Author Archives: Oliver

The many uses of cognitive dissonance

Believing in a “God” and taunting science all the while using technology based on the very same science to proclaim one’s faith and many more profane tasks … Believing in Saddam Hussein’s involvement in 9/11 and WMD in Iraq before … Continue reading

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Funny

The Guardian article: Texas attorney general threatens to arrest monitors observing US election

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“Does the Romney family now own your e-vote?”

Sneaky – this reeks of manipulation indeed. Especially in the light of the Kerry/Bush election where Kerry lost 300,000 votes overnight. On the bright side Michael Bloomberg, mayor of NYC and billionaire, launched a Super PAC to support inter-partisan policies … Continue reading

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The abuse of (automated) abuse reports

Abuse reports abound. So do false positives in antivirus (AV) products. Worst of all, false positives in AV products spread within the industry, reports (and corrective action) about them don’t. Try to get rid of a false positive that affects … Continue reading

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“Religion akzeptieren, nicht provozieren”

… sah man als Aufschrift auf Plakaten protestierender Moslems mit Kopftüchern. Definitiv nicht! Religion kann und sollte man tolerieren. Akzeptieren oder gar respektieren muß und sollte man sie jedoch nicht. // Oliver

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QED

“I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.” “But,” says Man, “the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves … Continue reading

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Interesting recent article by Hugh Hefner

Sexual Freedom

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Da spürt man direkt die “Nächstenliebe”

Nicht daß ich Dirk Bach irgendwie besonders gemocht hätte, viele waren aber nunmal seine Fans, eine Berichterstattung zu seinem Tod geht also völlig in Ordnung. Auch wenn er mit Loriot bspw. nicht vergleichbar war. Und ja, ab und an hat … Continue reading

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Beautiful

21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith In Humanity

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Rather balanced

Mercurial vs Git: Why Mercurial? Git vs Mercurial: Why Git? And more goodness follows here.

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Once again updated: looklink

As already in the past, I updated looklink again. This time it received two command line options, –verbose and –nologo and the CReparsePoint class was overhauled. One issue was fixed. CReparsePoint would behave improperly when being passed the current directory … Continue reading

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Premake4 snippet to create solution names depending on target Visual Studio version

I prefer to name my solutions and projects something like projectname.vsX.sln and projectname.vsX.vcproj respectively. However, by default Premake4 generates the names as they are passed to the builtin solution and project functions respectively. Not cool enough for me. By the … Continue reading

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Religions of peace?

Most institutionalized religions, especially the proselytizing ones, seem to take an issue with criticism of any kind. Not that one should consider it criticism what I saw in the first few minutes of that unspeakable “Mohammed movie trailer”, but the … Continue reading

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SSL error with a newly signed cert?

Last night I literally spent hours figuring out an alleged issue with the certificate from StartCom. Of course the problem was entirely on my end, in the editor to be precise. But what happened? I fetched ca-bundle.pem and entered it … Continue reading

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Begeisternd …

… zu sehen wie wir seit Jahren unsere Bürgerrechte wegen religiös motiviertem – sprich islamistischem – Terrorismus ausverkaufen und sich nunmehr auch das Recht auf freie Meinungsäußerung in diese Reihe ausverkaufter Bürgerrechte einreiht. Keine Frage, die Rechtsausleger (damit meine ich … Continue reading

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Uhm … what?

Okay, so I didn’t have time to even watch this weird trailer about this anti-Islamic “movie” last week. Last night I did. Well, actually I did up to minute three (out of fourteen) or so. It was somewhere between really … Continue reading

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DiBa, DiBaDumm …

Watt soll ich sagen. Da biete ich ner gewissen Bank an mein Konto bei denen aufzumachen und die sind nicht interessiert weil ich keinen Wohnsitz in D habe . Na dann leckt mich halt am A…llerwertesten, liebe ING-DiBa. Geldeingang wäre … Continue reading

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Google Code now only via login …

Google Code apparently requires logging into your Google account now before you can do anything. Well, good for them. Makes the use of svnsync and similar tools impossible, especially in unattended scenarios. Byeeeeeeee … svnsync: OPTIONS of ‘http://fuzzdb.googlecode.com/svn’: authorization failed: … Continue reading

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Highly useful: ddrutility

During a rescue mission I encountered read errors on both hard drives of a degraded RAID. Since most commercial end-user tools limit your flexibility I went for Ubuntu Rescue Remix 12.04 in order to use ddrescue. However, to my delight … Continue reading

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Nennt mich Jan ;)

Warum? Ich kenne mich auch mit Computern aus …

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