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November 10th, 2012
Over night, the counter to my C Primer will turn to 20,000. Thank you to all
who read it. It took a little under a year to do the second 10K.
That's an average of 29 or so per day. Also we're nearing 1 million views on
Hackepedia itself, which is a great feat. I'll make another announcement when
that happens (probably around December 1st).
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Purchasing a Mac Mini
November 7th, 2012
Tomorrow I'm going to purchase a Apple Mac Mini. It'll be the faster version
with 16 GB (maxed) RAM. On monday when I got a quote from the store I'm buying
it from said they won't get them delivered until next week, so I'll have to wait
a little but the purchase goes out tomorrow.
I'm buying this computer for a new stand-up desk that I'm also going to purchase
so I'm going to eventually buy a new monitor as well.
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The Main river produces 118 MW electricity
November 5th, 2012
I got a list of power generation stations of the Main river from the german
wikipedia, and this is how I got to the result:
$ history
1 more main.txt
2 awk '{print $NF}' main.txt | grep [0-9] | tr -d . \
| awk '{total += $0} END {printf("total: %ld\n", total);}'
END {printf("total: %ld\n", total);}' <
total: 118640
Now this is probably only the peak draw, however judging from the flow of water
through the turbines in Schweinfurt it's pretty steady all the time.
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Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012 blocks my captchas
November 4th, 2012
Today I wanted to write a blog comment on my own blog and found that the
captcha images didn't load completely rendering them useless. So after
searching for 2 hours around my system, the net and my parents home
network I was able to isolate the error to my workstation which is
windows 7 - 64 bit. My moms Linux on the same LAN rendered the image fine.
I tested this
on 3 sorts of browsers (Safari, Firefox, and IE) and everytime it was blocked.
So someone asked me to turn firewall off and that didn't do it, and then
I as a test turned web inspection off on the AV 2012 and the image loaded.
So now I've sent Kaspersky a support email to look into this.
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OpenBSD 5.2 Release day!
November 1st, 2012
Today OpenBSD 5.2 gets released. Because it is headquartered in Canada the
announce may come a bit later as here in Europe we're a few hours ahead of them.
Here is the release page, it has
all information that you need to download or order OpenBSD 5.2. I personally
have used and bought OpenBSD since the 2.5/2.6 days where my personal OpenBSD
workstation was called geeklab.globalserve.net in 1997. Today OpenBSD is much
more secure than it was back then which is good since OpenBSD focuses on
security (but not just! but also functionality and openness). Why is it
important to be secure, yet functional? Well when you're faced with securing
something often you disable the service completely which is the opposite of
functional. In OpenBSD services are secured by a multitude of attack prevention mechanisms. You may want to look at strlcpy/strlcat which was among the first
changes that OpenBSD did. And then there is W^X (W xor X) and ottomalloc which
are supposed to prevent stack and heap overflow attacks. Before I bore you,
I'll just say "It's celebration day!" and leave you with that. Finally congrats
to the OpenBSD'ers who made it all happen.
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Halloween Germany 2012
October 31st, 2012
Hooooooooo! Hooooooo! Scary movie! No! It's Halloween in Schweinfurt.
Here is some pictures, including our first trick'o'treaters.
These guys look pretty scary!
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Big Donation to OpenBSD
October 28th, 2012
OK, this is the big announcement, it's a bit early but I need to visit my
bank tomorrow so I want to give them the transaction then. Call this the
Halloween donation just in time for the November 1st OpenBSD 5.2 release.
The amount is for a staggering 411 Euros. This brings
this years donations to 511 euros. I don't want anything in return other than the recognition on the
OpenBSD donations page, which I'm already listed on so this doesn't make a change. Take it this way. I use
OpenBSD at work, and without OpenBSD I would have no work, so this is justified
to me. Thanks OpenBSD. Future donations will be more or less depending on my
income.
I put OpenSMTPD on the purpose of the
transaction, because they have been very kind with me, but this money isn't
solely for them but OpenBSD in general.
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FreeBSD repository now has CSRG in svn
October 20th, 2012
The FreeBSD repo now has the CSRG revisions in it's SVN. And they made a
blooper. If you're interested in what peoples first dogs name was then
you can crack these passwords. Remember this is from the late
80's and early 90's where people still thought DES was secure or didn't
understand that their password would follow them to 2012 where cracking
with dictionary attack tools such as John the Ripper exist, and were are widely successful. Now
I'm not saying you should crack these passwords but if you wanted to then
you could.
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