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GETTING RID OF CAPS LOCK
Through reading the great tmux book from pragprog.com I got the idea to repurpose the caps lock key as left control key. The idea seems brilliant, given how little used caps lock is. I don’t know for everyone, but most … Continue reading
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A shout to VMware …
Since I don’t have a support contract, perhaps you would be so kind to tell your setup authoring folks to not remove the last resort for anyone who tries to install the vSphere client 5.0? Thank you in advance, very … Continue reading
Posted in Administration, EN, Software
Tagged failure, installation, VMware, vSphere
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Some of my stuff now also on Bitbucket
Find it via bitbucket.org/assarbad/. // Oliver
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First impression of Windows Server 2012
*facepalm* // Oliver PS: does MS think that making it look like a 2D game and forcing everyone to click tiles instead of using the keyboard to navigate the startmenu makes an admin more productive? 😕
Rather balanced
Mercurial vs Git: Why Mercurial? Git vs Mercurial: Why Git? And more goodness follows here.
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Once again updated: looklink
As already in the past, I updated looklink again. This time it received two command line options, –verbose and –nologo and the CReparsePoint class was overhauled. One issue was fixed. CReparsePoint would behave improperly when being passed the current directory … Continue reading
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Premake4 snippet to create solution names depending on target Visual Studio version
I prefer to name my solutions and projects something like projectname.vsX.sln and projectname.vsX.vcproj respectively. However, by default Premake4 generates the names as they are passed to the builtin solution and project functions respectively. Not cool enough for me. By the … Continue reading
SSL error with a newly signed cert?
Last night I literally spent hours figuring out an alleged issue with the certificate from StartCom. Of course the problem was entirely on my end, in the editor to be precise. But what happened? I fetched ca-bundle.pem and entered it … Continue reading
Posted in Administration, EN, IT Security, Linux, Software
Tagged lighttpd, SSL, StartCom
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Highly useful: ddrutility
During a rescue mission I encountered read errors on both hard drives of a degraded RAID. Since most commercial end-user tools limit your flexibility I went for Ubuntu Rescue Remix 12.04 in order to use ddrescue. However, to my delight … Continue reading
Posted in Administration, EN, Linux, Software, Thoughts, Unix and unixoid
Tagged toolbox, utility
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German federals looking for trojan author – still
The German federals (BKA = Bundeskriminalamt, roughly the German equivalent to the FBI in the US) are still looking for someone with the qualifications to write what had been dubbed “Bundestrojaner” (literally: federal trojan) in 2008. This means that first … Continue reading
Posted in C/C++, EN, IT Security, Reversing, Software, Thoughts
Tagged BKA, Bundestrojaner, germany
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Thunderbird gave me trouble …
So after the recent update to Thunderbird, message filters stopped working. Potentially one of the add-ons got disabled in the update process, but I’m not sure. After trying to export and re-import the filters it turned out that the problem … Continue reading
Re: This is worse than I thought
So can we get rid of the “lock screen” (the one before we see the login prompt)? Turns out we can: Run gpedit.msc as administrative user, then go to: Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Control Panel -> Personalization in … Continue reading
This is worse than I thought
Testing the Windows 8 RC now in order to find out whether it is usable with some programs I maintain. So far the impression I got months ago hasn’t really changed. With the only difference that this time I didn’t … Continue reading
Symbolic links to remote locations …
Recently after migrating to Windows 7 on my work machine, I ran into a little issue. I created symbolic links pointing to a network share. Now this is all fine and dandy, but symbolic links can only be created by … Continue reading
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Looks like I may depart from Windows (after all)
Microsoft is planning to make the Windows 8 look overall flat just like the ugly Metro stuff. Bye bye Aero. Nothing learned from the feedback about Visual Studio 11 Beta, it seems. This means one probably will need special glasses … Continue reading
Another interesting site for me
unlicense.org with advice how to dedicate one’s own code to the public domain …
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Got pointed to this today
… nice: ask.libreoffice.org/question/
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Cool
COPSSH, another SSH implementation on Windows. And it even seems to be convenient to use.
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Not a convert
It’s a trap! I’m more and more convinced that the GPL is just that – a trap. Richard Stallman, aka RMS, was visiting Iceland one year ago and I had the “pleasure” of listening to his talk at Fjölbrautaskólinn. While … Continue reading
Nett, eine sichere Pastebin-Alternative
Projektseite und Testinstallation (des Autors?) Super Geschichte. Ich hoffe, daß es noch auf GitHub oder BitBucket erscheint, so daß man die volle Versionsgeschichte bekommt. // Oliver
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