Category Archives: Software

Thank you, whoever you are. Thank you sooo much!

Posted on 2012-04-11 by Oliver

Finally someone says it. Finally! gitvsmercurial.com Quote: Who the FUCK cares? Use what YOU like, not what someone on the internet tells you to. I wholeheartedly agree. Except when read vertically

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prune-kernels function …

Posted on 2012-02-22 by Oliver

If you are like me, you will have noticed on Ubuntu (and sometimes Debian) that stale old kernels remain on the disk even when they aren’t needed anymore. I wrote a little Bash function to get rid of those kernels. … Continue reading →

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Not used often enough in my opinion

Posted on 2012-02-20 by Oliver

Often people put on a condescending smirk when they hear that I still have to use CVS, let alone Subversion, in some projects. In numerous projects I have seen the performance of CVS and that of Subversion and it is … Continue reading →

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Selecting the editor on Debian/Ubuntu non-interactively

Posted on 2012-02-17 by Oliver

Set the selected editor on Ubuntu/Debian for yourself and root in one line: echo ‘SELECTED_EDITOR=”/usr/bin/vim.nox”‘|tee $HOME/.selected_editor| \ sudo tee /root/.selected_editor or echo “SELECTED_EDITOR=\”$(which vim.nox)\””|tee $HOME/.selected_editor| \ sudo tee /root/.selected_editor // Oliver

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by the way …

Posted on 2012-02-14 by Oliver

Convenient little snippet to get my external IP: echo $(wget -q -O – ip.assarbad.net/text)

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Definitely friendlier

Posted on 2012-01-31 by Oliver

Tried to install Windows 8 in a VM (VMware Workstation 8.0.0 build-471780) and this happened after the first reboot 😉 Now trying to continue the installation … let’s see 🙂 Update: here we go … looks bleak. Gonna retry from … Continue reading →

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Design and misdesign

Posted on 2012-01-19 by Oliver

So I did it. Ordered an iPad2 (despite the knowledge that the 3rd generation will hit the market soon). And what shall I say? Crap so far. Trying to get this thing to work with the WLAN router at my … Continue reading →

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GPG precompiled binaries for Win32

Posted on 2011-12-23 by Oliver

Well well, since I don’t trust others with this and I haven’t found signed binaries for GPG 1.4.11 from people I trust, I rolled my own. If you are looking for them and know or find that you can trust … Continue reading →

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canyoucrackit.co.uk – yes we can ;)

Posted on 2011-12-10 by Oliver

So the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) wants to recruit smart people. Well, there should be enough around. Although they seem to look for some 1337 h4x0rz, not some serious people from all indicators. The original one (MD5: 1585DFECC90AE7549814DCE52CA4EDDA) filled … Continue reading →

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I’m blind (I think)

Posted on 2011-12-10 by Oliver

Now don’t get me wrong, I love to use GNU make on all the unixoid platforms where I have to use it and I have been using it for some advanced stuff on Windows as well. But honestly, when has … Continue reading →

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CVS and SSH on a very old machine …

Posted on 2011-12-01 by Oliver

Had trouble getting it to work with ancient versions of ssh (OpenSSH_3.1p1) and cvs (Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.20). Until I figured that I could write a little wrapper script to see what’s wrong. The wrapper script looked like this: … Continue reading →

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Re: Oracle bought ksplice … and apparently the source was pulled

Posted on 2011-11-07 by Oliver

I contacted one of the good people from ksplice (I’ve got an active subscription) and got pointed to oss.oracle.com/ksplice/software/ Unfortunately the access to a distributed version control is gone for good, it seems.

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Android, what is it all about?

Posted on 2011-11-03 by Oliver

So I did it. I actually bought a cheapo Android phone (Simvalley SP-60) with dual-SIM feature, because that’s the single most important feature of a phone for me. Of course I went immediately to the privacy settings to turn off … Continue reading →

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FLOSS not sustainable for companies?

Posted on 2011-10-25 by Oliver

A few weeks ago I reported about ksplice whose Git repository had disappeared. Now the same happened for Likewise Open which was bought by BeyondTrust. After renaming the repository and moving its location from git://git.likewiseopen.org/likewise-open.git to git://git.likewiseopen.org/bt-identity-open.git it now also … Continue reading →

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“Signs that you are a bad programmer”

Posted on 2011-10-22 by Oliver

This list is interesting and certainly contains some valid points, but I’d argue that some of the symptoms may also be a sign that you are simply maintaining legacy code that has outlived its life-expectancy for too long and perhaps … Continue reading →

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Bundestrojaner gefunden?

Posted on 2011-10-09 by Oliver

Heute wurde ich, unabhängig voneinander, von mehreren Leuten auf die Geschichte mit dem angeblichen Fund des Bundestrojaners durch den CCC hingewiesen. Unabhängig davon, ob es sich um das handelt wovon alle Welt ausgeht, machte mich der bei F-Secure gezeigte Bildausschnitt … Continue reading →

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What do astrologists think?

Posted on 2011-10-08 by Oliver

Read about it here and here. 😕

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Re: The catch when upgrading to VMware Workstation 8

Posted on 2011-09-20 by Oliver

I’ve sent a support request concerning the removal of replay debugging and so far the response has been rather positive. One advice was to turn here in order to file a formal feature request, Which I did: Subj: Requesting re-inclusion … Continue reading →

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The catch when upgrading to VMware Workstation 8

Posted on 2011-09-16 by Oliver

You probably also noticed the buzz about the cool new features of VMware Workstation 8. I went and bought the upgrade after looking at the list of features. However, there’s a big catch they don’t brag about: Replay Debugging is … Continue reading →

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Oracle bought ksplice … and apparently the source was pulled

Posted on 2011-08-22 by Oliver

The source used to be at http://www.ksplice.com/git/ksplice.git, but now they pulled it. Only the disassembler library is now left. For now, here’s the download: 221b2b27906c76ac77b375c64dce9963 ksplice-git-backup.tgz // Oliver

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