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Wow, I am impressed!
Only recently did I point out that the enforcement of blockades on SourceForge due to US legislative restrictions have to be considered as censorship. Now, it turns out, the that the US government has learned that, quote: On December 10, … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Thoughts
Tagged Cuba, export, government, iran, obama, rogue state, usa
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Áfram Ísland!
The Icelanders held the plebiscite yesterday and according to projections the majority of them has voted against the modifications (1/2010) to law nr. 96/2009 as passed by the Alþingi, just as expected. Not being an Icelandic citizen I still want … Continue reading
Posted in DE, EN, Gedanken, Island/Iceland/Ísland, Thoughts
Tagged 96/2009, Island/Iceland/Ísland
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Brush up your stereotypes about Germans
Obviously it’s the Brits who don’t have humo(u)r.
Posted in /dev/null, EN
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Yeah … they are big, they can do it, right?
Connected_to_65.55.92.152_but_sender_was_rejected./Remote_host_said: _550_SC-004_Mail_rejected_by_Windows_Live_Hotmail_for_policy_reasons. _A_block_has_been_placed_against_your_IP_address_because_we_have_received_complaints_concerning_mail_coming_from_that_IP_address. _If_you_are_not_an_email/network_admin_please_contact_your_E-mail/Internet_Service_Provider_for_help._Email/network_admins,_we_recommend_enrolling_in_our_Junk_E-Mail_Reporting_Program_(JMRP),_a_free_program_intended_to_help_senders_remove_unwanted_recipients_from_their_e-mail_list:_http://postmaster.live.com/ I wasn’t sending from my own mail server, but through a really big German ISP. And that makes it even more delicate. // Oliver
Posted in EN, IT Security
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Star Wars in Old Icelandic
A hilarious “treatise” about the old Icelandic saga of the people from the Tattooine river valley. The English introduction should be fun to read for almost anyone. Check it out on tattuinardoelasaga.wordpress.com. Thanks to the author. I had to laugh … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Island/Iceland/Ísland
Tagged fun, Iceland, icelandic, norse, old icelandic
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ecryptfs and sshd, again
In January I described an issue with ecryptfs and sshd. Now I wanted to get X11 forwarding to work with it, but the problem essentially remains the same. All I got this time was: /usr/bin/X11/xauth: timeout in locking authority file … Continue reading
Posted in EN, IT Security, Linux, Software, Unix and unixoid
Tagged Linux, sshd, ubuntu, X11, x11 forwarding, xming
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Don’t allow Iceland to win the ESC
Citizens of Europe, I implore you: don’t make Iceland win the European Song Contest 2010 if they make it to the finals. In the current economic situation, this would be the final deadly blow. So please, don’t force this onto … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Island/Iceland/Ísland
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Not Valgrind, CDPATH
The problem I described just yesterday (here) seems not be to with Valgrind in particular. Today I was trying to build the file(1) utility and mysteriously failed with the same symptoms. So that made me curious. Apparently the cd command … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Linux, Programming, Unix and unixoid
Tagged autoconf, automake, bash, debian, file, Linux, valgrind
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Getting Valgrind to build on Debian 5.0.3
I’ve been trying this already several times over the last three months, but always failed to build the latest Valgrind from sources on my Debian box. At last I had success. The problem appears to be that for some unknown … Continue reading
Posted in EN, Linux, Programming, Unix and unixoid
Tagged autoconf, automake, Linux, valgrind
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Listing the CVS tags on a file
cvs status -v file |\ awk ‘/Existing Tags:/{c=1;next}c{print}’ |\ awk ‘{print $1}’ Gives a plain list of tags, nothing fancy, though …
Posted in EN, Programming, VCS
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The mysterious case of the swallowed script call
Just had this “mysterious” case of DDKBUILD not properly working. I could swear everything worked fine before, but the unconscious creation of a script named build.cmd would take precedence over the build utility from the DDK. Now batch and NT … Continue reading
Posted in DDKWizard/DDKBUILD, EN, Programming
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Annoying use of GNU make
Whenever I download some source code and find that the respective maintainer/author has a Makefile or makefile inside the source tree but requires GNU make specifically I can get really annoyed really fast. Dear maintainer/author: there are literally dozens of … Continue reading
Moon or nukes? Nukes or moon?
… well, for the Nobel Peace Prize winner of 2009 it’s an easy answer: nukes; a modern and better arsenal of nuclear weapons. The ultimate goal: a world without nuclear weapons. How? To be honest I haven’t got a clue. … Continue reading
Hmm, being an …
Adonis I might also have no problem with those body scanners. But on second thought I probably still would. As BBC reports: Transport Secretary Lord Adonis said in the immediate future only a small proportion of airline passengers would be … Continue reading
lads
… and, I don’t mean the other word for “guys” or the Yule Lads, is a little program I wrote. It’s nothing special really, just a class that enumerates (or lists) alternate data streams on a given file or directory. … Continue reading
Posted in DDKWizard/DDKBUILD, EN, Programming, Software
Tagged ads, alternate data stream, public domain
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Matching pool tags in Windows drivers
This is a note to myself, mainly. If the PROTECTED_POOL flag is set on a pool tag, freeing it will require the use of the same tag as when allocating it. For all other purposes the tag will be ignored … Continue reading
China is right, it is censorship
If Germany or other EU countries try to block certain content due to “local laws” what’s the difference if China does it according to their “local laws”? And even the US, home of the free, is not exempt from censorship. … Continue reading
Posted in EN, IT Security, Programming, Software, Thoughts
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ecryptfs and sshd …
I just made a discovery on the Ubuntu box I run. After being unable to log into it using SSH and my public key which it refused with a laconic Permission denied (publickey), I tried to dig deeper. So obviously … Continue reading