Category: windows

… so to ya’ll who are now using Android, iOS and all those fancy OS, no idea what we had to go through X-D (until finally GNU Linux came along).

a word of warning: NEVER EVER INSTALL GAMES ON “FOR WORK” MACHINES! also: NEVER run any downloaded games while being connected to a network of importance (no matter if private or business) (nobody knows what those C++ dlls are up […]

all those surveillance and “in app trying to sell something”  make it way slower than Win 7… which is not good for a company that want’s to be productive (security, reliability, speed, speed, speed) get a bit of free tuning […]

because Win 10 compared to Win 7 is incredibly slow, a way to upgrade an older ASUS Mainboard was found RAM was increased from 8 GB to 32 GB it actually had an M.2 slot for the MZ-V8P500BW NVMe SSD […]

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 […]

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 […]

Why Hybrid? “Most hybrid kernels start as monolithic kernels and begin moving components into user land, primarily as security to support 3rd-party components and drivers which may be malicious or buggy. An example of a hybrid kernel design may keep […]

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! […]

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 […]

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 […]

if the user wants to take GNU Debian Linux (MATE Gnome2 Desktop) for a USB-Stick or VirtualBox test drive, check out the video instructions! pros: kind of easy to use (completely redone gui needs re-learning for all that were used […]

https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-1/os-wars-part-1 direct link: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/audio.simplecast.com/f7670e99.mp3 by: https://saron.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/saronyitbarek http://feeds.codenewbie.org/cnpodcast.xml Tweets by saronyitbarek  

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 […]

sometimes one wants to restart a windows vm every x days – to clean up RAM and Co. run task scheduler “Aufgabenplanung” %windir%\system32\taskschd.msc /s File/Datei -> New/Neu -> Basic Task/Einfache Aufgabe select or copy paste: %SystemRoot%\System32\shutdown.exe one has to scroll […]

got the server cheap from ebay. has unfortunately only 4x 2.5″ SAS (3.5″ would be better = more storage) one SAS drive already faulty. using the native Hardware RAID10 (4x 75GByte Hitachi HGST Ultrastar C10K600 450GB (HUC106045CSS600) 2,5″ SAS2 64MB […]

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. […]

tested on: Operating System: CentOS Linux 7 (Core) CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7 Kernel: Linux 4.15.9 Architecture: x86-64 # using vboxmanage –version 5.2.6r120293 ah lovely isn’t it? BSOD Win98 style… errors were NOT the exception, they were THE NORM (and still […]

What is the problem? Microsoft just came up with another closed standard file format…  Microsoft’s proprietary TNEF (Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format) often named winmail.dat or win.dat, and has a MIME type of Application/MS-TNEF is a proprietary email attachment format used […]

scroll down for ENGLISH: ) OMG! Da die IT von Baltimore sich einen Ransome-Virus eingefangen hat, können die Bürger ihre Steuern und ihre Blitzer-Tickets nicht zahlen! Wunderbar! 🙂 Mit welchem Aufwand man rechnen muss, wenn man sich von der Digitalisierung […]

episode1.0 – Screw Windows 10 – how to setup GNU Linux Debian in 15min including Desktop and Office Computers have grown complex (ignoring all the KISS(ing) philosophy). Updates are critical – they can fix security holes – but they can […]

Resilient File System (ReFS),[5] codenamed “Protogon”,[6] is a Microsoft proprietary file system introduced with Windows Server 2012 with the intent of becoming the “next generation” file system after NTFS. ReFS was designed to overcome problems that had become significant over […]

siemens esprimo P720 – does not find show boot devices is clearly a bios problem. the ONLY possibility to boot from cd is go into bios (F2/Del straight after power on) and do “restore defaults” “save and exit”… now it […]

135GB were restored via usb 2.0 to an 200GB SSD via Acronis Server 2012 recovery cd (click on “manage this host manually”) it took 20h, which makes, 6.25GByte/hour or 2Mbyte/Sec. I already ordered an usb 3.0 it seems since server […]

‘Umstrukturierung für den neuen Kurs, den Konzernchef Satya Nadella Microsoft verordnet hat: „Das Unternehmen sieht seine Zukunft bei Cloud-Produkten, künstlicher Intelligenz und Quantum Computing. Das sind die strategischen Schwerpunkte, auf die sich Microsoft künftig ausrichtet.“’ http://app.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/it-medien/fragen-und-antworten-das-muessen-sie-zum-microsoft-konzernumbau-wissen/21129292.html

Update: 2020-05 Munich commits to “Public Money? Public Code!” The new coalition agreement in Munich commits to the principle of “Public Money? Public Code!”. The FSFE welcomes this decision by the new government and will closely monitor the progress of […]

UPDATED! checkout vnc section of: https://dwaves.de/2018/05/07/getting-started-with-raspberry-pi-2-model-b-v1-1-vs-odroid-xu4-vnc-display-0-and-1/ UPDATED AGAIN! if you have problems connecting and get the error message: “x11vnc error: socket: Address family not supported by protocol (97)” then you probably have ipv6 disabled on the client. (and even if […]

sometimes the scripts that used to work perfectly well – suddenly start to miss behave – but you HAVE NOT altered them! look closely to the directory they reside in… maybe something in the dir has changed! make sure: your […]

one partly cloudy day i was trying to copy things via usb stick… it would not work. i realized: i haven’t used NTFS for a while 😀 yum install ntfs-3g fuse replug the stick. you don’t even have to restart […]

REM delete all mapped network drives net use * /DELETE /Y REM map two drives net use W: “\\192.168.0.233\SharedFolderA” /persistent:yes /user:usernameA PaSsWorDA net use T: “\\192.168.0.231\SharedFolderB” /persistent:yes /user:usernameB PaSsWorDB what you need to know: windows CAN NOT establish two connects […]

When you have to replace a switch, a router or a network card’s driver… since windows 7 it tries to detect if you are in an internet cafe (public) or at work (work) or at home (private) and set’s firewall […]