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Signed builds of PuTTY 0.65-pre and SuRun 1.2.1.1
The authors of these programs do not offer code-signed builds. So I compiled my own version from source after verifying the source and code-signed them myself. The installer for SuRun and the archive for PuTTY are also signed with GPG. … Continue reading
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Fully static build of tmux using libc-musl for Linux
Find a script that does the job here. It will download the source packages if they do not already exist and then unpack them into a subfolder of the current directory named tmux. Then it will one by one compile … Continue reading
Posted in C/C++, EN, Linux, Programming, Unix and unixoid
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Refreshed the binaries for arrived, lsads and looklink, updates to looklink
You can download all of them on Bitbucket: arrived looklink lsads looklink now also understands “placeholder files” introduced with Windows 8.1 which are placeholders for files on a linked SkyDrive that are marked online-only. All executables are code-signed and a … Continue reading
Windows 8.1 continued pains …
So, in order to add some stuff specific to Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 I end up working a bit on Windows 8.1 these days. Mind you, it’s only for testing and therefore by no means the full horror experience. … Continue reading
SlikSVN (Slik Subversion) is a bit painful to start with on Windows
It took me quite some time to find out why SlikSVN, one of the SVN clients recommended on the official project page, fails to establish the SSH tunnel when using Subversion over SSH. For some strange reason setting SVN_SSH to … Continue reading
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Nice idea
In the past when you created a new virtual machine in VMware, onto a virtual disk that would grow, that disk started out empty on the host file system. Now with VMware Workstation 10 ((although I cannot say whether this … Continue reading
ClassicShell rocks, but MS forbade them to use a start button that rocks as well …
How to replace the ClassicShell start button by the one from Windows 7. Continue reading
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Bye bye MSN
I’ve been using MSN in parallel with some other protocols in Miranda IM and as MS had announced last year, they retired it in October this year. Well, bad luck. The old protocol was a defacto standard and open. The … Continue reading
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Grausam …
Bin mal wieder in D, also steht Computerwartung an. Ich installiere gerade System und Programme für meine Mutter und stelle fest wie viele der Programme sich nicht an Windows 7 Konventionen halten und bspw. direkt auf C:\ installiert werden wollen … Continue reading
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Signing an RPM unattended …
It appears that there is no way to sign an RPM package unattended with the default tools. However, expect comes to the rescue. I found two descriptions on other blogs how to do it: from 2008 here: GPG signing RPMs … Continue reading
Oh for fucks sakes, Opera …
Why did you have to make your browser crappy like the rest of the bunch? Just upgraded to 15.something and lo and behold tab stacking is no more and I am confronted with a sh*tload of tabs whose labels or … Continue reading
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Re: “Not a convert” and “Copyleft vs. BSD …”
Almost one year ago I wrote about the GPL and in February last year about the GPL versus BSD license. Today I noticed the following inside OpenSSL code by Eric Young: The license and distribution terms for any publically available … Continue reading
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Re: Let us hope this pans out for the PSF
Great news: Settlement reached in Python trademark dispute
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Cheeky and stupid bot …
The bot with user agent Linguee Bot (http://www.linguee.com/bot; bot@linguee.com) just downloaded approximately 2 GiB of stuff from a ViewVC-listing on one of my servers. Just because it’s stupid, but also because it’s so cheeky to ignore robots.txt. So be it. … Continue reading
How to get English error messages on a localized Ubuntu?
Have you ever noticed that oftentimes people in anglophone forums will almost be offended if someone quotes an error message in their local language? Well, on one hand I can understand it, on the other I see more value in … Continue reading
Clever indeed
Just for giggles and some test I installed Kubuntu in Russian and it turns out that the “Д/н” prompts can also be acquitted with y or n as one would expect. Otherwise I would have been in a kerfuffle as … Continue reading
Let us hope this pans out for the PSF
Read the article over here: Python trademark at risk in Europe: We need your help!. I really hope this backfires so hard that no one else will try similar things on well established names that have been spread by non-profit … Continue reading
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A few websites I like when improving my Vim skills
http://vimcasts.org http://www.vimdrills.com https://www.shortcutfoo.com
Tmux is great … (but how to build on Lucid Lynx?)
… only a few troubles to get it to build on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 😉 Basically you’ll want libevent2, which doesn’t come in the package repos, so fetch it from here. Then you obviously fetch the tmux source via tmux.sourceforge.net … Continue reading