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Use this : PowerPing - Advanced Windows Ping

Tue, 09 Jul 2024 23:51:36 +0800

Today I found one tool called as “PowerPing”, I found this tool while searching if there is any available OSS that can generate graph when ping to network.

Look like it have lot of features and as advance tools of ping utilities as it claimed.

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C:\ROBBI>.\PowerPing.exe --help
PowerPing v1.3.5 (r0)
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Description:
 Advanced ping utility - Provides geoip querying, ICMP packet
 customization, graphs and result colourization.

Ping Arguments:
 --infinite [--t] Ping the target until stopped (Ctrl-C to stop)
 --ipv4 [--4] Force using IPv4
 --random [--rng] Generates random ICMP message
 --dontfrag [--df] Set 'Don't Fragment' flag
 --buffer [--rb] number Sets recieve buffer size (default is 5096)
 --beep [--b] number Beep on timeout (1) or on reply (2)
 --count [--c] number Number of pings to send
 --timeout [--w] number Time to wait for reply (in milliseconds)
 --ttl [--i] number Time To Live for packet
 --interval [--in] number Interval between each ping (in milliseconds)
 --type [--pt] number Use custom ICMP type
 --code [--pc] number Use custom ICMP code value
 --size [--s] number Set size (in bytes) of packet (overwrites packet message)
 --message [--m] message Ping packet message
 --timing [--ti] timing Timing levels:
 0 - Paranoid 4 - Nimble
 1 - Sneaky 5 - Speedy
 2 - Quiet 6 - Insane
 3 - Polite 7 - Random

Display Arguments:
 --shorthand [--sh] Show less detailed replies
 --displaymsg [--dm] Display ICMP message field contents
 --timestamp [--ts] Display timestamps (add 'UTC' for Coordinated Universal Time)
 --fulltimestamp [--fts] Display full timestamps with localised date and time
 --nocolor [--nc] No colour
 --symbols [--sym] Renders replies and timeouts as ASCII symbols (add '1' for alt theme)
 --requests [--r] Show request packets
 --notimeouts [--nt] Don't display timeout messages
 --quiet [--q] No output (only affects normal ping)
 --resolve [--res] Resolve hostname of response address from DNS
 --inputaddr [--ia] Show input address instead of revolved IP address
 --checksum [--chk] Display checksum of packet
 --requireinput [--ri] Always ask for user input upon completion
 --limit [--l] number Limits output to just replies(1), requests(2) or summary(3)
 --decimals [--dp] number Num of decimal places to use (0 to 3)
 --low number Defines the low response time threshold (which times are coloured green)
 --mid number Defines the mid response time threshold (which times are coloured yellow)
 --high number Defines the high response time threshold (which times are coloured red)

Modes:
 --scan [--sc] address Network scanning, specify range "127.0.0.1-55"
 --flood [--fl] address Send high volume of pings to address
 --graph [--g] address Graph view
 --location [--loc] address Location info for an address
 --listen [--li] address Listen for ICMP packets on specific address
 --listen [--li] Listen for ICMP packets on all local network adapters
 --whois address Whois lookup for an address
 --whoami Location info for current host

Other:
 --log [--f] path Logs ping output to a file (path is optional)
 --help [--?] Displays this help message
 --version [--v] Shows version and build information

Written by Matthew Carney [matthewcarney64@gmail.com]
You can find the project and it's source code here: https://github.com/Killeroo/PowerPing

C:\ROBBI>.\PowerPing.exe robbi.my --infinite --timestamp --shorthand --resolve --graph

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 Trip ┤██████████████████████████████████▄█▄████████████████████████████████
 Time 40 ─┤█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
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 Ping Statistics:
 -----------------------------------
 Destination [ robbi.my ]
 Sent: 100 Received: 100 Average: -65.3ms
 Current: 57.6ms Lost: 0 Peak: 89.7ms
 Time Elapsed: 00:01:54


C:\ROBBI>.\PowerPing.exe robbi.my --infinite --timestamp --shorthand --resolve

Pinging 104.21.62.170 :
Reply from: type=ECHO REPLY TTL=57 time=48.0ms @ 23:44:06
Reply from: type=ECHO REPLY TTL=57 time=51.4ms @ 23:44:11
Reply from: type=ECHO REPLY TTL=57 time=55.3ms @ 23:44:17
Reply from: type=ECHO REPLY TTL=57 time=48.4ms @ 23:44:22
Reply from: type=ECHO REPLY TTL=57 time=49.1ms @ 23:44:28

--- Stats for 104.21.62.170 ---
 General: Sent [ 6 ], Received [ 5 ], Lost [ 0 ] (0% loss)
 Times: Min [ 48.0ms ], Max [ 55.3ms ], Avg [ 50.4ms ]
 Types: Good [ 5 ], Errors [ 0 ], Unknown [ 0 ]
Started at: 9/7/2024 11:44:01 PM (local time)
 Runtime: 00:00:31.2

The only withdraw is tool lack of documentation and only working on Windows CMD. I did try with powershell and git-windows, seem it does’t work properly. So, you must use it via CMD only.

scoop - next InitializeSecurityContext failed

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 22:52:03 +0800

I’m encountering an issue updating my Scoop package on Windows, and it seems to be related to the Windows Secure Channel.

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Windows PowerShell
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

PS C:\Users\robbi> scoop update *
Updating Scoop...
fatal: 
 unable to access 'https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop/': 
 schannel: next InitializeSecurityContext failed: Unknown error (0x80092013) 
 - The revocation function was unable to check revocation because the revocation server was offline.
Update failed.

