Author Archives: Oliver

Here’s a riddle

Posted on 2026-01-13 by Oliver

What makes a Windows 10, 11, 2025 Server VM all fail in VirtualBox with numerous weird bug checks (IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE,

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Amazing … weird … shitty

Posted on 2026-01-08 by Oliver

So apparently while on Linux and trying to download a Chrome for a Windows VM that has no installed Edge, I am unable to do so. Because obviously when I access the download page, I must intend to download for … Continue reading →

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Make Midnight Commander recognize .pk3/.pk4 files

Posted on 2025-12-31 by Oliver

Press F9–c–e and then add something like: [doom-quake-idsoft] Regex=\\.pk[34]_?$ RegexIgnoreCase=true Open=%cd %p/uzip:// View=%view{ascii} /usr/lib/mc/ext.d/archive.sh view zip The section name doom-quake-idsoft can be changed to taste. This edits ~/.config/mc/mc.ext.ini, the other relevant file is /etc/mc/mc.ext.ini. // Oliver PS: this also recognizes … Continue reading →

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Adenauer SRP+ … aha

Posted on 2025-12-29 by Oliver

Ich mach ja keinen Hehl draus, daß ich kein Fan der AfD bin, allerdings auch keiner der meisten anderen Parteien, die gerade aktiv die Demokratie hintertreiben und Deutschland auf Kriegskurs bringen während sie “nie wieder” proklamieren. Auf dem 39C3 gab … Continue reading →

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Die Pathologisierung der Nichtwähler: “Die Stadt blutet finanziell aus”

Posted on 2025-09-22 by Oliver

Das ist der Grund den der Leiter des SWR-Studio Ludwigshafen Hartmut Reitz als hauptverantwortlich sieht für die Politikverdrossenheit. Immer wieder putzig, wie man mit der Wortwahl — Politikverdrossenheit — gleichzeitig behauptet und pathologisiert. Dabei könnte es sich ja, rein hypothetisch … Continue reading →

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Inaktivität

Posted on 2025-08-24 by Oliver

Einige mögen es bemerkt haben, daß ich nicht mehr so häufig hier schreibe. Da geht es mir wie einigen anderen aus dem “kleinen Web”. Seit die Anbieter von LLMs — laut deren Vertriebsabteilungen “KIs” milliardenfach Inhalte von uns natürlichen Intelligenzen … Continue reading →

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Betreff: Bitte verhindern sie den dystopischen Vorschlag zur Chatkontrolle (CSAM-Regulierung) unter dänischer Ratspräsidentschaft mit Ihrer Stimme dagegen

Posted on 2025-08-17 by Oliver

Liebe Leser: bitte macht mit, teilt die Informationen zu dem Ansinnen und seinen erwartbaren Auswirkungen . Mein offener Brief an die deutschen EU-Parlamentarier und die deutsche Vertretung des Bundestags bei der EU: Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, ich schreibe Ihnen … Continue reading →

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Hurra, es ist ein Blackrockkanzler

Posted on 2025-05-06 by Oliver

… wer noch nicht weiß was jetzt noch schiefgehen könnte, möge sich in die Lektüre von Werner Rügemer zum Thema Blackrock einlesen und in die Lektüre von Erich Vad zum Thema Taurus-Lieferungen in die Ukraine. Sollte dieser Mann zu seinen … Continue reading →

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safeboot=DsRepair

Posted on 2025-01-05 by Oliver

So, recently I was asked to help out with an IT problem a friend had. The issue was as follows: Windows Server 2016 ended up booting into safe mode after some botched update … or so … The details weren’t … Continue reading →

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Why it isn’t “useless” to defragment SSDs

Posted on 2025-01-04 by Oliver

Has anyone tried searching for information on how to defragment stuff and run across a snarky remark that defragmenting on an SSD is pointless? Well, I have. One time too often, it turns out. So I am sitting down to … Continue reading →

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Broken love: letting my IDA maintenance period run out next year

Posted on 2024-09-12 by Oliver

With IDA 9.0 Hex-Rays says they are switching to a subscription only model. This was already threatened to existing customers before — roughly two or three years ago — and of course it is being sold with totally great benefits … Continue reading →

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Das Aus für MetaGer … zumindest so wie’s mal war

Posted on 2024-09-12 by Oliver

MetaGer, die datenschutzfokussierte Suchmaschine des gemeinnützigen Vereins SUMA-EV, wird es ab sofort nicht mehr in der bekannten Form geben. Zwar wird es weiterhin möglich sein, den Service tokenfinanziert zu nutzen. Für die Mitglieder und Nutzer, die mit einem Schlüssel MetaGer … Continue reading →

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Tomorrow it will be decided if I agree with Victoria Nuland

Posted on 2024-06-19 by Oliver

… and her infamous line “Fuck the EU”. Why? Because tomorrow the decision will be made whether the EU introduces surveillance for what’s meant to be private communication. Originally the voting was supposed to be done today (2024-06-19). More information … Continue reading →

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Reminder to myself

Posted on 2024-05-05 by Oliver

env GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM=true GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=0 GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL=/dev/null git … can be used to suppress reading the configuration file. Useful with this error: BUG: refs.c:2083: reference backend is unknown error: git-remote-https died of signal 6 … which is caused by a particular configuration option.

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The end of international law?

Posted on 2024-04-15 by Oliver

Well, I guess the inaction of the UNSC in the case of the Israeli bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus emboldened Ecuador to raid the Mexican embassy. I wonder if future historians — provided there will be any — … Continue reading →

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Why?

Posted on 2024-04-12 by Oliver

I have written about Microsoft Teams before (in German), how horrible a user experience it is and so on. Let me tell you, it hasn’t gotten any better. Only “newer”. Remember, Microsoft loves Linux now. Right? Or so people, including … Continue reading →

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Migrating data from 2 TB SSD to 4 TB SSD with iODD ST400 drive enclosure

Posted on 2023-12-18 by Oliver

Linux is my main system, but I prefer using NTFS for various use cases and in fact some use cases require something like NTFS. The ST400 is the successor of several Zalman-rebranded iODD devices which bring a similar feature set. … Continue reading →

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Two more useful flags for cl.exe

Posted on 2023-11-07 by Oliver

/Be appears to spit out a make file snippet that contains the recipe to reproduce a given run of cl.exe. It takes into account variables. Check it out: all: @cd D:\17.7.5\x64 @set INCLUDE= @set LIB= @set LIBPATH= @set CL=/nologo /utf-8 … Continue reading →

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(New) shittiest software from Microsoft in my book

Posted on 2023-10-27 by Oliver

Previously the so-called Office and especially Teams were ranking quite high among the shittiest software from Microsoft in my book. In fact Teams in all its incarnations is probably going to take up the four rear slots in my top … Continue reading →

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NATO’s open door policy

Posted on 2023-07-10 by Oliver

Now, while any small town club is able to reject applications for membership and scholarships are tied to preconditions — and ignoring for a minute that NATO even refused to talk about Russia’s security interests, including its unwillingness to accept … Continue reading →

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