Category Archives: Software

Billiger StackOverflow-Abklatsch auf Deutsch

Posted on 2011-03-10 by Oliver

Einfügung (Update 2): liebe aufgebrachte codekicker.de-Mitglieder. Für die offensichtliche und unbewußte Täuschung durch meinen durch die Zeit zurückgereisten bösen Klon kann ich mich nur entschuldigen. Dieser Beitrag wurde im Original am 10.3. um 3:21 (UTC, also 4:21 dt. Zeit) eingestellt. … Continue reading →

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Top ten disk space hogs in current folder

Posted on 2011-03-07 by Oliver

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

Posted on 2011-03-07 by Oliver

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 →

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More issues with MariaDB

Posted on 2011-03-06 by Oliver

… but solved. When trying to install WordPress 3.1 as a vanilla installation, it failed: WordPress database error: [Invalid default value for ‘comment_date’] … this got repeated for several columns in several tables and obviously table creation failed. However, WordPress … Continue reading →

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Installing MariaDB on Debian 6 (Squeeze)

Posted on 2011-03-05 by Oliver

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 →

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Debian bug 581612

Posted on 2011-02-24 by Oliver

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

Posted on 2011-02-21 by Oliver

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

Posted on 2011-01-26 by Oliver

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

Posted on 2011-01-26 by Oliver

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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Program too big to fit in memory

Posted on 2011-01-24 by Oliver

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 →

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Hilarious …

Posted on 2011-01-11 by Oliver

Kangaroos fighting back. You have to read this, if you’re a geek (or even just a software developer) 😉 // Oliver

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Encounter of the third kind

Posted on 2011-01-03 by Oliver

When I flew back to Iceland, there was a guy who literally had a red hat (or fedora) on. Initially I thought I should ask him whether he’s a user of Linux – guessing some “red hat” connection, but then … Continue reading →

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DNAT for a Jabber/XMPP service

Posted on 2010-12-10 by Oliver

Problem: you have one external IP and want to run separate services on different hosts behind the router. Here’s a small script to DNAT the router to the host behind it. Netfilter will take care of the return traffic (so … Continue reading →

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Byobu on Debian Lenny

Posted on 2010-12-10 by Oliver

Apparently it is possible to use Byobu even on Debian. It was to be expected, as it should be fairly distribution-independent. You need to install screen, python-newt and then you can run: sudo dpkg -i byobu_3.16-0ubuntu1_all.deb Of course the package … Continue reading →

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So no Inline Assembler in 64bit Delphi? Get over it!

Posted on 2010-12-02 by Oliver

Honestly. I’m seeing people go on and on about that issue, while I can’t help noticing other much bigger issues with Delphi all the time. No PDB support strikes me as a pretty big issue for one, or getting a … Continue reading →

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Network interfaces on cloned (KVM) VMs

Posted on 2010-11-23 by Oliver

Yesterday I was cloning a few KVM VMs and to my disappointment the clones did not have an eth0 but rather got an eth1 and clones of clones would actually get eth2 and so forth. Because my /etc/network/interfaces referred to … Continue reading →

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Adobe Reader X

Posted on 2010-11-21 by Oliver

… war wohl nix 😉 Hatte mir den gestern installiert und mußte nun feststellen, daß dies ein Fehler war. Ich bekomme, wann immer ich eine PDF doppelklicke, einen Fehler “Abnormal termination”. Bekomme ich aber nicht, wenn ich den Adobe Reader … Continue reading →

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Slightly confusing – but only very slightly

Posted on 2010-11-09 by Oliver

MSDN documentation which came with Visual Studio 2005 (installed locally) says: MSDN documentation for VS2005 online at the MSDN website says: MSDN documentation for VS2003 online at the MSDN website says: MSDN documentation for WinCE 5.0 online at the MSDN … Continue reading →

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LG first impression

Posted on 2010-11-06 by Oliver

So my Mom bought herself a new cell phone. LG GS290. The phone is slick and all and pretty much offers a similar user experience as some smart phones, just without some of the bells and whistles. The phone comes … Continue reading →

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Hah, there we go

Posted on 2010-11-03 by Oliver

Some of you may remember that in my first post concerning the Quick Launch in Windows 7, I was complaining about it disappearing. Well, that got seemingly fixed after I solved the issue with the Quick Launch sticking to the … Continue reading →

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