This might be due to a company internal root CA certificate distributed via Active Directory, which could be blocking the update through the certificate chain.

Utilizing PowerShell and FFMPEG for M4A to MP3 Conversion

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 22:00:22 +0800

I attempted to use the well-known ‘m4a-to-mp3-converter’ from maniactool to convert audio files from M4A to MP3 format, but unfortunately, it did not function as expected.

Given that many media converters utilize the ‘FFMPEG’ library, and without access to a pre-built solution for converting multiple M4A files to MP3, I opted to create my own using PowerShell.

powershell

param (
 [Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
 [string[]]$args
)

if ($args[0] -eq "-all") {
 Write-Output $args[0]
 foreach ($file in Get-ChildItem -Filter *.m4a) {
 $filename = $file.BaseName
 ffmpeg -i $file.FullName -c:v copy -c:a libmp3lame -q:a 4 "$filename.mp3"
 }
} else {
 foreach ($var in $args) {
 $filename = (Get-Item $var).BaseName
 ffmpeg -i $var -c:v copy -c:a libmp3lame -q:a 4 "$filename.mp3"
 }
}

it just a simple parser script. Here the output:

Setup SSH login without password (windows)

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 19:11:00 +0000

bash

# Currently on Windows with MingGW64 terminal
$ uname -a
MINGW64_NT-10.0-18363 AYAM-ITEK-KAMBING 3.1.6-340.x86_64 2020-07-09 14:33 UTC x86_64 Msys

# we must make sure the permissions to files and folders are correct
$ chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys 
$ chmod 700 ~/.ssh/

# copy the public key contents from LOCAL MACHINE to REMOTE MACHINE
$ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub robbi@172.217.24.174 -p2222
/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: Source of key(s) to be installed: "~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub"
/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: attempting to log in with the new key(s), to filter out any that are already installed
/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: 1 key(s) remain to be installed -- if you are prompted now it is to install the new keys

Number of key(s) added: 1

Now try logging into the machine, with: "ssh -p '2222' 'robbi@172.217.24.174'"
and check to make sure that only the key(s) you wanted were added.

# try to ssh into remote machine
$ ssh robbi@172.217.24.174 -p 2222
Last login: Fri Dec 11 03:02:27 2020 from 10.0.2.2

[robbi@r0x ~]$ uname -a
Linux r0x 5.9.11-200.fc33.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 24 18:18:01 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[robbi@r0x ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 33 (Thirty Three)

Use this - RSS Guard [Windows / Linux/ Mac]

Thu, 03 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Do you like reading blog or website for information, review, tweak and update? Then how you do it? Let me guess, you use web browser, type the url or click the bookmark and enjoy the articles?

I also like to read like you do but I don’t like randomly visit the web url, save a lot of bookmark and open so many tabs on my browser, as alternative I use aggregator to collect and notify me if the web url have new article published on they website.

Sending JSON data file using CURL to API endpoint

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 10:23:00 +0000

I developed warehouse system and use restful as communication method between our software and client software. We let end point of our system to talk each other with API designed.

For simple and small test using Postman or SOAP-UI is enough for me but to when to test this system with massive data via API is quite headache, plus the mock features on Postman limited and not “mocking” enough as I want.

Keybase, GPG key and Zoom

Sun, 25 Oct 2020 03:09:00 +0000

I have been using Keybase since 2016 until now and start using PGP since 2009.

Back then before Keybase available, I already use PGP as I mentioned earlier but I having hard with PGP keys because each time I upgrade OS, reformat OS, unrecoverable computer failure or switch newer computer I lost my PGP keys. Some of them don’t have expire date and I lost revoke key to take it down, unfortunately.

Use this - GrepWin [Windows]

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 16:01:57 +0800

If you are linux enthusiast users then you know how to “grep” and how useful this tools.

Sadly, there is no built - in tool on Windows that can beat “grep”. So I looking for third party software and found this tool called as “GrepWin”.

It licensed under “GPL-3.0 License”. Oh, please take note it only can be use if you are using Windows 7 SP1 and above, It won’t work on Windows XP or Vista!

Use this - My favorite tools

Thu, 30 Jul 2020 15:54:23 +0800

Assalamualaikum and hello everyone,

I plan to create some blog post section called Use This. Yeah, I gonna post about what software, tools, script that I use. It just my own personal preferences of choices and I just recommend what I am use.

Maybe this kind of blog post will be useful and I also can jot down my settings and tweaks for everyone and my future references.

It will be cross platform, so Windows and Linux will be listed together. No worries. I will covers opensource, free and commercial software. Each post will hold only just one tools. Not just like regular “use this” interview that put all they favourite into one posts.

mambang.org.my - Oshirix operating system (linux)

Tue, 23 Jun 2020 11:25:00 +0800

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim,

Assalamualaikum wbt dan salam sejahtera kepada semua pembaca..

Ok kali ni aku nak cover-up sebuah portal dan produk yang dah hilang dari radar since 2014 (kalau tak silap) hingga kini. Penulisan ini adalah berdasarkan penglibatan aku secara tak langsung dan pengalaman bersama komuniti tersebut.

Komuniti “Mambang.org” atau “Mambang.org.my” atau lebih mudah disebut “Mambang” adalah sebuah komuniti opensource tempatan yang sangat berahsia binti misteri tapi mempunyai banyak khazanah dan produk yang bagus.