Author Archives: Oliver

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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WordPress/twentyten header image

Posted on 2011-03-07 by Oliver

Had some trouble with the built-in twentyten images. The header image is saved inside a serialized hash in the database complete with the protocol and server name as well as the blog home URI. The problem with this is if … Continue reading →

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Some changes to the blog

Posted on 2011-03-06 by Oliver

Despite the server change, which you may not even have noticed, I’m also blocking any and all login attempts, renamed the admin user name (some people were apparently trying to get in) and the administration area is entirely off limits. … Continue reading →

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More issues with MariaDB

Posted on 2011-03-06 by Oliver

… but solved. When trying to install WordPress 3.1 as a vanilla installation, it failed: WordPress database error: [Invalid default value for ‘comment_date’] … this got repeated for several columns in several tables and obviously table creation failed. However, WordPress … Continue reading →

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100000 Jahre alt

Posted on 2011-03-06 by Oliver

… bin ich jetzt. Ach übrigens, mir wurde mitgeteilt, daß es Leute gibt die binär lesen können und solche die es nicht können

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Installing MariaDB on Debian 6 (Squeeze)

Posted on 2011-03-05 by Oliver

Had some trouble installing MariaDB on Debian 6. The system was pretty much a vanilla Lenny (hadn’t used it much that’s why) upgraded to Squeeze only one week ago – and I wanted to install MariaDB instead of MySQL. This … Continue reading →

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Debian bug 581612

Posted on 2011-02-24 by Oliver

etckeeper (go look it up, it’s very useful) is a tool I use. Now, some behavior in cron changed recently in Debian and apparently also Ubuntu, causing my log files to show the same as fetchmail in the bug report. … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio 2003 and DEP

Posted on 2011-02-21 by Oliver

Some time ago I enabled the alwayson setting for the noexecute switch in boot.ini. Turns out some older programs don’t like it. I had already found out at some point for Borland C++ Builder 6, but this time it was … Continue reading →

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Du meine Güte

Posted on 2011-02-18 by Oliver

Ich kann nicht behaupten Fan von Guttenberg zu sein, aber diese Vorverurteilungen und die Kampagne unter Bloggern gegen ihn ist schon irgendwie traurig und bedenklich. Mir ist es eigentlich egal ob er nun abgeschrieben hat oder nicht. In etwa so … Continue reading →

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Ernsthaft?

Posted on 2011-02-17 by Oliver

Plagiatsvorwurf gegen Guttenberg? Hat Deutschland plötzlich keine anderen Probleme mehr? Ja liebe deutsche Medienvertreter, seid ihr alle bescheuert? Und daß ein Doktortitel schmückt, wie Frau Slomka im ersten (!) Beitrag des Abends (2011-02-16) meinte, würde ich durchaus nicht so stehen … Continue reading →

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Na mal sehen …

Posted on 2011-02-02 by Oliver

… wann der Kampf gegen die Korruption in den Lobbykratien westlicher Ausrichtung auf die Straße getragen wird. // Oliver

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Irgendwas ist immer

Posted on 2011-01-27 by Oliver

Nach der heute-Sendung vom 2011-01-26 habe ich das Gefühl, daß es nicht so sehr um ein spezielles Problem wie Zensursulas Steckenpferd KiPo geht, sondern darum irgendwie die Infrastruktur für Internetzensur einzuführen – egal wie. 🙄 Da wird von einer diffusen … Continue reading →

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fdupes

Posted on 2011-01-26 by Oliver

To remove all but the first of a number of duplicate files in a subfolder on Linux, use: yes 1|fdupes -rd <folder>

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DCOM error

Posted on 2011-01-26 by Oliver

Just got the following error in the event log on XP (SP3): Source: DCOM EventID: 10000 User: NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE Description: Unable to start a DCOM Server: {1F87137D-0E7C-44D5-8C73-4EFFB68962F2}. The error: “Access is denied. ” Happened while starting this command: C:\WINDOWS\system32\wbem\wmiprvse.exe … Continue reading →

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Whoa … disgusting

Posted on 2011-01-25 by Oliver

I hardly ever go to McDonalds (not a big stunt, given they left Iceland due to the kreppa – but I never went to them in the two years I could have either :mrgreen:). But yes, I used to go … Continue reading →

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