Author Archives: Oliver

So much for a smart cache …

Posted on 2011-04-25 by Oliver

There are always reasons not to cache certain data. An antispam measure I have implemented in several forums over the years is one of them. However, now trying

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Nicht vergessen

Posted on 2011-04-24 by Oliver

Mäxchen ist nicht vergessen 😥 Max (1997 – 2010) Siehe Farewell, little fellow, vor exakt einem halben Jahr – auch an einem Sonntag.

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Жил-был пёс

Posted on 2011-04-22 by Oliver

A Ukrainian folk tale told in a cartoon (in Russian). Here with English subtitles. Just lovely.

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“Todesfalle Internet”

Posted on 2011-04-21 by Oliver

Vielen Dank, ZDF. Jetzt wissen wir endlich, daß das Internet gefährlich ist. Auweia, und wie gefährlich. Ich bin schon gespannt auf die Fortsetzungen: Todesfalle SMS Todesfalle Mobiltelefon Todesfalle Einschreiben Wie lange benutzen Kriminelle eigentlich schon die jeweiligen Werkzeuge ihrer Zeit? … Continue reading →

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Carefully hidden criticism

Posted on 2011-04-20 by Oliver

Honest Achmed wants to be included as trusted CA 😉

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Stop it!

Posted on 2011-04-16 by Oliver

We noticed that you are not at the top of the search engines for a number of your key terms. We have helped companies similar to yours to achieve top organic rankings. Please reply to this message and we will … Continue reading →

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Damn …

Posted on 2011-04-15 by Oliver

Trying to break into my Yoggie Open Firewall Pico via SSH since I forgot the password. Using the current method it will take approximately 41 days and 6 hours to finish around 1.5 million passwords. *gnarf*

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Поехали! 50 лет/Jahre/years

Posted on 2011-04-12 by Oliver

Первый человек в космосе Erster Mensch im Weltraum First man in space

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New IDA upgrade available (6.1)

Posted on 2011-04-11 by Oliver

Lovely. Hex-Rays released version 6.1 of IDA just today. I already requested my download and I am downloading as I type this. See the changes here. // Oliver PS: sadly it’s the first version where I don’t get a Linux … Continue reading →

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Prosit

Posted on 2011-04-07 by Oliver

Auf den heutigen Tag und nach dem Streß der letzten Tage gibt es jetzt … *trommelwirbel* … einen Cognac. Mein Opa meinte: die wärmsten Jacken sind noch immer die Konjacken. Recht hatte er. Auf die Gesundheit und die Erinnerung an … Continue reading →

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mydumper – nice alternative for mysqldump

Posted on 2011-04-01 by Oliver

I’m using MariaDB. Now, I had the idea for smaller DBs to use the SQL dump and store that in a version control system such as Mercurial or Git. However, the ordinary mysqldump creates quite unreadable dumps. Since the version … Continue reading →

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Reykjavík, Nizza des Nordens

Posted on 2011-03-27 by Oliver

Kaum tauen die letzten Schneereste, wird Reykjavík wieder zum Nizza des Nordens: Hundekacke wo man geht und steht // Oliver PS: diese etwas eindimensionalen Eindrücke von Nizza rühren sicher daher, daß ich nicht “in der Saison” dort war.

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GNU screen to the rescue

Posted on 2011-03-25 by Oliver

So I’m talking to a veeeeery slow device over serial connection. Meanwhile I have managed to talk to it using kermit from within Linux – from within a GNU screen (actually byobu) session to be more precise. The output that … Continue reading →

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Peculiar problems with mc under byobu

Posted on 2011-03-16 by Oliver

I’m using byobu on a daily basis, but occasionally I also use mc (Midnight Commander). Midnight Commander is a terminal-based two-panel file manager as they became well known with Norton Commander. If you look for a similar solution for Windows, … Continue reading →

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So … PBXT or Aria?

Posted on 2011-03-16 by Oliver

I had changed the table storage engine format from MyISAM and InnoDB to PBXT for my blog and some other blogs I host. Little did I know. Of course WordPress will hide any and all errors from plain sight, so … Continue reading →

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XMPP S2S with Google and no TLS?

Posted on 2011-03-14 by Oliver

I’m running an ejabberd instance and it’s configured to use TLS in S2S (server to server) communications. It works perfectly fine with jabber.ccc.de, but Google’s server does not seem to like TLS. Very awkward. First I thought it may be … Continue reading →

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F-Secure documentary about BRAIN

Posted on 2011-03-14 by Oliver

Watch it over here.

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iptables flowchart

Posted on 2011-03-13 by Oliver

Just uploaded a flowchart that shows the order of packet processing in iptables to my downloads. You can find it here. There is the Visio file from which I created it in the same folder, just in case you want … Continue reading →

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Billiger StackOverflow-Abklatsch auf Deutsch

Posted on 2011-03-10 by Oliver

Einfügung (Update 2): liebe aufgebrachte codekicker.de-Mitglieder. Für die offensichtliche und unbewußte Täuschung durch meinen durch die Zeit zurückgereisten bösen Klon kann ich mich nur entschuldigen. Dieser Beitrag wurde im Original am 10.3. um 3:21 (UTC, also 4:21 dt. Zeit) eingestellt. … Continue reading →

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Top ten disk space hogs in current folder

Posted on 2011-03-07 by Oliver

du -cks *|sort -rn|head -11|awk ‘{printf “%-8.2f MiB\t%s\n”, $1/1024, $2}’ NB: first item is the total size, so it outputs eleven lines. Update: a better version is this one: du -cks *|sort -rn|head -11|awk ‘{printf “%-8.2f MiB\t”, $1/1024;\ for(i=2; i

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