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HowTo: Use WSL2 with Docker Desktop instead of Hyper-V backend 25 Ιουνίου 21 07:18 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια: At installation guide of Docker Desktop one reads: Containers and images created with Docker Desktop are shared between all user accounts on machines where it is installed. This is because all Windows accounts use the same VM to build and run containers. Note that it is not possible to share containers and images between user […]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Security, Windows, Posts, Docker, Containers, Images, Docker Desktop, Hyper-V, WSL2
HowTo: make raw_input & input work the same in both Python 2 and 3 10 Ιουλίου 20 04:00 πμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια: Was just trying to make a Python 2 script work in Python 3 and at first it seemed I just needed a small change to add missing parentheses to the argument of a couple of print statements. But then another issue came up, it wasn’t understanding the command raw_input(somePrompt) that was occuring at various places […]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Security, Posts, Compatibility, Fix, HowTo, Workarround, Input, Python, raw_input, Portability, Versions, Semantics
HowTo: Use DISM and SFC tools to check+fix your Windows installation 14 Απριλίου 20 10:28 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια: If you’re having issues with your Windows 7 or newer, you should consider whether its installation has become corrupted (due to malicious software or hard drive errors). After doing a disk check (say by right clicking the appropriate drive under my computer and selecting Properties, then Tools tab and Error checking) and a complete virus […]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Security, Windows, Posts, Fix, HowTo, Scan, Updates, Installation, Windows 10, Corruption, DISM, SFC, Repair
Twitter #bot or not? Posing as Automation/AI specialist & Python guru 05 Ιουνίου 18 12:46 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια: I just came across this strange thing on twitter: Received a notification that some “Virginia A. Osborn” liked a tweet of mine that was a) in Greek b) totally of a subset of Greek residents interest, highly unlikely it would have meant anything to a person with a foreign name. Then I saw that twitter […]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Security, Posts, Twitter, Automation, AI, Python, Bots, Personna
Fix: How to remove Trovigo.com, SearchProtect, restore Internet Options 14 Μαΐου 14 09:35 πμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια: Trovigo.com is an unwanted search engine hijacker that renders Internet Options of Windows / Internet Explorer inaccessible. To restore them on an older Windows XP installation, one way that I’ve found to work is to update Internet Explorer to a newer version, aka IE 8 (say via the embedded Windows Update facility or Microsoft Update […]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Security, Windows, Posts, IE, Internet, Fix, HowTo, Settings, Trovigo, SearchProtect, Removal
HowTo: Remove invalid filename characters in .NET 12 Ιουλίου 13 11:28 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια: In ClipFlair Studio I use DotNetZip (Ionic.Zip) library for storing components (like the activity and its nested child components) to ZIP archives (.clipflair or .clipflair.zip files). Inside the ZIP archive its child components have their own .clipflair.zip file and so on (so that you could even nest activities at any depth) which construct their filename […]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Security, .NET, Filters, Posts, Filesystem, ClipFlair, RegEx, String, Array, Characters, Invalid, Filename, Conversion
IIS FTP login fails after Windows platform update for Server 2008 R2 27 Φεβρουαρίου 13 05:00 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια: I had recently enabled FTP access to the ClipFlair Gallery to easy its maintenance during development and after the Windows Server 2008 R2 platform update last night (together with release for Internet Explorer 10), the FTP login stopped working. To fix it, from a command prompt with administrator rights (Start/Find, type Command and right click the [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Security, Filters, Posts, Login, Fix, ClipFlair, Gallery, Firewall, FTP
Gotcha: Image component not loading remote URLs during debugging 18 Δεκεμβρίου 12 01:13 πμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια: At ClipFlair’s Image component I use the following XAML to make it show an image from a URL that its ViewModel holds at a property named “Source”, of type Uri (URI = Uniform or Universal Resource Identifier in W3C parlance, something like a superset of the old classic URLs). <Image Name="imgContent" HorizontalAlignment="Stretch" VerticalAlignment="Stretch" [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Security, Posts, Fail, Silverlight, ClipFlair, Loading, Gotcha, URL, Image, Debug
