Meta
Blogroll
- !analyze -v
- And Good Is
- DebugInfo
- DTM-related blog
- Free Electrons
- geek&poke
- Hex Blog
- KPNC reversing lab
- Language Log
- Linux Hater's Blog
- LLVM blog
- Nothing for UnGood
- Nynaeve
- Of Filesystems And Other Demons
- Onni Máni says …
- REBlog
- simmack.de Blog
- stOrM!
- Underhanded
- Unmanaged Things
- VIX API Blog
- wblog3
- WDS blog
- worm blog
Delphi links
IP info
Programs
Category Archives: Software
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
Posted in EN, Software, Thoughts
Leave a comment
Re: Let us hope this pans out for the PSF
Great news: Settlement reached in Python trademark dispute
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
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 and … Continue reading
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
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
Some of my stuff now also on Bitbucket
Find it via bitbucket.org/assarbad/ or the vanity domain bitbucket.assarbad.net (only without SSL for obvious reasons). Yes, vanity domain. I’m soooo vain // Oliver PS: their usual home is at vcs.assarbad.net/mercurial.
Posted in EN, Programming, Software, VCS
Comments Off
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.
Posted in EN, Programming, Software, VCS
Comments Off
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
Posted in C/C++, EN, Programming, Software
Comments Off
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
But it is
… that awkward moment when, upon your loading of the “Purchase” page for Visual Assist X, you are presented your own customer quote is kinda strange in a giggly way Still, even after more than six and a half years … Continue reading
Posted in C/C++, EN, Programming, Software, Thoughts
Comments Off
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
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
Comments Off
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
Comments Off
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