Category Archives: Software

GMX “patchen”

Posted on 2008-07-09 by Oliver

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 →

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Argh … mysqld giving me a hard time

Posted on 2008-06-30 by Oliver

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

Posted on 2008-06-29 by Oliver

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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I am told that size doesn’t matter (anymore)!

Posted on 2008-06-25 by Oliver

Chris Wimmer, a fellow programmer, told me in a chat today, that the size of applications doesn’t matter. But I’ll let you decide. However, the program which he wrote is worthwhile regardless of its size. Even more so the library … Continue reading →

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OpenBSD’s NTPD inside a Debian domU

Posted on 2008-06-23 by Oliver

To get the package openntpd installed was easy, but to get it to work, required some search. In order to have a domU use an independent clock, you have to set a kernel variable. In a running system you do … Continue reading →

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Fascinating problem with SCP

Posted on 2008-06-22 by Oliver

Today I had a fascinating issue with SCP (Secure Copy). I was a bit flabbergasted when several attempts to copy a 800 MiB file failed … after a while. You could see that the transfer rate was going up. Since … Continue reading →

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When is Opera 9.51 scheduled?

Posted on 2008-06-21 by Oliver

I’ve got one pretty interesting problem which is highly annoying in my opinion. As a fan of Opera, I have of course upgraded immediately to Opera 9.50 when it was released. Experience so far was always good. Not so this … Continue reading →

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Not a flop then, it seems

Posted on 2008-06-19 by Oliver

The Firefox 3 Download Day was apparently less a flop than it seemed at first glance (i.e. within the first two hours). They got more than 8 million downloads in 24h, but for some reason the start and end times … Continue reading →

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Firefox 3 Download Day 2008, a flop? (update)

Posted on 2008-06-17 by Oliver

The download day for the world record attempt in the number of downloads by the Firefox community seems to be(come) a flop. It’s now 45min after the whole thing started and apparently the servers can’t handle the number of requests. … Continue reading →

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SpeedCommander 12.20 released

Posted on 2008-06-16 by Oliver

If you’re juggling files beyond the desktop and still use Windows Explorer, check out SpeedCommander. The new version has gotten even better and unlike another popular “commander-like” file manager it has full Unicode support and even has a native x64 … Continue reading →

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Argh …

Posted on 2008-06-03 by Oliver

The patches pertaining to the Debian key rollover are only available in the security repository. I just found out the hard way, that one of my machines denied access to another one, although I had “freshly generated” private keys. Ooops … Continue reading →

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Version-controlled edit via Bash script (Debian)

Posted on 2008-06-03 by Oliver

As I am currently setting up a new server, I thought it would be a good idea to keep most of the configuration files (e.g. /etc) under version control. RCS comes in handy to achieve just that, but laziness requires … Continue reading →

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“Shoot the messenger”?

Posted on 2008-05-12 by Oliver

In einem Blogbeitrag (Englisch) habe ich meine Meinung sowie die Fakten zum Thema “Unicode und Delphi” dargelegt und beschrieben, warum ich die Umstellung der Bedeutung von PChar auf PWideChar ablehne. Da sich eine rege Diskussion angebahnt hat und es so … Continue reading →

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Verdammt …

Posted on 2008-04-25 by Oliver

… nichtmal die alten Vorurteile stimmen mehr. Da guckt man nur mal kurz im Ubuntu Update-Manager nach und bekommt direkt das Upgrade auf “Hardy Heron” angeboten. Nix mit Kommandozeile und … apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade Irgendwie bin ich darüber … Continue reading →

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Morgen ist Bescherung

Posted on 2008-04-23 by Oliver

Laut Planung wird morgen (Donnerstag) Ubuntu 8.04 veröffentlicht. Ich freu mich drauf. Also, auf ein fröhliches: apt-get update & apt-get dist-upgrade // Oliver

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Little adventure with SourceForge’s CVS

Posted on 2008-04-21 by Oliver

In the scope of WinDirStat I had to take the little hurdle of branching in the past. Now, supposedly I could have simply opened a support request to the staff, but then I thought of it again, since I had … Continue reading →

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Is ignorance bliss?

Posted on 2008-04-19 by Oliver

Wow, look at that Quality Central article. Now look at the reply. Now look closer at the affected version and the date when it was reported. It’s unbelievable, but now – after working a while with Borland C++ Builder 6 … Continue reading →

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DDKWizard manual revised

Posted on 2008-04-05 by Oliver

Although the manual is still perfectly valid for version 1.2.0a of DDKWizard and covers also older versions, I took the time to completely revise it. This means that it contains some updated information, some additional information and some corrections. If … Continue reading →

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Sounds like a fairly interesting idea …

Posted on 2008-04-05 by Oliver

Have a look at RunEl and don’t miss out when Chris presents the implementation of his newest idea. An UAC implementation which works on XP and Vista but is more user-friendly. // Oliver PS: I understand it’s still April, but … Continue reading →

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Windows Vista SP1 (x64)

Posted on 2008-02-24 by Oliver

… so this weekend I took the time to reinstall my Vista (wanted to do that anyway after I hadn’t maintained my series of backups to revert to for that machine and I am switching from 32bit to 64bit ;)). … Continue reading →

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