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The Android EMail app on ICS
In the review of the Email app of Android 3.2, I complained that the message-list moves in a way that the selected message is in the first place of the message-list. This was annoying for my workflow....
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Good Enermax support in Germany
The power supply of my server at home failed at the end of last month. As I was busy with renovation at home, it took me a while to check if it is really the PSU or something else. When I was sure...
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ICS experience on the Samasung Galaxy Tab 10.1
As told before, I have the ICS as provided by Samsung (to it is not the stock ICS, it is the Samsung-version of ICS) on the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Now that it is nearly two months of using it, I want to...
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Dear script-kiddy coming in via 5.39.218.138
After 84 lockouts from your IP address for your tries to guess the password of just one account (not counting your attempts to login to the other accounts were you received just one lockout) I changed...
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Hats off to the people handling the recent security incident
I pull my hat to the people handling the recent security incident on the FreeBSD infrastructure. Guys: Thanks a lot for the countless hours you invested to find and close the initial attack vector....
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Which crypto card to use with FreeBSD (ssh/gpg)
The recent security incident triggered a discussion how to secure ssh/gpg keys. One way I want to focus on here (because it is the way I want to use at home), is to store the keys on a crypto card. I...
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Calculating the target size of H264 videos
From time to time I convert videos to H264. When I do this I want to get the best quality out of a give filesize. This means I create VBR videos. The question here is, how big the target video file...
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Complete network loss on Solaris 10u10 CPU 2012-10 on virtualized T4-2
The problem I see at work: A T4-2 with 3 guest LDOMs, virtualized disks and networks lost the complete network connectivity “out of the blue” once, and maybe “sporadic” directly after a cold boot....
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OpenPGP crypto cards ordered
I wrote in a previous blog post that I want to switch to crypto cards for use with ssh and GnuPG. After some research I settled on the OpenPGP cryto cards. I ordered them from kernelconcepts. As soon...
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Status crypto cards HOWTO: problems with the card reader (support could be...
After hours (spread over weeks) I come to the conclusion that there is a lot of potential to improve the documentation of card readers (but I doubt the card reader vendors will do it) and of the pcsc...
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Linuxulator explained: How to create Linux binaries on FreeBSD
There may by cases where you want to generate a Linux binary on a FreeBSD machine. This is not a problem with the linuxulator, but not with the default linux_base port. As you may know, the linux_base...
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Updating FreeBSD 8.2 (or 9.x) to 10 (beta4)
This is a little description how I remotely (no console, booted into multi-user during update, no external services like jails/httpd/… running) updated a FreeBSD 8.2 to 10 (beta4) from source. This...
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Increase of DNS requests after a critical patch update of Solaris 10
Some weeks ago we installed critical patch updates (CPU) on a Solaris 10 system (internal system, a year of CPU to install, nothing in it affecting us or was considered a security risk, we decided to...
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New users in Solaris 10 branded zones on Solaris 11 not handled automatically
A colleague noticed that on a Solaris 11 system a Solaris 10 branded zone “gains” two new daemons which are running with UID 16 and 17. Those users are not automatically added to /etc/passwd,...
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Why I don’t need Google
This is why I don’t need Google: “I don’t need Google, my wife knows everything!” T-Shirt I found this T-Shirt in the old part of Rhodos city, while descending the Socrates road. I bought it off...
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