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Visualize Data from Python in Visio I needed to illustrate some data discovered by a python script in Microsoft Visio. As a starting-point i found two sources of infomation in the Internet: (1) Python => COM => MS Excel How to access a Windows COM-Application from Python: https://pbpython.com/windows-com.html MS Excel not Visio but 50% of the information needed (2) PowerShell => COM => MS Visio How to access Microsoft Visio using the COM-Interface https://www.powershellstation.com/2016/01/20/powershell-and-visio-1 PowerShell the other 50% needed. Result: „Python => COM => MS Visio“ Putting both pieces together, will allow a Python-Script to control MS Visio. (3) MS Visio „Object Model“ Without theRead More →

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For some time the password-manager built into firefox presents for each website a long list with obviously not useful proposals: „Want to login into Amazon? Try the Azure-Password!“, Firefox whispers. A bug couldn’t be more annoying, but this is a feature. (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/71.0/releasenotes/) Hard to believe this could be useful for some corner case, but for daily usage i’d prefer to get only the right password for one web-site to get proposed. Fortunately you can turn it off: Thank you, i’v been thinking about switching to another browser. This is really a killer non-feature.Read More →

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Plugins might bring additional features or ease the usage. But if someone is happy with „Auto-Type“ or „copy&paste“-Passwords from KeePass into a VPN-Client-GUI for example: works out of the box no need to add anything to KeePass Entry.Password: {TIMEOTP} Placeholder just place the String {TIMEOTP} before or behind – like the VPN-Server is configured – your (fixed) User-Password. {TIMEOTP} acts as a placeholder it will get replaced by your constantly changing (in my setup 6-digit) token. Advanced The generator needs some parameters to calculate the correct values, of course Advanced: String Fields Add a String Field: Field Name: TimeOtp-Secret-Base32 seems to be the most commonRead More →