privacy is worth swapping wifi cards! Open Source & Free Software are THE GOLD STANDARD which means: would ALWAYS prefer the hazzle of replacing a wifi mini card with an wifi mini card, that is supported by open source drivers, […]

Motorola, Apple, Samsung, and now even Fairphone 4: NO 3.5mm headphone jack!!! For the audio junkies among us, this is a no go. Was so looking forward to the Fairphone, but will probably use a phone with audio jack as […]

inkscape is a genious vector drawing program it is a bit complex though and takes time getting used to hostnamectl; # tested on Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-18-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 Inkscape 0.92.4 (5da689c313, 2019-01-14) install the […]

inxi – Command line system information script for console and IRC DESCRIPTION It is also used a debugging tool for forum technical support to quickly ascertain users’ system configurations and hardware. inxi shows system hardware, CPU, drivers, Xorg, Desktop, Kernel, […]

and: is the EU / Germany location simply unattractive for many companies in view of the data protection craze? “In the end, it may be bitter for Quad9 that they only got into the trouble by moving to Europe, where […]

# requirements su – root apt update # has the convert command apt install imagemagick vim /scripts/create_thumbs.sh #!/bin/bash THUMBS_FOLDER=/path/to/images/thumbnails for file in /path/to/images/* do # next line checks the mime-type of the file IMAGE_TYPE=`file –mime-type -b “$file” | awk -F’/’ […]

this script is suppsed to be started in a folder full of images that need sorting. (it is even possible to ssh -X into a machine and do this remotely) # requirements su – root apt update # install simple […]

# count how many FILES are in this FOLDER and ALL SUBFOLDERS find . -type f|wc -l # count how many FILES are in this FOLDER only (maxdepth 1) find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | less; # check what […]

just for info: this is NOT my PC, not using Windows 10 (Windows 7 only for gaming X-D) what the user sees is a perfectly windows fake update message, that says “Edge Update Version 94.0.4577 (official Version)” so the user […]

simplicity is key: what is definately great and a big plus is the “openness” of the Android (a by Google heavily modified GNU-Linux) environment. no need for extra software (itunes) to access the device a usb-c-cable will do connect it […]

mplayer is still a great program 🙂 that let’s you play streams and files on command line (per default it has no gui) creditz: http://sheet.shiar.nl/mplayer # install it su – root apt update apt install mplayer ffmpeg Ctrl+D # log […]

Original Swirl (click to enlarge) this campaing got deleted (users did not order enough) so the ONLY available shirt right now is “fancy swirl” shirt: Fancy Swirl (click to enlage) click on pic or here to shop: https://www.teezily.com/gnu-linux-debian-fan-shirt-swirl-fancy 100% organic […]

update: 2022-12 wow 3 and 4nm is very very small “TSMC recently announced that it is upping its U.S. investment in Arizona to US$40 billion (NT$1.23 trillion) and will manufacture 4nm and 3nm chips there. The 4nm chips are expected […]

team, team, team team… In Germany, everyone is his/her own team, there are only one-man, one-woman teams. teams not necessarily help each other the best “help” you can get from another “team” is “it is somewhere in the (incomplete, outdated, […]

sometimes one want’s to lock they keyboard against any hacking attempts by the baby, while watching documentaries about animals su – root apt update apt install xtrlock # test it bash -c “sleep 1 && xtrlock” # when the mouse […]

the positive vision (always start with something positive) if big data about every keystroke every step we make (the police: every step you make) algorithms determine how mankind will live and thus: technology is “neutral” until it is used for […]

warning: no guarantee of completeness! contains ads! (but owner of blog get’s nothing, maybe source of source does) Are the odds against the (itsec) defenders? It certainly feels that way, because no human can ever find all bugs, so Fuzzing […]

the specs CPU Allwinner A20,32 Bit Cortex™-A7 2-Core 1G GPU ARM® Mali400MP2 -> get the GPU going SDRAM 1GB DDR3 (shared with GPU) 432Mhz Storage “SD Card up to 64GB (SDXC) 1 SATA up to 2TB “ Network 4x Gigabit […]

affected CPUs: (src: intel.com) Intel® Processors supporting SGX2: Code Name Product Collection Ice Lake Xeon-SP (HCC, XCC) 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family Ice Lake 10th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor Family Gemini Lake Intel® Pentium® Processor Silver Series, Intel® […]

possible (untested!) alternative: SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD V2 Review the harddisk reliability toplist: while this toplist says nothing about how reliable the harddisk can store and return exact copy of data written (!!!). this has to be tested in […]

Description of each field As you can see from the first three lines: First letter -> desired package state (“selection state”): u – means: Unknown (an unknown state) i – means: Install (marked for installation) r – means: Remove (marked […]

it is actually like this, in virt-manager, that chipset and bios can only be changed during first setup “begin installation” it then is fixed and can not be changed in virt-manager

William Shatner is more than an actor. He just has proven that with this speech. Reborn from the blackness of space – he has become – or always was – a space philosopher. (direct link to the speech.mp4, because wordpress […]

the most fundamental networking settings are ever changing it used to be /etc/resolv.conf where nameservers are set systemd is doing it’s own thing /etc/systemd/resolved.conf and Ubuntu (based on Debian) is doing (again) it’s entirely own thing (netplan) frankly: this sucks […]

nfs is to GNU-Linux what smb is to Windows: sharing dirs & files “The Network File System (NFS) was developed to allow machines to mount a disk partition on a remote machine as if it were a local disk. It […]

remember that discussion about ever changing non-standard ways of defining network interfaces and ip addresses under /etc/network… well guess what, canonical just came up with a completely new config file format X-D (guess, everything is a yaml.yml now) hostnamectl; # […]

let’s say: in theory – it works – in practice vmware and kvm (RedHat) would REALLY have to work together to make this work for real. in reality – there are (currently) massive sata harddisk driver problems between esxi 6.7 […]

making usb sticks with GNU Linux and dd: WARNING! one single wrong drive letter and data could be irreversible destroyed! (it has happened many times before!!!) so this script make_stick.sh (download it here) aim’s to double check if it is […]

raid10 combines the speed of raid0 with the resilience of raid1. watch out: shingled hdd are not good for RAID! setup of GNU Linux mdadm software RAID10 is actually pretty straight forward: no need to do any partitioning. # tested […]