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Damn …
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*
Posted in /dev/null, EN, IT Security, Linux
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Поехали! 50 лет/Jahre/years
Первый человек в космосе Erster Mensch im Weltraum First man in space
Posted in /dev/null, DE, EN, RU
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New IDA upgrade available (6.1)
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
mydumper – nice alternative for mysqldump
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
Posted in C/C++, EN, Linux, Programming, Python, Software, Unix and unixoid
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GNU screen to the rescue
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
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
XMPP S2S with Google and no TLS?
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
Posted in EN, IT Security, Linux, Software, Unix and unixoid
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F-Secure documentary about BRAIN
Watch it over here.
Posted in EN, IT Security, Reversing, Software
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iptables flowchart
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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Top ten disk space hogs in current folder
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
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
Some changes to the blog
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
Posted in /dev/null, EN, IT Security
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Installing MariaDB on Debian 6 (Squeeze)
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
Debian bug 581612
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
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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fdupes
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
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
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
Program too big to fit in memory
Today I got this message on a 32bit Windows XP. Of course first I tried a web search in order to figure out what’s wrong. Nothing useful came up among the numerous matches. Next I tried to decompress the .exe … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Software
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