Category Archives: EN

Anything that does not fit into other categories …

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Pöpcørn 😆

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Censorship by mistake

Police Censor Google, Facebook and 8,000 Other Sites by Accident in Denmark.

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ISOStick

… looks interesting But I guess I’ll wait for prices to drop. It somewhat looks like ideas where in part coming from this project. Which is not to say that was the case, but it’s a possibility as the other … Continue reading

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Annoying

U3 technology has reached end of life. SanDisk began phasing out support for U3 Technology in late 2009. So where can I get U3-capable drives these days? // Oliver

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Наш дурдом (голосует за Путина)

Русский / Deutsch / English Die russische Rockgruppe Рабфак hat ein nettes Lied (Youtube oder hier oder hier) welches die aktuelle Stimmung vieler Russen so kurz vor den Präsidentschaftswahlen in Russland widerspiegelt. Hier also meine eigene (zugegebenermaßen etwas holprige) Übersetzung … Continue reading

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prune-kernels function …

If you are like me, you will have noticed on Ubuntu (and sometimes Debian) that stale old kernels remain on the disk even when they aren’t needed anymore. I wrote a little Bash function to get rid of those kernels. … Continue reading

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Not used often enough in my opinion

Often people put on a condescending smirk when they hear that I still have to use CVS, let alone Subversion, in some projects. In numerous projects I have seen the performance of CVS and that of Subversion and it is … Continue reading

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Þverholtsfoss

We have a new waterfall in Iceland. Best of all, it’s not far from downtown Reykjavík in Þverholt (a street), no 300m from the bus station Hlemmur. So it’s one of the cheapest sightseeing locations for tourists and strong competition … Continue reading

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Selecting the editor on Debian/Ubuntu non-interactively

Set the selected editor on Ubuntu/Debian for yourself and root in one line: echo ‘SELECTED_EDITOR=”/usr/bin/vim.nox”‘|tee $HOME/.selected_editor| \ sudo tee /root/.selected_editor or echo “SELECTED_EDITOR=\”$(which vim.nox)\””|tee $HOME/.selected_editor| \ sudo tee /root/.selected_editor // Oliver

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by the way …

Convenient little snippet to get my external IP: echo $(wget -q -O – ip.assarbad.net/text)

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Definitely friendlier

Tried to install Windows 8 in a VM (VMware Workstation 8.0.0 build-471780) and this happened after the first reboot 😉 Now trying to continue the installation … let’s see 🙂 Update: here we go … looks bleak. Gonna retry from … Continue reading

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Small problem with CVS …

Today I was trying to check out from a CVS repo like this: [1] oliver@foobar:~$ cvs -d :ext:oliver@cvs.domain.tld:/cvs/path-to-repo co module connect to address 172.16.1.1: Connection refused Trying krb4 rsh… connect to address 172.16.1.1: Connection refused trying normal rsh (/usr/bin/rsh) cvs … Continue reading

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Design and misdesign

So I did it. Ordered an iPad2 (despite the knowledge that the 3rd generation will hit the market soon). And what shall I say? Crap so far. Trying to get this thing to work with the WLAN router at my … Continue reading

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GPG precompiled binaries for Win32

Well well, since I don’t trust others with this and I haven’t found signed binaries for GPG 1.4.11 from people I trust, I rolled my own. If you are looking for them and know or find that you can trust … Continue reading

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-2.3 (= 41.6)

First I was a bit shocked, but then I realized that this gives me some leeway over the holiday season 😛

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-0.6 (= 39.3)

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canyoucrackit.co.uk – yes we can ;)

So the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) wants to recruit smart people. Well, there should be enough around. Although they seem to look for some 1337 h4x0rz, not some serious people from all indicators. The original one (MD5: 1585DFECC90AE7549814DCE52CA4EDDA) filled … Continue reading

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I’m blind (I think)

Now don’t get me wrong, I love to use GNU make on all the unixoid platforms where I have to use it and I have been using it for some advanced stuff on Windows as well. But honestly, when has … Continue reading

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+0.1 (= 38.7)

It was a major setback (not really). Not even trying to excuse it 😆

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-0.9 (= 38.8)

I’m in an odd mood. No idea where it comes from. Still, it reminded me of this: Blackadder: Brilliant! No time to lose. George, set up your easel, Baldrick and I will pose. This is going to be art’s greatest … Continue reading

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