Warning! This is probably not THE best solution and rather a dirty hack. Updates only should come via yum package manager and official repositories. After update, Telegram stops working. first thing one does is open up a terminal, and try […]
apologize! games = windows, still ? (although there are 6000 steam games running on linux) the very first “Open Source GPU” is in the making: https://www.crowdsupply.com/libre-risc-v/m-class “The Libre RISC-V M-Class is a RISC-V chip that is libre-licensed to the bedrock. […]
SecurityLab, [22.11.19 08:23] French company Edenred reported a cyberattack using malware that affected an unknown number of computer systems. The company has launched an investigation to determine the extent of the contamination. Payment solution provider Edenred has been the victim […]
All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the latest versions of PHP 7.3.11 and PHP 7.2.24. Vulnerability in PHP7 exposes sites to remote hacking risk The problem only applies to NGINX servers with PHP-FPM enabled. image A dangerous vulnerability […]
Phone in the cloud: “telephone system in the cloud” or “telephne system as software” is the “latest shit”. SipGate Basic (in English: https://www.sipgatebasic.co.uk/ / in German: https://www.sipgatebasic.de/) gives one a local VoIP land line number. One can have: a virtual […]
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 […]
# setup log of VirtualBox Graphical User Interface Version 6.0.10 r132072 (Qt5.7.1) # on Debian 9.8 with Cinnamon Desktop # go into software repo user@debian98:~$ cd /software/ # download latest version of software user@debian98:/software$ wget https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.0.10/virtualbox-6.0_6.0.10-132072~Debian~stretch_amd64.deb –2019-08-03 14:36:05– https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.0.10/virtualbox-6.0_6.0.10-132072~Debian~stretch_amd64.deb Resolving […]
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. […]
to be straight: have not managed yet to unlock a pin locked ipad 3 and ipad 4 and/or recover the data. it is easy to just overwrite the ipad with the latest firmware via itunes. but i want to backup […]
aim: in software development, step debugging is a very nice way to look at your code and see if it does what it should. i wondered, if such a thing exists for shell / bash scripts. develop shell bash scripts […]
the affordable 100% Open Source phone: 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 […]
really don’t understand how a SoC with 3GB of RAM (!) and a 8x Core ARM can be put to the bin (as Debian GNU Linux runs on devices with as little as 1GB RAM and 2x Cores) because there […]
this is a very very basic sequential harddisk write test performed on host and guest. there are multiple ways, how you could improve the performance: Use fixed size disks Allocate RAM and CPUs wisely Install the Guest Additions enable host […]
Update: 2019.10 Zombieload is back. “This time a new variant (v2) of the data-leaking side-channel vulnerability also affects the most recent Intel CPUs, including the latest Cascade Lake, which are otherwise resistant against attacks like Meltdown, Foreshadow and other MDS […]
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 […]
Update: 2024 unfortunately also some ARM CPUs are affected by Spectre v1 and v2. Update: 2020.03 “The newly developed Rowhammer- attack TRRespass can crack the RAM-a security mechanism by many DDR4-DRAM-modules as well as LPDDR4 Chips. Until now, these were […]
maybe you want to run your own version of the kernel and you will have to prevent during an automatic update that this kernel will get “replaced”. same goes with firefox, thunderbird and LibreOffice yum and apt might not install […]
headless server: tested: 2018-10-17 on CentOS Linux 7.5 (Core) wget https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc rpm –import oracle_vbox.asc cd /etc/yum.repos.d/ wget https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/virtualbox.repo yum update yum search virtualbox yum install VirtualBox-5.2.x86_64 # if you want/need usb 3.0 extension package wget https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.2.20/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.2.20.vbox-extpack VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.2.20.vbox-extpack […]
who is who? concepts: docker is written in Google Go by Docker Inc, SanFrancisco because it does not emulate any hardware – it is a linux container / sandbox or jail like Free BSD Jail or Solaris Zones or OpenVZ so […]
2018-04: RISC-V CPUs not affected by spectre & meltdown “No announced RISC-V silicon is susceptible, and the popular open-source RISC-V Rocket processor is unaffected as it does not perform memory accesses speculatively.” (2018-01-05 src) “If you’re selling an IoT sensor […]
the best about samba: thanks for samba, it provides users with a fast (of course depends also on harddisk speed) rock-solid no-limit-to-maximum-users file-server for maximum file-transfer-and-sharing-and-storage productivity (and they will USE that T: temp drive for EVERYTHING! prepare for TERRABYTES […]
checkout what is the latest version: ftp://ftp.cuhk.edu.hk/pub/packages/info-systems/www/squid/ probably this is more recent: https://github.com/squid-cache/squid you could also try git clone https://github.com/squid-cache/squid.git and compile with the git source tree… let me know if it worked. hostnamectl; # tested on [root@CentosMaster squid-4.0.21]# hostnamectl […]
i did just some basic testing… and managed to compile the php7.3 binary – but the make install failed. it would help to have multiple cores… hostnamectl; # tested with Static hostname: CentosSlave Icon name: computer-vm Chassis: vm Operating […]
i tried to compile under debian…. but it’s way more compli cated. also: you probably do not need all the packages stated here… but i did not have the time to sort those out sorry for that. feel free to […]
In General: while a update/upgrade between major releases in theory is always “possible” – i realized it comes with a lot of problems. A complete reinstall “from scratch” is probably always the cleaner approach. apt-get dist-upgrade; # fails miserably because […]
update: 2021-1 yum -> dnf hostnamectl; # tested on Virtualization: kvm Operating System: CentOS Linux 8 CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:centos:centos:8 Kernel: Linux 5.4.11 Architecture: x86-64 ll /usr/bin/yum -> dnf-3 all those yum commands still work with dnf (nice work!) DNF […]
yeah one knows sometimes making fun of distributions that have a partition for every /root/folder but well yes it has it’s reasons, like when a program accumulates to much data (mailbox full), the /root partition and the system will not […]
update: safety first! when it comes to important files: safety comes first thus recommend to the user that wants to go pro the following backup system: have two complete backups at two different places: backupA: at the company, USB 3.0 […]
systemd ain’t kissing well… https://dwaves.de/2017/05/02/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 say mission accomplished. “One of systemd’s main goals is to […]
what you will need is a NULL-MODEM CABLE (with all the twist an wirering) Linux Debian picocom / minicom settings: [cc lang=”bash” escaped=”true” width=”600″] apt-get update; apt-get install picocom; # install picocom sudo bash; # become root dmesg | egrep […]