SecurityLab, [22.12.20 10:00] Google has explained the reasons for the massive failure of its services that took place last week. Recall that on December 14 of this year, users around the world for 47 minutes could not access Gmail, YouTube […]
Pure Beauty: “the glow” “IT JUST WORKS” 🙂 wifi works two-finger-scroll touchpad works sound works (hey! startup sounds are important 🙂 admitted: the keyboard will need some time of getting used to X-D (per default Macbook Pro A1278 would run […]
update 2022: next to the good old (non-destructive if used correctly) “dd” is still the way to go for benchmarking harddisks under GNU Linux. a simpler one is “gnome-disk-utility” also interesting but not very simple in installation & usage (complicated! […]
ffmpeg / avconv is pretty nice. it can even do mp4 to gif conversion! 🙂 so what the user can do is: use SimpleScreenRecorder, to record a fixed rectangle of the screen to mp4 and then use ffmpeg / avconv […]
Music and GNU Linux – back to vlc after mocp jajuk testing mocp –version This is : Music On Console Version : 2.6-alpha3 Built : Nov 27 2016 10:55:04 Compiled with : OSS ALSA JACK DEBUG Network streams resample Running […]
first some praise: the maintainers of grub did their best they could to bring about a great piece of software, no doubt about that. the question is: could less be more? when Greg Kroah-Hartman suggested to get rid of the […]
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “be careful what you reveal to your friend” (the internet) https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode5/ “where it has gone from defending America to controlling it” data google tries to collect from users: (it is probably only the tip of […]
today installed (1:1 copy with USB2IDE Adapter) Debian 8 32Bit aka ideal linux on Compaq “Evo D500” and: IT JUST WORKS 🙂 works slow but it works (it is a Single Core Celeron, what do users expect?) X-D 512 MB […]
versus is the wrong word. They are both great great GNU Linux distributions with a different focus and imho the perfect combination. Debian (apt based) “the universal operating system” (because has great hardware compatibility amd64 (64Bit intel) arm64 armel armhf […]
setup LAMP GNU-Linux Apache2 MariaDB PHP7.3 su – root; # become root apt update; # update system to latest apt upgrade; # database first apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client # set root pwd for database (can be root on dev test […]
home of git’s git repo: https://git-scm.com/ # to clone git’s git repo git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git # as can be seen there, it is STILL under active development written in primarily in C, with GUI and programming scripts written in Shell […]
it is nice to get an graphical overview what wifi wlan networks access points one is surrounded by. also good to know what direction to point antenna/laptop to have best reception. because this allows to fine-tune what channel best to […]
https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM the 4 free software freedom rules: freedom 0: The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose. (computers start counting with 0, that’s why it is freedom 0) freedom 1: The freedom to study how […]
hostnamectl; # tested on Static hostname: debian Virtualization: oracle Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 # will install qcreator and qt5 library apt-get install qcreator qt5-default # “no valid kits found” # is due […]
GNU Linux Debian on x86 Macbooks 😀 but they are… Pure Beauty & Nostalgia: Apple Macbook Pro 9,2 (A1278) Mid 2012 running GNU Linux like a Pro (the perfect combo that just works) for the windows users: download the image.img.gz […]
update: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2020mca.php Warning! 645 votes does not make for a complete survey! X-D Debian is a great great great GNU Linux distribution (the basis of Ubuntu and MINT). Many THANKS! TO ALL INVOLVED! It is the effort of a lot […]
some jpgs are badly compressed, taking 5-10MBytes each! a little nifty cool tool let’s you batch recompress WARNING! Always test things out before applying it to your original data! # become root su – root # install jpegoptim apt install […]
every once and a while… laptops and notebooks run out of battery… and when one manages to plug them in just 1% before stalling… the wifi on Debian might already be in hibernation and hardware on off does not help […]
about MAC address(es) not every switch has an IP assigned (if it has no web management interface, it does not need to) but it will have a MAC address. MAC address are per vendor and per device unique identifiers that […]
EDIMAX EW-7612UAn V2 THE ONLY (?) GNU Linux WIFI WLAN Adapter that works OUT OF THE BOX on all GNU Linux systems (ODROID RASPBERRY AND Desktop GNU Linux) ONLY BUY FROM HARDWARE VENDORS THAT SUPPORT FREE & OPEN […]
what IT can learn from nature: (src) mostly US users affected. Big Business: Big Companies and Big Money can afford Big Staff to maintain and secure their products, but they also provide Big Infrastructure (AWS, Office) and thus a single […]
tar gz (single core) -> tar pigz (multi core) tar might be old, but still a great program for archiving files manpage: tar.man.txt to get multi core usage for compression (faster) the user tells tar to use a different compression […]
Cinnamon desktop developed by Developer(s) Linux Mint team! – is a beautiful desktop (default on Linux Mint) alternative to Gnome2 MATE. BUT: still prefer Gnome2 MATE (at least on GNU Debian Linux) because it is: minimalistic / very resource efficient […]
# setup log of VirtualBox Graphical User Interface Version 6.0.10 r132072 (Qt5.7.1) # on Debian 9.8 with Cinnamon Desktop # go into software repo user@debian98:~$ cd /software/ # download latest version of software user@debian98:/software$ wget https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.0.10/virtualbox-6.0_6.0.10-132072~Debian~stretch_amd64.deb –2019-08-03 14:36:05– https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.0.10/virtualbox-6.0_6.0.10-132072~Debian~stretch_amd64.deb Resolving […]
don’t be evil “Google controls about 62% of mobile browsers, 69% of desktop browsers, and the operating systems on 71% of mobile devices in the world. 92% of internet searches go through Google and 73% of American adults use YouTube. […]
it might sound strange… and even if it sucks, but if you are concerned about security, call me paranoid but: your company’s critical infrastructure SHALL NOT BE REACHABLE BY WIFI! (especially not if you are running a nuclear power plant, […]
servers/clients/computers/programs/services/webservers need accurate time… they usually get it from time servers that have an atomic clock attached to their USB port. (just guessing) ping time.google.com PING time.google.com (216.239.35.4) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from time2.google.com (216.239.35.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=43.5 […]
It is one of the most critical of digital infrastructures – update servers – thus vendors need to be EXTREEEEMELY careful how they run their update servers. they could get hacked and their downloads and updates get virus and backdoor […]
Update: 2020-03 it is very very confusing. on the one side the whole world is moving towards https SecurityLab, [25.03.20 15:55] “Mozilla implements an additional HTTPS Only mode in Firefox 76, in which the browser will only accept encrypted connections, […]