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Category Archives: EN
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
Posted in /dev/null, EN, Thoughts
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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
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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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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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.
Posted in EN, Programming, Software, VCS
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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
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
Posted in /dev/null, EN, Peace, Thoughts
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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
Posted in Administration, EN, IT Security, Linux, Software
Tagged lighttpd, SSL, StartCom
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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
Posted in Atheism, EN, Peace, Thoughts
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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
Posted in Administration, EN, Linux, Software, Thoughts, Unix and unixoid
Tagged toolbox, utility
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Oh the pain
Were to start? Well, I have an HP Laptop. I used to have one of the end-consumer HP models (Pavilion) already before, but in fall 2010 I went for a business model: HP EliteBook 8740w. I didn’t regret it for … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Thoughts
Tagged 8740w, hardware, hewlett packard, hp, laptop, notebook
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