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Hehe … hurry down one’s chimney tonight
The Queens Christmas Message 2012
GETTING RID OF CAPS LOCK
Through reading the great tmux book from pragprog.com I got the idea to repurpose the caps lock key as left control key. The idea seems brilliant, given how little used caps lock is. I don’t know for everyone, but most … Continue reading
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Heimsenda-Pizza for the doomsday :)
Very cool Icelandic pun from my boss (Friðrik), who suggested that pizza services around Iceland advertise pizzas under that name tomorrow. I mean you do know the world is going to end tomorrow, right? 21st of December 2012 … Maya … Continue reading
A shout to VMware …
Since I don’t have a support contract, perhaps you would be so kind to tell your setup authoring folks to not remove the last resort for anyone who tries to install the vSphere client 5.0? Thank you in advance, very … Continue reading
Posted in Administration, EN, Software
Tagged failure, installation, VMware, vSphere
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Da läuft der Hase also lang …
… bis vor einiger Zeit habe ich die Waffennarren in den USA immer belächelt. Aber die jetzigen Vorstöße zum Thema (abermalige) Verschärfung des Waffenrechts machen für mich deutlich, daß die Politiker Angst vor der Bevölkerung bekommen. Kein Wunder, wenn man … Continue reading
Posted in DE, Ich, der Zyniker
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Bitbucket not accepting StartCom CA
After contacting the Bitbucket support, I now know that they don’t support the StartCom CA. The apparent reason is that they use the stock CA certs supplied by Redhat (no version was specified in the response). It’s a bit annoying, … Continue reading
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Some of my stuff now also on Bitbucket
Find it via bitbucket.org/assarbad/. // Oliver
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First impression of Windows Server 2012
*facepalm* // Oliver PS: does MS think that making it look like a 2D game and forcing everyone to click tiles instead of using the keyboard to navigate the startmenu makes an admin more productive? 😕
305
… the number of squats I did yesternight, a little over 24h ago, and that I am still feeling in my upper leg muscles. 29 29 31 31 35 35 29 29 28 29 Seventy five second breaks between each … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Fitness
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Da echauffiert sich die Opposition mal wieder …
… wegen Panzern für Saudi-Arabien. Daß Deutschland drittgrößter Waffenexporteur ist, scheint dagegen ansonsten nicht so schlimm. Denn die Waffen gehen logischerweise nur in Staaten welche die Menschenrechte sorgfältig achten … klar 🙄 // Oliver
Posted in DE, Gedanken
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Hope I got it right …
Here’s a little command line tool to retrieve the product key from a running Windows 8. It should also work on Windows XP through 7. I am releasing the code into the public domain. I hope I got it right, … Continue reading
Posted in C/C++, EN, Programming
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Intelevator and Fairytalevator …
Norwegian show … hilarious! I kveld med Ylvis – The Intelevator #1 I kveld med Ylvis – The Intelevator #2 I kveld med Ylvis – The Intelevator #3 I kveld med Ylvis – The Intelevator #4 And for everyone who … Continue reading
Annoying
… companies that tell me may passwords have to be alphanumeric or set an arbitrary upper limit to its length. More annoying: companies that do both. 🙄 // Oliver
Posted in EN, IT Security
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Am I the only ignorant bastard who is skeptical about this?
Google Fiber in Kansas City. I’m torn between jealousy and skepticism concerning the many areas of our lives that Google tries to invade these days. Don’t be evil was yesterday, … ever since Larry Page took over the position as … Continue reading
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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
Posted in /dev/null, EN
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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
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
Posted in Atheismus, DE, Gedanken, Meinung
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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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