Can’t step-through Silverlight file dialogs with Visual Studio debugger 02 Δεκεμβρίου 12 08:58 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια: While stepping through “ShowDialog()” method of OpenFileDialog with Visual Studio 2010 debugger, at the Silverlight code pictured below (for loading a ClipFlair window’s stored options), I got a “Dialogs must be user-initiated” exception. Same behaviour will be shown with SaveFileDialog too, every time you try to step through the “ShowDialog()” method. This is because of [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Security, UI, Posts, Filesystem, Silverlight, ClipFlair, HowTo, Gotcha, Debug, Dialogs
HowTo: Check your web browser and plugins for needed updates 25 Νοεμβρίου 12 10:49 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια: Qualys BrowserCheck will perform a security analysis of your browser and its plugins to identify any security issues. You can install it at https://browsercheck.qualys.com/ Another useful quick online tool (needs no installation) for checking that you do have the latest in web browser technology is Browse Happy, at http://www.BrowseHappy.com Tagged: Browser, HowTo, HTML5, Plugins, [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Security, Posts, HTML5, Web, Browser, HowTo, Plugins, Qualys, Scan, Updates
HowTo: Check MSDN Subscriber downloads for tampering via SHA-1 key 24 Οκτωβρίου 12 09:35 πμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια: Supposing you have an MSDN Subscription, you could download say SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition (x86 and x64) – DVD (English) from the following URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/downloads/hh442898.aspx#FileId=48810 Suppose you do so and you keep that .ISO file (a CD/DVD image that you can burn to a disk using Windows 7 or Active@ ISO Burner tool, or [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Security, Posts, Downloads, SHA1, MD5, Hash, FCIV, Batch, ClipFlair, HowTo, MSDN
HowTo: Remove Babylon search from Mozilla Firefox address bar 03 Αυγούστου 12 03:07 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια: Babylon Search is one of the most abusive addons for Mozilla Firefox and other web browsers. It installs with other free software (most probably profiting from tracking your searching habits) and then it is quite hard even for experienced users to completely uninstall it. While maintaining other computers in the past I’ve used a combination [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Security, Posts, Search, Fix, HowTo, Privacy, Addon, Babylon
Mistyping Gmail.com URL lures you into a pay-per-message scheme 10 Ιανουαρίου 12 06:25 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια: A reader of my recent article on a page faking YouTube design to lure you into subscribing for a pay-per-message you receive scheme for mobile phones, told me that they came across a very similar one by typing wikipdia.org instead of Wikipedia.org. I noticed that also typing gmial.com instead of gmail.com takes one to exactly [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Security, Google, Posts, Mobile, Redirects, Advertisement, Lure, MMS, Fraud, Wikipedia, Gmail
Redirecting twiitter into a YouTube-styled reward lure scheme 20 Δεκεμβρίου 11 11:54 πμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια: While I was trying to visit twitter I suddenly was faced with this page, which although very well designed looked immediately suspicious to me, first of all because of the redirects I noticed happening at the address bar and also because the landing URL was using the word “rewardz”. Moreover the page seems to be [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Security, Posts, Twitter, Mobile, YouTube, Redirects, Advertisement, Lure, MMS
Microsoft File Checksum Integrity Verifier (FCIV) 09 Σεπτεμβρίου 11 06:10 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια: I recently came across a very useful Microsoft tool (FCIV) that can compute and store (as XML) checksums (MD5, SHA1 or both hashes) of folders/files you want and can also be used to later on verify the checksum lists to see if they’ve been tampered with. Would be nice to have a GUI wrapper around [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Security, Windows, Posts, SHA1, MD5, Hash, FCIV, CommandLine, Checksum, DOS
How to disable (and re-enable) Lenovo VeriFace without uninstall 08 Σεπτεμβρίου 11 01:53 πμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια: I own a Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t and I’m pretty satisfied with it (apart from the glossy screen and the bevel border arround the touchscreen that doesn’t allow you to easily touch near the screen edges – and would much prefer a NVidia GPU instead of Intel Graphics Accelerator which doesn’t support WDM1.1 btw [keep on [...]

Δημοσίευση στην κατηγορία: Security, Posts, Login, Autoruns, Sysinternals, Lenovo, VeriFace
A new(?) kind of spam in blog comments 04 Δεκεμβρίου 10 12:17 μμ | Μπιρμπίλης Γεώργιος | 0 σχόλια: WordPress just asked me to moderate a comment saying "of the many video clips that i download, i always watch those that are very funny" (with some emoticon ASCII chars following it). It was a comment on a post of mine about LvS which is related to video, so it looked ok, but the URL [...]
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