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What’s the deal with Obama?
It seems Germans are overly enthusiastic about the visit of presumptive US presidential candidate Barack Obama. Obviously no German has a say in the election, but
Posted in EN, Thoughts
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сніжок.net
Just a test сніжок.net PS: If the URL looks horrible, it’s Firefox or IE. No further comment 😉 Update: link removed.
CSimpleBuf, a C++ utility class under BSD license
Today I am happy to announce the release of a C++ buffer class that is of special use for interfacing with Windows system functions. The class is a template class and thus only one header file is needed. The template … Continue reading
Posted in EN, FSI/F-Prot, Programming
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Windows in XEN domU on laptop, using screen and VGA?
Does anyone among my readers have a clue whether or not it is possible to set up XEN in a way so it will pass control over the screen to a domU to which I want to assign it? It … Continue reading
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GoDaddy.com SSL cert …
It was a bit of trouble to get it done, even after my purchase was approved. But I have ît now 🙂 Here I just want to share the information with you, since the FAQ on the GoDaddy website wasn’t … Continue reading
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Two weeks after beta: IDA Pro 5.3 released
Those who haven’t heard the news, get your update now. Here’s a link to the update-request page. NB: According to Ilfak, the debugger has seen major improvements. // Oliver PS: Don’t forget to get the new SDK and the support … Continue reading
Ziemlich effektiv
Der “Patch” den ich für mein GMX-Konto benutze hat sich als ziemlich effektiv herausgestellt. Alle 10min loggt sich mein Perlskript (es benutzt Mail::IMAPClient via SSL) bei GMX ein und sortiert alle Ham-Mails aus dem Spamverdacht in den entsprechenden Unterordner. Seitdem … Continue reading
Posted in DE, Software
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Nice work! Found hardware keylogger in a DELL laptop.
Read the full story here. DHS denying request under FOIA. PS: If you read the scanned document closely, you notice the two times 8-digit “file number” which could be a date. If this was state of the art three years … Continue reading
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Very thorough anti-fraud department ;)
I just ordered a five-pack of SSL certificates at GoDaddy.com a few days ago because they have the best offer in that the price is nice and the browsers they cover are virtually 100% of all browsers. The remaining close-to-zero … Continue reading
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Saving the world?
Programs of a new type have been created by different companies recently. The first I am aware of was developed in 2006 and violated the GPL back then. More of them seem to be offered all the time. These programs … Continue reading
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From the G8 summit we learn …
… that nuclear energy comes to the rescue of the world climate. Even better. If you think thoroughly enough, it comes to the rescue of nature as well. While humans have managed to drive several species to extinction over time, … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Thoughts
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GMX “patchen”
Jupp, richtig gehört. GMX hat zwar seit Jahren einen Spamfilter, aber sie haben es nicht geschafft reguläre Ausdrücke zu dokumentieren (scheint aber PCRE zu sein) oder einen Filter vor dem Spamfilter zuzulassen. Filterregeln ja, aber erst nach dem hauseigenen Spamfilter … Continue reading
Posted in DE, Gedanken, Software
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Are they allowed to tell the truth like that?
Read and judge yourself: Intellectual Property Regime Stifles Science and Innovation, Nobel Laureates Say.
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Two years …
The blog exists for two years now. Amazing it’s still active.
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DDKWizard demo video
I’ve created and uploaded a little demo clip about how easy it is to create a project with DDKWizard. (Hint: you need Flash enabled.) If you want a higher quality and higher resolution, try this link! More instructional videos about … Continue reading
Posted in DDKWizard/DDKBUILD, EN, Programming
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“Sausage yourself” …
or “Pulsaðu þig” … can you read in places where you can buy the (in)famous Icelandic hotdogs. Creative use of the language. While we’re at it. Pylsusinnep is called sinnep, i.e. mustard, but it just got some mustard flavour in … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Island/Iceland/Ísland
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Coming home late …
This is, what happens if you get home late in Reykajvík during summer. You look at the night sky and think, let’s go down to the sea and take a few pictures. The pictures were taken between about 00:50 to … Continue reading
Posted in DE, EN, Island/Iceland/Ísland
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Argh … mysqld giving me a hard time
First I killed one server (domU) by having log_bin turned on (and cluttering the disk drive with several GiB of logs), although I do not need replication. Then I ran out of memory with mysqld on the server on which … Continue reading
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Getting rid of SSH brute forcers
I am usually using different methods in a combination. In the sshd_config I declare AllowGroups with the group ssh-users. This group does never contain root. Furthermore I set PasswordAuthentication no and generally authenticate only by key. Root login is of … Continue reading
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