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Inno Setup installer unpackers #

Inno Setup is "a free installer for Windows programs by Jordan Russell and Martijn Laan, [f]irst introduced in 1997". Resources like EXEs and DLLs can be liberated from these archives via:

• innounp 0.50: "The Inno Setup Unpacker. Supports Inno Setup versions 2.0.7 through 6.1.2". CLI.

  • InnoUnpacker 1.9.2: "Inspect and unpack InnoSetup files". GUI for the included innounp.

• innoextract 1.9: "A tool to unpack installers created by Inno Setup. ... Currently supports installers created by Inno Setup 1.2.10 to 6.2.2". CLI.

/windows | Apr 07, 2024

iOS: Timer/stopwatch app that displays cumulative running total per task #

while also tracking each individual session with optional notes:

Timemator (30-day trial, then $7.99 one-time purchase) by Gleb Kotov/Catforce Studio

/misc | Mar 27, 2024

Thunderbird: Hide Header Pane and Buttons in Message Pane #

When the Thunderbird Message Pane is enabled (View → Layout → Message Pane), the Header Pane and Buttons (Reply, Forward, Delete, etc.) take up an inordinate amount of space; here's how to hide them:

1. In Config Editor, set toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true

2. Help → Troubleshooting Information → open Profile Folder

3. In the profile folder, open or create "chrome" directory

4. Edit or create "userChrome.css" inside of "chrome", adding this line:
   .main-header-area {display:none !important;}

5. Restart Thunderbird

On a related note, alternating row colors in the Message List pane can be enabled by adding the following to userChrome.css:

table[is="tree-view-table"] tr:nth-child(even):not(.selected):not(tr:hover) { 
      -moz-appearance: none !important; 
      background-color: rgb(240,240,240) !important;
      }

/misc | Mar 02, 2024

Migrating from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages #

After almost 5 years of hosting at Netlify (at $9/month for basic, anonymized analytics), just moved to Cloudflare Pages after reading this r/webdev post:

Netlify just sent me a $104K bill for a simple static site

along with the related HN comments.

The previous server migration, from Slicehost/Rackspace to Netlify, had been largely to avoid just such unlimited billing exposure.

Notes

• Custom apex domains require moving Name Servers to Cloudflare DNS.

• Trailing exclamation marks in _redirects need to be removed for the redirects to work in Cloudflare Pages.

• Cloudflare Pages forcefully strips .html extensions, though an option for their preservation was promised in June 2022. UPDATE: For now, have settled on doubling .html extensions (except for index.html pages) to prevent the 308 redirects to extensionless pages.

• Redirect www to non-www (H/T cloonan & Rickard):

  1. "Create a DNS record for the www subdomain. It must either be an A record with the 192.0.2.1 value or an AAAA record with the 100:: value. The new DNS record must also have Cloudflare’s proxy enabled (orange-clouded) so that it can enact the Page Rule behavior that you will create next."
  2. Cloudflare dashboard → select domain → "Page Rules" → "Create Page Rule"
  3. "URL (required)" → www.example.com/*
  4. "Pick a Setting (required)" → "Forwarding URL"
  5. "Select status code (required)" → "301 - Permanent Redirect"
  6. "Enter destination URL (required)" → https://example.com/$1
  7. "Save and Deploy Page Rule"

• Disable access to *.pages.dev subdomain:

  1. "Use Cloudflare Access over your previews (*.{project}.pages.dev). Refer to Customize preview deployments access.
  2. Redirect the *.pages.dev URL associated with your production Pages project to a custom domain. You can use the account-level Bulk Redirect feature to redirect your *.pages.dev URL to a custom domain."

• Prevent your pages.dev deployments showing in search results:

  "Google and other search engines often support the X-Robots-Tag header to instruct its crawlers how your website should be indexed. For example, to prevent your *.pages.dev deployment from being indexed, add the following to your _headers file:"

  https://:project.pages.dev/*
X-Robots-Tag: noindex

• After deleting the Netlify site, revoke their access to any connected GitHub repository via GH account settings → Applications → Installed GitHub Apps.

Related

• Migrating from Netlify to Pages

• Moving from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages

/misc | Feb 26, 2024

Firefox: Download all images on page, #

no extension necessary: Tools → Page Info → Media → Select All → Save As...

/misc | Feb 25, 2024

Enable guest WiFi without hotspot portal landing page in UniFi Network Application 8.0.26 #

Tested on a UniFi Express, which comes with a preset IP address of 192.168.1.1. Note that the Express is limited to managing 5 UniFi devices, including itself.

1. Create VLAN

1. Go to Networks: https://192.168.1.1/network/default/settings/networks

2. Click "New Virtual Network"

3. Set Network Name and Gateway IP/Subnet as desired

4. Next to "Advanced" click "Manual"

5. Set VLAN ID as desired

6. Check "Network" next to "Isolation" → click "Add"

2. Create guest WiFi network

1. Go to WiFi: https://192.168.1.1/network/default/settings/wifi

2. Click "Create New"

3. Set Name and Password as desired, and set Network to VLAN created above.

4. Optionally enable "Client Device Isolation" under Advanced → Manual

5. Click "Add WiFi Network"

3. Disable hotspot landing page

1. Go to Landing Page settings: https://192.168.1.1/network/default/hotspot/portal → "Settings" (This page was not discoverable via "Search Settings" using the terms "landing", "hotspot", "portal", or "guest".)

2. Under "Landing Page Settings", uncheck "Show Landing Page" → click "Save"

/misc | Jan 20, 2024

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