Author Archives: Oliver

Fuck you very much, Peter King (R-NY)

The United States has done so much through the NSA to save lives in Germany. We have done much more for Germany through the NSA than the German army has done for itself since WWII said one Peter King, Republican … Continue reading

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Grausam …

Bin mal wieder in D, also steht Computerwartung an. Ich installiere gerade System und Programme für meine Mutter und stelle fest wie viele der Programme sich nicht an Windows 7 Konventionen halten und bspw. direkt auf C:\ installiert werden wollen … Continue reading

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Speaking of the devil

Just recently I mentioned Clean MX in this blog post and sure enough today I received another automated abuse message from them and relayed to me via Hetzner, my hoster. This time, however, I plan not to be so lenient … Continue reading

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No relief

In the past software I wrote ended up in detection of anti-malware programs, more traditionally known under the term antivirus (AV) programs . As you may or may not know I work for an AV vendor and as such I … Continue reading

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Ach ZDF, ich mag euch immer wieder …

… für die entlarvende Wortwahl. “Merkels Machtoptionen” … lustitsch. Alle Macht geht also vom Volke aus in einer Demokratie. Wenn dann gleich im Anschluß Herr Weidenfeld, pardon Professor Weidenfeld, darüber lamentiert, daß der Wähler die große Koalition bevorzuge, kommt mir … Continue reading

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Nichtwählen ist eine Alternative

Da in letzter Zeit die Nichtwähler in einer geradezu als Glaubenskrieg geführten Debatte immer mehr angegriffen werden, kann ich nicht umhin ein paar meiner Gründe nicht zu wählen und ein paar Antworten auf die so schlaumeierisch gegebenen provokativen “Argumente” zu … Continue reading

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Aller Zeiten …

Ja leckt mich doch am Bürzel, ihr Schänder der Muttersprache. Man muß ja wohl nicht jeden bescheuerten Anglizismus wortwörtlich übernehmen, gell Heise? Und heute verzückt das heute-Journal uns mit “der größten Schiffsbergung aller Zeiten”. Wenn dann in zwanzig Jahren eine … Continue reading

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Re: Die 500000-Emailbeschränkung bei GMX

Nach nur reichlich zwei Monaten hat mich gestern folgende abschlägige Antwort erreicht: Sehr geehrter Herr Schneider, vielen Dank für Ihre Geduld. Wir entschuldigen uns für die lange Bearbeitungszeit. Selbstverständliche ist es möglich den gesamten E-Mail Speicher Ihres GMX Postfachs vollständig … Continue reading

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Yay! The Man from Earth sequel started the funding phase …

Follow this link inconspicuously kck.st/15imYX1 I loved the original. Admittedly I had gotten a copy from a friend who had downloaded it. But not only did I donate right after watching it, I also bought the DVD later. Lesson to … Continue reading

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Bruce Schneier about the latest information concerning NSA/GCHQ and cryptography

How to remain secure against NSA surveillance Take it always with a grain of salt, but he is an established expert and he has been openly critical against surveillance in his newsletters. // Oliver PS: another comment from Schneier: The … Continue reading

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Signing an RPM unattended …

It appears that there is no way to sign an RPM package unattended with the default tools. However, expect comes to the rescue. I found two descriptions on other blogs how to do it: from 2008 here: GPG signing RPMs … Continue reading

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Okay, so …?

… if the USA defines cyber-attacks as acts of war have they then declared war on the rest of the world or how should the actions of the US secret services in “cyberspace” be interpreted? Or is the US taking … Continue reading

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Powerful, moving and sad short film

https://youtu.be/XCoFoKvfc6Y

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Cheeky

So on July 15th I went to DHL here in Reykjavík to check what it would cost to send back a defective item received through DHL in the first place. After I was almost through the whole process, I saw … Continue reading

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Ausprobiert damit ihr nicht müßt …

Ich habe eine handbetriebene Kaffeemühle und da es ein langwieriger und arbeitsaufwendiger Vorgang ist an seinen feingemahlenen Kaffee zu kommen, hatte ich eine Idee. Einfach mal den Akkubohrschrauber oben ans Mahlwerk angestöpselt und geguckt. Der erste Versuch ging etwas in … Continue reading

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For your benefit, I tried it so you don’t have to

I have a manual coffee grinder and since it’s a tedious and lengthy process, especially when you want very finely grained coffee, I decided to attach my screw drill to the top and try whether it works. Turns out during … Continue reading

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“land of the free and the home of the brave”?

Edward Snowden leaks information about the massive surveillance world we live in under the disguise of the “war against terror”. Minitru could not have come up with a better wording in Orwell’s nightmarish novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Edward Snowden is being … Continue reading

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Oh for fucks sakes, Opera …

Why did you have to make your browser crappy like the rest of the bunch? Just upgraded to 15.something and lo and behold tab stacking is no more and I am confronted with a sh*tload of tabs whose labels or … Continue reading

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For anyone who uses premake4 and needs an up-to-date binary

A code-signed binary is included in the ZIP archive available here. All contents are signed using PGP as well, so they can be verified using the following command line (replace gpg for gpg2 depending on your version): gpg –verify signature.asc … Continue reading

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What the creator of PGP thinks …

Read it over here. Excerpt: If we have a change in the government sometime in the future, that government will have such a powerful tool of surveillance, that we will find ourselves in a terrible predicament that we won’t be … Continue reading

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