Monthly Archives: February 2010

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

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Second impression …

After Remko encouraged me to to continue trying – pointing out how much he liked the various features in RAD Studio 2010 – I did continue. The Setup.exe in the folder D:\BDS2010\Install did the job of installing. Frankly speaking, the … Continue reading

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They say the first impression is important

Here’s mine. I downloaded the “RAD Studio 2010 Architect – 30 day trial” (well, they don’t offer the Professional version because then people would notice the limitations and perhaps not buy it – this way they buy it, Embarcadero gets … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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 …

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Demokratie endlich ad acta legen …

Wie die scheidende EU-Kommissarin Ferrero-Waldner jetzt auf eine Anfrage hin antwortete: ACTA should not contain measures restricting end-users’ access to the internet that would not be approparite (sic!), proportionate and necessary within a democratic society and without a prior, fair … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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