as most users know, Ubuntu (a Nguni Bantu term meaning “humanity”) is, still (luckily) based on GNU Linux Debian. But more software is not necessarily better. What Ubuntu nicely does: more recent kernel it aims for even greater hardware compatibility […]
# this will create a new compressed version of ‘folder-to-pack’ # but will not include any pdf fiels tar fcvz /path/to/package.tar.gz –exclude=’*.pdf’ /path/to/folder-to-pack # automatically include the current date in filename of backup file: tar fcvz /backups/$(date ‘+%Y-%m-%d’).filename.tar.gz –exclude=’*.pdf’ /path/to/backup
login to mysql: su – root; list all available databases: # login & send command to mysql & logout mysql -u root -e ‘show databases’ -s –skip-column-names # or login mysql -u root -p; # enter command mysql> show databases; […]
they are fast, they are small, they use very little energy (less than 30W), the Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p Tiny despite being also pretty old (2012/2013) it still rocks, the naming ain’t sexy, but they work very well. now let’s look […]
Brother HL-5450DN most older laser printers are pretty reliable and can made to work with GNU Linux (if they support App Socket / HP JetDirect (asigned fixed IP to printer and give exact IP)) there is even a firmware update, […]
Open Source is about enabling users “Amazon, Microsoft, Google” and the White House, want to help make Open Source more secure… https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-150-millionen-us-dollar-sollen-open-source-absichern-2205-165382.html https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-linux-foundation-will-security-praxis-vereinheitlichen-2008-150036.html src of src: “White House OSS Mobilization Plan” 2022: https://openssf.org/blog/2022/05/11/testimony-to-the-us-house-committee-on-science-and-technology/ 2020: “The OpenSSF is a cross-industry collaboration […]
IDE, SCSI, SATA, SAS now U.2 M.2… these drives are called: “U.2 PCIe NVMe” no kidding, search for em on ebay. that reminds of… “the usb cable chaos” has arrived with “Slim SAS” for another round of mass cable connector confusion […]
“FOSS means that effort is shared across organizations and lowers maintenance costs significantly” (src: comment by JohnFOSS on itsfoss.com) getting the naming right: Why is it GNU Linux and not just Linux? because it would given the developers who wrote […]
(might be already a bit older) Thunderbird – Hotkeys Shortcuts Cheatsheet.pdf
ZFS is probably THE most controversial filesytem in the known universe: “FOSS means that effort is shared across organizations and lowers maintenance costs significantly” (src: comment by JohnFOSS on itsfoss.com) “Mathematicians have a term for this. When you rearrange the […]
update: 2022: ah oh: Pine community in Pain? https://blog.brixit.nl/why-i-left-pine64/ “In February 2021, PINE64 announced the end of the community editions. At this moment, PINE64’s focus shifted from supporting a diverse ecosystem of distributions and software projects around the PinePhone to […]
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 […]
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® […]
Wifi Modes of an Access point: DLink has painted a nice overview over the possible different modes of an Accesspoint: cybersec: from great wifi modes that allow bridging two wifi networks, it would be GREAT if vendors test their products […]
the wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OWASP the top 10: https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/2017/Top_10.html the ebook: https://github.com/OWASP/owasp-mstg/releases/download/v1.2/OWASP_MSTG-1.2.pdf the text: https://owasp.org/www-project-web-security-testing-guide/latest/4-Web_Application_Security_Testing/02-Configuration_and_Deployment_Management_Testing/01-Test_Network_Infrastructure_Configuration the conferences: https://owasp.org/www-board/ https://www.blackhat.com/us-21/ the costs: https://training.owasp.org/ 2-part Training: $505 Member 2-part Training: $455 * For member discount code contact events ÄT owasp DOOOT com https://www.udemy.com/course/intro-to-bug-bounty-by-nahamsec/ it’s […]
“Basically, rust-gdb is a wrapper that loads external Python pretty-printing scripts into GDB. This is useful (and somewhat necessary) when debugging more complex Rust programs because it significantly improves the display of Rust data types.” (src) what the developer has […]
in case the user needs a case: Open source hardware board that runs GNU Linux and Android. Entirely designed with open source software CAD tools. There are six variants: A64-OLinuXino-1G with 1GB RAM but NO flash and NO WiFi/BLE connectivity A64-OLinuXino-1Ge16GW […]
short story: phase it out So it finally happened, Oracle wants to cash in on it’s $7.4 Billion investment it made in 2009. The non-Open-Source non-GPL non-Free-Software-coffee has officially gone sour. One can just pray, that this will be a […]
can not recommend! the connection works (benchmark results below) the major problem is: unable to disable DHCP! which means: whenever there is a disconnect from the uplink (DHCP lost) the DHCP of the TL-WPA4220KIT will “kick in” and assign completely […]
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) How to created multiple Wifi AccessPoints connecting (WDS Wifi Bridge) to one […]
“In 2019, spending in the cybersecurity industry reached around $40.8 billion, with forecasts suggesting that the market will eclipse 54 billion U.S. dollars by 2021 as the best-case scenario, taking into account the coronavirus (COVID-19) impact. As many organizations around […]
UPDATE: 2022 may have to appoligize to HighPoint and ALTERNATE, as other RAID systems such as the AMD RAIDXpert2 based systems (same concept) are also STALLING during ATTO Disk Benchmark in Direct I/O mode. So the ATTO Benchmark MIGHT be […]
SecurityLab, [12.01.21 15:23] The developer of the Salaat First (Prayer Times) app, which reminds Muslims when to pray, recorded and sold detailed information about their location to a data broker without the users ‘ knowledge, who in turn sold the […]
Who is Writing (GNU) Linux? Every (GNU) Linux kernel is being developed by nearly 1,000 developers working for more than 100 different corporations. This is the foundation for the largest distributed software development project in the world. (src) “None” has […]
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 […]
NVIDIA = games + servers? yes NVIDIA servers! NVIDIA wants to become the “NetFlix of gaming” streaming screen output of games (actually running on their servers via GeForce NOW) on Tablets and SmartPhones but not only that… since BitCoin & […]
computers are no way perfect: the rise of the machines: who is scared of killer robots? who is scared of doctors, judges and police blindly trusting in AI and computer output? “we are driving in (heavy) rain right now with […]
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 […]
“Linux has made it to Mars” “The Red Planet runs on Linux” (src: theverge.com) just hope the #Perseverence Mars rover ain’t running Windows 🙈 (then it is lost already X-D) it will start a flight in the next 2-3 months […]