Category: Made in Germany

it ain’t fast, but it is fast enough, to run a web stack and serve the http://mycpu.eu/ website, absolutely amazing! 🙂 great job! check it out 🙂 http://mycpu.eu/

long story… good alternative? https://minidvblinux.de/ having had various frustrating experiences with the topic: TV + PC (even tried a cheap DreamBox 520 HD from eBay… which are probably good devices, but this one turned out to be faulty/unstable) now… in […]

the story goes like this. multiple files were zipped under Windows 7 (Pro German/DE) and unzipped under GNU Linux Debian 10. The problem is: that the special chars of the filenames are all reported as “invalid encoding” (within the MATE […]

always say something positive first: FritzBoxes are great (DSL/LTE/…) internet routers (up to now) all FritzBoxes work with 12V DC (which is great for usage with small solar power stations (that are usually 12V based)) high quality & reliable secure […]

v1.2 v1   especially in those lock down corona pandemic isolation times… users want to share family pictures to stay in touch. but how to share them in a non-privacy intrusive way? probably it would be best (of course) to […]

Cancer is a very depressing topic. We all have cancer every day, but our body has various repair mechanisms that usually prevent cancer. From the medical perspective, there are (still) not good methods for fighting cancer. A new hope arises […]

All SmartPhones are spies! that’s why Merkel keeps the Nokia from 1995 (even if that device is spied on as well, because it can not end2end encrypt sms or phone calls (*FAIL*! X-D)) Putin does not have a mobile phone […]

2012: Die FritzFax Software läuft gut unter Win XP. 2020: Die altbewährte und gut gemachte FritzFax software, welche 2012 so wunderbar ihren Dienst verrichtet hat, funktioniert, trotz gegenteiliger Aussage von Support und Internet… nicht. Die Software lies sich auf 3x […]

low and high quality tools: how to tell if a screwdriver is “low quality” (no matter what the label claims where it is from, everybody knows where such tools are produced): test: it can be bend by hand also look […]

short version: 2021: bin wieder bei SimDiscount X-D + D1 Masten nicht überbucht/gute Netzqualität bei Nutzung von LTE (muss Handy können, kostet 5€ extra d.h. für 25€ monatlich (Stand: 2020-01) kann man dann tatsächlich sein Handy auch nutzen (falls dieses […]

“In the popular series of wireless keyboards Fujitsu LX390 found two dangerous vulnerabilities. According to researchers from the company SySS, exploitation of vulnerabilities allows nearby attackers to “spy” passwords entered on the keyboard, or even to seize control of the […]

Warum VoIP? Viele Anbieter von LTE z.B. bieten gar keine Festnetz-Telefonie an, sondern nur Internet. (das zum Teil (nicht günstiger) aber schneller (und schnurloser via Handy-Netz) als die Telekom (4G/LTE/UMTS)). D.h. man braucht dann noch einen weiteren Anbieter der die […]

also roaming within the “(more or less)United States of Europe” (EU) is pretty scary endavor. If you travel across the EU and wish to use your home mobile phone number – you will NEVER know what this phone call or […]

ich behaupte Hetzner ist mit diesem absolut genialen Angebot weltweit absolute Spitze. Okay es ist kein XEON und kein EEC RAM, läuft aber trotzdem ziemlich gut. Warning / Achtung! Defekte Bauteile (RAM)/Festplatten werden ersetzt. Im gegensatz zu den Cloud-VMs ist […]

“the internet” in Germany is so slow… once your start page has finished loading… you actually forgot what you were searching for. (it has become better in Munich) PS: If this site (http://mycpu.eu) loads slow – it is because the […]

update: 2021-03: https://www.space.com/air-force-emp-attacks-protection fast answers: EMP is a serious threat to all survival of electronic devices (esp without a proper (double!) metal casing) get one of those: wrap whatever shall be EMP protected into cartonage + wrap aluminium foil around […]

there are a lot of service providers where you can rent a virtual server… for example: hetzner, for 3€ per Month you would get 1x CPU core and 2GB of RAM, instead of VPS they also call it “cloud”, it […]

Effizienz ist nicht alles – weiß Bernard Lietaer – wer sich auf eine Monokultur verlässt – ist verlassen. Nach einem Stromausfall oder Hacker-Angriff können Internet basierte Kommunikationsdienste lahmgelegt sein. Aus eigener Erfahrung: An Weihnachten 2017 wurde ein Baum vom Biber […]

https://ytpak.net/watch?v=TBXf0f8uQvI “If we want a better America we will have to build it ourselves” (Snowden, 2016) “it is not possible to get a fair trial in the USA under Espionage act from 1917” Snowden is NOT against surveillance: “If its […]

Update: as of 2019-01 and CentOS 7.6 the below setup may fail by now, for those reasons… BUT you CAN compile the latest kernel and all modules yourself (DON’T BE SHOCKED! YOU CAN DO IT! IT’S NOT ROCKET SIENCE!… just […]

TOS-based systems (Atari ST) used a row of bombs to indicate a critical system error. Number of bombs displayed revealed information about the error. The error (also called an exception) is reported by the Motorola 68000 microprocessor. The very first […]

systemd ain’t kissing well… The Unix philosophy – simple and beautiful (so it “just works”) “supporting multiple init systems can give trouble downstream” http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/130722 systemd started with the promise to “unite” startup management across distributions, 3 years later: yep would […]

Hardware Assembly: (i think 512MByte should be enough, 1GByte probably pretty good) Software Installation: including squid-proxy and web advertisement-filtering in the next part: OpenVPN 🙂 Thanks man! Amazing tutorials! by https://internetz.me Related Links: https://www.howtoforge.com/pfsense-squid-squidguard-traffic-shaping-tutorial http://www.shallalist.de/Downloads/shallalist.tar.gz

FOR SECURITY REASONS, KEEP ROUTER FIRMWARE UPDATED! Freifunk updates its router firmware and closes a critical security vulnerability that could allow attackers to install their own firmware on the devices. (src: heise.de) welcher router/welche hardware verwenden/zukunftstauglich? (ändert sich von Jahr […]

All GUI programs are based/use streamripper. no gui/bash/terminal version: hostnamectl; # tested with Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 su – root; # become root apt update; apt install streamripper; Ctrl+D; # logoff root # […]

Fritz!Box Webcm Unauthenticated Command Injection Different Fritz!Box devices are vulnerable to an unauthenticated OS command injection. This module was tested on a Fritz!Box 7270 from the LAN side. The vendor reported the following devices vulnerable: 7570, 7490, 7390, 7360, 7340, […]

Did you know that WinRAR is a software around since 1995 and it is developed by a russian Guy with the Name of Eugene Roshal and distributed by Alexander Roshal, Berlin. Eugene Roshal (developer), Alexander Roshal (distributor)[1] Eugene Roshal (Russian: […]

update: 2021-01 “the best (most privacy & security & usability) Smart Phone solution” is yet to be found (PinePhone (yet untested) comes close) and it would be like: runs standard unmodified GNU Linux kernel 100% open source drivers comes with […]