PostgreSQL 9.4 for RHEL/CentOS 8 – x86_64 – Failed to download metadata for repo ‘pgdg94’ Error: Failed to download metadata for repo ‘pgdg94’
11.Feb.2021

when trying to update CentOS8 with PostgreSQL installed in this tutorial this errors shows up: repo: downloading from remote: pgdg94 error: Status code: 404 for https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/9.4/redhat/rhel-8-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml (https://download.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/9.4/redhat/rhel-8-x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml) PostgreSQL 9.4 for RHEL/CentOS 8 – x86_64 261 B/s | 162 B 00:00 […]

TeamViewer – the ultimate security problem?
11.Feb.2021

convenience vs security problem: remote support via internet in COVID19 pandemic days is basically a must for many companies, but does it have to run non-stop on computers that control sensitive machines and systems such as energy and water-supply? ABSOLUTELY […]

crazy dose of science
07.Feb.2021

to learn something new is fun to have one’s head messed up… not so much… ever heard of Buckminster Fuller? the guy wo inveted the “fish car” and big fan of geodesic domes the idea was great… but the marketing? […]

ffmpeg – convert mkv to mp4
26.Jan.2021

# should work as simple as ffmpeg -i “input.mkv” “output.mp4” # tested on hostnamectl; Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-13-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 ffmpeg -version ffmpeg version 4.1.6-1~deb10u1 Copyright (c) 2000-2020 the FFmpeg developers built with gcc 8 […]

are meta-languages the solution? – Corona-Virus-Pandemic-Lockdown increased activity on GitHub – trends in programming languages according to GitHub (Microsoft) and StackOverFlow – the loved – the dreaded – the wanted
24.Jan.2021

vs activity on StackOverflow: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-languages-loved comment: there is a saying “never trust a chart, that you did not fake yourself” X-D (which probably just means: the data will never be a perfectly representation of reality (because some users block JavaScript […]

SonicWall hardware VPNs hit by worst-case 0-zero-day-exploit attacks
23.Jan.2021

accroding to BleepingComputer: “zero-day vulnerability in their VPN products” (so not FallOut of SolarWinds-orion-auto-update-software-supply-chain) “…have information about hacking of a well-known firewall vendor and other security products by this they are silent and do not release press releases for their […]

GNU Linux Bash – script for troubleshoot long term reliability (ping) and bandwidth (speed) benchmark-test – testing network internet connection uplink connectivity and reliability
21.Jan.2021

this script is for cront-job regular measurement of the available (download) bandwidth, by downloading a 100MByte dd crated (https://dwaves.de/testfile) testfile created like this (creditz): head -c 100m /dev/zero | openssl enc -aes-128-cbc -pass pass:”$(head -c 20 /dev/urandom | base64)” > […]

GNU Linux Debian and others – how to view play RTSP client (hview surveillance and webcam and other cams) streams with mplayer and vlc (how to find rstp stream url of H.VIEW and ANNKE 100% Chinese surveillance cams)
16.Jan.2021

update: 2024-04: having problem connecting to camera with vlc? (rstp not well documented or not working at all? try this: easy camera stream identification with ONVIF: it is a DAMN hussle, because EVERY camera vendor does it’s own rstp://user:password:ip.ad.dr.ess:/some/url/stream and […]

hello world WRITTEN/CRISPERED into bacteria DNA
14.Jan.2021

proof wrong but, sorry to say but… would it not be possible that messing with bacteria DNA that by accident scientists creates new pathogens? new deadly diseases? so it’s one thing to write a program that dos “hello world” and […]

unit of data storage – byte kilobyte megabyte gigabyte terabyte petabyte exabyte zettabyte yottabyte nonabyte doggabyte kibibyte mebibyte gibibyte tebibyte pebibyte exbibyte zebibyte yobibyte nobibyte dogbibyte
12.Jan.2021

Byte The term byte was coined by Werner Buchholz in June 1956,[4][13][14][b] during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch[15][16][1][13][14][17][18] computer, http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/IBM/Stretch/pdfs/Buchholz_102636426.pdf backup mirror: PLANNING A COMPUTER SYSTEM BROJECT STRETCH Buchholz Campbell_102636426.pdf which had addressing to the bit and […]

GNU Linux Debian 10/11/Ubuntu – how to install kvm virtualization (qemu) – basic virsh commands – kvm cheat sheed – howto workaround virt-manager “emulator may not have search permissions for the path”
05.Dec.2020

BACKGROUND INFO: how does kvm use qemu? KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) is a virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware. It allows running multiple virtual machines (VMs) on a GNU Linux host by leveraging hardware virtualization extensions such as Intel […]