is not associated with the Bitwarden project nor 8bit Solutions LLC.
⚠️IMPORTANT⚠️: When using this server, please report any Bitwarden related bug-reports or suggestions here, regardless of whatever clients you are using (mobile, desktop, browser...). DO NOT use the official support channels.
"Clickable" endnotes for Schneier's book... lots of security info to learn here.
NASA had a famous quality control process: National Research Council (1996), “Case study: NASA space shuttle flight control software,” in Statistical Software Engineering, National Academies Press
This website is a repository for web content that has been deemed "legacy" and has been removed by their original publishers, and might otherwise be difficult or cumbersome to get.
This is still a new effort, so we will be growing our site with more legacy content submitted by users over time. This was primarily started to give people access to the "legacy" Firefox extensions people still want and need, but Mozilla has completely purged from existence, but we can imagine there are others with archived versions of things they got a long time ago, which are still useful, but are very hard to find by now.
Legacy Mozilla Firefox extensions
Mozilla has removed all "legacy extensions" (XPI) from their add-ons site in November 2018, leaving many users of older "long term support" versions of the browser, as well as browser forks, dead in the water. This holds a (hopefully complete) collection of the removed extensions as they were available from addons.mozilla.org prior to this purge by the company.
Print Edit allows editing of the web page content while in Print Preview mode. Editing the web page prior to printing can compact the layout and remove unwanted content such as adverts, sidebars and blank pages.
In Print Edit mode, the displayed content elements can be edited, formatted, hidden or deleted, prior to printing in Print Preview mode. It is possible to switch repeatedly between Print Edit mode and Print Preview mode. //
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The IconsExtract utility scans the files and folders on your computer, and extract the icons and cursors stored in EXE, DLL, OCX, CPL, and in other file types. You can save the extracted icons to ICO files (or CUR files for cursors), or copy the image of a single icon into the clipboard.
Windows operating system: Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, or Windows Vista/7/2008/8.x/10 .
IconsExtract can only extract icons from 32-bit executable files. It cannot extract icons from 16-bit files.
The easiest way to make .nfo files for your Kodi/XBMC library
Simply fill in the fields below then click download to get a formatted .nfo file. Only the fields you enter will be included in the .nfo file. For more info on how to use .nfo files with your Kodi/XBMC library, please visit the Kodi wiki.
A few years ago, I found myself writing my first PHP projects using metapad. When I was looking around for text editors with syntax highlighting, I have come across the Scintilla source code editing component. I was very much impressed by this project, so I decided to create my own Scintilla-based text editor.
The result is Notepad2, a fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. This program can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system's registry.
Your data is saved on the web, and people can edit the same document at the same time. Everybody's changes are instantly reflected on all screens.
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Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker. It supports data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes with radius queries and streams. Redis has built-in replication, Lua scripting, LRU eviction, transactions and different levels of on-disk persistence, and provides high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster.
You can run atomic operations on these types, like appending to a string; incrementing the value in a hash; pushing an element to a list; computing set intersection, union and difference; or getting the member with highest ranking in a sorted set.
In order to achieve its outstanding performance, Redis works with an in-memory dataset. Depending on your use case, you can persist it either by dumping the dataset to disk every once in a while, or by appending each command to a log. Persistence can be optionally disabled, if you just need a feature-rich, networked, in-memory cache.
Redis also supports trivial-to-setup master-slave asynchronous replication, with very fast non-blocking first synchronization, auto-reconnection with partial resynchronization on net split.
Redis is written in ANSI C and works in most POSIX systems like Linux, *BSD, OS X without external dependencies. Linux and OS X are the two operating systems where Redis is developed and more tested, and we recommend using Linux for deploying. Redis may work in Solaris-derived systems like SmartOS, but the support is best effort. There is no official support for Windows builds, but Microsoft develops and maintains a Win-64 port of Redis.